I don't think sex should be involved in games, unless its critical to a plot (chuckles), otherwise it's pretty much just a ploy to sell games.
Should sex be in video games?
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But most importantly you had fun whilst playing it...RadioKnight said:Anyone remember Leisure Suit Larry..? Now theres a SEXY game..
"Should" is a terrible word for the question. And mostly irrelevant; when did thinking "Should I or shouldn't I" last change what you actually did?
Yeah, it's allowed, and it ought to be; but we really ought to stop deconstructing the implications. Nobody's interested in the far-flung moral and social implications and frankly I'm tired of rehashing the same five or six arguments.
Let me put it another way: awhile back, people wanted to stop letting smoking appear in movies at all, unless it was integral to a character or plot (someone with lung cancer, someone accidentally setting a fire, etc.). Now, regardless of your opinion on smoking or smokers, doesn't that strike you as both slightly extreme and not-so-slightly off the mark? We're attacking things we think are problems with what we think are solutions, but it isn't working. Whether that's because we haven't considered the sheer rediculousness of what we're attempting to do, or because it hasn't occured to us that we're taking labyrinthine measures to circumvent the "issue", is anyone's guess.
As usual, my main advice: Talk to your kids, check the age reccommendation, and cut the demented sheeptalk.
Yeah, it's allowed, and it ought to be; but we really ought to stop deconstructing the implications. Nobody's interested in the far-flung moral and social implications and frankly I'm tired of rehashing the same five or six arguments.
Let me put it another way: awhile back, people wanted to stop letting smoking appear in movies at all, unless it was integral to a character or plot (someone with lung cancer, someone accidentally setting a fire, etc.). Now, regardless of your opinion on smoking or smokers, doesn't that strike you as both slightly extreme and not-so-slightly off the mark? We're attacking things we think are problems with what we think are solutions, but it isn't working. Whether that's because we haven't considered the sheer rediculousness of what we're attempting to do, or because it hasn't occured to us that we're taking labyrinthine measures to circumvent the "issue", is anyone's guess.
As usual, my main advice: Talk to your kids, check the age reccommendation, and cut the demented sheeptalk.
You people say " only if it goes with the story line" but the same can be said for violence. You just gotta make sure its jstified in its own right. Like i don't want to buy mario to find out peach is gonna "get it on" I say if you are in a Mature game aimed at a mature audience then yes it is fine. But it has to fit in some how, there could be a side mission (type thingy) were you meet a girl and grow to like her and if you wish you can have sex
However there shouldn't be just naked women on the street
Thats just not cool
However there shouldn't be just naked women on the street
Thats just not cool
I'd say it depends on the game, but mostly my answer is no.
See, the reason I don't think sex scenes (I mean sex scenes like, frontal nudity) should be in most games is that they are distracting. Pretty much every male who sees his character having sexual relations with another character will be more interested in the fact that they're having sex, and less on the fact that it might have extreme story implications. The scene will act as a distraction from the very story it's attempting to forward.
I think the best way for characters to have sex, without distracting from the story, is to simply imply sex. Mass Effect seems to have achieved this effect (I think, as I haven't played the game, so I'm working off hearsay here) pretty well by having a darkened scene and only showing a butt for a second or two. I'd say that's the way to go for most games. Some games, though, would probably benefit more from nothing past a dark screen after a kiss or maybe even just a passionate hug in a sexually prone area (like a bedroom, especially if the characters are lying in a bed).
A type of game where a sex scene, or even just frontal nudity, would be more appropriate is a game that doesn't try to forward a story with it. It should obviously be very optional and off-the-path, so more seriously geared gamers can get on with the game, but people looking for a bit of sexual arousal can get it if they want.
Off-topic:
I also feel this thread would be a good place to put my thoughts on another aspect of sex in computer-generated media: the "how can you find a bunch of data and pixels attractive" argument. In an attempt to try and show why this argument has no merit, I say: we can think data and pixels are attractive because they are a representation of something that is real, and the human brain is geared to translate even the most obscure things into something recognizable. Translating something that attempts to translate itself anyway just makes it easier. We can find data and pixels attractive for the same reason we can find data and pixels to be frightening or even be able to recognize a human NPC in an average video game.
I just really think it's annoying when people try to say this to people who say things like "Alyx is hot" or such, so I wanted to say that.
See, the reason I don't think sex scenes (I mean sex scenes like, frontal nudity) should be in most games is that they are distracting. Pretty much every male who sees his character having sexual relations with another character will be more interested in the fact that they're having sex, and less on the fact that it might have extreme story implications. The scene will act as a distraction from the very story it's attempting to forward.
I think the best way for characters to have sex, without distracting from the story, is to simply imply sex. Mass Effect seems to have achieved this effect (I think, as I haven't played the game, so I'm working off hearsay here) pretty well by having a darkened scene and only showing a butt for a second or two. I'd say that's the way to go for most games. Some games, though, would probably benefit more from nothing past a dark screen after a kiss or maybe even just a passionate hug in a sexually prone area (like a bedroom, especially if the characters are lying in a bed).
A type of game where a sex scene, or even just frontal nudity, would be more appropriate is a game that doesn't try to forward a story with it. It should obviously be very optional and off-the-path, so more seriously geared gamers can get on with the game, but people looking for a bit of sexual arousal can get it if they want.
Off-topic:
I also feel this thread would be a good place to put my thoughts on another aspect of sex in computer-generated media: the "how can you find a bunch of data and pixels attractive" argument. In an attempt to try and show why this argument has no merit, I say: we can think data and pixels are attractive because they are a representation of something that is real, and the human brain is geared to translate even the most obscure things into something recognizable. Translating something that attempts to translate itself anyway just makes it easier. We can find data and pixels attractive for the same reason we can find data and pixels to be frightening or even be able to recognize a human NPC in an average video game.
I just really think it's annoying when people try to say this to people who say things like "Alyx is hot" or such, so I wanted to say that.
The opinions expressed in this thread really amaze me.
Who are we to say if sex is "needed" in a game or not? The only one who can say that is the game's story writer. The fact that we even ask this question means that even we, who are gamers, fall into the same trap as non-gamers who feel the need to express and also enforce their views on gaming: We automatically assume that games are for kids.
This is not the 80's. In our age, games have no difference from movies regarding the variety of their themes and their storylines. We are not only playing Space Invaders. Or Pac Man. Or Tetris or Hello Kitty Island Adventures. We are also playing games like the Max Payne series, the GTA series, the Fallout series. Games with actual character development and often grey morals, because that's how real people are and because that makes for more interesting stories. Sex in games is not there to give you something to jerk off to. That's what the internet is for. Sex in games serves the same purpose as sex in movies: It is a means for further character development, it can be there to amplify the game's specific atmosphere, to make the characters seem more realistic and more human, to make you forget that you are, you know, playing a game.
I don't need an enraged article by some secretly child-abusing, beastiality loving Fox News or whatever News reporter to tell me if a game's story is fit to include sex scenes and if it benefits from it. The fact that these people, these self-appointed moral traffic lights, these absolute fucking hypocrites, wield such power over the masses is utterly frightening. It makes them very, very dangerous. I would gladly punch them in the face in broad daylight and do much worse in a dark room with no windows. It took the world 50 years to be liberated from creative taboos in the movies and allow writers and directors to tell a story exactly the way that they want to tell it. And now it seems is the turn of the games to go through the same bad road.
Games are rated for a reason. Movies are rated for a reason. If you don't want your 5 year old to watch an R rated movie or play an R rated game, then how about stop being an absent fucking parent. We are not yet free of this "Clockwork Orange"-like age of creative castration in the name of high morals. Unfortunately. I hope we get there soon.
Who are we to say if sex is "needed" in a game or not? The only one who can say that is the game's story writer. The fact that we even ask this question means that even we, who are gamers, fall into the same trap as non-gamers who feel the need to express and also enforce their views on gaming: We automatically assume that games are for kids.
This is not the 80's. In our age, games have no difference from movies regarding the variety of their themes and their storylines. We are not only playing Space Invaders. Or Pac Man. Or Tetris or Hello Kitty Island Adventures. We are also playing games like the Max Payne series, the GTA series, the Fallout series. Games with actual character development and often grey morals, because that's how real people are and because that makes for more interesting stories. Sex in games is not there to give you something to jerk off to. That's what the internet is for. Sex in games serves the same purpose as sex in movies: It is a means for further character development, it can be there to amplify the game's specific atmosphere, to make the characters seem more realistic and more human, to make you forget that you are, you know, playing a game.
I don't need an enraged article by some secretly child-abusing, beastiality loving Fox News or whatever News reporter to tell me if a game's story is fit to include sex scenes and if it benefits from it. The fact that these people, these self-appointed moral traffic lights, these absolute fucking hypocrites, wield such power over the masses is utterly frightening. It makes them very, very dangerous. I would gladly punch them in the face in broad daylight and do much worse in a dark room with no windows. It took the world 50 years to be liberated from creative taboos in the movies and allow writers and directors to tell a story exactly the way that they want to tell it. And now it seems is the turn of the games to go through the same bad road.
Games are rated for a reason. Movies are rated for a reason. If you don't want your 5 year old to watch an R rated movie or play an R rated game, then how about stop being an absent fucking parent. We are not yet free of this "Clockwork Orange"-like age of creative castration in the name of high morals. Unfortunately. I hope we get there soon.
NO. Porn is there, we dont need to add it into Video Games. You want sex based Video Games, download that stupid Karmasutra thing for your mobile. Not to mention the Rating would have to be 18+, and Aussies (Amongst other places) dont even HAVE an 18+ Genre to begin with. Not to mention Yahtzee would be all over it like a Rosie O'Donald and a plate of Cheesecake. (Review-Bashing wise...)
