i mean, i love video games, but i dunno if i'd call myself a "gamer". mainly b/c im not overly awesome at them.

that being said, if i have the choice of sex or video games? see ya later xbox.

SCARED TO DEATH.

sdr, i was all up in yo' area this weekend. when i get out there fo' real i will be your wingman. WE WILL CONQUER YOUR FEAR. LOOK OUT WOMEN OF CHICAGO!

DUDE AND THEY WILL BE LIKE STOP SEDUCING US AND WE'LL BE LIKE MAYBE

maybe i'll read this when i get a chance. looks slightly interesting

well, worst case scenario we can play some video games.

womp womp wommmmpppppp

They SHOULD be. The clitoris is not a button to be mashed!

dur. finesse. FINESSE.

you cant really do all the licking and stuff on the keyboard either, well, spose you could but...

i think that article was more about "are game designers terrified of moms and tipper gore clones?".

one of my first boy/girl encounters was when a girl who liked me invited me to her house to "help her beat zelda" on nes. that's not what she wanted at all. i was kinda terrified, and i really wanted to actually play zelda, but i learned a few things that day. not everything, but some things. i'm old-ish i think knowing about sex before knowing about mmorpgs makes a difference, but i don't know, i was more interested in nes ninja gaiden and bionic commando in those days.

FUCK YEAH NINJA GAIDEN!

LOL Freeverse, that is gross!

sorry what i should have said was

"i don't know if i would have been more intimidated by females if i was into an advanced, submerssive, online world at a developmental age (cuz if WoW was out when i was young i would be totally lost to it in a bad way)
and glued to my monitor" as opposed to holding a "designed to hurt your hand and your eyes" game that you occasionally had to put down cuz fighting to the end of ninja gaiden 1 and repeatedly being knocked down a mountain by a fucking bird of some kind is infuriating and forces you back to the real world.

i don't want to see videogame lovin. that doesn't make me scared.

UNCANNY VALLEY OF PR0N

If I ever invited a boy to come help me beat Zelda, I'd make him beat the Water Temple for me and then I'd proceed to the loving. BECAUSE SRSLY FUCK THE WATER TEMPLE I HATE THAT SHIT.

YES! Peps, you nailed it, the Uncanny Valley is exactly why there is no sex in video games. Someone tell the author of that article.

Interesting article. I agree that it is talking more about the game developers, but I agree with the title quite a bit. Mostly in that they are socially retarded and freaked out when it comes to girls.

yeah but dude, seriously, fried chicken is good, and i hate when people step on my sneakers. and i'm white. so i don't blame you.

Do you screw her for luck before you go play WoW?

oh well im not a gamer like that, i hate rpgs. i guess maybe i dont count.

oh okay DAVECAT.

thank you phro, i couldnt remember that guys name for the life of me, and it was driving me nuts.

no prob, homegurl

:X

One time I was over at a friend's place and a bunch of us were playing the first Halo. His girl comes in, does some stuff around the place and then goes "Hey Devin, let's go have sex." He responds by saying "Not now, I'm in the middle of a match." He then proceeded to pistol snipe us as we just sat there dumbfounded at what we just witnessed.

Oddly, dude's actually married now.

Oh yeah, it's important to remember that this was HIS apartment and we were playing a game he OWNED.

"It goes without saying that no sane person wants a game where the player can rape or commit sexual violence but that can never happen without specific programming and no commercial publisher in the world would ever contemplate it."

Huh? Japan has already made games where you can stalk and rape girls. Srs. Leave it to Japan to innovate!

Also I have never ever turned down sex in favor of video games, for what it's worth.

I actually did one better Johnny. I told that story as part of my toast at his wedding.

ok reading the article and finding out what it's about I can actually make an informed decision on this.

Are video game developers afraid of sex? Of course not, sex sells! I think if you look at the history of video games you'll see sex being fairly predominant in the industry.

Now we get into the arguement of the fact does sexuality equate to showing raw actual sex scenes. I'd argue yes, because it's being aware of its audience and what it wants. We've had all sort of moments of titilation in games, crude moments like the strippers in Duke Nukem, weird moments like the Metal Gear Solid 4 one mentioned in the article, implied sweet moments like in Final Fantasy 4 where Rosa promises to meet Cecil back at him room "later tonight."

That said you have to walk a fine line when it comes to games. It's not like a movie, wheere a rated R movie with a graphic sex scene is still carried by most theater chains. If a game gets the dreaded AO (adult only) rating Wal Mart won't carry you. Best Buy won't carry you. These are major chains dropping your title like a bad habit.

However you can look at a lot of recent efforts and see that sex is trying to be tied into games, whether for humrous purposes like Grand Theft Auto IV or moments of revelation like in Mass Effect. I don't think developers are scared to include sex, I personally think the world is afraid of seing sex in a video game.

thing is. . ..when we're playing, we'd rather NOT think of that shit.
(though, whoever created Lara Croft didn't get that)
(or Mai Shiranui)
(or Dead or Alive)
(or Felicia the Catwoman)
(or Morrigan)
(or Tifa Lockheart)
(or . . . . . .)

. . . . hold on. . .hold on. . .

you design a character in a fucking tank top and daisy dukes, and she's not supposed to be "sexy"???