Haha, read this article today on Joystiq:
Making sex games is tough.
Um, no not really. Just look at eroge. Seems like there is too much focus on the technical aspects, and less imagination. There are typically two simple routes to make this work:
- Storymode where you develop rapport with characters and just click dialogue trees to get to the sexxoring scenes. You don’t even need to have great art and you can get rabid fans. Just look at Tsukihime.
- Normal below-average game where every so often sexxoring scenes pop up as a reward. Think Utawarerumono.
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Right because those are selling reaaaal well in America right now…
Meh, that was a little more abrupt than I wanted to be. I think that vnovel type games are just really really far outside the American concept of what a video-game “is,” so those ideas don’t even enter into consideration when they look at design.
I dunno… I have seen plenty of MMORPG-screenshots/moments where we have implied humping going on. The power of imagination when it comes to sex is plenty powerful in players already. I have seen doggy-style, rear-docking, oral-sex in all kinds of positions, missionary, etc…
Not to mention Full-Monty Strip-Tease Dances( from both genders( and of all races))…
As Alfred Hitchcock already demonstrated ages ago, we don’t need to explicitly see the act going on. Filling in the blanks with your own imagination is often a more powerful experience.
Cheers.
Well sex already sells American video games. Look at Tomb Raider. Its entire marketing premise is action boobies. Not to mention Grand Theft Auto. What they’re talking about in the article is a really quality sex simulation with a good UI and a physics system that lets people control their avatars in an intuitive and satisfying way.
“Well sex already sells American video games. Look at Tomb Raider.”
I could swear it was produced in Great Britain. I really don’t know why Tomb Raider gets so much flak. I certainly did not play it because of Lara Croft or her boobs and at least the first two parts were pretty good games. The graphics weren’t high-end but sufficiently good and at least you didn’t need high-end hardware for it. The game play may appear repetitive but there weren’t really many if any games like that back then. At least not in 3D, after all it’s some kind of 3D platformer. At least it was a bit more creative than the bazillionth ego shooter. I can only imagine those people never played it because they would have realized that you usually see her from behind. Or rather, first her tits were more or less just a gag because there had not been many female heros in games anyway. Some lamers, reviewers and later the marketing might have gotten carried away by the boobs which might have increased the publicity but never contributed to the game itself.
Not to mention that “covered boobs equals sex” sounds like someone is trying really hard to satisfy the world’s view of stereotypical US-Americans. What about murder sells? After all most computer games are about ruthless murder and about violation of the Geneva Convention. But that’s hahaha silly, right? Tits and ass are the root of all evil, that’s a real concern and not funny. Not funny at all. NO WAI!1
Sex sells? Tomb Raider?
Duuuuuuuude, look at Dead or Alive. Now that’s banking on the sex. DOA:XBV is all about boobies. ALL ABOUT THE FRICKIN’ BOOBIES.