They're both vital processes in nature, all animals can fuck, and all animals can kill.MaxTheReaper said:
Alpha Protocol Sex Scenes: "Tasteful" Yet "Satisfying"
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I'm impressed by your knowledge of movie sex scenes, seriously.Unreliable said:
On-topic: What I find really funny is that they would find a flash of nudity untasteful, but in the trailer your can see how they drop a guy from the top of a building, with a grenade pushed in his mouth, to explode into bits and pieces when he hits the ground. Is that their idea of tasteful? I would rather see a sex scene where the protagonists puts on his protection, than using useless violence. If they really want to create publicity, wouldn't that be much better? Instead of "Playing Games results into violence!" you would get "Game teaches how to practice safe sex!".
I don't know. I'm trying to look at this from a marketing standpoint and it just really doesn't seem that necessary or useful at all to sales. You could probably attract a few perverts with it but will the sex stuff itself be really all that satisfying? I think it would turn away more people in the US then it would draw. Not only would I think that people would not buy the game for that they would also then refuse to buy any more games by that company. Quite frankly I see this whole sex thing becoming more fodder for some people to preach how evil video games are. I think it's all fine and dandy for developers to be able to put as much input into their own game as they want, but they really need to think hard about OVERALL sales and appeal to as much of a crowd as they possibly can get.
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Edit: And congrats on the 10,000 posts. I just noticed it.
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If they want to include sex into games, all the power to them. It's their choice, and honestly I think at least in the US it will negatively impact their sales. Sadly many people can seem to get over the concept of treating sex openly and honestly.
Should it be in games? Only if the dev's want it to. Do games (so far) treat sex honestly? Not really. Should it be banned from games? Never, they should have the freedom to make what they want, as we have the freedom to play what we want.
I think it has to do with the fact that you had that emo-looking (IMO) Greenday avatar for quite a long time. I still see that avatar in my head whenever I read one of your posts. Then again I need to associate a face to every personality, so that may have something to do with it.MaxTheReaper said:
Edit: And congrats on the 10,000 posts. I just noticed it.
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If they want to include sex into games, all the power to them. It's their choice, and honestly I think at least in the US it will negatively impact their sales. Sadly many people can seem to get over the concept of treating sex openly and honestly.
Should it be in games? Only if the dev's want it to. Do games (so far) treat sex honestly? Not really. Should it be banned from games? Never, they should have the freedom to make what they want, as we have the freedom to play what we want.
But sex and violence... hand in hand? Anywhere. I dare you to find a violent film/video game/book that doesn't feature sex of some sort.MaxTheReaper said:
Jack Thompson was one of the only people to state that the whole Mass Effect nude scene scandal was totally blown out of proportion, so he really shouldn't have a problem with this.Marv21 said:
Then again, he is Jack Thompson...
So wait you want people not to call you Emo then you make posts like that?MaxTheReaper said:
As for the tree -> flower death chart. That's a highly unlikely scenario.
A) No plant would grow beneath a tree that has blotted out enough sun to kill it.
B) No plant lives long enough for a tree that is not yet blotting out its sun to blot out its sun.
Note: I would accept that passively one tree can *kill* another tree because it can outgrow the tree. Though I don't agree that it is killing it, for various reasons most of which I'd hope would be obvious. A Venus Fly Trap kills things, a Tree merely grows.
But like I said, there is certainly some convoluted way that everything results in the death of everything else because in a convoluted way everything has an effect on everything else. At the smallest level we all exhibit some form of gravity on all other objects in the universe. However we are getting into some mighty small effects here.
I want games to be true to themselves. If they feel that X is proper for their product then I think they should add X. If X ends up being done terribly well that wasn't X's fault that was the fault of the implementers.
Beats me. I played NWN 2 and my brain shit itself out through my eyes. That was one of the worst sequels (or tribute sequels) that I have ever played. Not the worst but up on the top 10.SniperWolf427 said:
However I didn't mind KOTOR 2 but I also never played KOTOR 1 (just never got around to it).
I wasn't as clear as I should have been. I wasn't calling Greenday emo, but rather saying that the picture looked a bit stereotypicaly emo, with the dyed black hair and eye makeup. I'm not using emo as a negative, just as a description.MaxTheReaper said:
I actually love Greenday as well, but In my opinion...
That's just my opinion though. I tend to not care for politically fueled art as much as others. I grew up listening to Dookie though, so I'm a bit biased against the change in Greenday's sound.
Ya, that goes along with what I said about current developers not being honest about it, and yeah, I think it should always at least be optional. Too bad though. Games like GTA seem to be a step back for the industry in the field of maturity concerning sex. And I choose to not play GTA more for the glorifying of shooting the police and hookers than for the unnecessary and immature sexual content.MaxTheReaper said:
We'll get there one day... (Mass Effect handled itself quite well I think)
I think that there will be hardcore sexscenes in this game considering that everything the game industry denies happens anyway.
So I'm told. One of these days if I catch it on sale (and have a job...just about to graduate...what timing) I'll grab it.MaxTheReaper said:
I know, right? They're absolutely terrible [http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/starwarsknightsoftheoldrepublic2?q=Knights%20of%20the%20Old%20Republic] games [http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/neverwinternights2?q=Neverwinter%20nights].Byers said:
To elaborate, KotOR2 and NWN2 were both solid RPGs and if you can't see that then you're clearly lacking in some vision.
Haven't you turned on the TV in a while? Or been to a movie? Or seen a shampoo AD or read a magazine? x_x Every time I see a movie with a "love making" scene in it I wanna keel over. They're in everything anymore and it's never even relevant to what's going on in the movie/show. They just...go at it like rabbits. I makes me sick. D:MaxTheReaper said:
