CNN discovers RapeLay

[RatRace123]

I think I heard about this at some point about a year ago, and as I recall the controversy over it lasted all of a week. And that controversy was actually from the gaming public, who were a bit offended by the content. We don't need a national news team trying to slander us again, saying that we're evil and the whole "THINK OF THE CHILDREN" thing.

 

[aaronmcc]

I'd rather have sick perverts raping virtual hotties on their xbox than roaming the streets looking for real women to violate. It's not a perfect world.

 

[aaronmcc]

oh, for fucking hell
its not a GAME
its PORN

calling it a game is like calling "backdoor sluts 9" cinema

but backdoor sluts 9 was shot in a really artist manner!

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Really CNN? did you have nothing else better to do than to actually go find a game just so you can stay on the "ingnorant anti video games" bandwagon and impress your friends at FOX "News"?

 

[Divine Miss Bee]

having read the article, i sort of agree with the japanese on this one. bien-aime seems to have forgotten that her voice in the world came from governments relinquishing a bit of their absolute control. if a video game is offensive to you, don't play it, and leave it alone. i'd have never heard of it if she hadn't kicked up a fuss, and i doubt many others would have either. you can only think for yourself-trying to think for everyone is what the nazis did.

 

[Echo136]

Really? They NOW discover this 4 year old controvercy? Wow.

 

[repete]

now here is the thing japan has been like that for years. In japan there are not many violent games but there are many porn games. In america there are plenty of violent games but not any porn games. America thinks that japans porn games are pure evil and Japan thinks america's violent games are evil just as much. What im trying to say is that there is another side to the argument that was not represented in that segment. I do not support these games im just pointing this out

 

[driveBYargument]

With the title and source content I'd find it difficult to stray away from that controversy.
Regardless I'll give it a shot. I'm pretty much of the mindset that the world is far more valuable with its differences and our world is only as beautiful with its synthesis and discourse of differences. I'd believe this in the gaming culture as well as the world itself. However its really hard to defend RapeLay just based off of its content as a fight to preserve culture. Simply put, I'd rather just throw my hands up and say "Its complicated" and leave it at that.

 

[Uszi]

So have you guys read the Something Awful review [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/hentai-game-reviews/rapelay.php] of RapeLay?

Because you should. Right now.
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/hentai-game-reviews/rapelay.php

Here's a sneak peak:

"I like to think of this audience as the "beer and pretzel" rape gamer. They're interested in a fun "pick up and play" rape game and they don't want to get bogged down in details.

 

[Christemo]

CNN just pulled off a Fox News. i dont remember when RapeLay is from, but im pretty sure its atleast 5 years. i think most American news channel likes to rant a bit on the Japs even 70 years after Pearl Harbor.

 

[Christemo]

In America, we get off on extreme violence. In Japan, they get off on rape. Doesn't seem to me that America really has the moral high ground here, nor should it try to regulate what media other countries produce.

America also gets off with buttfucking of fans (PC DRM), Civilian shooting (MW2), EXTREME BLOOD AND GORE (God of War 3, L4D2) and disturbing imagery (Dragon Age´s Broodmother, Dantes Inferno).

and thats just the recent ones i can remember.

 

[aegios187]

Given all the problems that exist in the REAL world, CNN spent time doing a story on Rapelay, what a fucking joke. Rapelay isn't the source of any great controversy it's more the lines of a bad fart joke.

 

[smartyknickers]

CNN's train of logic:
games=for kids
porn game=porn for kids
The media never seems to acknowlege that most gamers are adults and not all games were made for kids. I also hate it when people hold games by a different standard than other media.

 

[DeleteThisPlease]

calling it a game is like calling "backdoor sluts 9" cinema

You're right, it's really more of an 'Interactive Storytelling Experience'.

So it should get put in the same sort of area as Heavy Rain which is...

Hmm *checks*

A game!

Odd that.

Does this make us all wankers?

In any case, We need to back off from Japan and let them be ecchi and hentai if they want to be.

 

[SNIPERFOX ft. Harry P.Ness]

oh no here comes the political shit-storm.-ambossador udina, mass effect 2

 

[Eldarion]

Is it proper to criticize foreign gameplay elements?

Hell to the yes. My standards are always the same, foreign game or not. They can't pull the culture-card and claim that it makes them immune to my criticism.

You think we should ban everything you don't like?

Cause the OPs question had little to do with taste.

 

[child of lileth]

I wonder how long it will take them to catch up to things like the current loli ban that is being decided on in Japan, since that's news now. Probably just as long, if not longer, than it took them to get this hot topic to their press.

 

[spartan773]

Way to stay on top of things, CNN.

America has a far higher number of reported rapes (per capita) than Japan - something like 18x last I checked. Those in glass houses shouldn't criticise other cultures raep games. Focus on solving the actual rapes, then go after the fictional ones.

i second that.

Way to stay on top of the news CNN... Escapist already covered it 4 months ago.
and honestly... i felt very awkward watching the CNN one with my parents saying "that's just sick," and, "you better not be playing those games." why the fuck would i want to play a rape game when ones involving consensual is hell of a lot better.

 

[Ralen-Sharr]

we can't even get our own censorship issues sorted, we have no business telling other countries what they should and should not sensor for themselves

 

[ssgt splatter]

Old, old, old news. Come on CNN, keep up with the times will ya.