Obvious troll thread is... actually serious.
See, I was just playing through Peace Walker (bit late to the party, I know), and I unlocked the part where you can go on a date with one of your crew members, Paz. If you wear a tux, take pictures of her and shout compliments at her for a while, you can even have sex with her inside a cardboard box (just like a real woman!). The thing that shocked me about this is that Paz is a sixteen-year-old girl, who makes several references to being in Junior High, and actually wears a schoolgirl outfit. And you're a 40-year-old man who can bed her. WTF?
Now, the MGS series has always had a level of perverseness about it, but it's been progressively escalating. In MGS1 you can see Meryl exercising in her underwear, but it takes a lot of work, and is fairly innocuous. In MGS2 Snake can find posters of bikini models and then hump them. In MGS3, the main villain is a full-blown sadomasochist sex pervert, and Big Boss constantly ogles his female partner's boobs. In MGS4, all female characters refuse to button up their shirts, and in the multiplayer there's actually a game mechanic where female characters can do a stripper/pole dance to distract enemies.
But I think this shit takes the cake:
Yes, when you get a perfect score on the mission, the little girl takes off most of her clothes as a reward. How was there not a major outcry about this? I mean, if Fox News thought Mass Effect was bad...
Now, it's worth noting that Paz later turns out to be older than sixteen (which was probably shoe-horned in by the localisation team), but this isn't pointed out to either Big Boss or the player before you can defile her.
Anyway, I'm just wondering what the general trend of opinions about this is. Am I just overreacting? Is it nothing to worry about? Is there any harm in having it in the game?
Personally I think it's very out of place for a stealth-action game, and just makes the character of Big Boss seem creepy. Besides, if you are going to put in random fanservice, at least include some of the other cool [http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Strangelove], strong [http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Amanda_Valenciano_Libre] female characters, instead of the binary choice between gay and pedophile...
See, I was just playing through Peace Walker (bit late to the party, I know), and I unlocked the part where you can go on a date with one of your crew members, Paz. If you wear a tux, take pictures of her and shout compliments at her for a while, you can even have sex with her inside a cardboard box (just like a real woman!). The thing that shocked me about this is that Paz is a sixteen-year-old girl, who makes several references to being in Junior High, and actually wears a schoolgirl outfit. And you're a 40-year-old man who can bed her. WTF?
Now, the MGS series has always had a level of perverseness about it, but it's been progressively escalating. In MGS1 you can see Meryl exercising in her underwear, but it takes a lot of work, and is fairly innocuous. In MGS2 Snake can find posters of bikini models and then hump them. In MGS3, the main villain is a full-blown sadomasochist sex pervert, and Big Boss constantly ogles his female partner's boobs. In MGS4, all female characters refuse to button up their shirts, and in the multiplayer there's actually a game mechanic where female characters can do a stripper/pole dance to distract enemies.
But I think this shit takes the cake:
Yes, when you get a perfect score on the mission, the little girl takes off most of her clothes as a reward. How was there not a major outcry about this? I mean, if Fox News thought Mass Effect was bad...
Now, it's worth noting that Paz later turns out to be older than sixteen (which was probably shoe-horned in by the localisation team), but this isn't pointed out to either Big Boss or the player before you can defile her.
Anyway, I'm just wondering what the general trend of opinions about this is. Am I just overreacting? Is it nothing to worry about? Is there any harm in having it in the game?
Personally I think it's very out of place for a stealth-action game, and just makes the character of Big Boss seem creepy. Besides, if you are going to put in random fanservice, at least include some of the other cool [http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Strangelove], strong [http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/Amanda_Valenciano_Libre] female characters, instead of the binary choice between gay and pedophile...
