there said it for you..... but seriously I don;t care if this topic has been done before I want to talk about it so I'm going to.
I have often wondered about nudity, I mean yes I am opposed to certain kinds of nudity*, sometimes it's vile and sick and disgusting yes sir these eyes of mine have seen many nasty things that I can never forget. However I don't have anything against 'tasteful' nudity, a woman taking her shirt off and leaving it at that has never really bothered me. After all the human body is meant to be a thing of beauty not something to be exploited.
However in the world of mainstream games I have noticed that nudity of any kind is absent or at least nudity in the conventional sense. This is obviously with the exception of God of War and Conan and any others I'm missing. I often wonder how come games can't also have nice decent and tastefully presented nudity? I mean arthouse movies do it all the time, why can't games?
Some people might say it's because nudity is considered offensive but look at what we are offering as an alternative, big breasted women with little to no clothing making their huge boobs bounce around (really... really... really old topic for Vrex) all the time. Is that really any less offensive? I mean compare that to say a woman with ordianry sized breasts taking her shirt off and what do you think is going to make the femenists angrier? I reckon there would be nothing wrong with nudity and I don't understand why it has to be so tabooed, especially in a game where sex is a very big thing.
You all remember the controversy for Mass Effect's sex scene right? Well sometimes I wonder if it really would have been THAT big a deal if they had just come out with it and shown some bare breast, would it actually have harmed anyone? No, the entire sex scene in Mass Effect was already tastefully done. A little nudity wouldn't hurt anyone.
But enough of my confused ramblings... where do you stand on the issue of nudity>
Honestly I think no one can say ordinary nudity is anywhere near as degrading as the big boobed girls from say Soul Calibur.
