i dont think young kids should see it so early on but i like the age of 13 is fine maybe even 12 if they are mature, but someone else posted that parents get mad when they see nudity and they didn't read the back of the box where it says "nudity" then that's their fault! it doesn't bother me if parents let their kids see nudity in games or anything at a young age its their prerogative!Fredrick2003 said:
Why is nudity so heavily looked down upon in gaming? Especially when big boobed bimbos are so common
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Most the same stupid parents who buy their kids an 18+ game and then whine on the news/do lawsuits because the game "Affected our child negatively".
And there's great controversy of whether games are Art or not, but I think they are. And nudity on a great portrait never made anyone go "OH THE HUMANITY!!", so why would that change in games?
But I digress, it's probably parents. Besides, many of the "big boobs jiggling" games you spoke of are Teen category games, they actually CAN'T show nudity, otherwise they'd be mature.
And there's great controversy of whether games are Art or not, but I think they are. And nudity on a great portrait never made anyone go "OH THE HUMANITY!!", so why would that change in games?
But I digress, it's probably parents. Besides, many of the "big boobs jiggling" games you spoke of are Teen category games, they actually CAN'T show nudity, otherwise they'd be mature.
(Kane & Lynch 2 features and entire level of two middle age men completely naked save for pixelated groins)
*shudder*
And of course even before that, Raiden in MGS2 and males nudity has been all too common throughout video games. Clearly the issue is not nudity in itself, but female sexuality.
Games barely get away with scantily clad girls simple because it is too hard to complain as where do you draw the line? Well at the bikini of course.
Parents and Busybody self-proclaimed parents of all children in society are SO PARANOID about children being sexually perverted. There is just that ick factor you get with a kid getting a hold of a game with female nudity doing what of course any pubescent boy would do. Worse than them playing a violent game.
Of course the obvious solution is BAN THESE BLOODY KIDS FROM ADULT RATED GAMES! They are ruining it for us adults.
*shudder*
And of course even before that, Raiden in MGS2 and males nudity has been all too common throughout video games. Clearly the issue is not nudity in itself, but female sexuality.
Games barely get away with scantily clad girls simple because it is too hard to complain as where do you draw the line? Well at the bikini of course.
Parents and Busybody self-proclaimed parents of all children in society are SO PARANOID about children being sexually perverted. There is just that ick factor you get with a kid getting a hold of a game with female nudity doing what of course any pubescent boy would do. Worse than them playing a violent game.
Of course the obvious solution is BAN THESE BLOODY KIDS FROM ADULT RATED GAMES! They are ruining it for us adults.
I don't think this really applies to games. Sure the human body's a beautiful thing and all that hooey, but you're not looking at the human body in a video game. You're looking at a polygonal representation of the human body, void of all the detail, variation and flaw that makes the human body "beautiful".Vrex360 said:
I don't mean to make a case against nudity in games because I really don't think it's that big an issue, but I also think "it's okay because the human body is beautiful" is a pretty weak argument.
They don't want kids to get "inappropriate thoughts"
PAH!
If parents today could make kids more sheltered than they already are, they would build a giant bubble made of child-safe plastic and filled with Barney dolls!
I mean, by the time we're 5, we've already seen one pair of breasts, at least!
PAH!
If parents today could make kids more sheltered than they already are, they would build a giant bubble made of child-safe plastic and filled with Barney dolls!
I mean, by the time we're 5, we've already seen one pair of breasts, at least!
The same reason people are allowed to press charges because they saw somebody naked in their own home. Hey, at least he won the appeal!(http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/man_convicted_of_being_naked_at_home_wins_appeal_of_indecent_exposure_case)
Honestly though, taboos are the ones to blame and to an extent the people. Ask yourself this. Why do we treat sex, something that is perfectly normal, with such privacy? It's as normal as blinking and yet talking about sex will get you more flak than telling a story at the dinner table about how you took a shit last night.
The fact of the matter remains, nudity and to an extent sex will remain taboo until the human race matures and as such they can never be used as a form of expression in anything(well, anything except paintings) without getting helicopter parents to scream that their child got traumatized for seeing a fucking nipple.
Honestly though, taboos are the ones to blame and to an extent the people. Ask yourself this. Why do we treat sex, something that is perfectly normal, with such privacy? It's as normal as blinking and yet talking about sex will get you more flak than telling a story at the dinner table about how you took a shit last night.
The fact of the matter remains, nudity and to an extent sex will remain taboo until the human race matures and as such they can never be used as a form of expression in anything(well, anything except paintings) without getting helicopter parents to scream that their child got traumatized for seeing a fucking nipple.
Strangely nudity & sex are frowned upon, yet violence, blood, and swearing are apparently just fine. Such is the state of American/UK culture (because by contrast a lot of Europeans couldn't care less and happily have bare breasts on billboards & adverts). Japan by contrast is happy with everything except male genitalia it seems. We all have our own cultural taboos.
Then again, when has any of it ever made sense - take the UK - we can have sex at 16, but can't rent a video depicting it until 18, and have a huge number of teenage (that is 12-16) pregancies that we not only don't prosecute but then have to support by welfare. How is that even remotely sane?
Anyway I'd argue it's got nothing to do with gaming and everything to do with mainstream culture. If you can get it on a billboard, you can get it in a game. Everything else is publishers or developers not being prepared to expose themselves to any Puritanical backlash for promoting what the music & film industry have been doing for decades.
Then again, when has any of it ever made sense - take the UK - we can have sex at 16, but can't rent a video depicting it until 18, and have a huge number of teenage (that is 12-16) pregancies that we not only don't prosecute but then have to support by welfare. How is that even remotely sane?
Anyway I'd argue it's got nothing to do with gaming and everything to do with mainstream culture. If you can get it on a billboard, you can get it in a game. Everything else is publishers or developers not being prepared to expose themselves to any Puritanical backlash for promoting what the music & film industry have been doing for decades.
Nudity in a certain quick-time event centered, PS3 exclusive? Sure why not?cainx10a said:
The club scene, youtube it if you must
its one of the ultimate ironies of religion, Religious control over society creates fascination with things like large breasts, that fascination, being unacceptable by the religiously controlled majority, becomes a fetish, something kept hidden on the sidelines, Now people have a way of throwing their fetishes in your face, and Immersing you in them, IE: Bayonetta. Theres nothing wrong or unnatural about nudity, you've only been told there is.Vrex360 said:
Nudity is not degrading, not to be ashamed of, it is to be proud of.
I'd like to see Mad Moxxi naked.
But in most cases it would just be entirely inappropriate. The last game i played which featured nudity was the Saboteur. You were playing an undesirable hiding out in shady parts of Nazi occupied France. It fit.
Nowadays, i really don't think that developers shy away from using nudity where appropriate.
But in most cases it would just be entirely inappropriate. The last game i played which featured nudity was the Saboteur. You were playing an undesirable hiding out in shady parts of Nazi occupied France. It fit.
Nowadays, i really don't think that developers shy away from using nudity where appropriate.
Because people are idiots. Videogames are associated with children, but there are games with giant M's on them and little boxes that say all the horrid things. Now when lil Jimmy sees that valkyries boob and his little analog stick goes up, mommy gets pissed.
This statement only applies to a select few idiots who piss In the pool ruining It for everyone. But now people get freaked out because they don't want their exspensive title ruined by controversy, like Mass Effect.
I personally find It a bit destracting at times, It's hard enough to focus on most games, and I don't need boobs or crotch distracting me from that alien cyclops blowing up my skull.
This statement only applies to a select few idiots who piss In the pool ruining It for everyone. But now people get freaked out because they don't want their exspensive title ruined by controversy, like Mass Effect.
I personally find It a bit destracting at times, It's hard enough to focus on most games, and I don't need boobs or crotch distracting me from that alien cyclops blowing up my skull.