sex in a game

[zebaroth 6]

sex in a game what is your opinion on it how should it be handled 

and is it ok to have it in a game

 

[Lord Vectra 414]

I believe it's okay because many games have them. I have no problem with it.

 

I don't know how it should be handled since I never used it.

[+ CVincent 234]

It's definitely okay to have it in a game, the industry has proven that. Game series like Mass Effect would allow you to have relationships with characters which would then lead to sex. The scenes weren't explicit which would probably be the best thing if you're marketing to an open audience. It was at least kept somewhat relative to character development.

 

There are also games like the Grand Theft Auto series which is much more sexually themed. You can go to strip clubs or find a hooker on the street.

 

These themes are becoming more acceptable by the standards of the industry, maturity ratings don't really seem to matter anymore since it's so easy for people to bypass age restrictions. Anyone can go out and buy their kid GTA:V by claiming it's for themselves. Steam just requires an age input which people have been bypassing ever since that became a thing.

 

How should it be handled? It comes down to the kind of game you're making. Story heavy games should focus on relationship building and use sex as character development. I don't believe that the scenes should have to be explicit but having themes or suggesting there is intercourse should be fine.

[RoooodWorks 165]

sex in a game what is your opinion on it how should it be handled 

and is it ok to have it in a game

If you're talking about how it should be handled in RPG maker games, then do it like how sta wars Knights of the old republic or the old republic did it, Just fade to black and let the players imagination take over how it was handled.

[+ Shack_Keeper 30]

if it's a mature title, of course its fine. 18+.

[Rikifive 3,411]

 

sex in a game what is your opinion on it how should it be handled 

and is it ok to have it in a game

If you're talking about how it should be handled in RPG maker games, then do it like how sta wars Knights of the old republic or the old republic did it, Just fade to black and let the players imagination take over how it was handled.

 

Yup, that would be good here. Imagine pixelated & naked characters move 1 pixel to the left, then 1 pixel to the right and so on. That would be awkward.

 

Personally I don't like sex in games as it's kinda awkward when you're playing a game and you're not alone and suddenly not appropriate stuff is going on. (unless there is lots of that content and you know stuff like that are going to happen) xD

[magic2345 252]

It's fine to have sex in a game but as Rikifive said, you have to warn people about it.

[UberMedic7 55]

All of my yes. Seriously though, throughout the years this has being a big one for me. People getting their guts ripped off is ok but a sex scene is wrong? Meh, Video-games are an art form and since it is, you can use any possible way to show the player something, either it be violence, action or romance. i really wish that more games took this "risk" like GTA V, The Witcher and others. of course nothing other the top (not that people would mind) but at least "the basic features". all and all, i believe that since we can have ultra violent games, then we should have games with sex aswell.

[Arrpeegeemaker 136]

If it belongs in a game, or has a reasonable place from the developer's standpoint....create away. I think indie games would have an easier time than the majority of mainstream games, except for ones that set that 'mature' tone, like the above mentioned GTA series and a few others. 

 

I think a large problem is that Mommy+Daddy+Letting your kid play whatever  causes issues. (I never seem to hear complaints from anyone but parents who personally bought it or simply allowed their kids to play it for a good while before having an issue). It's hard to be taken seriously when a large part of the people that argue against violence and things like nudity or sexually explicit content are parents who argue in the name of 'raising kids right' or 'being morally/politically wholesome and correct. 

 

Combine that with the fact that some places with huge game markets like North America can be EXTREMELY prude in the most ironic of ways, and you've got a recipe for disaster. 

Again, the people that seem to be heard the most complaining against such things a sex in games are often parents who argue from the standpoint of looking out for their children. That makes the people arguing in favor look like immoral or sexually-charged individuals when often it's just people who wanted to express their art in their own way (or experience said art), and never asked children to play it or marketed it to them.

 

Lets not forget how many sex-charged games are elsewhere, though.... Lol I'm looking at you, Japan, with your racy games and special...... 'controllers' lolol 

[gunsage 161]

I guess I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. Yes, sex should be allowed in games, especially if you've already warned the user (by rating, warning at the beginning of the game, etc.). As far as how it's handled, well, that would be entirely up to you. You could go into more graphic detail, but in many cases simply fading out, then fading back in is enough.

 

I think we're going to need more information before we can answer your question more appropriately.

[Kayzee 4,032]

Not to long ago there was a blog post someone made about over-oversexualization of characters in games, and I think a lot of the comments I made there apply to this topic as well.

 

I think it's worth thinking about the intent behind the sex, if including sex actually accomplishes anything in the story besides being some sort of selling point or a part of a unnecessary token romance subplot, and also if the sex is respectful and mature. Problem is, including sex in most games doesn't really accomplish anything or act as anything. Sometimes it is a kind of quest line reward or a reward for choosing the right dialogue options, which always felt vaguely derogatory to me. Sometimes it's a result of a way too quick and glossed over romance subplot or subplots feels way too forced and awkward. And it doesn't often even try to make a statement or serve a point at all besides just being there.

 

Of course if you are talking about a making what is basically a porn game that is based completely around sex and just want something people can get off to, it's a little different. I honestly really enjoy RPG Maker porn games (there are actually quite a few), even if they do often have really really dumb plot excuses. But it's porn. As much as I would like to see porno become more refined,  sophisticated, and artsy and start telling more interesting, respectful, and mature stories, I recognize that it is porn and that's not really what people look for. Still if your going to go full ecchi on me, I wanna see some really hardcore kinky shit. Don't be afraid to really show some full screen art or crazy animated pixel sex or erotic text descriptions of what's happening or something. Yes I happen to LIKE naked pixel sex, if it's animated well and shows enough of what I want to see anyway.

Edited August 16, 2015 by KilloZapit

[+ CVincent 234]

 

 

I think it's worth thinking about the intent behind the sex, if including sex actually accomplishes anything in the story besides being some sort of selling point or a part of a unnecessary token romance subplot, and also if the sex is respectful and mature. Problem is, including sex in most games doesn't really accomplish anything or act as anything. Sometimes it is a kind of quest line reward or a reward for choosing the right dialogue options, which always felt vaguely derogatory to me. Sometimes it's a result of a way too quick and glossed over romance subplot or subplots feels way too forced and awkward. And it doesn't often even try to make a statement or serve a point at all besides just being there.

 

I completely agree with this. I haven't really seen many games that make sexual relationships interesting. Mass Effect, for example, seemed to fall into this category (in my opinion). I was never really interested in the romance part of the game and I didn't really feel it added much in the way of story.

 

Action games that have romance in them tend to make me lose interest quickly as the pacing of the game is just too fast for me to keep up with. If someone is going to have romance or sex in their game then they need to understand that character development, story progression and the pacing of which these events happen are all extremely important and will define a moment where romance is used. Sex and/or romance should definitely not be used as filler content to add depth to a character in order to make them have more human qualities.

 

Maybe it's better in most games to have sexual themes as opposed to full on relationships if a writer is having a hard time creating one. This way they would avoid having terrible writing or excuses to create a romantic moment. You can just as easily catch a player's attention by subtly showing them a bit of cleavage or by having a moment where two characters accidentally bump into each other.

 

So.. Yeah, it's not easy to write a good relationship in a game but I personally think developers should have improved standards for how these things are handled in games. Art is subjective however and not all people have the same opinions or taste on sexual themes in general.

[HumanNinja 144]

I believe like anything else, sex within a game should be considered in terms of impact on story. Will a sex scene add to the story?

 

Other people have mentioned various other games that include sex scenes. I've played many of the ones mentioned and I cannot say that my gaming experience was increased by watching some derpy sex scene. Could I have enjoyed the games just as well without the sex scenes? Yes. So I conclude that sex scenes in those games were completely useless.

 

What kind of story really needs a sex scene? Almost none. Even modern films use them in ways that don't add anything to the story. They are added because for some reason society has come to expect them. When I watch a romantic comedy with my girlfriend, I don't need to watch 2 minutes of the lead actor and actress rolling around under the sheets to come to the conclusion that they care about each. In my opinion it's useless and tasteless. I carry that same mindset into my gaming experiences as well.

 

Short answer: No, sex is competely useless in a video game.

[Lord Vectra 414]

I believe like anything else, sex within a game should be considered in terms of impact on story. Will a sex scene add to the story?

 

Other people have mentioned various other games that include sex scenes. I've played many of the ones mentioned and I cannot say that my gaming experience was increased by watching some derpy sex scene. Could I have enjoyed the games just as well without the sex scenes? Yes. So I conclude that sex scenes in those games were completely useless.

 

What kind of story really needs a sex scene? Almost none. Even modern films use them in ways that don't add anything to the story. They are added because for some reason society has come to expect them. When I watch a romantic comedy with my girlfriend, I don't need to watch 2 minutes of the lead actor and actress rolling around under the sheets to come to the conclusion that they care about each. In my opinion it's useless and tasteless. I carry that same mindset into my gaming experiences as well.

 

Short answer: No, sex is competely useless in a video game.

But sex is awesome

[HumanNinja 144]

 

I believe like anything else, sex within a game should be considered in terms of impact on story. Will a sex scene add to the story?

 

Other people have mentioned various other games that include sex scenes. I've played many of the ones mentioned and I cannot say that my gaming experience was increased by watching some derpy sex scene. Could I have enjoyed the games just as well without the sex scenes? Yes. So I conclude that sex scenes in those games were completely useless.

 

What kind of story really needs a sex scene? Almost none. Even modern films use them in ways that don't add anything to the story. They are added because for some reason society has come to expect them. When I watch a romantic comedy with my girlfriend, I don't need to watch 2 minutes of the lead actor and actress rolling around under the sheets to come to the conclusion that they care about each. In my opinion it's useless and tasteless. I carry that same mindset into my gaming experiences as well.

 

Short answer: No, sex is competely useless in a video game.

But sex is awesome

 

Sex is awesome but, watching other people have sex is a little weird and creepy.

[gunsage 161]

The problem with how most games approach sex is it's one of three ways: the stupidly wrong but hilarious way, the wrong way, and the kinda right but not really way. The third way is the easiest to describe. This is mostly done by visual novel/dating sim games. Yeah, there is sex there and it goes into STUPIDLY GLORIOUS detail, but it's like porn in that it's not realistic...it's hyper-ridiculous and fun, but not terribly realistic or romantic.

The first way is fairly obvious, too: Leisure Suit Larry. Sex is used as a prize or avenue to keep the game moving forward or it's simply an option, but might not go into explicit detail about it. There are two scenarios I can think of involving this besides LSL. One was about halfway into the Mexico chapters in Red Dead Redemption when HELLO, had to have the kids leave the room and no warning whatsoever.

Yeah, my kids love violence, but they aren't seeing...that...just yet, at least if I can help it. The other scenario was Saints Row 4, where you could literally "romance" every character on the ship in a stupidly hilarious way, obviously parodying Mass Effect, which I'll get into now. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and other "tasteful sex scenes" games fall into the second category (why are they out of order, just roll with it).

The problem is that while they say that it's more about being tasteful and showing blossoming relationships or whatever, it's not. It's another prize. What do you, the gamer, really get out of seeing two characters ready to kiss face, then it fades to black? Nothing. You get the satisfaction of going "hurr hurr, now keesss." That's about it.

Mass Effect and Dragon Age are paraded around like they accomplished some major achievement, but they didn't. The happy medium would be having a game where sex isn't an "option." Here's what I mean. In many games, you go into it knowing you can have teh sw33t lovins. So what do you do? Try to make that happen as fervently as possible. In fact, you will do so even if you suspect there is NOT a sex scene, such as in games like Persona 3 or 4.

As a side note, I really have no idea on P3 or 4...there could be, but I haven't beaten either (despite absolutely loving both).   The best thing would be if it just kind of "happened."  No, I don't mean that BAM suddenly both characters are naked and lol what else are they gon do.  I mean that they're going along and it's spontaneous, but believable.  I know that's what DO/ME were trying to do, but it still ended up feeling forced in literally all cases.

 

See, when you ask what peoples' opinions are about having sex in a game and what's my opinion, it's just that I don't think it's ever really been done "right."  It's either straight up porn or it feels like it was written by a giddy writer who got his inspiration by being naughty and looking in a girl's locker room before he sat down to write the scene.  It never feels genuine and almost always feels forced.

 

If you can move beyond that, go for it.  If not, at least have fun with it.  Hilarious sex scenes are the best sex scenes.

[Lord Vectra 414]

 

 

I believe like anything else, sex within a game should be considered in terms of impact on story. Will a sex scene add to the story?

 

Other people have mentioned various other games that include sex scenes. I've played many of the ones mentioned and I cannot say that my gaming experience was increased by watching some derpy sex scene. Could I have enjoyed the games just as well without the sex scenes? Yes. So I conclude that sex scenes in those games were completely useless.

 

What kind of story really needs a sex scene? Almost none. Even modern films use them in ways that don't add anything to the story. They are added because for some reason society has come to expect them. When I watch a romantic comedy with my girlfriend, I don't need to watch 2 minutes of the lead actor and actress rolling around under the sheets to come to the conclusion that they care about each. In my opinion it's useless and tasteless. I carry that same mindset into my gaming experiences as well.

 

Short answer: No, sex is competely useless in a video game.

But sex is awesome

 

Sex is awesome but, watching other people have sex is a little weird and creepy.

 

not exactly. Its called Porn.

[gunsage 161]

 

 

 

I believe like anything else, sex within a game should be considered in terms of impact on story. Will a sex scene add to the story?

 

Other people have mentioned various other games that include sex scenes. I've played many of the ones mentioned and I cannot say that my gaming experience was increased by watching some derpy sex scene. Could I have enjoyed the games just as well without the sex scenes? Yes. So I conclude that sex scenes in those games were completely useless.

 

What kind of story really needs a sex scene? Almost none. Even modern films use them in ways that don't add anything to the story. They are added because for some reason society has come to expect them. When I watch a romantic comedy with my girlfriend, I don't need to watch 2 minutes of the lead actor and actress rolling around under the sheets to come to the conclusion that they care about each. In my opinion it's useless and tasteless. I carry that same mindset into my gaming experiences as well.

 

Short answer: No, sex is competely useless in a video game.

But sex is awesome

 

Sex is awesome but, watching other people have sex is a little weird and creepy.

 

not exactly. Its called Porn.

 

Watching your PARENTS having sex is weird and creepy, but otherwise, it really is the best.

[Lord Vectra 414]

I don't watch my parents so...

[gunsage 161]

I mean, I HOPE not.  Some people are weird is all I'm saying.

[Lord Vectra 414]

ANYWHO, I believe sex in games are cool. This is gonna sound weird but I prefer it. I mean, If I'm making my own character, I would want my character to do IT. Like in Dragon Age: Origins. I'm always dating Morrigan so therefore, I do IT with her. Or in Dragon Age two with either Isabella or Merrill.

[FranklinX 78]

I don't have a problem with sex in games. There is a character in my game, who kills innocent people by having sex with them. This was a common mythology in ancient times. Why do you think Enterbrain made a Succubus character sprite and battler? 

Edited August 16, 2015 by FranklinX

[zebaroth 6]

is for how sex relates to my storyline in my game the new  darklord ( the pc ) froms an alince with elf queen becuase she and everyone else

hates the king the hero who kille the main character's  uncle who was the old darklord and the elf queen and the darklord get it on

also have quite a bit of stuff about kain who is the caretaker he is a flesh golem

[gunsage 161]

H-yeah, I BET he's a flesh golem, am I right?  High five!

[Kayzee 4,032]

I just wanna be clear: I would still welcome more outright porn (because I am a perv), or stories that use sex as an actual meaningful and thoughtful way, or, hopefully, both at once. But if you can't do either of those things I don't see the point.

 

And this is coming form someone who embarrassingly made a little sex scene in my test game... it's kinda become a tradition that it's one of the first things I do to test a new RPG Maker program when I get it... Usually involving a bunnygirl (there is one in like every RTP). I never release any real games anyway though. In my defense at this point it was mostly a inside joke I made with myself. (I made lots of silly jokes in my test game. Like the bunnygirl also being kinda annoyed at my fairy character because usually she is the main character!)

Edited August 17, 2015 by KilloZapit