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I think the comparison of games to movies is fairly apt as you've got your lowest common denominator games and then those that make an attempt to be witty or smart in some way. I think the biggest problem as to why there aren't more 'high brow' games is that its probably difficult to keep the intensity of the material while allowing the gamer to still feel as though they're in control. That kind of limits that category to RPGs and Adventure games. I think the other problem is while it might be fine to watch a serious movie for 2 hours there aren't many people that'd put up with that kind for 16 hours or more of game play.

But this is about sex right? *Turns down the lights* I guess I occasionally see more meaningful relationships develop in RPGs, FFVI/VII, Knights of the Old Republic etc etc. But as mentioned in the video developers risk losing a large potential pool of customers if they make the relationships too graphic (meaning portraying sex or implying it rather than just love). I think the biggest thing standing in the way is that the developers know gratuitous and shallow games sell, maybe its because we live in a gratuitous shallow society, and its a risk financially to try to develop something with more integrity.

*If I offend anyone in anyway, I apologize in advance*

If I really wanted to be serious about this issue, I could have a two page essay ready by tomorrow... Of course I'm not going to do that since I want to get my point across within the first paragraph... From how I see it, most of us were born at around the same time games started, and as we grow older, they have been adding more mature stuff... True we enjoy the shooting, the slashing, the blood pouring out of someone like a waterfall, but one thing that has always stur up contreversy has always be the idea of sex, or sex icons...

What this guy said is true for during the time when tomb raider came out, people were more interested in Lara herself than the actual gameplay... It was either two things you always look at her, either look at her butt or her breasts... and since Tomb Raider, that is when I really started to notice all these sex ideas coming up, custer's revenge was just stupid though... Since then and now on systems in which we have the best graphics yet, it seems that we have been focused more on how a game looks rather than how it plays... The parts of where game developers try the "sex sells" and focus on just is that when their game runs into a brick wall and crash and burns when the time comes for it to be released... Just look at all the female characters nowadays... I could name a good handful of characters that have breasts so big, it is almost hard to imagine that they can move, and when they move, it would look like that it bounces all over the place... It is sad that some developers have to go on this path of selling a game due to a woman barely wearing any clothing and for us to buy the game so that we can fully enjoy every time she is laying on the floor with legs spread out...

This guy has the right idea though, video games are about 20-30 years old now, and if you want to sell games, keep with the format that works, and if we ever get to a time sex is ok in games, it should be done at a slow pace and done like the movies, in which there is enough to satify watchers, but not too much for it to be a porno... Till then, games like Mass effect will be considered most offensive, when people barely see what's happening... if that was the case, you would be hearing of a new game making news every month...

The people who finance games do not look at games as art. They look at games as electronic entertainment for kids.

Until that is solved games will treat sex and sexuality with kid gloves while throwing in big boobs for hormonal kids hitting puberty.

^Indeed, teach kids women are objects to be desired and acquired, rather than people that do things like think and have their own emotions. Its the American way!

That was surprisingly well done.

the final comment makes it all worth it.

One game that handled sexual content well is Max Payne 2.

This is the exact same as movies, but the difference is that if a game gets the Ao rating, it's dead in the water, because the big outlets won't sell them. X-rated movies are still sold to adults, even if the Internet is killing the industry.

But still MPAA and ESRB are terribly misguided in that the least bit sexual content skyrockets the rating and a game like Soldier of Fortune get's an M. It's even worse if there's even a hint of gay sexuality, don't get me started. But that's more common in movies, videogames take a huge circle around that.

^Max Payne 2 was tremendous in all respects. I might just download it and play it again -- and it's what, five years old?

This was actually really, really good, with many nice points and well done graphics to go along. Nice work you ZP lover you.

Except that his voice was annoying as hell - Maybe he shouldn't have tried to speed it up...

While I applaud this kind of free thought in regards to such a controversial issue, I think his premise is a bit flawed. I'm afraid I CAN'T think of a single movie that would have been worse if it had less explicit content. Even if it is essential to fine works, I certainly don't see why sexuality is important to games just because it is important to other media.

This clearly has punctuation.

What's going on? How is this *dead?

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Here's the link to the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oFywW99Uvwc

Hey look!

http://www.gamecareerseminar.com/img/eforallspeakers/portnow.gif

Oh man, I had to read "The Whipping Boy" for grade 5 or 6, I forget. But I remember hating it and making a board game. I think its still in my room.

*woohoo for the society reaction clip.

There was something else I was going to add but I forgot.

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