Nudity in Video Games: Going too far?
It's a constant war of arguing to keep them bastards from shutting down violent games, like GTA Vice City(whom surprisingly enough, was only sued once as far as I know, and that was for racism towards haitians).
On all of these shows about anti-violence in video games, they tend to show the goriest and rarest scenes to help strengthen their point. For years and years they would only show Mortal Kombat fatalities, and fights against Sonya Blade(woman abuse). Now they seem to like showing the old ladies on the streets of Vice getting ripped apart with a chainsaw...
If you saw that documentary called "First Person Shooter," you'll know what I'm talking about. That's a documentary filmed by a CounterStrike addict's dad, who follows his son around to Clan meetings with his friends, and even to a Counterstrike tournament. Now and then it breaks off to interviews with parents who talk about their abusive siblings, and some ex-army guy that's trying to stop first person shooters from being made, because they reflect on the actuality of aiming, and they're training kids to be killers...
The documentary, the 'are video games safe' news broadcasts, and the Wal-Mart banning of GTA are all bullshit. But, they're still there, and the boycotting of violence in Video Games is rising, and, oddly enough, the violence is also rising.
Records show that softcore Nintendo games are losing money, while gore-filled games like Devil May Cry are--according to Gamepro magazine, June issue of last year-- making three times as much money as most box-office movies.
So, while standing on the edge of a tilting cliff, with Christians, Catholics, and bored mothers throwing anti-violence propaganda at the gaming industry, is it really a good idea to throw [I]this[/I] rock onto the pile:
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...A BMX game with digital nudity(BMX XXX).
I mean, is this pathetic or what? ACCLAIM almost got boycotted from Wal-Marts across the states and Canada over this shit.
What do you think? Is nudity in games going way past the line?
i don't care if there is nudity in video games as long as that isn't their gimmick to actually get people to purchase the game. In XXX's case it was, and that just strikes me as stupid and insulting to gamers. I don't like to think that nudity will become a ploy to buy crappy games just like uber-violence has become in some cases. Otherwise, if for whatever reason nudity has some necessary place in the game, rate it M like you would for violence and go for it.
People will always bitch about how evil computer games are but i don't think it really matters. As you said before violent games are selling much better than nintendo's non-violent but still fun games, so the cries of outrage by these people don't seem to do much anyway.
it was kinda wierd in the end of Manhunt when a naked mutated pig was chasing me around a dusty attic with a chainsaw, and genitals flopping between his legs
but pfft
give me something disturbing, give me something new
I've always wished that Chaotique, my av in SWG, could be naked. I try real hard. I can make her wear a jacket with her tits half-hanging out, but that's it.
I don't care about nudity in games, so long as it is chicks 
that Adult rating is never used.
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[QUOTE=superbug]that Adult rating is never used.[/QUOTE]
The porn indusrty has made a few games with the Adult rating, but nothing mainstream has gotten it yet.
[QUOTE=mungkay]The porn indusrty has made a few games with the Adult rating, but nothing mainstream has gotten it yet.[/QUOTE]
haha, yes
we all remember Virtual Sex 2000 for our playstation1s
make your own porno
twas rightious
Playboy has a game, supposedly coming out this fall in which you get to build your own "playboy" type empire. Kinda sounds like an adult version of the sims, and you get to take nude photos of chicks in the game. It will probably get the A rating, and manage to totally suck at the same time.
DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball features nudity. You just have to unlock it. I never did when I played it. Shitzkies.
I personally find the female characters in video games to be offensive, I'm sorry but that's just the case. However, this documentary sounds really like focusing a little too much on specific cases rather than the majority of players... and Wal-Mart has always and will always blow.
I don't know much about nudity in games, you know I remember some Atari porn but that was back in the day when you really had to squint and use your imagination. Nowadays I'm sure they have much better shit and frankly, I was in a relationship with a guy who was too dependent on anime and game characters (he couldn't wait for that whatever volleyball beach crap to come out back then, and he had some computer game featuring an animated Britney Spears I do believe), and I just found it overly disgusting and pathetic. But then, I guess it's been going on forever and ever, back when I was younger it was all about the comics, where all the women look perfect and have tig ol' bitties, so it's not exactly a new thing to subject kids to these unrealistic and shallow images, it's just a new way to go about it.
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tig o bitties
I haven't heard that in ages.
Nudity in Video games?
I don't see any nudity in video games. It has been santized to the point of "[I]what's the point?[/I]" I mean all these games claim to push the limits, but none have actually broken the boundry. It's a double standard in America. Sure, go ahead and shoot all the dead mean guys, but when it comes to sex there needs to be censorship. wtf? To me the message is; kill all you want, but sex is wrong.