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Romance and Sex = marketing for rpgs?


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I blame the Americans (specifically Jack Thompson and the "Child molestati...preservation organisations" with the parents who have no understanding what a video-game is...)

I blame Europeans (specifically the rabid anti-Americans). (w00t)

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Hmm, we dont have here in EU weapondetectors and cameras behind all corners, well not yet :p

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I blame the Americans (specifically Jack Thompson and the "Child molestati...preservation organisations" with the parents who have no understanding what a video-game is...)

I'm sure you don't want me to start bring up things I blame Germany for hmmm? Sure you wouldn't like it.

 

 

 

 

 

On topic sex in games is no big thing. If they could make it like you were in a movie than that would be great.

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It won't be roleplaying if you're not playing some sort of minigame during the sex scene. Something like Hot Coffee only with wires attached to your hands and genitals.

 

Attaching wires to your genitals? :thumbsup:

 

 

 

 

This is no place to discuss your sexual fantasies, think of the children.

Just because you're a bit thinner than your even fatter mum it doesn't mean you're in excellent physical shape, if you could fit through the door and view the normal people you'd notice that cheeseburger boy. Squid suck.

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Eh, it's been done: hentai games.

 

The truth is, the joys of action/combat are somewhat easier to simulate in a interactive visual and audio medium than sex. Yes, the porn industry is gigantic, but that's because they are meant to passively arouse, and whereas arousal can be naturally translated through visual and audio stimulus, sexual fulfillment cannot. Interactivity in sex (the "gimmick" of sex games), as opposed to interactivity in action/combat, is by definition physical. Combat, at least many aspects of combat, can be simulated viscerally - and in some sense that's what we want, because we don't want to actually hurt like hell when we get slashed by a sword or become fatigued after running a few miles on the battlefield. When it comes down to sex, however, we *do* want the physical sensations - that's in fact the most important aspect of sexual interaction.

 

As such, the gaming medium as it is now is fundamentally limited in sex appeal. We can arouse, but we can't fulfill - hence we're probably never going to be as interested in sex games as we are in action games, though culture does play into that. This does not mean, on a fundamental level, that we like simulated violence more than sex - far from it. Yes, at the present time the romantics smugly state that they'd rather have sex with real women than fictional characters, but that's because they *can't* have it in the first place.

 

Come the day when full body simulation becomes possible, and you will see that the human desire for simulated sex is at least as great as the human desire for simulated violence.

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I blame the Americans (specifically Jack Thompson and the "Child molestati...preservation organisations" with the parents who have no understanding what a video-game is...)

I'm sure you don't want me to start bring up things I blame Germany for hmmm? Sure you wouldn't like it.

 

 

 

 

 

On topic sex in games is no big thing. If they could make it like you were in a movie than that would be great.

 

 

Who is German here? ;) Where ya hiding? :thumbsup:

 

LOL :D

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I am pretty sure this thread will get pruned...

 

anyway, to throw in my two cents, you don't need sex to have romance. i personally would prefer more romance in the crpg's, or at least better quality, but you don't need sex to do that. the romance adds an extra dynamic to the game, and without it crpg's aren't as enjoyable to me...

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I am pretty sure this thread will get pruned...

 

anyway, to throw in my two cents, you don't need sex to have romance. i personally would prefer more romance in the crpg's, or at least better quality, but you don't need sex to do that. the romance adds an extra dynamic to the game, and without it crpg's aren't as enjoyable to me...

 

Uhum, thats the problem : :)

not even real romance is in most games, REAL ones, :blink:

just try to name 3 and you understand,

even if you r capable of naming 3 you'll have to think hard for it. :p

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I blame the Americans (specifically Jack Thompson and the "Child

 

molestati...preservation organisations" with the parents who have no understanding what a video-game is...)

I'm sure you don't want me to start bring up things I blame Germany for hmmm? Sure you wouldn't like it.

Frappr! says this wookiee is from the netherlands...from far away it may seem that there is no difference, but, long story short, it has something to do with caravans and sauerkraut and being two distinct countries...so he wouldn't care, I guess...but that's not my business

 

however, for no apparent reason I am kind of curious what you want to blame germany for?

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This is no place to discuss your sexual fantasies, think of the children.

 

This is no place to discuss your sexual fantasies either.

 

Are you trying reverse psycology?

 

You want me to discuss my sexual fantasies don't you?

 

Yeah, i know your game boy. :ph34r:

Just because you're a bit thinner than your even fatter mum it doesn't mean you're in excellent physical shape, if you could fit through the door and view the normal people you'd notice that cheeseburger boy. Squid suck.

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I am pretty sure this thread will get pruned...

 

anyway, to throw in my two cents, you don't need sex to have romance. i personally would prefer more romance in the crpg's, or at least better quality, but you don't need sex to do that. the romance adds an extra dynamic to the game, and without it crpg's aren't as enjoyable to me...

 

Uhum, thats the problem : :(

not even real romance is in most games, REAL ones, :huh:

just try to name 3 and you understand,

even if you r capable of naming 3 you'll have to think hard for it. :ermm:

I know. i won't even try naming 3 real romances in games... but even a half-attempted decent romance adds a lot to a crpg i think, so whatever :thumbsup:

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