There’s an “every time you masturbate God kills a kitten” joke here somewhere…
Wow. I remember Second Life! That still exists? And in what way was that even a game?
One uses a rifle, the other, a gun. One is for fucking, the other, for fun.
I’ve played a few Japanese porn games. They seem ten times more interesting than this.
It’s not. It’s an interactive chat room.
In days of yore, didn’t pubs sometimes have video games where you’d play a simple game (like Concentration) and each time you won, it would uncover a piece of picture of a nude/topless woman?
That’s more like a PG-rated video game than an R- or X-rated video game, though.
As mentioned, there’s a couple categories of porn games:
- “Strip Poker/Mahjong/Space Shooter*/Whatever”. The gameplay exists pretty much as a barrier to seeing a chick lose her clothes, but that’s about it.
- “Dating Sim/Visual Novel”. There’s usually the bare minimum of a story and in general you have to develop a relationship (or do tasks for) the character you’re pursuing before you can stick it in, and even then the sex scenes are often pixellated.
- “Touch Someone Inappropriately”. There’s no real gameplay here, you point and click, and then your partner blushes, protests, gets progressively turned on, then has sex with you. Sometime this sex happens in the “first person” view, except with an invisible penis. There’s even “games” of this type where the graphics are in full 3D.
*Yes, there is a Strip Space Shooter. The stage background is a giant image of a girl in a fanservice-y outfit, and your ship shoots bits of her clothes off as you dodge bullets.
These type of games are not widely available for a variety of reasons:
- They tend not to be fun to play. The “Strip Poker/Mahjong/Shooter/Whatever” generally is of lower quality than the non-strip version, as if the promise of seeing a girl lose her clothes can forgive shitty design decisions. They also don’t have good replay value once you’re done.
- They involve conflicting portions of the brain. When one is playing an engaging game, they can tune out everything else, up to and including the prospect of actual sex. Why play a shitty game about all the ass you’re not tapping in real life?
- The graphics are inferior to real porn. Yes, pretend animated women can have more idealized (or extreme) proportions than real ones, but no matter what the art style they’re also not going to look like real women.
- Real porn is cheaper to get–hell, with the internet, you can get all the porn you want for free. You want a porn game with any kind of production value in it, you’re going to have to pay a pretty penny.
- They tend not to involve healthy sexual fantasies. Now, there are good visual novels where the characters are realistically portrayed, there’s good character development, and the sex scenes don’t feel tacked on just for the titillation. Unfortunately, most porn games tend to be designed with the philosophy of “get to the point where a dick is going into a hole as fast as possible, common sense be damned”. Call me old-fashioned, but game where you basically rape a girl into falling in love with you is not a game I want to play.
- The Moral Guardians would pitch a fit. Given their frothing insanity over so-called “murder simulators”, I don’t want to see one of them get their hands on what I’ve seen in the darker depth of the internet.
It’s a long, long story, but I once wrote a sex game that started by diverting the user through a long and absolutely tantalizing list of setup questions, then spent about 30 seconds “generating content”… and crashed. I wrote it to amuse/annoy a game hacker group, and it took them a surprisingly long time to figure out the joke. The forum discussion on “how to make it work!” was frantic and voluminous. To this day - nearly 20 years later - there are still people who would like to find “_________” (my group name) and rewire some of my, um, controllers.
Wasn’t there a game about fifteen years ago that was Japanese in origin and some sort of simulated rape “fun”?
Are you thinking of Rapelay – I think that’s what it was called – wasn’t it more recent than that? I remember the general description. You sexually harass a woman and her daughters on the subway progressively until you get to outright rape. And if one of your victims becomes pregnant, they come back to kill you. It caused a big splash and there were a lot of news articles about it, but I’m not going to do a search while I’m at work.
I had to think about whether or not to respond, but…
In defense of the game, it’s quick, easy, one-handed, & the motion can be automated; it’s more of a customizable animation than a game to be honest, but it makes for decent material (provided you can enjoy hentai and other forms of illustrated porn) because the art is good and it’s well animated. Less effort than a lot of the dating sim/visual novels I’ve read about, and it doesn’t get all dark and twisted like a lot of them seem to (granted, you could set up a bdsm scene if you wanted, and the initial dialogue set is embarrassed & complaining, but I like the enthusiastic dialogue set it comes with).
Also, apparently you can now have either participant be either gender now, though currently there aren’t any male presets or clothing options AFAIK. The game’s developer supports modding and the game can import custom hairstyles, clothing, and dialogue so the perverts, I mean fans, can fill in the gaps.
As for the other game I mentioned, I feel like I didn’t really explain it properly: it’s a parody of Princess Maker, if you’ve ever heard of it, and is sort of like a visual novel/text adventure/sim game hybrid all about sexual slavery. The art is mostly lifted from the web, the characters are mostly from anime and videogames, as far as I know the writing is by the programmer. It doesn’t take much work to get to sex scenes (maybe 15 minutes on the outside), but the game involves a lot of planning and thinking if you want a happy ending (and I mean that in the traditional sense, not the euphemism). As I said before, it’s well made, just not to my taste and way more in depth than I was looking for.
Sorta.
In the Larry games (note I have not played Box Office Bust or Magna Cum Laude yet), the amount of sex and nudity varies. But for the most part, you have to work for it. They hold up well as games. But, they fail as porn in the age of the net. Why go through all that trouble for CGI porn, when I can find instant gratification on the web?
I think that is a big factor in why we don’t see more porn games. In a game, the consumer wants a challenge. In porn, the consumer wants instant gratification.
second sentence in the OP.
Ah, thishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapeLay is the one I was thinking of. It’s from 2006, so only 7 years ago not 15.
Yeah, that scandal is the reason the big Japanese porn game developers put “For Japanese sale only!” on their products these days. Also, RapeLay is still being played - it’s been fan translated to English, there’s uncensor mods for it (they still pixelate the genitals over there) and I’m fairly sure finding a pirated copy of it isn’t difficult even after 7 years. It was one of those rarer games with 3D graphics and actual interactive scenes which has kept it relevant for so long.
I’ve always wanted to play that game just to see how (ethically) terrible it is, but I’m not sure whether I’m more terrified of what I’d see or the worry that I’d actually find something in there titillating.
Here’s a game that comes with a vibrator:
Great game actually.
I seem to recall a female game reviewer doing a risque article of Rez & trance vibrator for her blog back in the day that even got linked from Penny Arcade…
Here it is, NSFW warning (hope breaking the link satisfies the two-click rule): www(dot)gamegirladvance.com/2002/10/sex-in-games-rezvibrator(dot)html
“When virtual reality gets so good that Joe Sixpack can have sex with Claudia Schiffer for hours on end, it’s gonna make crack look like Sanka.” - Dennis Miller
Hmm, I wonder why…