Perhaps it was Leisure Suit Larry that began the sex video game trend, but the things Larry did are nothing like what’s happening today. Video game porn has come a long way since Larry made his first appearance and the trend, whether people like it or not, seems to be continuing.
SFGate has a great piece up that details the trend of replacing monsters with sex in the gaming world, both online and in single player games. The piece lists off some of the bigger titles available now and those that will be coming soon.
The allure of gaming sex is obviously high with the number of mods available to turn innocent games into topless adventures, but somehow those seem much more clean compared to what else is out there and what’s coming. The mods are more or less a funny prank. The games created for the sole purpose of letting players “score” seem somehow pitiful, sad and maybe a little (or a lot) depraved in comparison.
I’m not a prude by any stretch of the imagination, but I just don’t get games like “Naughty America: The Game,” which is expected out later this year. Here players will have their own apartments and traverse a world with “public sex zones.” They will even have a make-your-own-porn room.
This new crop of adults-only games would combine the player-player interaction of the online games and the graphic sexuality of the single-player games.
Game designer Brenda Brathwaite, who has been in the industry for more than 20 years, sees the new games as a natural evolution of online life, noting that even in the very simple text-based adventure games of the 80s, virtual eyelashes were batted.
"If there were two people playing, eventually those people would start flirting," said Brathwaite, who is working on a book about sex in video games.
Multiplayer sexual games are in the works now, Brathwaite said, because Internet connections have become fast enough to make graphically rich online environments and characters possible. For the games that envision players also meeting in real life, mainstream acceptance of dating sites like Match.com also helps.
In "Red Light Center," a game already available in a test version, players take the shape of three-dimensional characters in a red-light district. They can talk to one another through headsets and microphones.
SFGate
I guess it’s a case of to each his or her own, but I prefer to restrict my online conquests to dragon slaying and maybe a little first-person shooting action. Call me old fashioned!
What I’d like to know is what traditional gamers think of this trend. Is it one that will continue? What are the chances for MMO sex games to actually succeed? What’s the appeal? Visit our forums and let me know what you think!
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