I am a firm believer in the right to act any way you want in a game , be it a deviant, or a mass murderer, or some perverted mixture, it is after all a game but I want to hear why others would or wouldnt want to, we play these games we are killers already yet we throw fits when some one mentions seeing a bare buttock or briast, language is censored yet we kill, six is severely censored yet we kill, we dont show maiming yet we kill, we dont show lots of gore yet we kill, slavery is shown but rarely yet we kill and show torture, we dont like showing drug use but still we kill,... I am very confused as to why we censor all these other things yet killing is not a problem ?

All of those things are allowed in games.

I don't feel any of those things don't couldn't have their place in videogames. Then again, I am a very liberal thinking person. I am sure many people wouldn't find their being in videogames okay.

Im all for all of those things to a certain degree although I find if a game does them for the hell of it stupid and tasteless. So long has they help advance the story in some way Im all for them.

I think all of those things and more should be allowed in games, though I'm sure the Daily Mail thinks differently.

It's really more of a society thing than a videogame thing. Videogames need to sell to keep the business afloat, and if something might trigger whining parents or prohibitively high ratings they feel it's not worth the effort and just gloss over it. It wasn't so long ago that Nintendo games were heavily edited to remove anything that seemed religious.

It's also just catering to an audience. Go to Japan. You'll find a few games that don't stop at a scandalous boobglimpse. Going into WHY it's that way is a whole other can of worms, but the fact of the matter is that western society is skewed that way regarding violence and nudity, so that's how marketing takes aim.

Those should be allowed if they're needed, and even then they should be depicted tastefully. Call me a conservative, but I don't think those are things that most video games really need. Just adding those for the sake of seeming edgy and different and gritty and "realistic" isn't tasteful or needed. Most games are fine without, even though in theory I don't have anything against said themes in games(/movies/etc).

The poll options mentioned can be found in games.

EDIT // With the exception of homosixuality, which I just realized would have also been on the list if I had scrolled down more... That shouldn't be taboo at all, and should be depicted in games just like heterosixuality (= as a completely normal thing).

Most of those are already shown in some games...and I don't think these need to be taboo. They are things that exist in the world and appear in movies all the time yet when it appears in games it's a big scandal (i.e the Fox News vs Mass Effect thing :stare: ). Obviously things like nudity and six should be done tastefully, like in Heavy Rain, not porm.

This could get political.

Anyway, I think all of them are fine in games depending on how they're used. And homosixuality shouldn't be taboo. Seriously.

All "other". It should only be in if it fits, not shohorned in or done as fanservice.

The fact that people hardly react when they see killing in video games or movies, but start to campaign against it like crazy as soon as they see a little nudity has for the longest time both cracked me up and enraged me at the same time. I mean, what is it in people's heads that make them think "Oh no, that's a sideboob, I better go on TV and start reciting bible verses." It's ridiculous.

This. What's the real question here? Because what Xet said is true.

I think Morrowind handled the nudity taboo best; it had no nudity, but fans released a graphical mod giving the option of nudity and everyone was content.

Fixed

There's always room for fanservice.

Look at Miranda in ME2, now lookat the DA2 demo.
NO.
Or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NaUVRwAky4.
Glad I never played it.

Miranda is based on Yvonne Strahovski :huh: and I didn't spot anything in DA II...

Agree on Bayonetta though, wtf was that?!

If it can go into a movie then it should be allowed into a video game imho. Only thing that kind of starts to get into a dark area imho is the killing of children and pregnant women (regular HUMANs mind you not zombies). That's when I kind of start to say that might be a bit much, but i'm not 100% turned off of the game.

You'd play a game with pregnant female zombies?

I didn't get that part either :huh:

Yes
Yes
Yes
No

I voted yes for all, but it doesn't mean I will buy it. They are already in video games, but do we really need it? Lets see, we have six in real life, do we need it in video games? We have nudity in real life do we need it in video games? Most of us don't KILL in real life, that is why we play video games.

So is the OP trying to say it's ok to kill in real life then? Usually we do things in video games that we do not do in real life, like steal, kill, assinate and mass murder. The question is, why do we need to bring in more real life to video games? Once you start to bring in six and nudity to video games, it becomes pormography. Soft porm like soap operas, or shows on GW where they have underage people having six. We don't see it, but we know it happens. Do we really need this now in video games?

But again, I still voted yes, because it can be done properly. I haven't seen a game that has done it yet, because I have kids, and they are too young to be exposed of it. I don't have the luxury to play when they are not arround so I miss them so I can't tell if any game has done it tastefully.

But it should be rated properly, AO if they do this. Why DA:O isn't rated AO, I am not sure why, but from what I saw, it should. If anything it is soft porm.

*must resist urge to confront*

Yes to two, other for six and Homosixuality.


I don't mind six in games, but I would prefer for it to not be one of tghe main goals or all over the place. Im talking about Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age.

I feel developers can spend more time on the story and gameplay with all the time they spend developing the sixual relations of characters in the game. So basically what im saying is, keep it at a minmum.

And as for homosixuality. Im fine with that to, just as long as A. Its not one of the developers sole focuses, and B. There's actually reasoning to it instead of jst, "THEY DO IT CUS ITS HAWT."

Must be the 1st time but I agree with you on this