GDC's Design Challenge panel tackles sex in games

is it just me or does this chicks jugs seem VERY low?

Good for them on taking on a challenging topic. Hopefully we'll see some interesting games come out of the challenge.

I don't want sex in my video games at all.

Hey, that's from a stage show here in NYC. The cast rotates and the stories change so you can keep going back and hear something different.

Viva el teatro.

Sex is one of the only reasons that people take a break from gaming. Put it in video games, and the only other thing needed for us to stay in front of the tv permanently (assuming Cartman's mom is available to take care of any toilet needs) is a way for our console to feed us. Then (video game)life will be complete and (virtual)karma will be achieved.

Ohh! I wrote my senior thesis on this. Specifically the double standard of sex and violence in videogames, and how it's reflected in movies and tv as well.

Yeah her boobs are low if you've only ever seen Lara Crofts! hehe.

I enjoyed the old PS2 playboy mansion game, funny shit. That was silly but the sex scene in Farenheight / Indigo prophecy was really tasteful and was a major part of the development of the story.

No one wants game porn, why bother when there's real porn on the internet, but the tasteful use of sex as a story telling tool is sometimes missing when it could be used to enhance a story.

Sex mini games is a "sticky" situation, vulgarity, although funny, should be avoided - then again in a true "Adult" game should be allowed, but I don't see anything wrong with the sex mini games in those Japanese dating sim games online. Anything can happen in Manga and (with the right, enforced, ratings) games shoud be treated exactly the same. I'm all for "tentacle-rape" in my games. hehehe.

How did it take me this long to find out about the Ms. Cooper Vs Mass Effect nonsense. This is such a classic link:

http://www.destructoid.com/karmic-retribution-fox-psychologist-gets-a-taste-of-her-own-ignorant-medicine-66651.phtml

Some of the posts people have given her book to mimic her speech about Mass Effect are hilarious!:

"There's a new study out of the University of Maryland that says this book sucks."
"Steer clear of this pointless book and save your money, get Mass Effect instead. ;)"
"Sorry darling, I gotta go with the research here, and the research shows - there's a new study off the Internet today that says that middle-aged, attention-craving women writing generic, run-of-the-mill, rehashed self-help books should not be listened to when they offer their opinions about matters they themselves admit they have never engaged or even done any research in."

LOL!

Orginal depressing report:

http://www.destructoid.com/luke-skywalker-meets-debbie-does-dallas-fox-report-on-mass-effect-is-saddening-66295.phtml

when a woman pushes her shoulders forward, the breast sink lower, ...we know what happens when a woman pulls her shoulders back and offer the stars

Sex and violence are not the same.

Children have real-world experience of "violence" from toddler-hood and are fully equipped to distinguish between real and fantasy violence. By contrast, before puberty most sexual content is meaningless to them: it can't evoke an emotional response that isn't there. Because of this they just can't make sensible value judgments about what they're seeing.

If we are to see sexual content in games (and in the current economic climate the industry is lobbying for it), I'd like to see a reform of the ratings system so ratings actually mean something. E.g. the current "M" rating for Halo 3 is a joke. The reason Live is full of 8 year olds playing the game isn't that their parents are all bad, it's that the parents have judged that the game is harmless. There's nothing in Halo 3 that an 8 year old can't handle (emotionally). I'd argue that voice-enabled Live itself should be rated M but that's another story.