@jbird said:
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/06/17/oculus-rift-erotic-adventure-game-announced
Hi Duders, The above link is to a short IGN article about an erotic adventure game for the oculus rift. What do we think about this here at Giantbomb? Personally I think its an embarrassing headline for the games industry. I recognise that the crossover between "gamer" and "horny fucking bastard" is probably quite large but It is a shame that when our industry has so many things to get excited about something like this rears it's ugly head.
Sex sells, everyone knows and the internet lives off it, so something like this is inevitable but this particular quote is infuriating, "veteran game designers who worked on the likes of Rage, the Call of Duty series, Lost Planet, Madden and Planetside 2 are working on an "Erotic Adventure" game for Oculus Rift." Whatever your views on said games, why are talented and experienced developers wasting their time on making a cheap thrill? We have the Wii U, the PS4, the Xbox One and the potential behind the Oculus rift itself! It is a shame that such talent is going to waste.
Thoughts community?!
Where do I begin...
What's wrong with a depraved adult game for adults if it's a quality product? Are you aware of the existence of porn?
"Sex sells, everyone knows and the internet lives off it..." I'm pretty sure the other half of the world which remains blissfully unaware of the internet is also equally horny, because, you know, humans and the way we were designed/the way we evolved in order to continue to exist. Until *censored for video game internet board* Rod A finds slots A, B, or C, that biological urge exists in all human beings who aren't asexual.
The article supplies so little information that I might agree with you, because it's easy to draw the conclusion that it will be a really stupid game based on other "mainstream" attempts at porn games, but there's an industry for AO games waiting to be tapped by an actual adult crowd (no pun intended). There's a glut of talent in the industry, and if a small fraction of it has a good idea on how to make a tasteful adult game, there's no harm in it unless you're a "Mass Effect is a sex simulator" level prude.
*Let me again disclaim that I might just be talking about the concept as a whole rather than just this game, as I can find so little information about it to make a decision as to its specific quality at this point. Likening it Leisure Suit Larry doesn't help in the slightest, but I only hope that's nothing more than a line to draw in the closest parallel in a world where the adult game was shunned to obscurity outside of Asia.
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