This culture has a big problem with overt sexuality. It's like the only model we have for it is the dubbed-in moans and bad music loops of porn, hard or soft. All the cultural models our media hands us for it are terrible.
I don't know what a mature appearance of sex in a video game would be like. It's so far removed from the attack/defense world that games live in that it's hard to visualize. What play mechanics would go into a seduction, into a joyous exploration of someone else's body? Working that out would take several months (at least) of brainstorming and prototyping, that nobody would bother doing because the end results would inevitably be rated AO, and nobody wants to carry those. But we have well-established mechanics for violence that we can scale up and down.
As long as the screenshots look appealing... it can be sold.
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Date: 2007-09-05 12:33 am (UTC)I don't know what a mature appearance of sex in a video game would be like. It's so far removed from the attack/defense world that games live in that it's hard to visualize. What play mechanics would go into a seduction, into a joyous exploration of someone else's body? Working that out would take several months (at least) of brainstorming and prototyping, that nobody would bother doing because the end results would inevitably be rated AO, and nobody wants to carry those. But we have well-established mechanics for violence that we can scale up and down.
As long as the screenshots look appealing... it can be sold.