Comments on: Coffee Talk: Can Sex Add To Games (Part Deux)?

By: Doc Robot

Doc Robot — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:26:22 +0000

I read this article then looked over to the right at the Evony “Ads by Google” Banner Ad and laughed. If you have seen their Ads, you would know why.

As well you would know indirectly how effective the “Ads by Google” are at targeting their audience…

ROFL!

By: Geekadelphia » Blog Archive » Coffe Talk: Should Death Mean More In Today’s Games?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:01:51 +0000

[...] affected the game’s narrative nor its gameplay directly. Since you all know how I feel about Heavy Rain and how Quantic Dream is approaching death I won’t even mention – [...]

By: Joe Osborne

Joe Osborne — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:46:19 +0000

That’s interesting that people would want to skip this sequence, which I assume is because of the uncomfortable tension it will potentially cause in (primarily but not limited to male) players. It’s interesting to see how Quantic Dream is presenting a role reversal within the sexual paradigm.

This is something I can’t recall ever being done before and will hopefully change the dynamic of sex in video games from simply displaying people in the act and dumbing said act down into a quick-timed event to truly exploring the psychology and possibly physiology of sexual relations.

Thanks for sparking this discussion, Eric, and kudos to Kotaku for their initial post involving the issue.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:53:56 +0000

Ah, Heavy Rain. I can’t wait for this game. And you’re right, any allusion to sex in a video game is going to send the media into a tizzy.

I feel like Quantic is going to achieve their goal of making players feel serious discomfort, not just through the degradation involved, but due to the fact that the game looks so damn realistic. Look at that face in that screengrab! I kinda hope that I can skip the scene.