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galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!

Vic posted:

When I think about it the lack of any loving or sexuality in games outside of anime and porn games is kinda weird. I mean I know america is kinda churchy about it and I personally don't care but it's funny.

Like people will be showing their bare asses and others going awooga but nobody bones.

Dude where have you been the past 10 years? Western games are all about boning now. Mass Effect, Baldurs Gate 3, rpgs especially now seem to require on screen sex. Actually I’m pretty sure far more western games have actual for real sex scenes (rather than just ogling) than anime games these days.

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sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









galagazombie posted:

Dude where have you been the past 10 years? Western games are all about boning now. Mass Effect, Baldurs Gate 3, rpgs especially now seem to require on screen sex. Actually I’m pretty sure far more western games have actual for real sex scenes (rather than just ogling) than anime games these days.

Yeah I was going to spec my gnome sorc in bg3 into anal but the grind for the BIS strap on is way too sweaty

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Baldur's Gate 2 lets you get a character pregnant, and she can give birth to the child, it becomes an item in her inventory. The game came out in 2001

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

I recall Jade Empire (2005) being pretty horny for an old RPG

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
BioWare was definitely a pioneer in bringing embarrassing cgi sex to the west. They eased us in with “fade to black” stuff in older games like KotOR, before moving on to awkwardly animated blue woman sex in Mass Effect. Best part of Mass Effect 2 was the doctor warning you about all the reasons having sex with aliens is a terrible idea like LSD saliva or lethal allergic reactions to blowjobs.

Vic
Nov 26, 2009

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Yeah and each Bioware/Mass Effect game had whole articles written about it and people debating whether it is appropriate for games. Also it's typically a relationship score with an RPG party memeber thing.

But now that I'm thinking about it I guess other genres can't really do anything about it. Like I wouldn't want my command and conquer barracks produce soldiers with their pants off, and Resident Evil games are clearly a "not the time" situation.

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club
What's the worst sex scene in video games?

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL
(づ ̄ ³ ̄)づ♥(‘∀’●)

credburn posted:

What's the worst sex scene in video games?

Tali

Vic
Nov 26, 2009

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credburn posted:

What's the worst sex scene in video games?

Duke Nukem Forever by a longshot

syntaxfunction
Oct 27, 2010
I'm just pissed Sega sent a restraining order to try and get me to stop sending in my suggestions to modernize the Sonic franchise. Yes, it's all sexy. Yes, it's what the fans want. No, I will not stop calling.

Vichan
Oct 1, 2014

I'LL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR CRIME

credburn posted:

What's the worst sex scene in video games?

Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

credburn posted:

What's the worst sex scene in video games?

Custer's Revenge.

The Moon Monster
Dec 30, 2005

Quote-Unquote posted:

baldur's gate 3 and witcher 3 somehow avoid this. I think they are the only games I've played where that's the case though.

I think Mass Effect was the first game I played that had sex scenes that weren't 100% scripted (like Ultima VII part 2) and it was a bit gross how you just choose the 'nice' button every single time you speak to someone and they'll bone you, to the point where if you're nice to two people (regardless of gender) they'll fight over you. Andromeda wasn't as bad a game as everyone said but lol if you're not a massive dick to literally everyone you will end up having at least one person that wants to gently caress.

It's possible to be nice to people just because being nice is a good thing, game writers!

No one in Andromeda is interested in massive dicks? Guess it's a good thing I skipped it :dadjoke:

dsf
Jul 1, 2004

credburn posted:

What's the worst sex scene in video games?

Factorio

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!
The famicom was a much nicer design than the NES

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!
Know what's weird, no-one ever talks about the PC Engine or the Atari Jaguar

Vampire Panties
Apr 18, 2001
nposter
Nap Ghost

JollyBoyJohn posted:

Know what's weird, no-one ever talks about the PC Engine or the Atari Jaguar

Atari Jaguar Aliens Vs Predator was insanely ahead of its time, but the controller looked like this



My uncle had a Turbografx-16, Bonks Adventure was pretty cool, but it was all the same games as a Genesis but more expensive

Vic
Nov 26, 2009

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I think the amount of people talking about it is proportionate to the amount of people who had one.

e: And also what's there to talk about except that it had no games.

Vampire Panties
Apr 18, 2001
nposter
Nap Ghost

Vic posted:

I think the amount of people talking about it is proportionate to the amount of people who had one.

also why people dont wax nostalgic about ColecoVision

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



I have a good sense of direction, in video games and in real life, but gently caress me DS3's take on Lost Izalith is far more deserving of the name than DS1's was

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



All the dead capra demons is kind of funny though

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Vic posted:

Like I wouldn't want my command and conquer barracks produce soldiers with their pants off

Are you joking? That is absolutely what I want, and I want their little 4-pixel genitalia to swing back and forth while they shoot their rifle. Actually go ahead and just make the rifle their dick

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Vichan posted:

Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit

That was where I was going. It's tough enough to do "sexy" that doesn't just come across as embarrassing, but when you consider the people making games...

JollyBoyJohn posted:

Know what's weird, no-one ever talks about the PC Engine or the Atari Jaguar

The PC Engine is next to the Saturn as the console for people who know. But if you don't know, then you just post a picture of Johnny Turbo and laugh.

Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Mar 14, 2024

Quote-Unquote
Oct 22, 2002



lol in Fahrenheit you have to thrust your mouse back and forth in a sex scene

Konar
Dec 14, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

credburn posted:

What's the worst sex scene in video games?

I remember being particularly skeeved out by random couches of horny women you'd find as a glorified health refills in the early God of War games

credburn
Jun 22, 2016
President, Founder of the Brent Spiner Fan Club

QuarkJets posted:

Are you joking? That is absolutely what I want, and I want their little 4-pixel genitalia to swing back and forth while they shoot their rifle. Actually go ahead and just make the rifle their dick

4 pixels isn't very little when you're only 9 pixels tall

Vichan
Oct 1, 2014

I'LL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR CRIME

Quote-Unquote posted:

lol in Fahrenheit you have to thrust your mouse back and forth in a sex scene

Somehow the other sex scene was even worse.

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!

Konar posted:

I remember being particularly skeeved out by random couches of horny women you'd find as a glorified health refills in the early God of War games

Nah, that was incredibly funny. That series arc from Devil May Cry for people not good at video games, starring the guy from Disturbed who guests in Mortal Kombat to SadDad Simulator 2023 is very loving funny.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

witcher 3 had good romance because they were all established characters instead of your self insert protagonist picking your favourite character and picking all the "lets have sex" options until you get a cutscene

witcher 1, not so much

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005

Random Stranger posted:

That was where I was going. It's tough enough to do "sexy" that doesn't just come across as embarrassing, but when you consider the people making games...

The PC Engine is next to the Saturn as the console for people who know. But if you don't know, then you just post a picture of Johnny Turbo and laugh.

I got into Saturn right as they sunset the system, but holy poo poo it was an epic couple of years after that.

Saturns were being sold for $25 a pop at my funcoland and I still have copies of poo poo like galactic attack, Albert odyssey, guardian heroes and so on which I purchased for literally a couple bucks each and now appear to be worth hundreds of dollars

I mostly play on the mister now though that poo poo RULES and any turbo game nerds in here should look into the mister fpga if you haven't heard of it yet.

galagazombie
Oct 31, 2011

A silly little mouse!
The TurboGraphx/PC Engine/PC Turbo got a bit of a revival in the late 00’s when Nintendo put a ton of its games on the Wii VC. It’s how I became a fan of the system anyway. If you’re a fan of Schmups you’re aware of the system at least.
The Jaguar not so much. But to be honest it’s because it was a piece of crap with nothing worth playing. So of course it’s forgotten. I’m not a fan of most of the Saturns library or especially its controller, but it at least still had redeeming features, though I think most of the nostalgia for it comes more from contrarianism than not.

Khanstant
Apr 5, 2007
Everything I think was cool about the Saturn is actually just something cool about Dreamcast

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



galagazombie posted:

I’m not a fan of most of the Saturns library or especially its controller, but it at least still had redeeming features, though I think most of the nostalgia for it comes more from contrarianism than not.

The Saturn was the pinacle of controller design! :argh:

JollyBoyJohn
Feb 13, 2019

For Real!
My best friend growing up had a Saturn, it was kinda off kilter and weird given everyone else got a playstation but we had a bunch of fun playing Saturn Megamix and Nights, he refused to ever get a Panzer Dragoon game despite my insistence it was the reason to own a Saturn

To be fair I've still never played a Panzer Dragoon to this day

Years later the same friend suggested a trade of my £10 cash, £10 of hashish and PS2 copy of Escape from Monkey Island for his Gameboy Advance, carry case, copy of Simpsons Road Rage and about half a dozen original gameboy games including Links Awakening, Tetris and my personal favourite gameboy game - Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

also heinously scratched my PC disc of Earthworm Jim 1 for some reason I can't even remember, it did literally nothing to the game lmao :D

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



Dark Souls 3 is good fun but it likes to put you in movement slowing amounts of water too much and I just kinda wish it would knock it off because that isn't fun ever. Also I think I found the Daughter of Chaos's corpse and I dunno if I should be sad or relieved.

wilfredmerriweathr
Jul 11, 2005

Random Stranger posted:

The Saturn was the pinacle of controller design! :argh:

Ironically the 3d analog nights controller literally was. Hall effect sensor based joystick and effectively a prototype Dreamcast controller.

Panzer dragoon is really fun and I played the poo poo out of it and the sequel.

What are the best TurboGrafx/PC engine shmups?

Disco Pope
Dec 6, 2004

Top Class!
The Saturn was where you wanted to be for King of Fighters '95, X-Men vs Street Fighter and a few other good 2d titles like Guardian Heroes and the series-high Saturn Bomberman. It had a niche, its just that niche was becoming deeply unfashionable at the time.

The likes of NiGHTs and Burning Rangers were cool, but Sega has a fatal habit of releasing stuff that felt like neat proofs of concept rather than actual games into the Dreamcast era.

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

Dark Souls 3 is good fun but it likes to put you in movement slowing amounts of water too much and I just kinda wish it would knock it off because that isn't fun ever. Also I think I found the Daughter of Chaos's corpse and I dunno if I should be sad or relieved.

It does! You did!

Disco Pope fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Mar 15, 2024

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



wilfredmerriweathr posted:

What are the best TurboGrafx/PC engine shmups?

Blazing Lazers/Gunhed
Lords of Thunder and Gates of Thunder
R-Type
Super Star Soldier, Final Soldier, Soldier Blade
Cho Aniki

The PCE was in exactly the right place at the right time for the golden age of shoot-'em-ups and was the best home hardware on the market for them. The very early days of the Megadrive/Genesis got some of that, too, but by the time the SFC/SNES arrived the genre was already fading.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

Vampire Panties posted:

Atari Jaguar Aliens Vs Predator was insanely ahead of its time

That game blew my mind as a kid

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MSPain
Jul 14, 2006
shmups are great. let me share the ruins of a paleolithic youtube channel from some guy with a deep southern drawl reviewing shumps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_D5qAwerOk

it's an important record of how our ancestors used to play shmups during religious rituals

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