[citation][nom]draconian[/nom]This doesn't look good for the Leisure Suit Larry games coming to Steam.[/citation]
there was penetration in this game.
only leasure suit game that got an ao rateing was the newer crap ones.
ill bet the old games could go to steam without a problem. [citation][nom]bustapr[/nom]dudes got a point. I myself never understood this mentality in the gaming industry. you dismember people and do all sorts of violent crap with an M rating, but put graphic sex in a non violent game and its instantly hammered down with an AO rating. I dont really care for sexual video games, but I see why they can be frustrated by the prejudice of the gaming industry.[/citation]
lets not even go with graphical non violent, lets just go with implied, unless you are a major publisher, you will be slapped with a harsher rateing.
take a look at Indigo Prophecy, the sex in that game is no worse than a R rated movie, but it got cut out of the american release.
that was before big companys started putting boob into games though.
but look at the new witcher 2, that has full frontal women, gta4 has a full frontal man, but add the two in the same sceen... instant AO and no one wants to deal with them.
steam is mostly computer games, the only reason computer games don't have AO games is because they almost cant turn a profit in america, so we only get import games, and even than they don't have much money in them. religious do gooder faimaly friendly companies had music cut, movies cut, all for the sake of they dont want graphic content in their stores.
you also have the nintendo/sony/microsoft that dont want AO on their systems at all.
with steam, you could make that content not even visible, to anyone under 18, steam has no real competition, so i cant see why they would institute no ao at all.
[citation][nom]dimar[/nom]Steam would make a lot of $$$ if they were to allow games with sexual/porn themes. I'm too bored playing shooters, and more into point&click adventures now. Now serious or fantasy adventure game with sexual elements could very interesting
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no they wouldn't, the ao market even if it were around, would make very little money, meaning low production values all around. and low production value games, i don't care if they are a genre you love, are usually passed over. i have no delusion that we would get a gta game that would go for broke and do full AO only, but giving an ao game a chance, that's all i want. allow true uncut content to be available.
[citation][nom]Verrin[/nom]I think it's traditionally a religious mentality, that is that sex is more crude than violence. More fundamental Christians have always demonized sex, but have not historically been that way about violence. They were always okay with burning and stoning heretics. Even though things aren't like this anymore (at least in western culture), that view that sex is dirty, improper or vile has still carried over to the modern day. When you think about it, it really is a bizarre stance. How could it be that a nipple is more offensive? How is it that something we all inherently do or desire be so frowned upon? Something that is fairly harmless too, especially when consensual! We live in really strange society.[/citation]
look at most of the other english countries, sex is more accepted than violence.
for me personally, it would suck if violence is censored instead of sex, as i love games with full dismemberment, but what sucks is that you can have full graphically accurate dismemberment will full blood and organ physics, but you show even a moment of sex in the game, that's what pushes it to AO.
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