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[Gibsy]

How can people give such blatant generalizations to a group of 300,000,000+ diverse, independent people?

Yes, there's a lot of idiots, evangelical nuts, and political fascists; but if a couple of bad grapes can spoil the vineyard, I'd say the whole world is rotten.

[Btw, someone mentioned Chopin. Everyone I know loves Chopin! (art majors, of course) I sleep to Rubinstein's rendition of the Nocturnes everynight.]

[ManleySteele]

Too bad there are no translations of all the superb French Role Playing Games. I would love to see romance handled by people who so obviously have a more mature understanding of such things.

[Bucky]

Eh, maybe the U.S. should be more like, gasp, Australia and just ban more games they find offensive.

Yeah, it's kind of funny.  When Alan Moore did that comic about an older Wendy (Peter Pan), Alice (Wonderland), and I forget whomelse, talking about their first sexual experiences...the US was pretty much the only place it wasn't banned.

 

 

 

In any case, I think the real reason things like this are held off on is because of how awkward and silly it ends up in representation.  Didn't come off too badly in this game (what I've seen at least).  Origins was cringeworthy with the sex scenes, and not because of the underwear.  The underwear was a Godsend, lessening the potential impact of blinding surrealness that we would have been assaulted with. 

 

Of course, someone has to work out the kinks to get these things to where they're actually good and in service to the game.

[Karai9]

And Bieber.

Shh! All of us here in Canada are trying to pretend he's a lie. . . like cake.

 

 

 

(sorry not sorry)

[AzureAardvark]

Origins was cringeworthy with the sex scenes, and not because of the underwear.  The underwear was a Godsend, lessening the potential impact of blinding surrealness that we would have been assaulted with. 

 

I dunno, man ... I think dong physics engines have come a long way.

 

>.>

<.<

 

I'll show myself out.

[Cyonan]

Also since this has been brought up here that a Canadian company made the game: There can't be nudity in it because everybody knows that Canada is a cold country. They don't really have a concept of nudity with all the furs and stuff they wrap around themselves.

 

Canadians get a +75% resistance to cold as one of our racial abilities, so that's only when it's extremely cold outside that we need the furs.

[Decepticon Leader Sully]

How can people give such blatant generalizations to a group of 300,000,000+ diverse, independent people?

Yes, there's a lot of idiots, evangelical nuts, and political fascists; but if a couple of bad grapes can spoil the vineyard, I'd say the whole world is rotten.

[Btw, someone mentioned Chopin. Everyone I know loves Chopin! (art majors, of course) I sleep to Rubinstein's rendition of the Nocturnes everynight.]

I preferred Vivaldi

https://www.youtube....h?v=nGdFHJXciAQ

[Gibsy]

I preferred Vivaldi

I like them both! Different subgenres though, I'd say. Vivaldi focused more on baroque orchestration whilst I love Chopin for its dark, Slavic romanticism.

[Lintton]

I'd say its more from pressures from game industry's adherence to the ESRB, a good tool to have because like movies people need to know what they are in for to some extent. Its no joke that a game, if given the equivalent of the AO rating, has just signed its own death warrant as major retailers will refuse to sell. In addition to the laws in various countries regarding nudity, some of which are more strict than the U.S.

In the early 90s it was still an issue even to have women get hit in games. The industry went with it and other things because the reputation of video games and their audience can and still does have an affect on sales in target areas. And assumptions travel farther than truth.

So no, this isn't totally the prudishness of America.

[General TSAR]

NA games had female nudity from God of War (2005) onward AFAIK.

[Spankatola]

How can people give such blatant generalizations to a group of 300,000,000+ diverse, independent people?

Yes, there's a lot of idiots, evangelical nuts, and political fascists; but if a couple of bad grapes can spoil the vineyard, I'd say the whole world is rotten.

[Btw, someone mentioned Chopin. Everyone I know loves Chopin! (art majors, of course) I sleep to Rubinstein's rendition of the Nocturnes everynight.]

 

As to the bolded, I was coming here to post exactly this. I don't know whether it's arrogance or breathtaking ignorance that drives a person to think they know a radically diverse culture like ours based on watching movies or reading news blurbs. That's in fact the same kind of "Ugly American" over-generalization that American tourists have been accused of doing for decades.

[Lintton]

While we are making generalizations, I'm pretty sure it was the absurd depictions in Ride to Hell:Retribution that drove a nail in the coffin on what Joker called "over-the-clothes action" in video games. At least for a time.

[BioWareMod03]

And we are done here.