Quantum of Solace sucked.
Tonight: Jim, Aaron, Topher and I talk about porn games. I fully understand the tendency to only ask BonerQuestions, but I implore you -- last time we had so many BonerQuestions and so few NotBonerQuestions that we had to cut the listener questions short. If you do have a BonerQuestion to ask (and I am sure you do), please ask it along with a regular, boner-unrelated question.
We'll be talking about some other stuff, too, but none of it as interesting as the porn games stuff.
Anyway, give us your comments, questions, Siegelpuntz, and so on.
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12:22 PM on 12.01.2008
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People have always idealized the human body in sculpture, paintings, comic books, etc, and they have for a reason. Do we really want to look at "realistic looking" people in our games?
I don't.
Also, have you guys ever played a sex-related game that was actually fun?
Question: Best Movie-to-Game adaptation?
(..which may have been asked before.. feel free to ignore if it has!)
I wouldn't have gone as far as saying 007: QoS sucked but it wasn't good.
Will BonerQuest feature a "Thrust Meter (or Meater)" similar to the Limit Breaks in Final Fantasy games? This would, of course, lead to gorier, more powerful bonerrific attacks.
Normal Question:
Do you think that since so many retailers are unable or unwilling to stock "AO" titles that they will have to resort to a service like Steam to get their wares to the public?
Der Seigelpun:
LindeProduction's BonerQuest is sure to arouse your interest!
And if we do get a porn market on consoles wouldn't that take the focus off things like the ridiculously tame sex scene in Mass Effect, making legitimate games less of target for the MSM?
Now that you've moved to America, will you pursue your 'love' for Nicole Wiebe?
That is all, gentlemen.
Who is the best Street Fighter on the podcast, and would you like to have your ass beaten by me on the 360 version? I'm officially calling out the Podtoid crew. Throw down.
Bond constantly throwing himself and everyone around him into danger is a result of Vesper's betrayal and suicide. With each person he sacrifices, the greater the weight on his shoulders. Has he now grown into the Bond that previous actor's have portrayed? I wouldn't say so, and I look forward to the next move that much more.
Do you believe story-telling in gaming is dying, relative to the need for fast paced motion and heavier interaction?
Asking a BonerQuestion now seems redundant.
QoS was hilarious in it's total lack of sense.
In this day and age, is there any conceivable way to fap to the old Atari porn games, like Custer's Revenge? Has blast processing and other such technological marvels left these games obsolete and without purpose?
Any word on distributors who aren't pussies like Bestbuy or Gamestop(EB Games in Canada)?
Also, Quantum of Solace was neither good nor bad, just 'meh'.
Is there really a need for porn in games? Is there any place in the gaming pantheon where visual depictions of sex added anything of value to the over experience?
Don't get me wrong, I think theres a place in games for certain "adult only" actions (drinking, drugging, sexual suggestion, ULTRA VIOLENCE, etc), because they can add value to a plot or situation, or just be fun in a campy, tongue-in-cheek way; But has there ever been a situation in gaming where depictions of hardcore sex acts have been anything else than a masturbatory aid?
You gotta keep in mind that its a direct sequel to Casino Royale, Royale was the exposition, Quantum was the action part.
Oh wait, Rev, I forgot that you hate everything.
The playable test version of Bonerquest got passed around last week. A lot of feedback from it was positive. I was trying to see which areas were overly populated with enemies and which areas were designed to get players where I wanted them.Everyone seemed to respond how I wanted and I couldn't be more pleased with it.
So now a non-Bonerquestion that is somewhat related: Was it wrong of me to let non gaming press play the game? It isn't nearly finished yet, but enough is there for a person to do a good write up about it. Do any of you guys want to try out that test version? I'll try to have something ready for everyone to play soon enough.
How does Arron Linde feel knowing that Bonerquest is coming? And that it couldn't be farther from what he originally imagined.
"But has there ever been a situation in anything where depictions of hardcore sex acts have been anything else than a masturbatory aid?"
Fixed.
Stuff like the Guy Game suck because the game isn't fun. And BMX XXX is just a re-skin with naked women (boooring).
When many people use porn, it's to wank and be done with it.
My feeling is that a good mature game has adult themes that don't seem forced into the game, unless the game is just about f*cking. See Sex Games.
Fav oldie sex games c64:
Sexacuda - Pacman ripoff, the protagonist has a wiggling tounge and eats d*icks instead of dots.
Sex Games - its about screwing in different positions (see above).
Strip Poker Series - I always hated when the cpu would wager their "skin" when I took all their clothes!
But softporn is also boring. So how would you differentiate the two in a game and still make it function as digital entertainment that keeps the player engaged and wanting to play hours on end? Or would that just defeat the purpose of a porn game?
Why didn't you like it?
If you have a boner for quests, then you'll want to put your dick in Aaron Linde's BonerQuest!
Just so you know, the inside joke between me and my friends because of one of those games is that option 3 is always "Put it in!"
Anyways, the issue of "porn games" is a rather interesting one. Seeing as how the ESRB rates content, it is easy for a game with even the slightest sexual content to be elevated in the rating scale while games with gratuitous violence seem to scale a bit more slowly past the "T" rating. A good example of this is Indigo Prophecy/ Fahrenheit. The game was censored in the states due to the sexual content in only a handful of the scenes. While I am not an expert on media analysis, I just can't get around how different the game rating system is from the system used for as long as I can remember (and then some) for rating movies.
So I guess my question is this: If gaming is to evolve in the eyes of the general public as an art form we all know it can be, do we have to pressure the ESRB to be more relaxed in their ratings and fall more inline with the MPAA's rating system? Or do we continue to buy the crap excuse that video games are more desensitizing than movies due to the element of interactivity?
If we use the case of pornography as an example, that excuse can be blown out of the water. As my Marine friend is often want to inform me, you can very well "interact" with a pornographic video as well as you could a pornographic video game.
One last thing, will Jim Sterling be the reviewer for Boner Quest?
So here in St.Paul, Minnesota snow has already fallen, and I've been suffering from acute nostalgic itching (clinically diagnosed). Personally, winter usually means I'll be replaying a Zelda game or tackling unbeaten games like Kid Icarus or CastleVania III
What winter games do you folks find yourselves picking up to keep the blood flowing through your frost-bitten fingers?*
*note: I'm aware it's still around 70 degrees in Florida, humor me.*
Oh shit boo berry got da curly moustache!
How do we expect them to make these games on consoles when you have to hold a controller with both hands? One-handed QTEs? Vibration breaks? Long "cut-scenes"?
My Siegelpun: You'll get an ERECTION when you play pornographic videogames!
^^^^ great because it's not a fuckin' pun
Siegelpun GO!
Be sure to make the time for Chrono Trigger DS!
Do you think there's a place in the gaming near future for a game to deal with explicit, emotional sexual interaction? Could a game dealing with sexual emotion have a place in the gaming landscape, let alone actually be effective?
Would Maxis go for it if I tried selling it to them?
No shiitake, you won't find a better portobello game than Mushroom men
What do you think will be the next step in controllers?
We've had ones that are more comfortable, bettter layout, rumble/dualshock, thumbsticks, wireless, waggle capabilities so where do you see the classic game controller heading next?
Seriously, Silent Hill or a fucking KILLER VHS TAPE?
question: had you all been born roughly 30 years earlier, and this were 70s or early 80s, where do you think most of the time and energy you invest into videogames would've gone ? reverend, for example, might you have been more involved with film, and movies ? would you all have become DnD players ?
side note: answering "I'd be playing the hell out of pong" is a kind of a cop out, the question is more about amplifying your other interests in a time when videogames were still in their infancy
Bonerquestion: If you could get Nicole Wiebe in the game what would her role be?