The controversy over Japan's ... specialist ... gaming media continues following the RapeLay madness, with retailers and developers doing whatever they can to appear more clean and wholesome. Take, for example, PC download site BGameBox, a Japanese distributor known for its interactive erotic delights. It's found one way to sell rape games without fear of reprisal, by simply calling rape something else.
Rape games are now being sold under the "Platinum" category, which certainly sounds more refreshing and family-friendly. Meanwhile, the old "Sexual Training" category has now become the "Thoroughbred Category," which sounds even more derogatory, if you ask me.
Although the categories have been renamed, the games within them could disappear at any time, without warning. As companies continue to clean up their act, the noble tradition of Japanese rape games will undoubtedly be forced to go underground or continue to get marketed under a different label.
To be honest, I'd rather they just be called "Rape Games" rather than given some new title to make them appear less vile. Now people will just think they're buying MadWorld or Bayonetta from the Platinum Games section, instead getting a surprise when The Erotic Restraints of Miku & Her Milky Nipples arrives on their doorstep.
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8:00 AM on 08.04.2009
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...games.
"The Busted Hyman and the Penetrators"
Inspired by this very article
Really though, that's pretty much what it is in this game. Play it. The only part of it I find really offensive is the young girl you can have sex with. That's just fucked up.
Wah.
Wah! There's rape in movies.
I could literally watch Jodie Foster getting gang raped on a pinball machine.
c'mon.
Dear Destructoid if that is not next week's comment of the week I will commit carnal acts with my grandmother.
(Then the Japanese 'rape game' developers can make a game based on the experience).
this is awesome
seriously
You know how hard it is to get uncencored porn from Japan. Almost impossible. Even Rapelay is censored so you can't see the mans penis or her vagina, people seem to forget that.
Wah.
Wah! There's rape in movies.
I could literally watch Jodie Foster getting gang raped on a pinball machine.
c'mon."
So you're saying that a rape scene in a movie for you is entertaining and/or arousing?
As far as murder in games go, again you aren't considering the context. When a player is encouraged to kill a character it's to achieve an underlying goal and these characters are usually hostile.
The difference between Rape in a movie and Rape in a game, is in a movie you are only an observer. In a game like these titles from Japan, you're not just observing. You're making the decision to do it.
I wouldn't mind if rape was in a game...like GTA or maybe a game where you play a cop or what have you; but like in the movie you only observe it. Partaking in it is an entirely different matter. Once you observe it in a game it can be a plot device, and the story can evolve from that point. Being a rapist on the other hand...that's borderline smut film area. And smut films aren't accepted by a majority of movie watchers either...just like these games aren't.
If my habit of stuffing animals into impossibly small balls is any indication, of course people who play rape games will rape in real life.
But apparently misogyny is A-OKAY. \:D/
But seriously. :|