Nudity in video games has always been a bit of a strange subject since video games are often associated with children. So by logic, nudity and adult images have no place in a video game, right? Well, the video game community knows that just isn't true. Video gaming has come a long way from the safe images of Mario getting a peck on the cheek from the Princess, and instead have now become very adult themed. Games like Dead or Alive have a large focus on scantily clad women (especially the volleyball series) and physics engines have also been used to simulate the movement of breasts. Then there are games like Leisure Suit Larry and BMX XXX where nudity is prevalent to the point of being ridiculous. But when does our technology take nudity too far? When do video games go from dramatic to just plain silly with nudity?
Creator of Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Okami, Viewtiful Joe, and Wonderful 101 comments on how they're all part of the same universe.
I could definitely see a Bayonetta/Dante game. Imagine them initially battling each other before eventually teaming up to take on the big baddies. Now, imagine what their child(ren) would be like.
Bayonetta and Dante I could see but even then with how their lore differs it's a hard sell. For the others...I just can't see it at all.
I feel he's just saying whatever comes to him online
Bayonetta is a witch who enter contracts with demons for power and Dante is a demon, not really hard to connect.
They could even write in an alliance between the umbra witches and sparda.
On the surface yeah but the actual lore the two games have given us if you go into it...not so much.
There's still time for the Visceral Games cult classic action-adventure game Dante's Inferno to return to the limelight 15 years later.
Absolutely loved this game. Don't know why it went under the radar with so many people.
Was outshadowed by GOW3 it was a bad decision to release it at the same time because EA was counting on a push from xbox players. The game was DOA. I never played it
....that's a you problem for not playing it, but the game wasn't DOA. It was very widely revered. The story was to continue in the sequel and the EA decided to focus on other projects. That wasn't the fault of the game and/or GoW.... it was the fault of EA and not wanting to invest in the team behind it.
Do yourself a favor and play it. If you have an XBO or Series X, you can find a cheap 360 disc as it's BC. It still hols up exceptionally well still to this day.
Darth
It was suicide mission to release it the same day as gow3. A massive majority of ps3 skipped it.
Nothing to do with the game itself, it’s EA who didn’t manage and bet wrong
Darth
Lol I just read this
“it was the fault of EA and not wanting to invest in the team behind it.”
Did you know that this same studio who didn’t get investment from EA who delivered Dead Space 1-2-3 and Battlefield Hardline? 😆
Game was loaned to me and I never booted it because GoW3 was getting all of my attention at the time. After GoW3 I had no desire to even try Dante’s Inferno because I was ready to move on to a different type of game. Not saying Dante is a bad game. It may be great. It just didn’t get to it.
@caca, what I mean by team are the guys who actually worked on it. The ones who did this game are not the same ones who worked on dead space. They may all work at visceral, but they are in different teams.
So it really was about EA choosing not to continue on with Jonathan knight and his crew and instead turn their focus on the upcoming Dead Space 2 which was from a different team.
A lot of people think a developer is just that and is not made up of different teams for different projects. The sequel was to expand on the story further. They had all kinds of new ideas all story boarded and ready to go. EA just had other plans.
Not out shadowed but written off as a gow clone by multiple magazines, howrver in reality was a darker game entirely.
I think it was a couple of factors,
1. Everyone was anxiously waiting for God of War 3 to release(myself included), so we could see what the Santa Monica Studio were going to accomplish with the mighty PS3.
2. It was such a direct ripoff of the GoW formula right down to the button prompts, (such as clicking L3 & R3 to activate your ultimate) .
Now, of course lots of games borrow and evolve ideas, but this was like a carbon copy with a different skin and not quite as good or pretty.
3. It was cool to look at, it played fine, good artistic design and everything, but our standards were astronomically high after GoW 1 & 2… and it just wasn’t anything to write home about.
That being said, I have been wanting to revisit it for years.
It's probably the best GoW clone ever. Better than even 3 to some extent. The story may be loosely based on the poem but the liberties they took with the various levels of hell were pretty entertaining.
Definitely worth playing through again. It also helps that it plays even better on an XBO/ Series.
Better than 3 to NO extent dude. I get it, you liked the game, but it was objectively worse than GOW3 in every way. I was one of the few who played both at the time as I couldn't get enough of GOW formula, and i liked it as a straight-to-dvd kind of game, but it did nothing better than GOW3 my guy.
I think with a few live service features EA could revive the IP and turn it into a million dollar franchise.
Look, EA is dumb, but they can still read comments on random aggregate sites. Let's not help them with more bad ideas.
She also played Chun-Li and Major from Ghost in the Shell
oh shit, i did know that the Major voice actress passed away but i didnt know she voiced bayonetta too
rest in peace
Major is definitely one of my all time favourite anime characters so this is really sad
I think one of the problems with nudity is that many people still think that all games are supposed to be meant for children. But really, they are like any other form of entertainment. Obviously, there are movies for children and adults, so why not games for children and adults? Parents complaining about nudity in a M-rated game is like complaining about nudity in a porno. These things are meant for adults (which is why we have the ratings system), so there is no reason that adult themes should be a problem.
I have never seen a justifiable reason to be against nudity in M rated games. First of all, any parent who complains should point their finger back at themselves, because I'll bet 9/10 times they buy the game without looking into it. Plus, I never saw what was so wrong about pixelated bewbs. The internet is like 99% porn, but if little junior sees a fake nipple in his game all hell breaks loose and the game is banned in 14 different countries. I just could never understand it.
"M" rated no longer stands for Mature. It stands for dumb-sh!t parents who don't care enough to do their research, all 30 seconds of it. These are probably the same parents who took their children to see movies like Watchmen. Sure it's based on comic/graphic novel. But once that blue dong starts to fly it's a whole different experience. Flame-throwing orgasms ftw?
I think nudity in games is ok, especially if they are rated M. I see no difference then R rated movies.
Age of Conan had nudity for no other reason then to have nudity. Good PR move over at Funcom :)