10 Needlessly Perverted Mainstream Games

Mark Fujii of TheGameReviews writes: "Everyone knows that sex sells, particularly in the video game business where the average consumer is an adolescent male with more raging hormones than purchasing discretion. However, there's a fine line between using a little T&A to shift copies and, well, just being really creepy with inordinate emphasis on sexual objectification and voyeurism. Surprisingly, some of the most needlessly sexually suggestive games are the most popular ones that everyone plays, and they're not just the obscure Japanese ones or the tasteless old-school attempts at interactive pornography. Here are ten gracelessly perverted mainstream games which should make you feel more than a little uncomfortable and dirty about playing."

[tehk1w1]

I'm not going to lie...I played DOA: Volleyball. I said I was buying it for a friend. :(

[lolcatz]

Did you play it with only one hand?

[toaster]

Hey I don't blame you man. DOAX2 had some good mini-games.

[nycredude]

Funny you brought that up cause I just bought it (DOAX2) for 3 bucks used at gamestop. I pitty the people who paid full price for this game when it released. :)

[Raz]

The way things are going, though; I'm starting to think sex is going to become a completely virtual experience. With location tags and post-coital tweets for the legions of virtual voyeurs who'll want to tune in and watch. Couples will have their own sex channels, their own virtual following, people will subscribe and pay good money to...oh wait, that's already happened.

Never mind. Just hook me up to the Hedonism3000 and send Bayonetta over.

[teenieboober]

Bayonetta was absolutely shameless. So were most of the other games on this list.

[Raz]

A PS3 commercial where the PS3 morphs into Bayonetta and then f*ks the brains out of the guy who 'turned it on'.

"PS3. IT ONLY DOES EVERYONE."

I know - I should totally be writing for Sony's advertising division. ;)

[lolcatz]

I'd buy it.

[GamersRUs]

OH SNAP. They made fun of Metal Gear Solid.

Flames incoming in 5...4...3...2..1...

[cain141]

Bayonetta was a little nuts...

[mr durand pierre]

In MGS the sexuality is gratuitous and adds nothing to the story, theme, etc. It's just an easter egg. But Bayonetta's sexuality is a part of her character. The camera doesn't so much as gaze at her as she knowingly poses for it. The story may be nonsense, but her sexuality is key to what that game is about; ecstasy.

[shoinan]

Yeah, but does it need so many crotch shots and a dance video at the end? There's thematics and then there's using a theme as a veil.

[tehk1w1]

There were characters in Bayonetta? Wait --was there actually a story?

I got Good Witches vs Bad Witches BANG BANG BANG KILL KILL KILL

End Game.

[Hakimy]

I take this as a joke topic.if it's a serious one then I will agree only with the last 3 games that really depends on the "sex sells" point ;)

@tehk1w1: good witches vs bad witches?! this proves that you didn't even read about the game,not just playing it :P

[tehk1w1]

One second I'm like "Oh hey I'm a Witch," the next second there's like a huge dragon and I'm like "WHAT THE WHAT!?" and then there's like freaking demons coming out of the walls trying to noms my head and I'm like "WOAH."

I've had acid trips more coherent than Bayonetta's storyline.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure it's more of a humor article than a serious one.

[colonel179]

Good Witches vs Bad Witches BANG BANG BANG KILL KILL KILL... YAWN YAWN YAWN

end game

[tehk1w1]

Admittedly, I did awake from my violence induced coma every time Bayonetta started licking lollipops and/or getting naked for some inexplicable reason.

[-Gespenst-]

This guy seems so conervative. He insinuates at so many points in that article this idea that sex in videogames is dangerous and filthy and depraved. Wake up you loser.
I mean, fair enough, Rumble Roses, Dave Mirra and DOA Volleyball are all fairly gratuitous. And yes, the marketing for the Dave Mirra game is pretty deplorable (Not the sex aspect, but the usage of sex to sell a mediocre game: that's a terrible ethic). The other two are pretty entertaining games.
As for the rest of the games on that list; all really good and artistically great. Especially Final Fantasy VII. Does he not see that the point of the Honeybee Inn was to convey to the slums a particularily rough social identity or strata? It's certainly not glorifying prostitution and the like. God... Ignorance.

[tehk1w1]

And the gang rape? That was thrown in there for cheap laughs.

Oh look, there's Don Coreno. He's a rapist. HAHAHAHA.

Also, it's pretty obvious that the article is a joke article and not the rambling of a prudish puritan. It's the Internet. Not everything is meant to be taken seriously.

[danielle007]

It's not needless in Bayonetta. It added to the character.

[tehk1w1]

The problem with that argument is that it makes the insinuation that Bayonetta actually had characters or a story for them to interact in. There wasn't.

[Gen0ne]

Thank you.

[danielle007]

I really liked Bayonetta and Luka, I think they went well together. I didn't like when she stopped calling him Cheshire, though.. And her slowly caring about the little girl was also adorablee.. Also, here was a story, it was very ridiculous, over the top, and didn't take itself seriously - but I like stories like that. It was just like a B movie on the SciFi channel. This just happened to be a good one filled with lots of fun sexual innuendo, and really badass fighting sequences. Plus, the angels creeped me out..

You may not like it, because you apparently hate sex and can't follow a very over the top japoneeezy story, but don't just say "PSH THERE'S NO CHARACTERS OR STORY I HATE IT." Because there are characters, and there is a story. I loved the game.

Also, you're welcome. =P

[Gen0ne]

Ha ha ha. Awesome.

Edit: I agree with Hakimy, have a bubble. +2 for you.

[Hakimy]

@Danielle007: great post.I would like to add more to your post but I will leave it to this since this topic isn't mainly about Bayonetta. have a bubble ;)
P.S: I assume that you have to click on the green icon to give a bubble.unless its something else then I would like to get help XD

[BetaChris]

Glad to see The Saboteur on the list (if only for the fact that it was my suggestion ;) )

...and yes, I admit it - I used my Golden Ticket.

[spektical]

SSBB in this list?... already fail.

i agree with bayonetta, and DOA started it all. xD

[Kakihara]

I'm a world class pervert but dammit I hate when games are all pervy. Gamers have a bad enough reputation as it is, these kinds of things just add to the stereotype that games are only for sexually repressed immature tennage boys. There are games that play and look beautiful but I'm too embarrassed to show to non gamer friends because they portray that same awful stereotypical 'games as the artistic equivalent of 'late night erotic TV drama' thing.

[-Gespenst-]

I don't know, initially I was like, yeah, this is a joke; and for the most part whilst reading it I was like yeah, this is a joke. But there's just these little off hand remarks that seem kind of unnecessary and contentious...

"well, just being really creepy with inordinate emphasis on sexual objectification and voyeurism."

"Incidentally, that same year Itagaki was accused of sexual harassment. Classy."

"The Sims also gives you the creative freedom to torture your Sims, even murder them by burning their house down, so this could be less of a case of being inherently perverted and more of a case of ‘what the hell is wrong with you?’"

I don't know it just seems like this guy is subtly accusing videogames of causing deviant behaviour, or accusing certain actions taken within videogames to be indicative of sociopathy.
Then again it could be humour that hasn't transferred well through text.

[hamoor]

bayoneta as genius i say
The more combos you do the more naked she get
Now how brilliant is that!

[Gago]

I bought it because it was the best action this gen

[level 360]

A friend gave me a burnt copy of BMX (3X) and thought the game was pervertedly lame and pointless.. Rumble Roses XX for the XBox360 at least had some good points plus the characters were all voluptuously sexier than those on DOA.. Bayonetta has a good game/re-play value and the sexiness and softcore nudity was part of her character.

[lolcatz]

Soft core nudity is a character trait?

[danielle007]

It is for Bayonetta, pal.

[SlamVanderhuge]

The GUy Game deserved a spot. Then again...that's barely a game

[mal_tez92]

But not a lot of these games are mainstream, I haven't even heard of a few of them.

[lolcatz]

lol wut?

Every single one of those games were about as mainstream as they come. Minus MAYBE Rumble Roses.

[mega BIG time]

i have to agree when i was about 11 years old playing FFvii i did get a little weirded out at the whole honeybee inn episode. Somewhere between cloud cross-dressing and getting gangraped by a bunch of dudes and those weird slurpee water sounds when you couldnt see the action.

[Wii360BeatsPS3]

You don't need to hand over cash to get fapping material. You kiddies need to learn this.

[Wii360BeatsPS3]

It's why Itagaki the serial molester targeted you with his creepy softcore porno game.

[tehk1w1]

But it's on the PSP now too!!!

[DanCrabtree]

I blame beach volleyball for most of the worlds problems, but in this case... I think I'll let it slide.