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itoldyousoso14 days ago(+1)

no. this is simply someone not understanding english idioms and building an offended opinion with that false premise. adult games are about as understandable as adult toys. it is not the same as young adult novels. adult games are not games aimed at adults, but games that only adults are allowed to play.

i did not quite get your points, but the important word is explicit. you can tell any story, but if you tell it in explicit pictures and the story is about sex, that is considered porn. there is no need for explicit visuals. it does not add to the story. it is eye candy. but people like their entertainment with some eye candy. same as they like good audio and gameplay mechanics.

but this is seldom done in mainstream. hence the apparant popularity on an indie site for those games.

Hummrew14 days ago

The problem with things like this is definitely not the pornography, but the biased attitude towards pornography. It is a common taboo, and that is the only reason age ratings exist. I mean, in the end, you decide what you want to play, what you want to watch, what you want to interact with. No one is forcing anyone to click their finger in the right order so that they end up with content they don't want, and the only one to blame is the one clicking their finger. No bans will ever change the fact that kids will get around age restrictions and get pornography.

What I am saying is that the industry needs a new genre that separates it from everything ordinary and limited. It doesn't have to be pornography, but bold and open choices can add spice to the subject matter. Like seasoning a dish.

If the author wants to show a brutal collision with reality, then there will be blood, death and sex with all kinds of perversions. Because this is the real world and the author wants to bring his work closer to these dark contrasts, not because he wants to build a plot around porn. There are a lot of such porn games and real masterpieces get lost among them because they get an adult rating after the fact. And I am not saying that the rating is unfair, but it is precisely because of the lack of a more appropriate genre, that there are still people on this planet who have never seen Game of Thrones and think that it is a show about sagging breasts and asses.

It is precisely because of the biased attitude that the industry works with restrictions in favor of the bias of the mass consumer. And the result is a Minecraft movie overflowing with fan service and ass-level jokes, and not a movie about Minecraft with a philosophical dive into the deep secrets of this cubic universe, where end-mutation, zombie virus and inter-dimensional travel are discussed. I say that in the modern world it has become more profitable to build an empty plot on conventions, because real exploration of the world is supposedly boring and unfashionable.

itoldyousoso13 days ago

needs a new genre that separates it from everything ordinary and limited

independent games.

but if you do explicit stuff, it still ain't for minors, even if you do not aim to sell it in an adult video store. it is the same with violence. you can show a person getting killed and still have the thing be at 12+. but if you do that with bits flying around and gore everywhere, it will have a higher age rating that will change with location. to pick germany as an example, they might even legally ban your game, but will allow showing nudity in day time tv. while a nude pixel bosom on an us site like itch will get your game the nsfw rating.