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Sec scenes are common in modern games?
Y'all I've been big into Armored Core 6, Stardew Valley and Factorio lately what have you been up to?
Edit: I'm being flippant, the idea that an actor could have such a thing sprung on them is awful and I hope they get the protections they deserve.
😏 haven't unlocked the sex scene in Factorio yet I see.
Not only the factory grows!
New NSFW game pitch:
Fucktorio
The bellies must grow
I rail trains every time I play.
Usually the trains are the ones doing the railing at least for me.
Biters want one thing and it's disgusting
I wanna git gud enough at Armored Core to see the robots fuck.
I know you're being flippant and it definitely is a real issue, but my first reaction was the same. I've played plenty of games with some sexual content in them, but never one with sexual violence other than implied, and usually even the consensual scenes were fade to black, or close to fading to black. I was a little surprised to hear that this is going on.
I've played GTA: San Andreas, and I don't think there's anything overtly sexually explicit in that one (besides the Hot Coffee thing, which still isn't that bad? It's simulated sex acts while the characters still wear their clothes). Even Cyberpunk has like two sex scenes (I never went to the joyous besides for that one mission) that you only really see tits from a first-person pov.
Though I realize that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Baldur's Gate 3 immediately comes to mind. You can fuck bears and mindflayers in that game.
EDIT: Oh hey, they're in the article in a good way!
Baldur's Gate 3 addressed this by employing intimacy co-ordinators - dedicated members of staff tasked with ensuring the well-being of performers in explicit scenes.
Not to be that guy, but Stardew and Factorio both came out in 2016 (early access for Factorio). They're nearly a decade old, so I'm not sure they qualify as modern.
Edit: I put that Saving Private Ryan meme here, but it ended up rendering really huge, so I'm gonna remove it.
You haven't lived if you haven't watched all four sex scenes in Splatoon
If you don't have mods giving you graphical sex scenes os Stardew Valley, what have you been up to?
Playing path of exile, I'm horrified at the idea of a sex scene
(maven feet though...)
For real, this. I'm playing everything from nice fluffy casual games to M rated horrorshows and I don't remember the last game I played that had a voiced sex scene. A few horror titles or indie games have certainly included sex or even sexual assault, but not voiced.
BG3 is fine and good as noted by another commenter (haven't actually played it myself), so what games are you guys playing?
Not okay, not letting them know what they are signing up for.. it's like having them do stunts.
What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black
Baldur's Gate 3 gets pretty explicit
They had a dedicated intimacy coordinator for those scenes who worked with the actors to make sure they were comfortable with it
Oh yeah, they handled it properly for sure.
Sponge Bob Back to Bikini Bottom
Custer’s Revenge for the Atari 2600. I play this game exclusively.
What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black
Witcher III is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I vaguely recall Fable 1 doing the fade-to-black thing, but then staying black and playing out some cliche moaning, which is kind of the same thing from the voice actors's perspective.
Whole category of dating sims and basically soft-core-porn games, which I'm sure have a high demand for acting out these kinda of scenes.
Fable was very much played for laughs. I can remember some guy going "ooh I like that" in a camp voice.
Heavy Rain and The Last of Us 2 had very awkward sex scenes though.
The Witcher
Especially weird for the actor of the unicorn.
Far cry... 3? I think? Has a short sex scene.
Jup... One of the endings involves the protagonist having sex with a cult leader and then >!getting sacrificed as soon as he cums inside her!<.
wouldn't be surprised if it was Ubisoft. they love sexual assault
Cyberpunk 2077
Baldurs Gate 3 still getting praise long after release. Serious unicorn in the game industry!
I say BG3 is to the 2020s what Skyrim was to the 2010s
That's an insult to BG3 and Larian.
agree.. let’s say "the skyrim we remember all, with all the beautiful mods fixing the outrageous real state of the game."
Just to be a counterweight: I have ~15 hours in BG3. At some point I just realized it's not for me. I can't really put my finger on it, but it just doesn't strike any nerve for what I enjoy in video games.
Skyrim, however was my favorite game through the 2010s, with probably north of 500 hours across multiple platforms.
Maybe it's something about the pacing and freedom to disregard the story elements.
Oh I see where the controversy comes from. I'm not implying they are for the same people, although of course there is an overlap because they're both fantasy.
All I'm saying is, within the fantasy genre, BG seems to be causing a similar impact as a game as Skyrim did in its time. Both give what their fandoms want, both feel fresh and innovative/creative enough at the time of release, both offer a lot in replay value. They are very different games though.