[QUOTE="1carus"]Look - we all know a rape game isn't going to necessarily turn the whole world into rapists. But... doesn't anyone find it disturbing that one would find satisfaction in playing a game where you rape women? There's something wrong right there.
Likewise, I think there actually IS something a tad wrong in all of us for playing games where we find satisfaction for blowing people's heads off. I guess it started with a few pixels being zapped by a lazer and has evolved into arms flying off with blood smeared on walls and people screaming in terror. I find this somewhat excusable, because we're good guys out to kill the bad guys, and when we do choose the bad guy route, we're doing it to explore a different character, but we all know we're still the bad guy (This is partly the reason I somewhat dislike the GTA games - you're a glorified gangster, but never being held in a negative light).
Impulse808
Not really. People do have sexual fantasies about raping or being raped, and I believe that most of them are quite normal individuals. Then again, choosing not to play these sort of games because it goes against one's morals is perfectly normal too. About the GTA comment - I don't think it'd be realistic enough to portray criminals only in a negative light throughout the whole game. It could be argued that you are killing bad people most of the time in GTA too. It's just an erotic game - no more. Not human creativity at its best, but not the devil's work either, like some people suggest.Most individuals who have rape fantasies aren't fantasizing about the actual act of rape. They're fantasizing about the power that comes from being in control, or the feeling of being controlled. People enjoy a little escapism now and again, especially people that have little or no control in their personal lives. And most people that play violent video games are doing it for the entertainment value and that sense of escape, the sense of strength and power and again, control. They aren't thinking or fantasizing about the actual act of murder, etc. I believe there's a really fine line between entertainment and depravity, and a rape game crosses that line. It's not like having a single sex scene or a rape scene in a game or movie, which can still be shocking and unnerving. The entire game acts as a rape simulator basically, it's based around rape, the gameplay, "story", it all revolves around rape. I don't think you can say "oh it's just an erotic game". It'd be like if someone made a game where you're a serial killer that brutally murders innocent people, specifically women and children. And that's all you did. There was nothing else, no story except you graphically torturing, mutilating, and murdering innocent people. And while yes a bit of a double standard exists when it comes to sex and violence, I think there'd be a bit of an outrage over that as well. Hell, look at what happened with Manhunt 2.
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