Lately, there are so are companies which are taking the cheap alternative to making a quick buck, and those companies know who they are... If in case you have no idea what I mean, this is where companies decide to advertise in game. Not like a once off thing by placing a soft drink labelled cola where it is just a subtle thing, but I'm talking about blatant advertising and in your face.
In attempt to not swing readers to support or discontinue their support for products, I will try to avoid highlighting these companies which are involved in the vile evil that it known as blatant advertising, or as they put it.... "Strategic Product Placement". I know there are frowny points and awards to those games already and gives me the right to mention the game and companies involved, I will not. Now that you get the general idea, now it is time for me to get my regular **** session.
Blatant advertising can range from ingame billboards, indestructible signs, cross-promotion (you know who you are!), in-game characters using products from the company and much more. These are the main ones and I do not wish to see a game to cover the entire game in advertising that it forces me to disband from the world of gaming and do things such as cheating on my gf, actually why cheat when... *cough* but hell, there are companies out there which not only profit from consumers legitimately purchasing the game for some fun until they are whacked across the face by the company they are supporting with more advertising than looking for a relationship only to notice that the opposite you are really interested in is wearing so much advertising that you may take it upon yourself to screw that company over "metaphorically and literally" or be put off as it may not be money well spent for entering the club or venue. You rather have value for money than to of realised that it should of costed you less than $10 to even obtain the game as the company or game title should of already earned their profit from advertising in game alone!
The advertising industry may be worth over USD$35 billion, but truth be told, there are some areas which should not be ventured and yet, rather than not promoting their product or company in their sacred realms, they are blatantly crossed and make their stances known and heard and no one is there to stop the blasphemer. More like a scared church with the purpose of serving the people and then one day, an out of towner goes in a starts spruiking inside the church and selling their product/service. Farfetched hypothetical, yet it may just soon happen one day, but rather than that, the minister inside or whatever religion you're into might start their messages with a sponsored message, like an inescapable intro screen which you are really sick off, but can't avoid, resorting you to arriving when all that rubbish is done or leave when you know it is about to start.
We, in the society, already cop not just an ear or butt load of advertising, but look around you and you'll see some sort of advertising, whether it be subtle or blatantly. Look at the monitor, look at the mouse, keyboard, your house keys, car keys, pencil, pen, etc. Doesn't seem like just a butt load does it. Every square
centimetre of your life will be covered in advertising. But in games? It should be our escapism, our own magic circle, our own world of solitude, peace, meditative freedom and our toybox of excitement and joy. But this is just not the case in some games. Why would I want to enter a cheat code that it itself has advertising already in it, use an object with skins or layers with advertising already on it, see signs with cross-promotion of games which I have no interest of
playing, use products forewhich I don't have the requirements to even use, not even have the money for and/or have a really bad history with the use of their products.
Games are suppose to be our escape from our daily grind of misery and hardships but instead, taken out of our magical circle and be sucked right back into the abyss of reality. Hopefully, I will not lose my passion of gaming by the evils that is known as blatant advertising, otherwise I'll be having my fun with my significant other. Heaven forbids one day that one day my significant other starts blatantly advertises to me before having sex (hope she won't use it as a power play).... but who knows... that'll just might happen one day....hopefully, not to me....
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Sex + Games = Slap on the face?
by Xequtra on Comments
This is not about bed games with your partner, dining room table or where ever your fantasies takes you, but this is kinda an industry that capitalising on what some.... hormone imbalanced people crave for... a bit of nudity, sex, etc.... in simple terms.... an ass...
There are game which plan to not have those kind of features to lure in gamers, but take a look carefully at the type of designs on some of the characters and you'll notice a trend. Female characters with semi-revealing outfits; tight clothing revealing a good bust size, short skirt, tight pants showing the "perfect" theighs, short or sleeveless upper clothing, minimal armor, opening to show a flat belly and low cut tops... I know that there are a few characters out there which may not show a large majority of those features, but have a look in your game collection and put the number of non-revealing characters to revealing characters and you'll note about over 90% are revealing in some way. As for the male characters; outfits tight to show physique be that of built or thin, uncomfortable pants which may not be good for physical activies and light armour to show "finer" details. Talk about your wants for the perfect shape...
To add to this combo, I've also mentioned about the physiques of the characters models. Just take a look at how many skinny models and the seemly perfect builds to hold over-the-top weapons which may include RPGs, machine guns (mini-gun, para, etc), over-sized weaponry and/or armor, small backpacks with huge heavy weapons and the list goes on... This seems like a fun exaggeration to keep fans interested into those female heroine or as someone can't get enough of the word... shero. The hypobole caused by character in focus maybe not be purely for the sake of completing the game but some may try and get good and awkward angles of the character for some "money shots" for some cheap thrills, be this for young kiddies to gaze at the wonders of the female features or those for a good picture to jerk off. Wonder what'll happen when an enemy just pops up outta nowhere and mauls the character to death, how will they enjoy their peace now? :P
It isn't just this perverty I'm concerned about, but in literal terms, "Sex Games" which you can play. In the interest of promoting games or blamming games and acknowledging the existance of those titles which you should of already knew about and if you don't, too bad ya perverts. Honestly, this is supposed to be something sacred for a bit of fun and discovery and to of had those two words come together to ensnare fools to shill out money to keep their never-to-come-true dream of getting a root is quite sad really. Even though it would of been undenyable that it is going to happen one and in which there are a few titles for it... I honestly don't know how they play out as they have been banned in Australia, except for one, but I have no idea on what it is called as it wasn't deemed too excessive in terms of the sex themes and very strongs ones at it. This game is purely about sex and nothing more, but there are games which have sex are rewards from completing things, which may of been the reason for its banning, but hey, it is to protect those who are too young to understand what sex really is about... and for those who still don't understand the whole process of sex, look in a freakin dictionary! Or better yet, Google!
There may be some sex games which are good in terms of a trying to please your partner and it is a good way to learn something need to keep things interesting and keep the passion active, but can have its downs if people don't understand about the significance and take it as a resemblence of society and I will not get into further detail there. I know that it has helped me in some ways personally to create interesting memory for not just me but with someone else, but hell, experience may differ from person to person and results aren't always the same. Sometimes it isen't all bad, but it tends to be heavily absued in the wrong manner.
Age, understanding and knowledge in the area will clear up the problems being caused but the level of sexism within games, but in a large majority of the time, it tends to be an ironclad entertainment source for the jaded misinthropes taking advantage of the cheap fake view of a female's posterior and views of her figure without a good slap across the face. Where's the Painstation and the whip to hit players across the face for viewing things indecently....
My lateless was oddly could not be avoided due to the fact that I was hung over and still am... damn.... thank goodness this was pre-written or else I'd be in trouble XD cheers to the pre-written stuff.
Peace Out
There are game which plan to not have those kind of features to lure in gamers, but take a look carefully at the type of designs on some of the characters and you'll notice a trend. Female characters with semi-revealing outfits; tight clothing revealing a good bust size, short skirt, tight pants showing the "perfect" theighs, short or sleeveless upper clothing, minimal armor, opening to show a flat belly and low cut tops... I know that there are a few characters out there which may not show a large majority of those features, but have a look in your game collection and put the number of non-revealing characters to revealing characters and you'll note about over 90% are revealing in some way. As for the male characters; outfits tight to show physique be that of built or thin, uncomfortable pants which may not be good for physical activies and light armour to show "finer" details. Talk about your wants for the perfect shape...
To add to this combo, I've also mentioned about the physiques of the characters models. Just take a look at how many skinny models and the seemly perfect builds to hold over-the-top weapons which may include RPGs, machine guns (mini-gun, para, etc), over-sized weaponry and/or armor, small backpacks with huge heavy weapons and the list goes on... This seems like a fun exaggeration to keep fans interested into those female heroine or as someone can't get enough of the word... shero. The hypobole caused by character in focus maybe not be purely for the sake of completing the game but some may try and get good and awkward angles of the character for some "money shots" for some cheap thrills, be this for young kiddies to gaze at the wonders of the female features or those for a good picture to jerk off. Wonder what'll happen when an enemy just pops up outta nowhere and mauls the character to death, how will they enjoy their peace now? :P
It isn't just this perverty I'm concerned about, but in literal terms, "Sex Games" which you can play. In the interest of promoting games or blamming games and acknowledging the existance of those titles which you should of already knew about and if you don't, too bad ya perverts. Honestly, this is supposed to be something sacred for a bit of fun and discovery and to of had those two words come together to ensnare fools to shill out money to keep their never-to-come-true dream of getting a root is quite sad really. Even though it would of been undenyable that it is going to happen one and in which there are a few titles for it... I honestly don't know how they play out as they have been banned in Australia, except for one, but I have no idea on what it is called as it wasn't deemed too excessive in terms of the sex themes and very strongs ones at it. This game is purely about sex and nothing more, but there are games which have sex are rewards from completing things, which may of been the reason for its banning, but hey, it is to protect those who are too young to understand what sex really is about... and for those who still don't understand the whole process of sex, look in a freakin dictionary! Or better yet, Google!
There may be some sex games which are good in terms of a trying to please your partner and it is a good way to learn something need to keep things interesting and keep the passion active, but can have its downs if people don't understand about the significance and take it as a resemblence of society and I will not get into further detail there. I know that it has helped me in some ways personally to create interesting memory for not just me but with someone else, but hell, experience may differ from person to person and results aren't always the same. Sometimes it isen't all bad, but it tends to be heavily absued in the wrong manner.
Age, understanding and knowledge in the area will clear up the problems being caused but the level of sexism within games, but in a large majority of the time, it tends to be an ironclad entertainment source for the jaded misinthropes taking advantage of the cheap fake view of a female's posterior and views of her figure without a good slap across the face. Where's the Painstation and the whip to hit players across the face for viewing things indecently....
My lateless was oddly could not be avoided due to the fact that I was hung over and still am... damn.... thank goodness this was pre-written or else I'd be in trouble XD cheers to the pre-written stuff.
Peace Out
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