The reality of more graphic content in video games these days is that you just don't really show sex in games. Breasts are sometimes okay, a limp penis is rarely okay, but sex if usually played for jokes. With very rare exceptions (The Witcher 3 comes to mind), video games never go out of their way to portray sexual content in anything beyond a fade to black or a crude joke. This is contrary to depictions of violence in games, where graphic violence can find its way into something as lightly rated as a "teen" game, and where portrayals of violence and killing are seen regularly in games rated 'E' for everyone. Just look at the bodycount in something like Ocarina of Time, where Link kills many thinking and feeling creatures, be it out of self-defense or otherwise.
Recently, it was learned that Cyberpunk 2077 would allow the customization of your character all the way down to their gender identity and their genitals. Specifically, one games journalist who played the game early a couple of days ago provided the specifics of how genital customization would work. Players will be able to select a vagina, a circumcised, or an uncircumcised penis. They are then able to use the token slider to adjust size, and are able to select from (at the moment of this person's playing) five different patterns of pubic hair.
This already crosses a few lines games had set in terms of character customization. Just last month, the game was officially rated by the ESRB, giving us some details in terms of what exactly the game contains content-wise. One of these descriptions was first person motion captured sex scenes. While sex scenes aren't anything new for CD Projekt Red, who gave us similar content in The Witcher series, that the scenes are first person is a step further.
But to go back to the original subject:
How do you guys feel about sexual content in games? If you disapprove of it, why do you think that violence in video games should be given a pass?
Recently, it was learned that Cyberpunk 2077 would allow the customization of your character all the way down to their gender identity and their genitals. Specifically, one games journalist who played the game early a couple of days ago provided the specifics of how genital customization would work. Players will be able to select a vagina, a circumcised, or an uncircumcised penis. They are then able to use the token slider to adjust size, and are able to select from (at the moment of this person's playing) five different patterns of pubic hair.
This already crosses a few lines games had set in terms of character customization. Just last month, the game was officially rated by the ESRB, giving us some details in terms of what exactly the game contains content-wise. One of these descriptions was first person motion captured sex scenes. While sex scenes aren't anything new for CD Projekt Red, who gave us similar content in The Witcher series, that the scenes are first person is a step further.
But to go back to the original subject:
How do you guys feel about sexual content in games? If you disapprove of it, why do you think that violence in video games should be given a pass?