"Sexual Assault VR Mode in Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 - #CUPodcast"

[kane_magus]

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(And, of course, obviously, the comments under this video are chock full of grody creepers and Irredeemably Toxic Shithole-types. Just a fair warning.)

At that point, if you're going to be doing this, I'd say just go play a straight-up damn hentai game and be done with it, already. Sheesh. Or maybe it's that Team Ninja itself should just go ahead and turn the DOA Xtreme series into a straight-up hentai eroge and be done with that, already. You can tell that they really, really want to.

On the whole, I once again mostly agree with Ian here. As for the characters being "uncomfortable" with the "advances" of the player, yeah, it's creepy as shit. Still, "realistically" speaking, if Kasumi truly didn't want you touching her tits or whatever, she, being a ninja, would kick your fucking ass. To me, it seems mostly like she's acting out of character to just stand there and let some schlub in a VR mask fondle her like that while doing nothing else beside repeatedly saying "ya da" and "da me" (both of which basically mean "no" or "I don't want this.") There's also a bit of cultural divide here between Japan and "the West" as well, at least as far as I can understand it, but that's a different kettle o' fish altogether and beyond the scope of this post.

Of course, the crux of the matter here is that Kasumi isn't a real person. Kasumi is a collection of polygons that has been programmed by Team Ninja to react this way. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse, honestly. No, the entire point of this, no more and no less, is to allow the player to get their rocks off. And again, at that point, I'd say just go play a flat-out hentai game and stop pretending.

And yeah, as Pat says, VR Grand Theft Auto (or something like it) is coming, too. VR Mortal Kombat. VR Manhunt. VR Thrill Kill. VR Super Columbine Massacre RPG. And so on. It has always fascinated me that, outside of a few stick-up-the-ass "moral guardian" types, most people (in the USA, anyway) are pretty okay with excessively violent, gory death in video games, but when it comes to risqué stuff like this, that is where the line gets crossed? As for me, I consider the above to be a "sexual assault simulator" in the same way that those other games are "murder simulators," and I've ranted about all of that shit multiple times in the past. They are what they are, for good or bad. Personally, I'd much rather have sexual deviants getting their jollies wearing a VR headset and poking Kasumi's ass in some dank basement somewhere than to have them out and about doing this shit to actual, real-life people. And if an otherwise normal, well-adjusted person wants to also get their jollies off poking Kasumi's ass with their virtual fingers, then more power to them, I guess? It'd be either that or ripping the characters from Mortal Kombat in half, whenever the VR version of that comes out. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It's not my cup of tea.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

"Or maybe it's that Team Ninja itself should just go ahead and turn the DOA Xtreme series into a straight-up hentai eroge and be done with that, already."

The funny thing is, probably the only thing stopping them from doing that is for the same reason they're doing what they're doing. Sales.

By that I mean virtually all stores, including most online ones, won't sell Adult-Only games. They won't stock it. So anything rated AO (ie: straight up hentai eroge) won't be able to make as many sales as more restricted titles. That's why they created the "M" rating - which is basically a 17+ audience. When AO is 18+. All that for a single year? Nah. It's just the only way they can sell things that otherwise wouldn't be available for Teens.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

That's as good a reason as any as to why Team Ninja hasn't done it, I guess.

While I have been seeing some more risqué stuff showing up on Steam lately, like uncensored adult visual novels and The Witcher 3 and such, I doubt even Steam would allow a straight up VR porn game on there any time soon, no matter how much they otherwise might be trying to pimp out VR games in general lately.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

"I doubt even Steam would allow a straight up VR porn game on there any time soon"

I agree. And that's why the AAA games will further try to push the M envelop as far as possible without just admitting what they're trying to sell.

Really the only way Steam would even consider AO titles is by making a new class of members that require far more ID and proof of adultness to sign up for. Essentially to avoid any negative PR that would be caused by kids trying to sign up for it. That really would just add more risk than benefit/profit so there's no reason to ever expect it to happen.

[kane_magus]

Just happened to see these comments when looking back through my pat the nes punk tag (looking futilely for a post that I apparently never actually made)...

...and ha ha, fast forward to 2021 and Steam is absolutely allowing straight VR porn games, for at least a year or three now. And that shit just shows up in your discovery queue whether you want to see it or not (even if you have a client-wide filter on showing AO content, as I do, because those filters still let a whole lot slip through the cracks).

I don't know what the profit margins are for straight porn games vs "normal" games on Steam now (and don't much care), but it shows that there is definitely a market for it, at least, if Team Ninja ever wanted to go that route now. ¬_¬