TL;DR: Video game actors being told to mo-cap sex scenes without being told beforehand

  • jaaake@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sex scenes are common in modern games - and are often made by filming human actors who are then digitised into game characters.

    Is “common” referring to cringey low budget Steam games? I don’t think I’ve seen any sort of on screen simulated sex in a game, ever. Granted I tend to only play well publicized indie games and larger releases. But how common is this? Am I out of the loop?

    • Zozano@lemy.lol
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      3 months ago

      Mass Effect, The Witcher, San Andreas Hot Coffee Mod, Sega Bass Fishing 2, Cyberpunk 2077.

      It’s pretty common.

      • jaaake@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        The Witcher and Cyberpunk I’ll give you, but Mass Effect definitely fades to black before getting to actual sex, the other two are mods. I wasn’t saying sex in games doesn’t exist, but if we’ve gotta go back several decades for a handful examples, that doesn’t feel like something that’s “common.”

        • Drasglaf@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          If I’m not mistaken the Hot Coffee mod restores content made by Rockstar that was cut last minute.

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            3 months ago

            Yeah, there was a whole kerfuffle about it because all the files were still on the disc, therefore some jurisdictions re-rated the game to some version of adults only. Rockstar definitely did all the development work to get that sex in the game, they just decided not to show it in normal gameplay.

        • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Mass Effect Andromeda had one or two fairly graphic sex scenes. Nothing more than what you’d typically see in an R rated Hollywood movie.

          Unfortunately the scenes were with the most human characters. Imagine my disappointment when it just did fade to black with the Turian girl…

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          3 months ago

          I think “common” here would refer to having to produce them, over the actual explicitness of the scene. Whether Mass Effect fades to black or not isn’t really the point when the voice actors still have to record the lines that play while the screen is dark.

      • catloaf@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        One of the new Wolfenstein games too.

        I don’t think you can count hot coffee, though. That was cut before release.

        What was the first video game with a sex scene? Custer’s Revenge?

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Tell me you’ve never played a Witcher game using a whole paragraph.