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Tom's goes XXX with nudity guide
Author: Wil HarrisPublished: 9th August 2005
Alyx Vance - naked, via a patch, and evidentally enjoying herself. Picture courtesy hl2world.com.
No, not World of Warcraft - (well, actually, in a way, yes but...) - just an exclamation as to just what people get up to these days.
Tom's Hardware has an outrageously good article on nude patches in video games.
Starting out at the Penthouse mod for Duke Nukem 3D, progressing through Tomb Raider up to the Sims 2, Half Life 2, and Max Payne 2, it seems that some creative types are always out there virtually stripping females.
Or even Orcs, since there's apparently nudity for WoW, too.
The author, James Francis, ends on this appropriate note:
For the mass-public, GTA's sex-act mod represents the advent of a potentially new - and according to Hillary Clinton, dangerous - path in the gaming biz. But, of course, we in the gaming community know that that there are many stimulating game mods out there already, including what we detail here. Don't tell Hillary Clinton and the mainstream media, though.
Quite right - the killjoys!
(Shameless plug: for an interesting piece on the legal implications of nudity modding, check out this article that I wrote over at the Reg).
What are your thoughts? Sad geeks with no girlfriends giving us all a bad name, or a bit of harmless fun? Let us know.
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now i wonder..... could we use this as an argument for all those against violence in videogames?
"Theres too much violence in videogames! its bad!"....... "ok then, lets have more gratuitous nudity to distract from the violence"
sounds like a winner to me ;)
Better flag that article as non-worksafe. I foolishly expected a discussion without seeing a lot of pixelated boobies. Now I'm fired, thanks a lot Bit-tech. >:(
Amusingly, this exact same tactic was used by Matt Stone & Trey Parker when they made Team America, allegedly. There's some hardcore puppet pr0n on the DVD which got cut from the film, which was pretty much always the intention. This was to give the censors some satisfaction, while leaving the core of the film alone. :D
Go THG! :)
and that article from toms was awesome.. i remember the days of duke nukem and the tomb raider nudity patches.. its nothing new.. never has been and never will be. This whole debacle is being blown out of proportion to gain press coverage for Hilary Clinton. Its why I will never support her. I hate politics and how they stab at anything just to gain more press/power. Pisses me off.. because in the end its the people who feel the reprocussions.
Makes me remember the movie G.I. Jane.
Oh and Will, I loved the article you did for the reg.. very good stuff.
Not only because of the new levels but because of... ermmmm... mmmmmm... the more realistic scenarios. :p
BAD NAME
From the NWN patch:
prob the first booby i ever saw on a pc screen :D