2009-03-15

Those Fucking Japanese

Video Game Allows Players To Rape And Force Abortions | The Frisky: "The player stalks the female character in the subway station as she waits for the train—I'm already creeped out—and can virtually 'pray' for a gust of wind to blow up her skirt and reveal her underwear. And that's just the beginning. Players can grope and fondle the female avatar's body, and while she will always try to fight off the player's attack, he will always succeed in raping her."

Subject matter aside for a moment, if you can never lose the physical confrontation then it's not a game, it's a fantasy. I'm not even 100% sure it could be called a "simulator", because you can still crash the plane in a flight sim. It's probably more of a masturbation aid than anything else, and let's face it, those aren't sold in the same section of Amazon.com as Fallout 3, nor should they be.

Full disclosure: After Microsoft laid off the Aces team responsible for about 20 years' worth of critically-acclaimed flight simulator titles, I bought two copies of their last release in the perverse hope that I could see how they handle it when the player tries to fly a passenger jet into a skyscraper.

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