My apologies for not laying down any more beats just now:  I’ve been having some problems which make it difficult for me to write music.  I can still type though (Albeit slowly), so I may as well write something.

Inspired by Goldanas talking about naked ladies, I would like to talk about sex.  Video games are still a relatively new medium, especially when it comes to games with a narrative.  We’ve come a long way since ‘Save the princess’ was our only goal, our only reason for existing as a pixelated avatar.  Of course, along with narrative comes an increase in fanservice, which, considering that the market is aimed mainly toward teenage and young adult males, tends to come in the form of, well, naked ladies.

Now, I love naked ladies.  I myself am at times, naked.  However, it’s the way these naked ladies… ARE, which bothers me.

Women on the whole have been objectified in all forms of media since the beginning of time:  In a male-run society, this is to be expected, and it’s certainly better to objectify a fictional character than it is to treat your girlfriend like a piece of trash.  There’s no comparison.  But that’s hardly the point I’m trying to make.

What I want to see in more video games, really, is strong female characters.  Women on the whole are generally portrayed either as meek and helpless, as overly-sexualized to the point of METAL THONGS and INDEPENDENT BOOB PHYSICS, or as caricatured sexless beasts.  Men, too, are normally portrayed as either incredibly feminine shells of the definition of androgynous, yet still somehow pigheaded and chauvinist, or masses of testosterone with NO HAIR and SCARS and THREE FOOT BICEPS.  And so we end up with sex being portrayed almost entirely as a joke.  In my opinion, this is pathetic.

I am 23 years old.  I do not see sex as a joke.  Funny at times, sure.  But in general not a lude pun.  The industry is quite a bit older than I am, and yet still sees sex as ‘lol cooties’ and ‘lol tits.’  When a sex scene is presented, it’s embarassing, even painful to watch.  All as though choreographed by someone who’s never had sex.

This is not unique to video games, certainly, but it is very prevalent.  There are movies – Good movies! – with good sex, believable characters, and well-contrived plots.  The same goes for books, comics, TV shows and Rock Operas.  I have never, EVER encountered a video game with all of these things, and certainly never one which could turn me on.

The industry is relatively young, blah blah blah.  But it’s at this age that it should be attempting to grow up, I think.  It can’t live in the basement forever, and with as many twenty-and-thirty-something women playing video games as pubescent boys, there’s plenty of reason to advance in that area.