[Captain Blondebeard]

Originally Posted by Pyke

Ill be honest...I thought the thread header was a typo for 'Adventure-games with big ass titles? ', and was about...well...long titles in Adventure games. Woohoo was I wrong.

I have no mouth and I must scream.

[Terramax]

What about those Japanese text adventure games? Hentai games I believe they're called?

[zobraks]

My, my, you're so out of knowledge (I suppose you're not from around here ). Hentai is some kind of sushi, I believe.

[ozzie]

Hey, don't forget the junk Free Spirit Software produced!

Sex Olympics
Planet of Lust
Sex Vixens from Space
Bride of the Robot

[Christian IV]

Really none or almost none of the games mentioned are worth the time to play them, there is no real interaction beyond voyerism in most of them, even Lula 3D, which has some actually fairly decent 3D levels, the San Francisco Street Scene is quite well done..but the content is horrid. Ditto many of the others, the Hentai games mentioned are mostly dialog with still scenes for the 'action" so your idea may indeed be worth making an effort over, for the Leisure Suit Larry games everyone raves about are boring as all heck and many of the other games (there were three games in the Lula series) and two in the Airline 69 series) are boring and the puzzles odd at best. The vast realm of Hentai and manga is another universe and has a lot of titles, literally thousands but few are again really participitory, mostly just glorified peep shows.

Games surprisingly dont venture much into the dark side...btw the two Oblvion titles mentioned were very boring, and not worth the effort to find.

and as for the actual finding of the sort of specific content you mention in your eye catching thread title, don't expect much in that specific area either. Imagination seems to be limited by prudery among game makers and the women in the games mentioned rarely achieve anything like amplitude. So have fun with your project, you will probably do well if you actually do something well done.

[Origami]

The vast realm of Hentai and manga is another universe and has a lot of titles, literally thousands but few are again really participitory, mostly just glorified peep shows.

I tried one because of mass recommendation. It's called Kana Little Sister. Hentai aside, it is hailed as one of the best drama stories. No joke.

But I don't remember a character in it with particularly big breasts.

[ozzie]

I liked Days of Oblivion 2 quite a bit, I think it's well done. Admittedly, you'll need a high tolerance for trash. I never played the first one, but I heard it's much worse.

[Josho]

People who want hardcore porn don't want to have to wade through hours of puzzles just to get to their porn sequences. People who are into the stories and drama of a good adventure game don't usually want to stop and watch a few minutes of hardcore porn in the middle of their gaming. I doubt there's any kind of reasonable market (at least in the US) for adventure games with hardcore porn.

[mrLOL]

@ Christian & Josho:
Yes it appears you are right, that even tho (as this thread has proven) there are adventure-game style porn games the puzzles just aren't any good, and as Josho says that's probably not the point of them either.

In theory I think the concept behind a Larry game is brilliant, we all like the theme of "getting laid", and we all already have unlimited supply of escapism regarding the actual act of sex, so a naughty adventure-game that's about getting laid except focuses on "the hunt is more exciting than the kill"-aspect should be really cool, especially if set in a really cool location, like a las vegas type town.

If you tell me "hey I got 2 games, choose one:
a) starts out with a murder, really bloody, now you have to find the murder, or
b) you play as a super horny guy who let's loose in las vegas with a mission to score",
then I would find "B" to sound way more interesting.

However with that said as a mental excercise I tried to write a few "get laid"-type puzzels and I came to the conclusion that it's impossible!
I would really like to hear you guys oppinion about it.

What I found was that you can write a puzzle about doing favours, for example you spot a girl but she doesn't want to even talk to you, but if you look carefully you see that she's crying over her lost cat, now you need to find the cat, and now you found him up at a hard-to-reach place, now you need to figure out a way to get him down, and as you give the girl the cat she will now reward you with sex,

that's a plausible puzzle, but it just isn't interesting! perhaps because it's too abstract (i.e. too opposite of how you get laid IRL), or perhaps because it's kinda pathetic to do girls favors in hope of reward-sex (as opposed to playing out a fantasy).

On the other hand if you try to go the realistic route it get's even worse!
I can't think of any good ways to write a dialogue-option-type puzzle regarding flirting a girl into bed, perhaps that you have to pay close attention to her body language for each line you choose and try to figure out based on that what she wants to hear,
or perhaps a bit insult-sword-fighting type gameplay that girls reject you and you need to have snappy comebacks to answer with (and those dialogue options you learn by saying those lines to girls yourself and see what lines they respond with),

but in either case I don't see it really working out unless every line you write is hilariously good.

[ggreen737]

LOL @ This whole thread

[dekaneas297]

The most pathetic thread ever

[cbman]

What i've long wanted to see was not so much a porn game but a sexually charged game. A game with an erotic ambience / atmosphere, with nudity and sexual situations but without the focus being directly or primarily on sex.

I know a few games like this have been mentioned in the thread but most them seem to be either not very good or simply archaic.

The size of the breasts therein is not a source of concern for me. I like all sorts.

[ozzie]

I feel the same.

[mrLOL]

I think we are all on agreement that we are talking about a sexually charged game rather than pure porn,
I'm not just saying that to make us sound less like perverts (because we are, especially ozzie) but because the art of porn has already been perfected in video-form and there's nothing more that interactivity can bring to the table.
So a game need to focus on the hunt rather than the kill.

I'm not sure however if cbman is talking about a game about getting laid that's sexually charged, or just a standard non-sexual story-line (save the world or whatever) which just happens to have lots of flirting with every female character.

[zobraks]

LOL @ This whole thread

The most pathetic thread ever

Obviously some people around here think this topic is hilarious , so lets add some more off-topic to that.

Originally Posted by cbman

The size of the breasts therein is not a source of concern for me. I like all sorts.

Here on Balkans it's mainly "the bigger, the better" as far as "titties" are concerned, and we (Serbs) have a proverb: "A woman without an (sizeable, meaning "huge") ass is like a village without a church."

[Gonchi]

God, I love eastern europe...

Speaking of which, I believe there's a Russian adventure game series that's fairly sexually over the top, without being hardcore porn. I forget the name right now, but I've run across it a few times. I'm going to see if I can find it.

[zobraks]

You mean GAG?

[Gonchi]

No, no, that's not it. I'm familiar with Gag. This one had a third person perspective, mid-late 90's cartoony look.

EDIT: Ok, I found it. Apparently it was called Operation X in english, although the only info I could find on it was at Adventure Archiv. The game wasn't part of a series at all, I must have confused it with Petka or Polda (which isn't even Russian, its Czech , this is what happens when I try to remember games I've never played).

Adventure Archiv describes it as sort of Russian Leisure Suit Larry. Since there isn't much info in English, I looked in Russian and the basic gist of it is the following:

"Adventure game about the adventures of almost perpetual student Shuricha. It would appear that has the ability to be worse - for the coming day of the test, but you have that number and no admission. Ransacked his pockets, you know that the source of the dorm room has disappeared, but yesterday it lost several large necessary amount classmate in the cards. And to top it all now in the morning you wake up in the order of a strange bed. However, if quietly look at what is happening with the absolutely other hand, it turns out that not all did terribly bad. At least until the exam is still quite a heavenly day, and during this hot time of genuine student under the power of the restless move mountains!."

Evidently, the game is a unsung classic. I cannot fathom why it never found an audience outside its borders.

Not sure I should post links, but I've found a bunch of sites with info in Russian that I cannot understand nor make sense of through translators, so I'm basing my impressions off the screenshots. There's a lot of sexual scenery, the women are all drawn in that porn-star exaggerated way we've all come to expect from these kind of cartoony games, but the graphics are amateurish at best, with characters sprites and backgrounds clashing quite a bit. Like with the Larry games, although there appears to be a lot of raunchiness, it doesn't seem to go as far as hardcore porn, although from the screens I've seen, it makes Larry look classy... *shrug* Perhaps I should play the game and find out. It couldn't possibly be any worse than some Hentai games I've played.

Fien, why are you deleting your posts?

[cbman]

Originally Posted by mrLOL

I'm not sure however if cbman is talking about a game about getting laid that's sexually charged, or just a standard non-sexual story-line (save the world or whatever) which just happens to have lots of flirting with every female character.

What I mean is a storyline with a serious, plot, theme, issues etc (or at least as much as you get in any adventure game) that incidently happens to have a lot or erotic, sensual content, locations etc. The lead character doesn't have to be having sex with everyone, or even anyone (actual sex is often actually the least erotic thing to portray anyway) but simply exists in a game world environment where there is a lot of erotic content.

As an example of what I mean look at a game like Still Life: fantastic game and it handled adult content involving violence and bad language very well but where was the sex? One of the locations was a strip club but it was always empty! There was that kinky lesbian woman fliting with the player character but it never went anywhere. Now, i'm not saying there should have been a lesbian sex scene going on in the stripclub, that would have been wrong for the game, but there could have been something other than nothing. Gus Mcpherson went with prostitutes, fell in love with one of them but again, nothing erotic was seen.

Look at this fantastic scene from 'Dracula: Ressurection': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqjVg9rl3LI
It's not strictly 'necessary' for the brides to look that way but at the same time why not? It's adds a nice erotic frission to the game, another layer to be enjoyed. Mina Harker was practically falling out of her bustier too. Suddenly I was actually interested in saving her!

There's a fabulous scene in the horror game Downfall where you go on an object hunt of a trail of clothes being discarded one by one by a female ghost. At the end of the hunt she tries to lure you into her bed. As well as being erotic this added something to the gameplay because you really want to take up the invite but for the game you know its better that you don't. Think of what temptation could add to gameplay! The only other time I can recall really wanting to succumb to temptation in an adventure game, even though I knew it was wrong gameplay-wise was choosing to return to Myst island in the final Myst game. What Myst fan could resist that even though it only led to failure endings? That was an ingenious idea.

I've always argued against the idea of 'gratuitous' nudity or erotica being damaging to a serious work. Surely a 3 dimensional character has to have a sexual element to them. All real people do. In fact, it's one of the major human preoccupations. It can be shown without having to have any direct narrative purpose, just as any other form of character development can / should be. And it can be shown jsut to tittilate the audience too, without damaging the credibility of the work. A gratuitous 'jump out of your seat' scene would be seen as adding drama and excitement to a game but a gratuitously sexy scene would be seen as spurious and inappropriate by many. Why? It's another way of entertaining the gamer. And if you couple entertaiment with serious themes people will be a lot more interested in those themes than if they are addressed in a dry or po-faced way.

I would suggest the film Betty Blue for a perfect mix of 'gratuitous' erotic scenes and moving, meaningful drama (and comedy) in that medium. When will someone attempt something like that in the video game medium? Maybe it's still too much in in its infancy. It's still a very new medium, relatively speaking.

All we have are these mostly pretty poor porn games we've been discussing.

[Gonchi]

Well... Blue Heat: The Case of the Cover Girl Murders went unmentioned and I think that's about as close as it gets. In the end I suspect you've hit the nail on the head with the medium just not being mature enough for it yet. That attempts have been made in the past should give some hope for the future though.