Someone explain in-game sex to me. . .

[Monsto Brukes]

I'm actually attempting to understand why having sex in the game does what it does (whatever it does) for the people that like it.

 

There's a million billion tube sites out there where you can quite literally watch everything from a loving couple creating an expressive moment all the way up to a tranny (male that looks like a female) fucking a tranny (a female that looks like a male). (I'm not making this up) nevermind all the extreme stuff (shitting fish, handjobs with puke-lube, etc)

 

So...

With all the no-cost and free options available for watching people fuck on the web, I have a hard time believing that it's the sex.

 

Therefore, my question is what's the attraction to having sex (read: fucking) in skyrim and the other RP games?

 

[Ark of Truth]

Well when the player loves a NPC very very much..............

[Just Checking]

Don't know about other users, but there's two reasons for me.  First, it just adds a little more variety to what happens in the game.  I use a lot of mods to make the game feel a bit more alive, things like survival mods, hunger and stuff like that, and I guess sex just sort of fell into that category of adding a little more life to the game.  Not realism, perhaps.  But life, sure.  If we're slaying dragons, fighting off undead armies, hunting bandits, mixing potions, tanning leathers and picking flowers, why not also chat up one of the tavern wenches and bone like monkeys in one of the back rooms?  Just a way of adding that much more RP to your RPG.  And like SemiPr0 said, the potential just being there makes a bit of a difference.  When I play Skyrim, I do it to play Skyrim.  I actually use these mods surprisingly little, but being available is just part of it, I guess.

 

The second reason for me is basically so I have easy access to pr0n without having to stop whatever I'm doing in the game, so in other words, I'm lazy.

 

Maybe it also sort of boils down to the same reason people like me download a million overhauls for the same thing, try them for ten minutes each and pick a favourite from that, even if the feature in the game didn't even need changing.  Someone made a mod for it, it's available, and we can.

 

That's my attitude for it, at least.  I'm actually kind of interested in seeing what other people say here.

[Sεraphim]

Well, there tends to be more stimulation when sex occurs in characters or people we are familiar with, or have some sort of empathy towards.

 

It's like watching a leaked sex tape of your favorite celebrity who you're a big fan of, rather than some run-of-the-mill porno of a playboy star.

 

Or, if you're into it, like watching a hentai spin-off based on some anime series that you've been a big fan off.

 

Or like having sex with someone in real life that means a lot to you on an intimate level, rather than some person you hook up with for the night.

 

Sure it's all stimulating. But for me, some things that hit closer to home just trigger a sense of "wow, that's hot." To be honest, I'm getting quite tired of the sex mods though. It also has something to do with the fact that the sex factor isn't meant to be there, if that makes any sense.

[cretin]

All the best fantasy novels, short stories, epic poems, and movies have had sex in them, much of it fairly explicit (Howard, Leiber, Eddings, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, the Eddas, etc. etc...).  Why wouldn't my fantasy video game?

 

The more revealing question is why doesn't this fantasy world have any sex in it?  Because video games are still seen as child's play.  And that's a shitty situation.

 

We're here to fix that problem.

 

[WaxenFigure]

Since you can see all that sex on the web, what's the point of having sex in real life?

 

Answer that question to my (and your) satisfaction and then I'll use that answer to help you understand why we have added it to the game because the two are related.

 

[Suludi]

"Child's play"... like slaughtering the shit out of everything and everybody we meet along the road. But sex is considered "bad". This just shows how fucked up this world is.

 

To me, sex adds to the immersion, and I love watching my char break free from the run-and-murder-animation treadmill every now and then. Same goes for eating, reading, laying down and idling around. It makes the char more alive and less a killer puppet.

[Itski]

I'm actually attempting to understand why having sex in the game does what it does (whatever it does) for the people that like it.

 

There's a million billion tube sites out there where you can quite literally watch everything from a loving couple creating an expressive moment all the way up to a tranny (male that looks like a female) fucking a tranny (a female that looks like a male). (I'm not making this up) nevermind all the extreme stuff (shitting fish, handjobs with puke-lube, etc)

 

So...

With all the no-cost and free options available for watching people fuck on the web, I have a hard time believing that it's the sex.

 

Therefore, my question is what's the attraction to having sex (read: fucking) in skyrim and the other RP games?

If you can find a video of a three-breasted elf chick getting a anal plowing by a yoghurt goblin, i'll tip my hat off to ya

[Tags]

I will refrain from any comments on sex vs. violence views. I'm not sure I care about the immersion so much, character livliness means less to me in a CRPG then it does in table top... More of a control thing, I think... Plus with the more taboo subjects, mods are one way to fulfill, to some extent, certain kinks.

[Jarl Cocksmith]

Because sometimes

 

Just sometimes

 

It's more fun when it's Lydia

 

 

Seriously though, sometimes the concept or the situation can be hot in and of itself, even apart from the content. 

Like how slavemaker would be hot even without the pictures, just becaue of its scenario, if you're into that kind of thing.

In this case, the actual porn is FAR from as hot as it could be, and it has a longass way to go (they still haven't figured out squirting perfectly, for example) but the scenario can be pretty hot, whether it's a battle-rape, a pimping out or enslaving of other characters, or a PC-as-prostitute-or-sex-slave scenario.

And that's just dealing with things that I give a fuck about and not touching on the whole "Romance" side of shit, even. It's pretty elementary.

 

[Starbrow65]

It's definitely not the pixel porn as such that does anything for me. The level of eroticism contributed by the sex mods is negligible. They don't 'turn me on', and incidentally that's also true for the vast majority of readily available 'real life' tube porn on the net that monsto refers to. They're both incapable of holding a candle to the real thing, and I think that'll never change.

 

The reason why I use a selected (and rather limited) number of SL mods anyway are, essentially, threefold, I think. In no particular order:

 

Like SemiPr0, Suludi and others say, in parts it's the immersion. Sex, sexual desire, erotic interest etc are essential aspects of human life, and I simply like to have a chance to integrate these things into my roleplaying experience and fun if I can. In that context, I particularly enjoy the fact that mods are, well, modular: If and when a mod adresses anything I do not want or like, I don't have to use it. If I'm comfortable with whatever it is that the mod offers, I have the choice to add it to my game. Fine for me.

 

My second reason is a fascination with what dedicated modders and/or a dedicated community can and will achieve if they really put their hearts into it. I mean, we're talking about content here that was never intended to be in the game in the first place, or that sometimes didn't even have the basic technological requirements built into the vanilla engine, so in theory many things you can find on LL or elsewhere shouldn't be possible at all - and still you get them, even if it takes time. I enjoy the creativity that is necessary for that, the talent, the determination, the devotion. I don't wish to sound too pompous, but in a way, a good mod (like a good game) is a work of art (or really, really good craftmanship ...), and hence is a delight in itself. So I try out mods.

 

Finally, there is also some kind of general contrariness at work within my otherwise humble self. So sex is still a taboo in video games? You don't put it in because it's so, like,  NASTY? Oh-kaay ... but at the same time, you go into gory detail with your killmoves and such? And you do have an actual quest where the player character actually ends up turning into a cannibal and you even have a bloody animation ready for this in your bloody vanilla game?! And you think sex is too NASTY to put it into the game, still?

You know, they spend so much effort on showing us how people are killed in these games, but they shirk away from showing us how they're made? I don't get it. Now, I certainly do not want to sidetrack this thread into one of those endless 'sex vs. violence' debates, but this aspect is one of my reasons, so I felt I needed to mention it, if only for a sense of completeness.

 

Well, that's my 2 cents, anyway.

 

 

[GrimReaper]

- Because you can create your own sex scenes, if you so desire. Instead of searching for the stuff you want you can just do it yourself, you can completely control the scene: The involving actors, the place, consensual or not. You can even do your own sex scene about things that are illegal IRL, bestiality porn for example is banned in some countries. Or lolicon, if you are into that.

 

- It enhances the game for some, including me. I don't use SL Defeat because I want my character to get raped, I use it because I want to avoid getting raped. It just adds that extra bit of atmosphere when fighting against monsters and bandits. If you like playing evil you can, for example, break into houses and do nasty things to the inhabitants. If you like playing a vampire, you can seduce your victims; after all, vampires were always about sex, power and deception.

 

- It's always more fun if the sexy things happen when you are not actively trying to find something to fap to.

 

- Most people tend to get attached to NPCs in games. In a way, the NPCs and the PC in Skyrim mean more to the player than the anonymous chick/guy in some porn video.

[Suludi]

(And to be honest, the three videos I watched on Youporn after I discovered it severely turned me OFF. I prefer some pixel sex to that stuff any day.)

[LoveMeSomeUlfric7]

If you can find Ulfric Stormcloak porn anywhere else on the net please send it to me. Until then, I shall continue to drive myself to insanity trying to accomplish it in game

 

Really though, I must say, some us get immersed in our character.  I dont have my animations set up properly but I am hoping that when I do, I will feel like I am there, in the last room down the hall in the Great Palace. That is something I wouldnt get out of watching two people do the nasty on fktube or whatever.

 

It is all about the daydeam to me. Pure and simple.     So wish me luck!

[SandsOfTime404]

I like the roleplay end of it.  When I play an Elder Scrolls game, I'm apt to create a story in my head around a character I design.  Part of what helps me invest time in the game and make choices in the game world is looking at it from an angle that isn't my own.  "What would my character do?"

 

Adding sex into a game is just an added level of immersion.  Sure, it's fun to exist in a realistic fictional world where proper attire is needed to avoid subzero temperatures, or where not engaging in combat carefully almost always leads to death, and so on.  The real world isn't all about death and dismay, though, so why should a video game be?  If my character wants to return from a week or two away in the wilderness saving the world from certain mudcrab doom and have a spouse they can make love to, why not?  If I'm away from a loved one for a while, I know I sure have a hard time keeping my hands off them.

 

That's my take on it, really.  It helps the storytelling.  I'd be bored to tears with this game if it was dungeon crawling and spelunking all the time.

[cornbreadtm]

Why is everyone making such long posts? And for the same answer...

 

The answer is entertainment. It's the whole reason why we play games in the first place, no matter what you do in them, it's all for entertainment!

[Starbrow65]

(And to be honest, the three videos I watched on Youporn after I discovered it severely turned me OFF. I prefer some pixel sex to that stuff any day.)

 

I'm not sure but I think it was Terry Pratchett who once explained that the difference between 'erotic' and 'pornographic' was like the difference between "use a feather" and "use the whole chicken".

 

[TSS5062]

Because the only other explanation for Braith would be an Oblivion gate.

Seriously, I get little sexual arousal from Skyrim mods, it's more fascination or titillation.
The level of customization one can achieve is amazing and evolving.
These mods on this site are just the coolest and most addictive mods available.

EDIT: OK, some of the coolest mods.

On a side note: the most excitement I ever got from a game was the first romance encounter from Mass Effect. The potency of that experience surprised me and convinced me that romance and sexuality could work in gaming.

[Expired6978]

I just like to see what people can come up with, then criticize everything in their code but never tell them. I applaud those willing to go the extra mile and add their own sex mods but some of the execution of those mods is pretty bad. But I can't blame them, they have a crap engine to work with and have to work around all this nasty animation patching business and do strange hacks in script to achieve the desired effect.

 

I'm not particularly a fan of the sex part of games, but they are certainly an integral part of realism. The awful dev solution to having children with your character's spouse is to adopt. I think developers say something like this: "Pregnancy? Naw fuck that shit, just add some kids and make them adoptable." Like, bitch, I don't want that ugly ass man-child as my daughter. 

 

However, from a developer's perspective, creating that level of realism isn't really worth the time or effort. The timescale would have to be insanely high otherwise it's unlikely anyone would play throughout the duration of a pregnancy. Unless game time were to flow outside of play time, in which case you could play a couple weeks later and have a child to greet you when you get home, similar to animal crossing except replace weeds with children. Actually this might be brilliant, I may have to implement this.

 

Pregnancy aside, there is also the fact that people fuck, and if I were the Dragonborn surrounded by beautiful women who all seemed to magically want my dick just because I was wearing an amulet that showed I was single, I would totally be DTF. But sorry, were we to have an R rating our sales would drop dramatically.

[Monsto Brukes]

Since you can see all that sex on the web, what's the point of having sex in real life?

 

Answer that question to my (and your) satisfaction and then I'll use that answer to help you understand why we have added it to the game because the two are related.

 

If you, or anyone that 'liked' your post, are seriously trying to equate any type of digital porn as a reasonable facsimile of real sex, then I'm not the one that needs to define the difference.

[Monsto Brukes]

All the best fantasy novels, short stories, epic poems, and movies have had sex in them, much of it fairly explicit (Howard, Leiber, Eddings, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, the Eddas, etc. etc...).  Why wouldn't my fantasy video game?

 

The more revealing question is why doesn't this fantasy world have any sex in it?  Because video games are still seen as child's play.  And that's a shitty situation.

 

We're here to fix that problem.

 

I don't think so dude. Video games are regulated by the government and produced by corporations that wish to appeal to as many people as will buy the dam tning. EA makes as much as Paramount. The only people that think of it as childs play were the ppl that yelled at me to give it a rest and go outside . . . and I'm 48.

 

But I kinda get your point. . . the reason this fantasy world doesn't have any sex in it is because the industry isn't ready for it. Game of Thrones has softcore in it. At some point, there will be mass media adult video games that take the gloves off... and put the raping back into pillaging. I think the reason that Take 2 got into trouble over the sex game that was hidden in San Andreas is because it was absolutely gratuitous. It had zero impact on the game and no reason to exist as a minigame. If it was some part of the story, they could have even left it in.

 

It's definitely not the pixel porn as such that does anything for me. The level of eroticism contributed by the sex mods is negligible. They don't 'turn me on', and incidentally that's also true for the vast majority of readily available 'real life' tube porn on the net that monsto refers to. They're both incapable of holding a candle to the real thing, and I think that'll never change.

 

 

 

There's your answer right there from Starbrow. Well... It doesn't define how video porn is different than sex, but he makes the true statement that nothing on your computer can be compared to the real thing.

[Adam Jensen]

I'll give you the best answer possible. Brace yourself, the reason we use it is because we want to. It's as simple as that, there really isn't a need to justify why we use something or not.

 

To me SD, SL among other mods enhances my experience with the game. There is porn on the internet? So? I'm not in this because I can't find free porn, I'm in this because it's fun it's as simple as that.

 

Why do people use social media when they can talk in person? Because they want to, because they enjoy it and again they have no need to justify their enjoyment of said product to anyone.

 

In fact, take your own example. Why watch porn when you can have sex in real life? And don't tell me because the person can't have sex in real life, because I know a few friends who have very beautiful girlfriends and still watch porn.

 

People do things in life that have no explanation because they are on their pursuit of happiness and as long as their happiness doesn't ruin the lives of others, who are we to question their methods to be happy? After all, don't we all want to be happy? 

 

[Adam Jensen]

 

All the best fantasy novels, short stories, epic poems, and movies have had sex in them, much of it fairly explicit (Howard, Leiber, Eddings, Beowulf, Gilgamesh, the Eddas, etc. etc...).  Why wouldn't my fantasy video game?

 

The more revealing question is why doesn't this fantasy world have any sex in it?  Because video games are still seen as child's play.  And that's a shitty situation.

 

We're here to fix that problem.

 

I don't think so dude. Video games are regulated by the government and produced by corporations that wish to appeal to as many people as will buy the dam tning. EA makes as much as Paramount. The only people that think of it as childs play were the ppl that yelled at me to give it a rest and go outside . . . and I'm 48.

 

But I kinda get your point. . . the reason this fantasy world doesn't have any sex in it is because the industry isn't ready for it. Game of Thrones has softcore in it. At some point, there will be mass media adult video games that take the gloves off... and put the raping back into pillaging. I think the reason that Take 2 got into trouble over the sex game that was hidden in San Andreas is because it was absolutely gratuitous. It had zero impact on the game and no reason to exist as a minigame. If it was some part of the story, they could have even left it in.

 

It's definitely not the pixel porn as such that does anything for me. The level of eroticism contributed by the sex mods is negligible. They don't 'turn me on', and incidentally that's also true for the vast majority of readily available 'real life' tube porn on the net that monsto refers to. They're both incapable of holding a candle to the real thing, and I think that'll never change.

 

 

 

There's your answer right there from Starbrow. Well... It doesn't define how video porn is different than sex, but he makes the true statement that nothing on your computer can be compared to the real thing.

 

Mind=blown

 

[GodKingLaw]

Yep, Because We Can, We Choose to.

 

Pervatiousness has been embrased.

[ballsy]

Tales of medieval fantasy and the like could always do with more gore, tragedy, and sex. It's one of the few things that I actually miss from the 80s/90s.