RapeLay - Japanese "rape simulator" game

[TonyTheTiger]

There are games like Ethnic Cleansing and stuff, maybe even Postal 2 in the hands of a less kind player, that get into stuff like that. Have those ever been on CNN (several years after it was relevant)?

Ethnic Cleansing was definitely in the news. Whether or not it was several years later is ultimately moot. Just the mere mention of it by the media in an attempt to criticize it brings some measure of success if only because had it not been featured on the news nobody would know about it. I would be asking you what Ethnic Cleansing was had I not remembered hearing about it in the media.

You're right that treading this water again after RapeLay has had it's day already seems suspect. It's possible that the journalists just plain forgot. They caught wind of it from somewhere and didn't realize it was old news.

Rape games in Japan have been around for decades. It's a friggin' GENRE. They publish games and an inordinate amount of manga dedicated to the subject.

What's so damn special about this particular game?

Nothing. Just that it was the one game people picked to raise a stink about. I'm not particularly pleased with the genre as a whole and I think a lot of people would agree. But it's kind of like what happens when 40 cars are driving 80mph. A cop is going to pick one of the pack to pull over. In the case of the media, though, the irony is that the one that gets "pulled over" turns out to be the lucky one that becomes famous/infamous when it hasn't done anything especially noteworthy.

If enough people are turned on by it, then there's a market for it.

Might as well say "there's a market for everything."

[The 1 2 P]

With as much press as this game gets(here anyway) I'm surprised there isn't a Rapelay 2. There might be but I won't hear about it until someone makes another thread for it.

[mezrabad]

What you said I said:

If enough people are turned on by it, then there's a market for it.

What you said:

Might as well say "there's a market for everything."

If you're making a point with that, then I don't understand it. I expressed that there is only a market if there are people interested in something, and you're saying that the statement "there's a market for everything" is an equivalent statement?

I don't know if you're disagreeing with me or if you think what I said is so obvious that I needn't have said it. I'm not saying there's a market for everything. I'm saying that there has to be enough interested parties for there to be a market to cover the expense of producing what that market demands.

[Aussie2B]

Honestly, I find the two hentai games that Enix published when first starting out to be far more offensive than RapeLay (don't worry, there's only a text description in these links):

http://www.sutorippu.com/lsyndrome.html
http://www.sutorippu.com/marichankiki.html

[skaar]

This game needs to be on 360. I WANT ACHIEVEMENTS FOR RAPING CHICKS IN A GAME.

[Famidrive-16]

http://www.sutorippu.com/lsyndrome.html

This is basically 'Night Trap'. Well, with younger girls, but still.

[Graham Mitchell]

Honestly, I find the two hentai games that Enix published when first starting out to be far more offensive than RapeLay (don't worry, there's only a text description in these links):

http://www.sutorippu.com/lsyndrome.html
http://www.sutorippu.com/marichankiki.html

You know what, aussie, at the risk of incurring your wrath, I gotta admit that those games look pretty hilarious to me, mostly because of the crappy (I'm assuming msx?) Graphics. I kind of doubt anybodys gonna be sexually aroused by those images. If it were photorealistic with modern-caliber graphics, I might feel different.

Actually, no. Id still think it was funny.

I also find such ridiculous violence towards men humorous as well (which is why I love zombie flicks) so I think its fair to say that this isn't me just being a misogynist.

[Aussie2B]

No worries about incurring wrath. :P I agree that looking at very old porn games these days is pretty funny just because of how primitive the graphics are. Intent is timeless, though, so no matter how old a game gets its subject matter and purpose can still be offensive. A game about sexualizing little girls and torturing/killing them in bloody, gruesome ways is pretty damn nasty, especially from a publisher that is pretty respected these days. I wouldn't take it to extremes and boycott Enix or anything, but, man, what a sordid way for them to start.

[skaar]

I think the number of banned users who've already posted in this thread should be reason enough to lock it and throw away the key.

[GarrettCRW]

The number is only half of what it should be, skaar.

[TonyTheTiger]

I agree that looking at very old porn games these days is pretty funny just because of how primitive the graphics are.

I keep saying that visuals probably matter more than most people realize. RapeLay genuinely looks bad for a modern game. And not just graphically bad but art design bad, too. The gut reaction for a lot of people upon seeing the screenshots is "lolol, wtf. But whatever." If the game were top of the line Unreal 3 with a certain level of realism then we might be seeing a bit more "uh...that's pretty sick."

[ScourDX]

Well someone is posting Rapelay for sale on Craigslist.

link

[TonyTheTiger]

What you said I said:

If enough people are turned on by it, then there's a market for it.

What you said:



If you're making a point with that, then I don't understand it. I expressed that there is only a market if there are people interested in something, and you're saying that the statement "there's a market for everything" is an equivalent statement?

I don't know if you're disagreeing with me or if you think what I said is so obvious that I needn't have said it. I'm not saying there's a market for everything. I'm saying that there has to be enough interested parties for there to be a market to cover the expense of producing what that market demands.

It was a joke. I was saying that there would be a market for anything because somebody somewhere is going to be turned on by it.

See: Rule 34

[mezrabad]

It was a joke. I was saying that there would be a market for anything because somebody somewhere is going to be turned on by it.

See: Rule 34

heheh, sorry, didn't see it coming and it went whizzing over my head.

[Gameguy]

What about games that started out as normal but later turned into hentai? Anyone remember the Valis series? The later games were made as hentai titles. Imagine if it eventually happens to other series as well, maybe even the Sonic series.

[TonyTheTiger]

What about games that started out as normal but later turned into hentai? Anyone remember the Valis series? The later games were made as hentai titles. Imagine if it eventually happens to other series as well, maybe even the Sonic series.

If certain folks on the web had any say, Sonic would have gone that way a long time ago. Oh, say, around September 18, 1993.

[Icarus Moonsight]

So Sega went hentai when they fucked themselves? Rule 34 is retroactive it seems. Solution: Don't do anything! You don't know who you might arouse. You might even turn on your Wii!