View Full Version : RapeLay - Japanese "rape simulator" game
skaar
03-26-2009, 03:45 PM
Japan, lol.
Cryomancer
03-26-2009, 06:53 PM
I downloaded it and it wont run on my pc :(
Probably issues with Japanese language support. Install asian languages from your OS's disc and / or try using Applocale.
Although really, it's not all that fun of a game. Artificial Girl / Sexy Beach are mildly more fun and considerably less rapeful.
tubeway
04-04-2009, 04:21 AM
Thats not the kind of co-op I would prefer. But I guess some people like being the bitch.
Well, I said Two Player Mode. I wouldn't really consider it COOPERATIVE play....
What's the point of banning this? It's almost impossible to get anyway. Not on Amazon, New Egg, Craigslist, or anywhere locally.
bombman
12-07-2009, 02:12 AM
What's the point of banning this? It's almost impossible to get anyway. Not on Amazon, New Egg, Craigslist, or anywhere locally.
I got curious as I read this topic and I thought "well I'll just go get it on a japanese web store lol"
...
The game has nearly tripled in price. It's about $250 now, wtf mate?!
Fuyukaze
12-07-2009, 02:23 AM
I got curious as I read this topic and I thought "well I'll just go get it on a japanese web store lol"
...
The game has nearly tripled in price. It's about $250 now, wtf mate?!
Dude, you said "mate" in a rapelay thread.
I'm going to hell for that aint I?
Damn necrophiles and their dead thread re-animation.....
bombman
12-12-2009, 11:22 AM
So according to Wikipedia, some British fag got the game banned from Japanese stores. However cockroach porn and shiteating fetishes are still in full swing XFD
LaughingMAN.S9
12-12-2009, 01:50 PM
i say leave that bullshit alone, is it retarded? yes? is it depraved? yes? is it art? probably not, but some wierd ass assholes would probably call it that, who the fuck am i to judge, at the end of the day its a video game, granted, a really shitty video game, but still a video game, it shouldnt be banned, fuck censorship, whoever wants to play it, play it, for those that find it offensive, dont.
THE END.
People are horrified by this, but barely blink an eye at the hundreds of games where you gibb humans into gooey little bits.
I know the argument goes that rape is "psychologically fucked up" etc. etc. and that getting off it on is, well wrong, but I always thought killing people was worse. One life and all that shit.
Wow, can't believe I saw the post on this game until the bump now. Hm, yeah, that is messed up.
To comment on the quote above, I always find it ridiculous as well that people don't bat an eye at killing others in games, yet sexual games strike controversy (okay I understand about rape, but other sorts of acts?) However, yesterday I overheard a conversation which fits nicely into this post. I heard a girl saying how she was raped at some point in her life, and how now her brother had been robbed at gun point. She said that he was being a panzy about the whole thing, and that she would rather be robbed at gunpoint a 1000 times, with the risk of getting shot or killed, than be raped again.
Ed Oscuro
12-12-2009, 02:34 PM
Who goes into stores for these games anyway? It's all about Comic Market and DLSite, yo.
jonnyutah
12-16-2009, 02:26 AM
japanese sex culture really is the cultue shock part of the culture shock that westerners feel in japan. just look at some jp porn. not my thing but most of the women cry or act like they have been completely taken advantage of. i guess the japaense look at it as softrape or whatever but it's weird and wrong. women are opressed in japan. not in the sense that the islamic world opress women but it's still opression.
i have a friend in japan that worked for a company and she would tell me that she would have to go out with older co workers for drinks and even with her boss. she didn't like it at all. so i said just don't go if you don't want to. she said i have to. it's the japanese way. I must.
i think japan is a nice country but western individualism is so foreign to the japanese. japan is a great country. but once you live there you realize how awsome and culturaly free the west is. (us. eu, canada, aust, israel) i think the easiest japanese to form a solid honest friendship with are the ones hat have lived/studied in the west.
Anyone got a link for this to purchase online? I'd love to see how insane the prices have become.
Graham Mitchell
12-16-2009, 11:23 AM
Anyone got a link for this to purchase online? I'd love to see how insane the prices have become.
Uh-huh, suuuuuure. Lol
Doing a little christmas shopping for yourself?
jonnyutah
12-16-2009, 11:33 AM
lol i'm sure it's for his "friend" :D
bombman
12-16-2009, 02:49 PM
I finally got around to playing this btw, it's a huge chore unlocking everything and the unlockables are just the photo stills from the game you've already seen. Whoever it was said it was "interactive porn" was right on target.
Also the extra disc has some messed up shit. Picture (NSFW): http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2479/botuplay.png
SplashChick
12-16-2009, 07:30 PM
I finally got around to playing this btw, it's a huge chore unlocking everything and the unlockables are just the photo stills from the game you've already seen. Whoever it was said it was "interactive porn" was right on target.
Also the extra disc has some messed up shit. Picture (NSFW): http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/2479/botuplay.png
Lol wow, the graphics look horrible.
On topic, I'm absolutely against censorship like this. I think it's just downright wrong to start putting that shit into law. Nobody should be allowed to regulate what I draw or what kind of media I look at.
This isn't even remotely new, either. There's hundreds of these kinds of games in Japan already, politicians are just using this to gain a political advantage, just like they used to with violent games in the past. Just like before, people are buying into it, it seems.
@TRM: That comparison would only work if her brother was killed.
TonyTheTiger
12-16-2009, 08:04 PM
Lol wow, the graphics look horrible.
Isn't that the most ironic part? That the games designed specifically to be sexually arousing often have the least convincing visuals? Seriously, I'd find it easier to do the deed while looking at Final Fantasy than the average porn game.
XYXZYZ
12-17-2009, 10:37 AM
Isn't that the most ironic part? That the games designed specifically to be sexually arousing often have the least convincing visuals? Seriously, I'd find it easier to do the deed while looking at Final Fantasy than the average porn game.
All it takes is imagination!
http://anthonylarme.tripod.com/gc/custerscreen.jpg
ScourDX
12-17-2009, 11:26 AM
I heard of this game in 2006. I am surprise this game took so long for the N. American to take notice. There are a lot of sick porn game in Japan long before Rapelay. There is another by the same developer called Biko. This game allows you to stalk women and then rape them as you wish.
bombman
12-17-2009, 02:06 PM
It's not as fun unless they ban it though.
Raedon
12-17-2009, 05:31 PM
http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/epic-fail-business-name-2-fail.jpg
Ed Oscuro
12-17-2009, 06:24 PM
Isn't that the most ironic part? That the games designed specifically to be sexually arousing often have the least convincing visuals?
RapeLay isn't indicative of the quality of your average H-game (as far as I can tell). From the descriptions the mechanics are pretty much the same as others, but this one is just a piece of junk all around (moreso than usual). This one does look pretty bad...I've not seen bathroom tile that unappealing since a Quake II engine shooter :D
Ahh, defending H-games.
Ahh, rape. :p
Back on CNN again!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.video.game.rape/
Therealqtip
03-30-2010, 09:53 PM
There are many games like this in Japan. Maybe not this graphic
Graham Mitchell
03-30-2010, 09:54 PM
Back on CNN again!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/30/japan.video.game.rape/
Everybody would just forget about this shit if the pervert media would just leave it alone.
My favorite part:
Reporter: "Did you as a woman feel offended when you played this game?"
Female Gamer: "No."
'Nuff said.
Cryomancer
03-30-2010, 10:05 PM
If the media would have never brought it up it would have already been long forgotten. By the time they talked about it the first time, the game was already a year or two old and people had moved on to pirating the next hgame of the season.
These articles only make more people play it.
edit: i probably already said this exact same thing in this very thread in fact.
Kitsune Sniper
03-30-2010, 10:37 PM
Benzaie from That Guy With The Glasses just started a new review segment called ... ugh, GameFAP, which deals with Japanese erotic games, and he said he would post a review of the game next week...
Mimi Nakamura
03-31-2010, 09:49 AM
Seems like this game is more well-known in America than Japan!
I'd never heard of such a game until reading this thread. I wouldn't say no if someone offered me the chance to play it...
WanganRunner
03-31-2010, 10:32 AM
Since when is rape hentai, even in game form, newsworthy in Japan?
It's not like this is some new phenomenon.
TonyTheTiger
03-31-2010, 10:39 AM
The media does offer perverse incentives to people looking to make a buck through infamy. I'm sure RapeLay wasn't actively looking to cause a stir and just happened to be "that game" people noticed at random but this kind of thing happens every so often. Not too long ago there was some media reaction to a game depicting the Kennedy assassination. I'm sure that negative media attention helped the product. That trend might serve to inspire people to actively pursue media attention.
I'm sure if we put our heads together to come up with a game that was as offensive as it could be by being grotesquely racist and allowing the player to engage in sadistic violence and sexual deviance, we'd get on CNN too. I personally wouldn't want my name associated with a product like that but for people who don't mind then the infamy angle can be a profitable one, more than obscurity at least.
Mimi Nakamura
03-31-2010, 10:40 AM
Since when is rape hentai, even in game form, newsworthy in Japan?
It's not like this is some new phenomenon.
It's as much a part of Japanese culture as walking into a school and shooting as many people as possible is part of American culture, if that's what you're getting at.
Mimi Nakamura
03-31-2010, 11:22 AM
japanese sex culture really is the cultue shock part of the culture shock that westerners feel in japan. just look at some jp porn. not my thing but most of the women cry or act like they have been completely taken advantage of. i guess the japaense look at it as softrape or whatever but it's weird and wrong. women are opressed in japan. not in the sense that the islamic world opress women but it's still opression.
i have a friend in japan that worked for a company and she would tell me that she would have to go out with older co workers for drinks and even with her boss. she didn't like it at all. so i said just don't go if you don't want to. she said i have to. it's the japanese way. I must.
i think japan is a nice country but western individualism is so foreign to the japanese. japan is a great country. but once you live there you realize how awsome and culturaly free the west is. (us. eu, canada, aust, israel) i think the easiest japanese to form a solid honest friendship with are the ones hat have lived/studied in the west.
Women are oppressed in Japan? WHAT? If you knew anything, you'd know it's the men who are oppressed!
As for your friend in the company, the same goes for men too, they have to drink with the boss as well. If they sell their soul and work for a corporate company that is.
Does it not occur to you that different countries have different cultures? Just because things are done differently in another country to your own, doesn't make the other country worse.
I like how you made the uneducated reference to women being oppressed in the "Islamic world" too and then claimed that Israel is in the West. Genius.
Cryomancer
03-31-2010, 12:52 PM
I'm sure if we put our heads together to come up with a game that was as offensive as it could be by being grotesquely racist and allowing the player to engage in sadistic violence and sexual deviance, we'd get on CNN too. I personally wouldn't want my name associated with a product like that but for people who don't mind then the infamy angle can be a profitable one, more than obscurity at least.
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)?
Kitsune Sniper
03-31-2010, 01:08 PM
It's as much a part of Japanese culture as walking into a school and shooting as many people as possible is part of American culture, if that's what you're getting at.
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?
Kid Fenris
03-31-2010, 01:41 PM
oh god this thread
save us richter belmount
Famidrive-16
03-31-2010, 02:44 PM
lol, next year some news outlet is gonna find out about an oldass hentai game like 177
Kitsune Sniper
03-31-2010, 03:20 PM
Nah, they'll talk about COBRA Mission.
mezrabad
03-31-2010, 04:03 PM
Not trying to make any broad sweeping generalizations about Japan, but I have heard that they're not too hung up over what may "turn someone on". If you've got something that turns you on, then, that's your business. Getting all judgmental about what another person seems to react erotically to doesn't seem like a useful way of spending one's time. If enough people are turned on by it, then there's a market for it and for some of those markets people make games like this.
This doesn't make the people playing such a game "rapists" anymore than people playing a first person shooter are "murderers". It's a game, not a clear window into the soul of a nation's quirks.
JSoup
03-31-2010, 04:30 PM
I guess I'm one of the few people who play hgames for the hilarity.
Not that I found any in RapeLay (which I have not played).
TonyTheTiger
03-31-2010, 06:05 PM
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
03-31-2010, 07:08 PM
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
03-31-2010, 07:24 PM
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
03-31-2010, 08:24 PM
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
03-31-2010, 09:39 PM
This game needs to be on 360. I WANT ACHIEVEMENTS FOR RAPING CHICKS IN A GAME.
TonyTheTiger
03-31-2010, 09:44 PM
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
03-31-2010, 11:14 PM
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
04-01-2010, 01:58 AM
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. LOL
Famidrive-16
04-01-2010, 02:16 AM
http://www.sutorippu.com/lsyndrome.html
This is basically 'Night Trap'. Well, with younger girls, but still.
TonyTheTiger
04-01-2010, 02:34 AM
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. LOL
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
04-01-2010, 02:42 AM
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! LOL
buzz_n64
04-01-2010, 04:09 AM
I'm for free speech, but just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. If someone wants to play this, go ahead, but I don't know if i'll play this myself, I guess for me this is almost to the point where I would almost shake my head to someone playing it.
Graham Mitchell
04-01-2010, 11:41 AM
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
04-01-2010, 01:15 PM
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
04-01-2010, 02:06 PM
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
04-01-2010, 02:32 PM
The number is only half of what it should be, skaar.
Graham Mitchell
04-01-2010, 03:00 PM
I dunno, I think some of us are having a reasonable, insightful conversation here. Ban the wieners for poor behavior, but don't lock the thread. That's censorship! ;)
TonyTheTiger
04-01-2010, 03:08 PM
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
04-03-2010, 12:39 PM
Well someone is posting Rapelay for sale on Craigslist. LOL
link (http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/vgm/1673817994.html)
Icarus Moonsight
04-03-2010, 02:35 PM
Odds that someone ends up buying it to either fap to or for their kids?
I'll give 2:3 in favor of the almighty fap.
The 1 2 P
04-03-2010, 08:56 PM
Well someone is posting Rapelay for sale on Craigslist. LOL
link (http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van/vgm/1673817994.html)
In one of those scenes he has posted a guy is "raping" three chics at once. Wouldn't they have just kicked him in the balls and ran....after they put their clothes back on, of course. I suppose that is some kind of "fantasy rape" scene where the women getting raped out number their attacker and refuse to try and fight back or get away. Then again, this is a video game we're talking about.
Graham Mitchell
04-04-2010, 05:13 PM
In one of those scenes he has posted a guy is "raping" three chics at once. Wouldn't they have just kicked him in the balls and ran....after they put their clothes back on, of course. I suppose that is some kind of "fantasy rape" scene where the women getting raped out number their attacker and refuse to try and fight back or get away. Then again, this is a video game we're talking about.
When I read about the game a long time ago I guess it was one of those things where the girl resists the rape but then ends up liking it towards the end, which is what the Japan rape porn thing is based on, really--the notion that girls WANT to be raped.
kedawa
04-05-2010, 07:13 PM
They don't want to be raped. They are just so scared of the mighty japanese penis because they think it will destroy them, that the man has to be forceful.
JSoup
04-05-2010, 09:03 PM
They don't want to be raped. They are just so scared of the mighty japanese penis because they think it will destroy them, that the man has to be forceful.
If I understand stereotypes correctly, an American penis must be something very much like Superboy Prime to them.
Mimi Nakamura
04-05-2010, 09:33 PM
If I understand stereotypes correctly, an American penis must be something very much like Superboy Prime to them.
I thought White guys had small dicks though?
TonyTheTiger
04-05-2010, 10:04 PM
If that's true then I must be an albino African American.
JSoup
04-05-2010, 11:08 PM
I thought White guys had small dicks though?
Bigger than Asians.
TheDomesticInstitution
04-05-2010, 11:13 PM
I thought White guys had small dicks though?
We get it, you hate white people.
Mimi Nakamura
04-06-2010, 04:14 AM
Bigger than Asians.
How do you know? Do you hang out with your Asian friends and compare penis sizes? Strange behaviour.
It's just a stereotype in Japan that White guys have small dicks. I'm not sure of how much truth is in it, I'm sure it's the same for any race, some people are small, some are big, most are in the middle. Not that anyone cares besides other men anyway.
Mimi Nakamura
04-06-2010, 04:17 AM
We get it, you hate white people.
Yeah, I hate my own mother.
I don't hate any race or nationality. Actually, that's kind of a lie, I do have a very slight dislike for Americans, but apart from Americans themselves, everyone has a slight dislike for Americans!
Cryomancer
04-06-2010, 06:42 AM
Hey now, we Americans are perfectly capable of hating each other.
Icarus Moonsight
04-06-2010, 11:32 AM
This thread is full of love, whether she wants it or not. :whip:
TheDomesticInstitution
04-06-2010, 12:56 PM
I mean she was asking for it. Did you see what she was wearing?
JSoup
04-06-2010, 05:16 PM
How do you know? Do you hang out with your Asian friends and compare penis sizes? Strange behaviour.
It's just a stereotype in Japan that White guys have small dicks. I'm not sure of how much truth is in it, I'm sure it's the same for any race, some people are small, some are big, most are in the middle. Not that anyone cares besides other men anyway.
It's adorable how you skip over the obvious fact that we are poking fun at stereotypes, then jump on the fact like you actual have a point.
E Nice
04-06-2010, 07:19 PM
In one of those scenes he has posted a guy is "raping" three chics at once. Wouldn't they have just kicked him in the balls and ran....after they put their clothes back on, of course. I suppose that is some kind of "fantasy rape" scene where the women getting raped out number their attacker and refuse to try and fight back or get away. Then again, this is a video game we're talking about.
I remember a story about such a situation but it was a grown man who kidnapped two teenage girls. They did at one point attempt to attack him when he fell asleep...and I don't recall if they were successful or not after that. Luckily they weren't killed and survived the whole ordeal.
Mimi Nakamura
04-07-2010, 10:57 AM
It's adorable how you skip over the obvious fact that we are poking fun at stereotypes, then jump on the fact like you actual have a point.
I skipped over it? Really? Did I?