Originally Posted by
Mad-Mike
The demographics they are going for are....
- The 13 year old boy who just discovered he likes T&A and wants to see some in a way that his parents might not notice (to them it was just a stupid video game)
- The older horny, girl-friend-less gamer who needs some extra "tools" for his imagination, or is drawn into the game by her "assets"
- The Classic "Macho" man, it'll draw him in because just like the Car Show or the Football Game he goes to, they have scantly clad women involved somewhere, so it's "cool"
- Randy Adult(s) who find comedy - this is where Leisure Suit Larry comes in, see some T&A and action, AND get to laugh your butt off at your player character and his misfortune
TBH, I'm not sure what to think because I never really looked to video games for sexual content, I looked to video games to enjoy the game regardless of the graphics. That's why I'm probably one of the 4 people left in the world who can still stomach an early Atari 2600 game without thinking "this is so primitive". But I've met many of the above myself and it's little wonder as to why there's objectivication of women in games.
But there's also other things too - a great example is Postal 2 which does all of this: Objectifies Women (Postal Babes), Shows Stereotypes (Taliban NPCs, African Americans), Anti-LGTBQ stuff (a certain set of Arcade games they had placed around, certain accents for certain male NPCs wearing certain clothes or colors), making fun of the homeless. It'd make anyone staunchly PC barf. The only reason I still play something like that, is because I can ignore all that or see it as a almost satirical view of what is wrong with our society, which kind of drives the violence in-game, the issues we fail to resolve in real life, embodied in a game with no real consequences, so that the rat bastard or the social justice warrior inside can let free their rage and anger on a virtual world as what could be quite a healthy outlet.