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VG Vixens Return To Playboy 39

Posted by Zonk from the because-we-don't-have-enough-problems-already dept.
Chris Morris talks virtual nudity in his latest Game Over column, as videogame characters return to the pages of Playboy magazine. From the article: "[Game characters to be featured in the magazine hail from] Midway's upcoming 'Blitz: The League', Sony's megahit 'God of War,' Vivendi's '50 Cent: Bulletproof,' 'Playboy: The Mansion - Private Party,' 'Darkwatch,' and 'Hellgate: London'. While nude video game characters are nothing new for Playboy, the October issue hits stands just as the storm surrounding an unlockable sex scene in 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' begins to pass. The magazine said it never considered delaying the layout."
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  • sex disparity (Score:3, Interesting)

    by uberjoe ( 726765 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @11:36AM (#13509786)
    So when do we get to see the DooM guy, Duke Nukem and Gordan Freeman is Playgirl? My what a big crowbar you have.
    • Perhaps it's because both the porn industry and the video game industry are dominated, and run mostly by males?

      • Re:sex disparity (Score:5, Funny)

        by TripMaster Monkey ( 862126 ) * on Thursday September 08, 2005 @12:03PM (#13510042)

        The Joke Murderer strikes again.
      • Perhaps it's because both the porn industry and the video game industry are dominated, and run mostly by males?

        And you think some of those males aren't gay and have a thing for tough ruggedly individualistic digital types who kill monsters, but have a tender side they would only show with the right person? Ahhhh only in my dreams.

        Now to post this anonymously. . .wait! D'oh!

    • Re:sex disparity (Score:3, Interesting)

      by jessecurry ( 820286 )
      I don't think that the male bits render as nicely. To make a good female form you want everything tight and smooth, but a male form would need some pretty serious physics to get everything draping correctly.

      Plus, who really wants to see a bunch of dudes? :p

    • Probably because those aspects of male characters haven't been fleshed out (pardon my pun). When designing a female character, all of her dimensions have to be thought out ahead of time: chest, cup size, waist, hips, legs, and all of those drool-worthy dimensions, since most often her wardrobe is going to be designed to show off those dimensions. For male characters, a fair number of them are already bare chested, so there's nothing particularly new there. As for their endowment, that aspect of their ana

  • Argh (Score:4, Funny)

    by timmahtron ( 908593 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @11:44AM (#13509860)
    I'm sure that 50 Cent game is going to be a masterpiece. Press Y to sell out.
    • It may not be a masterpiece, but it sure will sell out. Cause, like, it's fifty cents a game! You could get two with a buck!

      (Yes, I'm joking.)

  • Playboy prints a magazine now? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by generic-man ( 33649 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @11:45AM (#13509868) Homepage Journal
    I get my Perl modules from them [playboy.com] too. They're amazingly geek-friendly lately. :)
  • Should have done it last time already. We don't want Lara Croft or Blood Rayne!

  • Who? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Gogo0 ( 877020 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @12:02PM (#13510024)
    Who are the "ladies" that theyll be showing?

    Random cheerleader from football game
    Random girl that was already topless in God of War
    Random gang-banger chick from 50 Cent
    Random porn star from the Playboy game no one played
    Non-main character female from Darkwatch
    Ive never even heard of Hellgate: London, maybe it has a female main character that few people have heard of

    • Re:Who? (Score:2, Informative)

      by KDR_11k ( 778916 )
      Ive never even heard of Hellgate: London, maybe it has a female main character that few people have heard of

      It's a first person shooter dungeon crawl. The last article I read about it sounded like a fun game but didn't mention any characters at all. Perhaps it'll be naked mindflayers or something.

    • Could be worse... (Score:5, Funny)

      by rsilvergun ( 571051 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @01:31PM (#13510849)
      Random overweight fan from football game
      Random harpy from God of War
      Random crack-ho from 50 Cent
      Random US Senator from the Playboy game no one played
      Main character from Darkwatch
      The entire monster cast of Hellgate: London in a nude free-for-all.
    • No offence, but do you honestly think it would make it any more appealing to ANYONE if there were more recognisable characters?
      Seriously, there has to be some point in everyone's life where they say "Fuck it, I've got internet access".

  • I hope it's.... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by CorradoLite ( 655357 )
    ...better than the first time they did this. Man, at only 3 pictures it was quite a disappointment. At least they will have more "models" (pun intended) this time.

    Later...
        Richard

  • Wait, so... (Score:3, Funny)

    by rohlfinator ( 888775 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @12:17PM (#13510141)
    They're stressing the fact that they don't want to be associated with the "Pokemon generation". So they release collectible trading cards with video game characters that you need to collect by buying two different products.

    Gotta catch 'em all!

  • target audience (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Red Flayer ( 890720 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @12:28PM (#13510233) Journal
    Print porn has been going down the tubes over the past decade as your average younger pornhound has easy access to free stills and video on the internet.

    Laptops and handhelds (computers, not models or anything else!) are taking away one of the great advantages of print porn -- transportability.

    Hef's company knows it needs to get some of the younger generations (i.e., 18-40) back into the (center)fold.

    Playboy and Penthouse have always tried to get famous, beautiful, female personalities for their pictorials, from models to actresses to musicians to athletes to Miss America. Why shouldn't they have pictorials featuring modern famous, beautiful, female personalities, even if they are from video games?

    Maybe Playboy can get some new people to appreciate all that print porn has to offer.
    • Uh, may be because they are friggin' video game charachters?
      • Huh? Please explain your comment.

        Yes, they are video game characters. I even mentioned that in the question. So?

        What is wrong with that?
      • Uh, may be because they are friggin' video game charachters?

        In a way, this is more honest. All magazine photos are digitally retouched. And I guarantee that the characters are no more or less fictional than any other Playboy model, in the sense that you will never interact with them in real life. After all, bad spelling is such a turn-off...

    • Re:target audience (Score:3, Interesting)

      by Skagit ( 910458 )
      Even though massive amounts of filth to meet any perversion are available free on the internet, I still get a hardcopy subscription to Playboy for three reasons. I think enough people have similar reasoning and will continue to appreciate the glossy pages.

      The first is that I really don't want a laptop while I'm sitting on the throne. I don't want an accident to happen to my laptop. Also, I don't want to use a laptop while it is actually on my lap too difficult to get comfortable. While PDA's and laptops
      • Your point of view is spot-on. This is why PB wants to get more potential readers to try the hard copy -- so they'll realize the advantages that the hard copy offers.

        "As an aside, what's with all the colons in game titles these days? GTA:SA, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Hellgate: London, Rome: Total War, Call of Duty: United Offensive, ad nauseam. At least it is Half-life 2, not Half-life: Gordon remains mute." (emphais mine)

        I think you have it right. The games are full of colons, and as we all know, colons

      • Re:target audience (Score:3, Interesting)

        by Joe Random ( 777564 )

        As an aside, what's with all the colons in game titles these days? GTA:SA, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Hellgate: London, Rome: Total War, Call of Duty: United Offensive, ad nauseam. At least it is Half-life 2, not Half-life: Gordon remains mute.

        I would guess that the use of colons is to avoid having to add a numeral to the end of the game. Let's face it, if they had called "GTA: San Andreas" "GTA 5" (or whatever number we're up to) instead, how many people would avoid buying "GTA 4" because they think that a

    • Maybe Playboy can get some new people to appreciate all that print porn has to offer.

      Sticky pages?

  • Comment removed (Score:3, Insightful)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday September 08, 2005 @03:22PM (#13512125)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • What I want to know is - are any of the virtual girls *completely* modeled on a real person?

    Maybe we can get rid of those pesky Playboy girls once and for all, and just start up a Hef's Mansion MMO.

  • No difference... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Reignking ( 832642 ) on Friday September 09, 2005 @07:25AM (#13517556) Journal
    Eh, all of the pictures are digitally enhanced, anyway...
  • This is a bit off topic, but does anyone remember when PB posted Arcade game high scores back in the 80's? If so, do you know what issues those were.

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