This whole article sounds prudish. There’s nothing particularly wrong with there being nc-17 or M rated voice acted scenes in appropriately rated games. If you don’t want to act them out, then simply don’t. You have a union to back you up. That being said, these sort of scenes definitely need to be negotiated and talked about long before minutes before acting it out. I fully agree with such a sentiment.
You should read the article. It’s not just voice actors. Mocap performers, wearing fitted Lycra suits, have to act out graphic scenes without prior notice so the scripts can remain confidential until the day of the shoot.
Ms Jefferies told the BBC she was once asked to act out a scene with a male performer involving a sexual assault with no prior warning.
“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.
Ah. Yeah. That’s a problem. If I went into work one day and my client said “now, pretend to rape and hurt this woman” I think I’d be uncomfortable too. I wonder if they even know the subject matter going in, even if the scripts are confidential. At the very least, a trigger warning.
Ad hoc rate just quadrupled
There’s nothing particularly wrong with there being nc-17 or M rated voice acted scenes in appropriately rated games
Nobody’s arguing that. This is about the right to informed consent, not censorship.
If you don’t want to act them out, then simply don’t. You have a union to back you up
That’s not always the case in the moment.
That being said, these sort of scenes definitely need to be negotiated and talked about long before minutes before acting it out. I fully agree with such a sentiment
…so you actually agree with what they’re trying to do but still felt like misrepresenting it for a few sentences before saying so?
Weird choice, but at least you reached the right conclusion at the end 🤷
Misrepresenting? Please elaborate how I’m doing such a thing, there are two issues here: the subject of the scenes, and the not being told about the subject.
I have my two cents on each subject, you can agree or disagree with what I say, but saying I was Misrepresenting anything is flat out lying about my comment.
Misrepresenting? Please elaborate how I’m doing such a thing
there are two issues here: the subject of the scenes, and the not being told about the subject.
That’s how. By inventing the first issue. Nobody’s arguing for censorship. It’s only about the right to informed consent.
saying I was Misrepresenting anything is flat out lying about my comment.
Nope. You were inserting a strawman argument about censorship. That’s by definition misrepresenting.
I feel like sometimes people comment, then read the article, and then try to backpedal when you point out that they missed the point of the article. Thanks for calling it out though
What an empty comment, smuglord.
Just pointing out the logical inconsistency of going off on an irrelevant tangent about prudishness and then in the same comment support what it’s ACTUALLY about.
That’s not empty. Unlike your comment, hypocrite.
My comment was concise, clear, and accurate, and I stand by it.
I also don’t agree with the OP you responded to, but they at least had thoughts - and, more to the point, weren’t a total smuglord.
My comment was concise, clear, and accurate
Well, you’re right that it was concise, at least…
they at least had thoughts
As did I. Using strawmen like injecting an irrelevant argument about censorship matters. It’s dishonest and misleading and that’s what I was commenting on.
and, more to the point, weren’t a total smuglord.
That’s just your hypocritical opinion 🤷
Not really expecting you to see it, anyways.
I’ll continue to love love, hate hate, and outsmug the smuglords. I don’t mind the apparent hypocrisy of using my enemy’s tools on them, when I find it applicable.
try not to cut yourself on all that edge.
I agree, 100% there is nothing wrong with mature content in games as long as there is consent by all parties involved.
The article is not about mature content in games. It’s about people in mocap suits being told to act out graphic scenes without prior notice, because the scripts are kept confidential until the day of shooting.
This whole article sounds prudish
Do you mean the title? You didn’t read the article. They just want to make sure the process is right and that the actors know that they are going to act in sexual scenes in advance.
Obviously you either didn’t read the article or don’t care about actors being forced to enact sexual assault scenes. I’d rather think it’s the first, because from your response I’d assume that you simply don’t care about the actors’ well-being and just want your fap material.
Please pay more attention the next time, and at least pretend that you care. This is about informing the actors and getting their consent.
And don’t come with that crap about unions; in the game industry unions are practically non existent.
So read the article, twice if necessary; you might learn a thing or two.
Yeah not giving notice is very shitty of the studios. If they can tell PEGI/ESRB that games will have “Sexual Themes” and publishers at pitch stage for what rating they’re aiming for, then I don’t know why they can’t tell the performers.
Not a great headline, as it makes it sound like the “action” being called for might be prohibiting such scenes, when it is actually just a reasonable desire to be informed in advance of whether a scene will involve things like simulated sexual violence, etc.
Honestly, some of the gaming community these days Is filled with the most revolting, incel cesspool I’ve ever seen. Look at zenless Zone Zero created by Hoyo, who also created Genshin impact. It’s filled with characters that look like they are 12 years old, highly sexualized and half naked, with jiggly boob and butt physics, feet pictures, the official community on Reddit that is run by Hoyo itself is bombarded with half naked pictures of these young girls. It’s truly disturbing. The way these gamers defend it is even more disturbing. They say things like “It’s fictional so it doesn’t matter if she looks like a child.” like what??? Bro
Wtf is this logic? “Some pervy games exist, therefore the gaming community these days is the most revolting, incel cesspool I’ve ever seen”. You know, lots of gamers also don’t play Genshin Impact because it looks gross and dumb (myself among them)
You might as well say “CSAM exists, therefore everyone in the world is a filthy degenerate pedo incel”
Point was, gaming community has never historically been filled with so many pervy people coming out of the woodwork saying grotesque things about characters that look like they are 12 years old like they are now. That stuff usually stayed on 4chan and other niches. Now, you have AAA studios developing games with so many thirst trap elements in them that it’s honestly disturbing. Activision Blizzard had to completely remove paintings and pictures of women from the game as a response to sexual abuse allegations within their own company. That’s a billion dollar company owned by Microsoft. More people aren’t taking a stand on this because they’re clearly enjoying the oversaturation of heavily sexualized video games nowadays. That’s pretty disturbing and that kind of stuff should never be mainstream because mainstream games are supposed to appeal to an audience of all ages, and makes it easier to get access to that kind of stuff for everyone which creates its own problems
gaming community has never historically been filled with so many pervy people
Lmao. You clearly don’t remember ye olde days when gaming companies would just openly advertise using misogyny because they believed it would appeal to their target demographic. There was a time when a game having a woman protagonist would be considered shocking, and all women characters in games wore bikinis.
The games industry hasn’t gotten more gross and pervy. It’s gotten significantly less so. It’s just that the industry as a whole has also grown massively. So what used to be like 40% of the population of gamers a few decades ago is now only like 5%, but the actual quantity of people is bigger. Again, you’re condemning an entire medium for the behaviour of a relatively small number of creators and consumers. I’ve personally never in my life met someone who actually plays those awful anime gatcha games like Genshin Impact, and yet virtually everyone I know plays video games to some extent.
that kind of stuff should never be mainstream because mainstream games are supposed to appeal to an audience of all ages
Spare me the puritanical bullshit. The notion that every game should appeal to all ages is monumentally stupid. Go back to the dark ages when people complained about violence in games causing school shootings.
You clearly don’t remember ye olde days when gaming companies would just openly advertise using misogyny because they believed it would appeal to their target demographic. There was a time when a game having a woman protagonist would be considered shocking, and all women characters in games wore bikinis.
I remember quite clearly actually, and as a kid, it was boring and kinda gross to me. Instant dislike and lost my desire to play any game like that
Spare me the puritanical bullshit. The notion that every game should appeal to all ages is monumentally stupid. Go back to the dark ages when people complained about violence in games causing school shootings.
What does this have to do with puritanical ideology, exactly? Games like Doom were terrific, I played them when I was 10. No misogyny, no sexualization at all. Duke Nukem on the other hand, instant pass. Felt like a slumlord game and way too gross. The amount of glorification of sexually explicit stuff was really strange to me. Like it’s ok if you want to call a game an eroge/erotica game sure there’s a whole target market for that. But when you have a company like Hoyo that makes Gacha RPGs and then lie blatantly about it being a regular action RPG and it’s a highly sexualized erotica game with jiggle physics thrown into your face every 5 mins, big nope from me, we don’t need that bullshit. Their false advertising and sexual explicit sub themes have driven a lot of people away from the game.
It’s the same as the movie business, pay attention to the sort of entertainment your employer makes. If you get a script for, “The Human Centipede” then READ IT, imagine how your scenes are going to play out, and decide if your dignity and self-respect are worth it.
The article says they don’t get the info in advance. Disclosure: My quote is not related to this argument.
“I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene,” she said.
"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.
Sounds terrible.
If you get a script
Did you read the article though?
This reminds me of the torture scene in GTAV. Extremely graphic and intense and left an impression on me (especially at it regards government torture if ‘terrorests’, but don’t let me spoil it, it’s so deeply unsettling even for GTA).
In that case I’d presume the actors knew who they were portraying at least (psychopath Trevor) but I’m curious what even that was like. It’s well acted out, after all, and those actors deserve as much respect as anyone else in the industry.
Post-Weinstein movie studios are more conscientious and are looking to have an intimacy coordinator on set. It would make sense that this kind of cautiob should extend to the game industry, incuding porn video production and adult game production.
As per all other labor disputes, every labor victory has to be won in each separate industry since workers are not actually reapected in any of them.
I think this is one of those things that’s more fun to comment on when you don’t really know what you’re talking about. We should have separate threads for people who actually read the article.
Yes, but it takes two to hold a conversation.
That all seems very reasonable to request.
