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"Show Your Tits" == "Sh0w Y0uR T1T5"?
Aug. 27th, 2004 11:37 pmVideogames and computer games aren't just for kids anymore. And apparently they're now SERIOUSLY for adults. Because BloodRayne, the star of (what else) the BloodRayne series of computer games, will be appearing topless in the next issue of Playboy Magazine.
And she isn't the only digital character to give it a shot. Mileena from Mortal Kombat, Nina from the Tekken series, and Kurenai from Red Ninja are some of the other digital femmes that will be appearing in Hef's mag. Not all of them nude, but just appearing in Playboy at all is weird enough. (No, I don't think Lara Croft is one of those appearing).
I am not quite sure what to think of this. Computer and video games outgrew the "just for kids" label years and years ago. Adult-oriented games range from the depth and resonance and complex plotlines of a Deus Ex to the flat-out anarchism of a Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The one thing that we still don't see in video/computer games, though, is sex...there's always a discreet fade to black or a strategically placed object blocking the naughty bits or something like that. But the idea of seeing digital characters taking their digital tops off for a mainstream magazine....that's just weird.
Then again, I guess it isn't that far off from the airbrushing and digital filters that Playboy applies to most of its photoshoots these days anyway. I guess they wanted to go from plasticky women to all-the-way plastic/digital women. (The Playboy pictorials, sadly, are no longer the epitome of the fresh-faced "girl next door" beauties that I prefer to the modernized, surgically-augmented types. Give me something realistic, thanks).
One thing's for sure. The fanboys will pick this issue up in record numbers.
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Currently playing: Skid Row -- Skid Row. A trivia question at tonight's contest was "This late 80s metal band was led by singer Sebastian Bach". Problem is, that's pretty damn misleading, because Bas only THOUGHT he was the bandleader. Dave "Snake" Sabo wrote 90% of the band's music and Scotti Hill wrote the rest. Bas was just a figurehead, talented singer or not.
And she isn't the only digital character to give it a shot. Mileena from Mortal Kombat, Nina from the Tekken series, and Kurenai from Red Ninja are some of the other digital femmes that will be appearing in Hef's mag. Not all of them nude, but just appearing in Playboy at all is weird enough. (No, I don't think Lara Croft is one of those appearing).
I am not quite sure what to think of this. Computer and video games outgrew the "just for kids" label years and years ago. Adult-oriented games range from the depth and resonance and complex plotlines of a Deus Ex to the flat-out anarchism of a Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The one thing that we still don't see in video/computer games, though, is sex...there's always a discreet fade to black or a strategically placed object blocking the naughty bits or something like that. But the idea of seeing digital characters taking their digital tops off for a mainstream magazine....that's just weird.
Then again, I guess it isn't that far off from the airbrushing and digital filters that Playboy applies to most of its photoshoots these days anyway. I guess they wanted to go from plasticky women to all-the-way plastic/digital women. (The Playboy pictorials, sadly, are no longer the epitome of the fresh-faced "girl next door" beauties that I prefer to the modernized, surgically-augmented types. Give me something realistic, thanks).
One thing's for sure. The fanboys will pick this issue up in record numbers.
-- END OF LINE --
Currently playing: Skid Row -- Skid Row. A trivia question at tonight's contest was "This late 80s metal band was led by singer Sebastian Bach". Problem is, that's pretty damn misleading, because Bas only THOUGHT he was the bandleader. Dave "Snake" Sabo wrote 90% of the band's music and Scotti Hill wrote the rest. Bas was just a figurehead, talented singer or not.