There are plenty of video games out there that don’t shy away from ‘inappropriate’
content.
From gratuitous sex scenes to brutal blood baths to glorified substance abuse, these
games have no shame, or boundaries, and venture into the kinds of territory that land them
a serious rated M for mature rating.
But oh how we love them.
And oh how parents want nothing more than for their kids to avoid the crap out of them.
So today, we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 video games you shouldn’t
play in front of your parents.
10 Duke Nukem Forever Duke Nukem has always been considered a little
racy as a franchise over all.
But with the release of Duke Nukem Forever, gamers and critics alike found the character
to have become more obnoxious, and less likeable.
So the concept of this game is that Duke must come out of retirement and save the world
from aliens when they start kidnapping women.
There’s a few moments in the game that have been slammed by critics for being risqué
and grotesque, specifically the moment when Duke finds his two live in girlfriends who
have been captured by the aliens, only to discover they’ve been impregnated with alien
spawn.
They give birth to aliens and die after he’s particularly cruel to them.
9 God of War While the most recent God of War has been
considered one of the best Playstation games of all time, and fairly so, the previous entries
in the series have often been criticized by parents and conservatives for being too gratuitous
when it comes to violence, and sex scenes.
If the sex scene bit has you scratching your head, just take a look at Kratos’ encounter
with Aphrodite.
Yeah.
Anywho, the games in the franchise saw Kratos as a character solely out for revenge, with
many a critic criticizing that he was a bit two dimensional; a problem that has now been
solved with the latest title, in which he is accompanied by his young son Atreus, and
has undergoes some serious character development throughout the game’s narrative.
Long gone are the Spartans promiscuous days!
Although, the blood and gore definitely do remain.
8 Dead by Daylight Dead by Daylight quickly became one of the
most popular multiplayer games currently out there.
You can play either as a survivor or as a killer, the former running around avoiding
death while trying to escape the game’s map, and the latter trying to, well, kill
all of the survivors.
It’s a grand ol time.
But the sound acting and the amounts of gore that appear in the game are definitely not
traits that parents of younger gamers would approve of.
Plus the first person POV of the killer would definitely have some parents up in arms about
the game glorifying murder, surely.
7 Postal 2 Postal 2 has long been hailed as a controversial
video game, having even been banned in various countries like New Zealand, for, I quote,
“very high impact violence and offensive depictions of cruelty.”
I mean, they’re not wrong.
It’s also been banned in Malaysia and Australia, and briefly in Germany and Sweden.
It’s a black comedy first person shooter in which players are in the shows of a character
known as Postal Dude, who lives in a trailer in Arizona with his wife who is referred to
as The Bitch.
At the start of each day, you’re given tasks to accomplish, like get milk, and other mundane
objectives.
You can either accomplish these tasks as peacefully or as violently as you’d like.
You could complete the game without harming anyone if you wanted; the game’s tagline
is “remember, it’s only as violent as you are!”
So you can imagine how well that went over with the harsher critics of the game.
The game also leans heavily on negative stereotyping, which garnered it a whole lot of controversy
as well.
6 Leisure Suit Larry Pretty much every title in the Leisure Suit
Larry series is ‘not safe for younger players’.
It’s marketed as having ‘adult themes’, and the game’s main protagonist is a balding
leisure suit wearing 40 something whose only goals are to seduce attractive women and not
die.
If that isn’t a big enough red flag, the game literally has roots in developer Sierra’s
1981 text adventure that was titled Softporn Adventure, with the first Larry game being
an almost direct graphical adaptation of it.
While it may not be the most explicit game sexually on this list, the themes it explores
definitely are, and as many who have played the game are probably aware, more of the raunchier
moments in it were tucked into the title as Easter Eggs rather than in main gameplay.
5 Hatred Hatred is a game in which you play a character
called The Antagonist whose goal is to kill as many people as possible on his genocide
crusade.
An isometric shooter game, the reception for the game and it’s playable character was
volatile.
Reviewers criticized it for being revolting, violent and tacky, and Epic Games even requested
that their Unreal engine logo, which the game was created on, would be removed from all
of the game’s marketing and trailer.
4 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Witcher 3 is a fantastic game.
But it’s also a game that contains a whole lot of racy sexy scenes that are very so slightly
absurd enough to make your parents go, “..wait, what?”
It’s no secret that Geralt is a giant piece of man hunk whose a bit of a man-whore.
He likes his women, and they like him.
And he’s not afraid to try new things in the bedroom.
Like having sex on top of a stuffed unicorn, like he does when he hooks up with Yennefer
in the game.
Funny enough, that sex scene was actually mentioned in the books as well, too, and believe
it or not, but it may be even better than it is in the game.
3 Manhunt 2 Manhunt 2 is essentially torture porn.
Developed by Rockstar games, it’s a psychological horror stealth video game that follows a mental
patient suffering from amnesia trying to figure out his identity while being accompanied by
a sociopath assassin.
The game had to be re-rated after major backlash occurred, which even involved the likes of
various US senators condemning the title as “visceral and casually sadistic”.
The game had to censor multiple parts of the game before it could be officially released,
which included a blurring effect over executions, a removal of all but two decapitations, an
execution with pliers was altered so rather than it ripping off an enemy’s testicles
they were used to bash the enemy’s head.
It also included removing all innocent characters from the game and the game’s player rating
system that was based on speed and severity of executions.
So if that doesn’t paint you a picture of why mom or dad wouldn’t want to see you
playing this game, I don’t know what will.
2 Cobra Mission: Panic in Cobra City Upon first glance, Cobra Mission may seem
like a simple point and click game with an interesting plot.
Creating back in 1991 in Japan and later released in North America and Europe in the next two
following years, the game’s narrative revolves around the fictional locale of Cobra City,
and two men who are trying to hunt down a mob boss who appears to be responsible for
the disappearance of numerous young women on the island.
But, in actuality, it was the first eroge release in English; a game with explicitly
erotic themes.
The gameplay consisted of two modes; a fighting system where you would point and click at
your enemy, which in Japan was a turn based system.
The second half was point and click sex scenes, where you would choose an item or body part
of your own and then click on part of a naked girl’s body, which would cause her pleasure
meter to increase or decrease.
If it decreased too much, she 1 GTA V
The Grand Theft Auto franchise has always gotten a lot of heat from conservatives for
pushing boundaries.
I mean, hey, GTA V is a fantastic satire, but it does contain some more lewd content,
arguably simmered down a bit in terms of sexual explicitness compared to previous games and
certain mods like Hot Coffee.
The uproar around this title was its depiction of violence and of women.
To be fair, there is a hostage interrogation scene where you straight up get to torture
a guy with a variety of tools.
Although Rockstar argued that it was political commentary, many felt that it was in poor
taste, and felt polarized by the mission.
Concerning the treatment of women, many people were up in arms about the games nonchalant
attitude towards violence against women, and in Australia, Target pulled the game from
300 of its stores after a petition went viral.
Despite this, GTA V is considered one of the best games amongst the seventh generation
of console gaming, and a cultural behemoth, having broken records when it came out in
terms of sales.
There we have it friends!
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