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Performers working in the games industry have spoken of their distress at being asked to work on explicit content without notice, including a scene featuring a sexual assault.

Sex scenes are common in modern games - and are often made by filming human actors who are then digitised into game characters.

But performers have told the BBC a culture of secrecy around projects - where scripts are often not shared until the last moment - means they frequently do not know in advance that scenes may involve intimate acts.

They describe feeling "shaken" and "upset" after acting them out.

Performing arts union Equity is demanding action from the industry - it has published guides on minimum pay, and working conditions in games, including on intimate or explicit scenes.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Not okay, not letting them know what they are signing up for.. it's like having them do stunts.

What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Cyberpunk 2077

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago

Especially weird for the actor of the unicorn.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago

Sponge Bob Back to Bikini Bottom

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Far cry... 3? I think? Has a short sex scene.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Jup... One of the endings involves the protagonist having sex with a cult leader and then >!getting sacrificed as soon as he cums inside her!<.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

wouldn't be surprised if it was Ubisoft. they love sexual assault

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Baldur's Gate 3 gets pretty explicit

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

They had a dedicated intimacy coordinator for those scenes who worked with the actors to make sure they were comfortable with it

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

Oh yeah, they handled it properly for sure.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What game does sex scenes? Usually it just fades to black

Witcher III is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. I vaguely recall Fable 1 doing the fade-to-black thing, but then staying black and playing out some cliche moaning, which is kind of the same thing from the voice actors's perspective.

Whole category of dating sims and basically soft-core-porn games, which I'm sure have a high demand for acting out these kinda of scenes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Fable was very much played for laughs. I can remember some guy going "ooh I like that" in a camp voice.

Heavy Rain and The Last of Us 2 had very awkward sex scenes though.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

Custer’s Revenge for the Atari 2600. I play this game exclusively.

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