Thursday, July 26, 2007

Thanks but no thanks

I just started playing God of War on PS2 and it's like a videogame of crack- so addicting. I can't stop playing it because it's so brutal and fun. Also, something I never really pay attention to in videogames, it looks amazing. The world is huge and beautiful. I'm sure a glossy magazine or two has referred to it as "immersive."

But that's beside the point- brass tacks, people- the point is that this game is filled with boobs. I mean, every female character is topless, pert, and quite buxom. Your character's wife is the only non-topless female(it may be because she gets stabbed to death repeatedly; not to be confused with stabbed repeatedly to death), but the two concubines in your bed in the second level are waggling their cleavage for the world to enjoy. The Oracle of Athens? Wearing a sheer, er, transparent veil on her nipples. Aphrodite- come on.

The problem is- I don't like it.

But wait, don't get me wrong, I love boobs. For real. I just find them unnecessary and uncomfortably distracting when I am busy dismembering Hades' legion of gorgons and minotaurs with my two flaming blades of chaos anointed by the god Apollo.

I'm enjoying slaying hydras and decapitating undead soldiers, because THAT is why I'm playing video games. Not for computer animated boobs. I appreciate the effort and attention to historical accuracy- like when medusa turns me to stone all I have to do is rapidly press the X button to break free of my stone encasement, JUST like in ancient Greece.

Thanks for the boobs, videogame, but I'm doing OK finding them on my own.

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