All Posts by The_Colonel

Well... I'm not a perv... OK yes I am. Just the same they might as well put the nipples in. As long as it's not gratuitous (just nipples for the sake of nipples). I mean, let's face it; at best they are only CARTOON nipples anyway. It's just a picture, a drawing, nothing more erotic than a rennaisance watercolor. As far as I am concerned it's just another set of impossibly large, impossibly perky, barbie doll/comic book mammaries. The same thing we, as males, have been force fed our entire lives by the advertising industry as "perfect". No women are being exploited or degraded to make the pictures. And if they put in an option for it no one will be unwillingly subjected to it.

I live in Ontario, Canada. Here, it's completely legal for any woman to walk down the street in broad daylight with no top on and remain not only unmolested by people in general but also by the police. (Well, maybe not in Toronto) The rule is: Anywhere a man is allowed to go topless women are as well. And yet, (no surprise) they don't. But at the beach or local swimming pool, some do. The issue isn't nudity but equality.

The point is that the only thing that makes nipples acceptable or unacceptable is society. I give my 10 and 12 year old boys their own choice and would you believe they would rather NOT see nipples. I let them choose what they want to see and the one thing I thought they would go straight to was the one thing they could care less about. (I know, I know, just give them a few years) I don't give them limitations I give them information, then they make informed choices and they don't have to hide them.  I don't tell them WHAT they must choose, only that they MUST choose and you know what? They invariably make the right choices.

As for the game, nudity and violence were a solid part of the original Conan comics. It was also a big part of the first movie. (I guess they wanted to maintain a PG-13 rating for the second one) As far as I'm concerned it would only enhance the realism for me if all aspects of Conan's world were reproduced in-game -- including blood, guts, decapitations and, yes, nipples