Tuesday 22 January 2013

Embarrassing Portable Games

I've been playing quite a lot of Hatsune Miku Project Diva F recently, especially on trains and buses since the Vita is a good system for killing time with, but then I had a thought.

There is a mode in Miku called the Diva Room, this mode basically involves staring at the girls (or one of the two guys) go about their business, then give them presents to watch them do cute shit.  To make this iteration of Project Diva fit in with the capabilities of the Vita, there is an option to zoom in on the vocaloid and give them a friendly head rub.

If you want to get absolutely everything in this game, then you HAVE to do this stuff, and while I don't give that much of a damn if people know I'm doing this, I feel a little uncomfortable with the idea of doing this shit in public.

So that got me thinking, Hatsune Miku isn't so bad, at least it's a well recognised character but there are certain games that would be better off not released on a portable system.  The big one that comes to my mind is Dead or Alive Paradise
Now I used to own the Xbox360 version of Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball, and I don't give a shit who KNOWS that I used to play that crap, but fuck me if I'd ever want to be caught playing that shit on a train. 

Why release a game for a portable system if you know that it's just gotta set the user up for some embarrassing shit.  Oh well, I've seen people reading porn on the trains round here, so I suppose there are worse things you could be doing.


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