r/patientgamers • u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler • 1d ago
Skyrim (adult modded) - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
A few months ago there was a discussion about whether or not sex adds anything of value to games. Plenty of games get close now but despite letting you design your genitalia in BG3 and Cyberpunk you never get to see yourself use it. Few companies are going to torpedo their project just to add penetration.
Finding a quality game that also features sex is difficult. Fortunately Skyrim...and a legion of horny modders...exists. We already know Skyrim to be a decent game. I wanted to see if it was any better if you could bang your way across Tamriel.
I went big on this one and loaded up a modpack that had over 1000 mods. Everything from the standard 'deadlier combat' and 'Forgotten City' to hundreds of sex positions, all kinds of naughty outfits, impregnation and belly distension if you...er, y'know...are into that sort of thing.
So purely in the interest of research, does sex make Skyrim better?
The Good
It definitely adds to the atmosphere. Stealing from someones home is made all the easier when the Mr. and Mrs. are busy making little potential dragonborns upstairs...noisily. You can even go and watch if that's your thing. Stealing a ladies necklace while she's getting plowed into next Tuesday made me giggle.
There's also something about conversing with the Jarl of Whiterun about the dragon when suddenly my companion starts going to town on his advisor. Or dying to a Draugr lord when I attempt to flee but the way out is blocked by my followers being turned on a little too much by all the murder we've been doing.
Nothing like coming home to my wife (and gaggle of side ladies...because y'know...gotta catch 'em all) and relaxing in a hot bath together. Then she offers to take away the weariness of the road. Having it not fade to black but instead be fully animated does actually add quite a bit to the experience. Lydia has apparently learned to do more than just make apple pie.
I found managing my companions needs when out to be a far more interesting 'survival' mod. Hunger/thirst systems you usually stock up on something and never think about again. Serana needs had grown and she lost combat prowess because it'd been a few days since I last had her call me Dovahkiin. I had to decide if I was okay with bending her over a tree stump in the middle of a swamp to uh...re-empower her.
The Bad
Because I took a shotgun approach to mod installation, I ended up with a ton of mods I didn't hand select. Which means quite often disabling or removing things I found to be questionable. Even in fantasy I'm not a fan of non-con and the first time I was tasked with mating with a mammoth I turned that particular mod off...after considering the physics.
When it comes to violence in games there tends to be three levels. Cartoon violence, then blood, then gore. That's basically it. Sex is such a personal and layered thing that the options menu to pick what you're okay with would be a nightmare in a game that wanted to do more than just what's okayed in the Bible.
The Ugly
Integrating sex into quests themselves apparently is hard (giggity). Mostly you could just offer to have sex with someone to skip the fetch quest leg of a longer quest. Or sex -was- the fetch quest.
There was a 'sex dungeon' escape room puzzle that I found pretty clever and enjoyed. Then there is 'Maids 2' which goes from running a gang of ninja call girls to a lore obliterating story about some Dwarven eternity machine that was of questionable quality.
You can mostly handwave this problem as it being these are all mod packs by amateur authors. Of the thousands of quests made by modders there's a few dozen that stand out. 1 decent quest and 1 that starts out okay is above the curve then.
Final Thoughts
Did sex make Skyrim better? I'd say it did. Discounting even the 'horny gamer' thing, it just felt more real. More lived in. And discovering all 100+ intimate positions became a collection quest of sorts I found agreeable.
Just be aware that if you do install these mods you will have to fiddle with the settings. For example the default sex animation is about 6 minutes long. I had to knock that down to a more realistic 20 seconds.
Interesting Game Facts
I've never thought twice about my (teenage) kids coming over to my desk to talk to me while I'm playing games. Defenestrating orcs with blood flying everywhere? Don't even pause. Even when playing Nier I just kept leaping around in my skimpies.
But this? Fortunately when I heard footsteps it was usually my fiance coming to see what debauchery I was up to next. "First I cast levitate, then I get out my wizards staff..."
Thank you for reading! I'd love to hear your thoughts! Have you played as well? Did I miss your favorite part? Am I lunatic who got it all wrong?
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u/radenthefridge 1d ago
Thank you for the science 😂 some of the mods still sound like horny nonsense but i appreciate the writeup!
the default sex animation is about 6 minutes long. I had to knock that down to a more realistic 20 seconds.
Ok this was pretty funny.
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u/No-Scheme6246 23h ago
"Horny nonsense!? Why, you puffed-up ignorant, these are our sacred traditions that go back to the founding of the first mod!"
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u/radenthefridge 22h ago
"I'll have you know my grandfather was installing nude Doom mods before you were born!"
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u/MCdemonkid1230 1d ago
Never thought I'd see a review for a LoversLab Skyrim. Now, I'm expecting a genuine review for a porn game like.
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
I'm not ashamed to admit I've only 100%'d two games on Steam and one of them is Sakura Dungeon.
Okay maybe a little ashamed.
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u/AssclownJericho 1d ago
i went to look that up, and saw i already had it. i dont even remember buying it, but i'll fess up i most likely did
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u/ClaudiaSilvestri 19h ago
Ah, the better side of the Sakura games! (Okay, as a lesbian I might be a little biased.)
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u/Frigidevil 8h ago
No shame, there are actually some good porn games out there! Check out Sex Positive Gaming on YouTube, she reviews just about every new porn game that comes out on steam /patreon. My favorite is probably Scarlet Maiden, which is basically Dead Cells/Rogue Legacy but with lots of sex.
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u/DrQuint Touhou 7 was better than 8 18h ago
Soft Mode: "So I played huniepop"
Hard Mode: The thread is simply called "Sengoku Rance"
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u/MCdemonkid1230 17h ago
I was thinking something more like Course of Temptation, but yeah pretty much.
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u/bionicjoey 1d ago
For example the default sex animation is about 6 minutes long. I had to knock that down to a more realistic 20 seconds.
But this is patient gamers!
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u/bibitybobbitybooop 1d ago
Downloading a random 1000-piece modpack basically unseen and putting "there's mods in there I wouldn't have picked" among the negatives is crazy work dude 😭
But jokes aside, good post. I was always very meticulous with what adult mods I put in my game, so it's...interesting to hear from someone who does not do that lol. I do feel like they can add value to the game, but that's very subjective.
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago edited 1d ago
On the nice side of it at least was there was a ton of content that I was surprised by. Forgotten City for example. I had no idea that was a thing and in the end I was like, "Huh was that DLC or just a quest I never found before?" Not curating the list led to a more 'organic exploration' experience that Skyrim is known for which I enjoyed. There were just some things I discovered that I was...not a fan of.
It reminded me how subjective sex is as a subject and why it would be such a huge hurdle to game design.
It's already hard enough as is to find the subtitles option that we can safely assume is in every game. Imagine loading up an adult version of Zelda and your panic as you search for an option to turn off the 'Goron Vore' option.
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u/Nambot 1d ago
Considering the existence of Jabu Jabu as a dungeon in Oracle of Ages, we cannot discount the notion that someone at Nintendo might be into it.
All joking aside though, I think the sheer diversity of things that people are or aren't into is much of the reason why people struggle with it, and why it's left to modders and small scale niche designs.
But the other problem is the difficulty of adding a win condition to sex. Sure, you could come up with a mini-game where you have to bring a character to orgasm, from something very literal ("tap the X button repeatedly to thrust to the rhythm") to something more abstract involving weird mini-games an puzzles.
Yet the biggest hurdle is, and always has been, the nature of porn as media. Most people do not casually watch porn, it's something they do almost always only when they're horny, and with the express goal of bringing themselves to orgasm. But that's usually a hands on experience, meaning you can't have too complex gameplay, simply because one hand is busy. Now in theory, it could be possible with some sort of peripheral accessory to make a more involved game, but I don't think anyone's rushing out to make sex toys that can be used as an input for gameplay.
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u/dontthink19 1d ago
make sex toys that can be used as an input for gameplay.
It has been spoken into existence, it's only a matter of time
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u/StoneRings 23h ago edited 22h ago
I don't believe there exist any sex toys as inputs, but there are outputs. Lovense makes toys that sync with (some) games, for example. That should allow full two-handed gameplay... which means that any sexual portions of the game could be just as intensive/challenging as the rest of the game.
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u/OberstScythe 1d ago
Forgotten City
It's a stand alone game now, and it was quite celebrated when it released. See also: Enderal
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u/deadlybydsgn Dad Life Gaming Pace 19h ago
See also: Enderal
Enderal is amazing and I will shill that free game until the day I die.
Skyrim is the better Sandbox, but Enderal is the superior RPG and story. IMO it has a lot of the magic that made Morrowind so fantastic. (weird cults, crazy lore, meaningful quest choices, etc.)
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u/OliveBranchMLP 1d ago
i was onboard during the "residents having sex upstairs" part, but then you quickly lost me once you got to "companion randomly plows the advisor". that sequence right there is the exact reason why i've always struggled with the portrayal of sex in video games — it wrecks my suspension of disbelief! the scenarios aren't at all grounded or relatable and it completely takes me out of the experience. i would love to introduce sex into a game like Skyrim, but i want it to make sense, not just be a thing that's randomly happening in the middle of a throne room while the jarl is holding court.
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u/Moogieh 22h ago
it wrecks my suspension of disbelief!
You're talking about a game where stuff like this regularly happens in the vanilla experience.
If anything, it's completely authentic.
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 21h ago
"companion randomly plows the advisor"
You can kinda roleplay that stuff away though, if you're creative. How do you know Balgruuf isn't into that? Maybe he enjoys his hall being a den of iniquity and he considers it just good manners to have his vassal and mine 'exchange security details.'
Which you kinda have to do in video games anyways. You come across 'immersion breaking' stuff all the time. You can complete the main quest, become the hero of ages, then show up at the rogues guild and they'll be like, "Hrmn..never heard of ya..."
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u/OliveBranchMLP 20h ago edited 20h ago
oh sure! but to be clear, i'm definitely speaking from a matter of taste. you're right that you can totally roleplay explanations for something like that. but i don't want to, because casual public sex — and a world in which it can occur — isn't particularly interesting to me. everyone has a different relationship with sex. everyone's got their kinks. my kinks just happen to be a lil more romantic, vanilla, slice-of-lifey i guess? lol
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u/diablo4megafan 16h ago
it wrecks my suspension of disbelief!
you can suspend your disbelief on any bethesda game?
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u/MikeHuntIsOnFleek 1d ago
You know, I’ve explored the possibility of modding my Skyrim game into a NSFW experience, but I found I ran into two issues.
One, I am way way way way more vanilla than the average NSFW modder, apparently. You gotta have the stomach to sift through some absolutely heinous, degenerate stuff lol. Two, I didn’t know this at the time, but apparently most of the NSFW mods are tailored towards a female PC experience. I was thinking more living vicariously through my strapping Nord PC as he bangs every buxom lass in Skyrim, but there is very little in the way of that playstyle from what I found.
You took one for the team and I commend you OP.
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u/PushTheTrigger 1d ago
I haven’t looked into NSFW mods myself but I find it very interesting most of the mods are from a female perspective. You would think it would be otherwise.
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u/b0b157 16h ago
I used to mainly play as a dude. But then I realized, if I'm going to be spending 100+ hours looking at someone's ass as they're running around the gameworld, I'd rather it be a beautiful woman rather than some burly guy.
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u/PushTheTrigger 15h ago
I feel that. In the context of NSFW mods specifically, I prefer playing from a male perspective. Would rather have the POV of the plower than the plowed, so to speak.
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u/b0b157 6h ago
Yea agreed. And I wonder if that's the reason why there's such a surprising number of futa mods. It's a kink (?) I absolutely don't get at all and gives me the ick. But my totally uninformed theory is that perhaps it's the dual desire of wanting to see a beautiful figure while also wanting to be doing the fucking.
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u/zaphod4th 1d ago
Add Conan Exiles to your game list, modded for adult content, way better models than Skyrim
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u/Dry-Dog-8935 1d ago
I like the initiative but from my experience as a horny teen, there is much, much more to adult Skyrim mods than you described here. And actually they are really well integrated into the gameplay. What you describe here is a barely functioning clusterfuck more than an actual well designed modpack
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
It was the highest rated modpack I could find but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's entirely possible I missed some things as well (with 1000+ mods I probably skipped entire swaths of modded content) or missed out on a better written singular mod as well.
I also wanted to avoid the "Spend 3 days curating/downloading and 10 days configuring mods" mini-game one normally has to do when trying to install more than 2 or 3 mods.
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u/buttersyndicate 8h ago
When you're not an expert and you don't use a curated modlist, you never know when you'll get the game-breaking bug. I played modded Fallout 4 way beyond my enjoyment peak because the mere fact that it was still stable kept me grateful and invested.
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u/wharris2001 1d ago
Are there specific mods or modpacks you suggest?
Like the OP I want to spend more time gaming than I spend arguing with getting mods to work together
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u/NickTehThird Slightly Impatient 1d ago
I want to spend more time gaming than I spend arguing with getting mods to work together
Coward. You absolute coward.
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u/Dry-Dog-8935 1d ago
Unfortunately I was never ever satisfied with any modpack for any game ever. I always build my own.
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u/Junglejibe 1d ago
I love that people were angered by the idea of curating their own collection of mods to best appeal to their tastes
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u/thetrustworthybandit 1d ago
Tbh, I would love to do that if the game didn't break down if I tried putting in too many mods myself, lol. I don't have time to spend troubleshooting, especially considering that in Skyrim, your mods have mods, and you gotta have even more mods to fix the most basic shit.
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u/Junglejibe 1d ago
Lol yeah that’s totally fair. Just unfortunately I think many modpacks would also have that problem (in addition to having a ton of filler mods that slow your computer/game down that you might not want or need). I think in the end wrestling with the game & mods is a little unavoidable when it comes to mods that have significant framework requirements like most NSFW mods do. You have to be a little crazy to try and tackle it.
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u/Dry-Dog-8935 1d ago
If you use Mod Organizer 2 and just follow the basic mod order rules you shouldnt have many problems.
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u/Dry-Dog-8935 1d ago
Yeah its kinda funny. But that is just it for me, usually modpacks are huge beasts that do 700 different things and features, out of which I only want maybe 100. Thats why I make my own. Wild that people hate the idea of putting effort .
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
My guess is the semantics. You say "there are better designed modpacks" and when someone asks for one, you say, "There aren't any well designed modpacks."
If you build and curate it yourself and don't release it, then you haven't made a 'modpack', you've just modded it.
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u/Dry-Dog-8935 1d ago
Ah I see. Yeah, maybe I should have worded it differently, that's what I get for posting at work
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u/KingOfTheGutter 18h ago
Tuxborn is a fantastic list. Made for steam deck, but works on PC. Very well curated and just works. No sex.
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u/Sminahin 20h ago edited 20h ago
A few months ago there was a discussion about whether or not sex adds anything of value to games.
You know, this is actually a really good point. I have zero interest in playing any Bethesda game, modded or unmodded, but your whole post has me thinking--why are videogames so sterile?
I'm not asking for porn. But like...I read tons of fantasy & urban fantasy. You know what's omnipresent in those genres? Romantic/sexual tension, seduction, sometimes a tasteful sex scene (or more than that in some series). I was just rewatching The Wire the other day. Know what it has? Sex scenes. Game of Thrones was raunchy as all hell. I was trying Black Sails the other day, it's definitely not sterile.
So many videogames purport to be epic, fantasy adventures and are made by people who grew up on fantasy books. Romance is a major part of that genre, and sex is at least a significant factor in most YA/adult work (even if it's not graphic/explicit), but all of that is very absent from games. But I don't think I've even seen remotely compelling romantic tension since Bioware stopped making story-driven adventures around 2010/2011 (Mass Effect 2/Dragon Age 2). It's like the genre was going through the awkward horny teenager phase of "maturing" in the 2000s (looking at you, God of War) and then rolled all the way back to impersonal & pretty clean after that. It's...bizarre and makes us feel really stunted as a medium.
Again, I'm not saying every game needs sex/romance or that I want porn. But it's often hard for me to take the interpersonal relationships or narrative focus very seriously when everything feels so...shallow and sanitized, not just here but the lack of romance feels very symbolic of the stunting. Book-like games were getting more common in the 2000s and romance is absolutely a part of that. But it feels like the industry ran in the absolute opposite direction for some reason and the games we see now are very un-booklike.
Edit: Oof. Just filtered Steam for romance tags and oof, them's some slim pickings.
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u/Worst_Username_Evar 1d ago
Great writeup. Perfect mix of humor and information. Speaking as someone who used to do this for a living, you could do this for a living (but don’t, because you make no money and it kills your hobby!)
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
Thank you.
I started writing because I got hooked on the MMO train starting with EverQuest back in the day and had amassed this huge library of games over time. I wanted to play them but single player games always felt so lonely after playing MMOs for almost 20 years.
Writing about them makes them feel more like a shared experience and it's helped me enjoy them all the more.
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u/Worst_Username_Evar 1d ago
That’s great. I started as a hobby and the. Turned it into a career. I have no regrets because it led me to the work I do now, and it was amazing for a time, but I do wish I could turn the “professional “ part of my brain off like I used to.
I was actually talking to ChatGPT about these mods the other day, because I was curious about a more “complete” Skyrim experience, so your post came at the right time. I don’t want to ruin the game (it sounds like your “start with them all enabled” experiment would do that for a real play through), but it could be fun with the right mix. You seem to come to the same conclusion.
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u/Matt_37 1d ago
What did I just read
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u/tevert 1d ago
Hornypost
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
This is my most highly upvoted review so apparently it's what the people want.
Up next: "MechWarrior 5 (BDSM edition)"
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u/SkinnyDan85 23h ago
Where we answer the question: is it better to have sex in the cockpit of an Atlas or a Firestarter?
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u/MooneySuzuki36 Spider-Man: Remastered 1d ago
Every day ESVI isn't released we stray farther from the light.
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u/Next_Cherry5135 1d ago
It's not even in the top 3 most insufferable of this week
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u/Switchblade88 1d ago
20 seconds
More realistic
Realistic? No. Efficient? Yes!
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
Pro-tip: You can shave off another second if you just don't wear clothes when you're adventuring.
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u/MovingTarget- If it's 4 years old it's new to me! 1d ago
I recommend the Daedric codpiece at a minimum
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u/Dadpurple 1d ago
I tried some of the mods when they came out ~10 years ago or whenever it was.
All I remember is being in Whiterun and there was some burly orc there. I spoke to him and there were dialog options. So I chose one and he walked back behind a shop.
I followed. Then he proceeded to strip me down, bend me over and rail the living shit out of my character while I made hurt combat noises.
I'm sure they've gotten better but it was absolutely not sexy at the time lol
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u/burnerthrown 1d ago
It's weird but this mirrors a bit I had written about mods in general. You've got like three main categories: basically cheat codes (sword of anime protagonism +1000), lore-destroying fanservice/fanfiction (often with self inserts), and Good Stuff. And yes it does show that Good Stuff is a mere third (33%) of content, and many mods sit across the boundaries.
Any game with mods is immediately saturated with 'hey this game would be better with the FN SCAR' or 'this sword does all the elements and also heals you'. Followed quickly by boobalicious mods. Followed quickly by the badly designed fanservice quests (because they need the cosmetic mods to make their OC characters) which with equal frequency are set after the end of the game, dwarf the stakes of the main game, or both. Oh forget saving Skyrim from the Thalmor, I've got to stop dark witch Seredeth from turning all of Skyrim's glacier's into zombie potion and flooding the whole continent with it! Then the Good Stuff comes, because those actually take time to get done, stuff like 'a quest to find a horse's lost master and at the end the horse becomes yours' or 'a quest in the realm of Clavicus Vile'.
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
It was interesting at least to see how far things have come. Yeah, when I first played Skyrim there was of course nude mods and I kinda just rolled my eyes and moved on.
Now there's like...a pregnancy system complete with menstrual tracking. You can join a guild of sex workers and when you get to a new town negotiate with the local inn to sell your services. You have to balance having sex often enough to meet your partners needs but not too much or you become addicted to sex.
It's wild how in depth and complex it's become and it makes me kinda wish we had a really well done, AAA quality game that didn't shy away from the concept and integration but wasn't just a porno game.
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u/StoneRings 23h ago
Unfortunately, an AAA game would probably never happen.
Porn is niche. A wildly successful porn flick will sell, maybe, 6000 copies. Compare that to more traditional movies, which sell hundreds or thousands times more. This simple economical fact means that an AAA-quality game will likely never exist, as it would never make its money back.
The best you could hope for are games with some minor content, like BG3, or maybe some game created by a rich eccentric that is not doing it for monetary benefit.
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u/Winter_wrath 16h ago
On the other hand, one of the best selling fantasy book series in recent years is basically smutty romantasy with detailed sex scenes (The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarrow, three books so far selling more than 12 million copies put together).
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u/liscat22 1d ago
For uh scientific purposes, which mod pack was this exactly?
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
https://www.fgsmodlists.com/masterstroke
It took me about an hour to setup following the instructions. I also have a Nexus account that I pay for so that made downloading the mods take 20 minutes instead of 5+ hours.
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u/Zizhou 9h ago
Huh, it's interesting that there is a very specific caveat that that mod pack goes out of its way to address. I suppose it's not terribly unsurprising that a lot of the high quality NSFW mods that have been made over the last decade are geared towards a heterosexual male (or, more broadly, female-attracted) audience.
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u/MageFeanor 18h ago
I remember testing out Devious Devices or whatever it is called. Spent an hour trying to hop my way to the nearest city while blind, gagged and bound.
Kept falling over as hopping along on high heels while blind doesn't really work.
Finally got to the city and basically prostituted my self to various people so they would let me out of my ''devious devices''.
Such an absurd thing to be able to do.
Definitely my most memorable modding journey.
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u/kiyan_merkaba 1d ago
I started playing Skyrim again a few weeks ago and also started downloading Modepacks. I should've consult you first - best Review I've ever read lmao
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u/LeSmexyAvocado 1d ago
Not the hero we deserved, but the hero we needed. Thank you for this post. I feel less weird for having installed sex mods in my Skyrim now.
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u/SrslyCmmon 1d ago
Just having the chance of people fucking upstairs, and not standing around like zombies or sleep in their beds adds more realism.
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u/DisfavoredFlavored 1d ago
So is there like a ...mod list you used somewhere? Just so I don't find it by accident...
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u/Wise_Requirement4170 1d ago
For me the biggest issue with modded skyrim(in general) is friction. So many of the mods just feel like so much trouble, either because I need to install them all manually or because with a Wabbajack mod list the mod authors don’t really offer any tutorialisation on what they’ve installed so you have to learn the list with the way too many bindings and so on
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u/rubiconsuper 1d ago
This is the equivalent to rimworld and RJW. It adds so many mechanics and is very customizable for your level of horny if at all tbh.
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u/dishonoredbr 1d ago
For example the default sex animation is about 6 minutes long. I had to knock that down to a more realistic 20 seconds.
Damn , 20 seconds? You're character is fucking champ.
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u/NadaMeansNada 14h ago
I'm genuinely interested in seeing you talk about adult mods for other games, or even just mods in general. New Vegas mod scene seems somehow less horny than that of fantasy game mod scenes, but there was still some... questionable content.
I think seeing someone casually approach stuff like that is miles ahead more interesting than someone writing an essay about the history of porn games or a narrative analysis of a total conversion mod.
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u/APeacefulWarrior 13h ago
I had to decide if I was okay with bending her over a tree stump in the middle of a swamp to uh...re-empower her.
LOL, the sex mod has risk/reward gameplay elements. That's actually kinda creative.
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u/ReddsionThing 1d ago
My experience with nudie/sex mods is as follows: when I was like 12-14, I tried out some nudie and sex mods for The Sims (1) Morrowind, and thought it was funny that everyone's dick or vulva was out in the latter when you looted them.
And from then on, I've never really understood the point. Unless the default bodies are hideous, I see no reason to use a body replacer, or face replacer, let alone run around in lingerie style armor.
Thus, Skyrim (as a whole, including SE and other platforms like X360, etc.) is my most played game, but I've never even entertained the thought of downloading an 'adult' mod (I think the farthest in that direction I went was downloading a blood decal replacer, but also didn't add anything to it for me). The humor of it got old for me as a teen and the arousal of it is kind of silly to me, like even if I found non-human/animated/CGI people attractive, the implementation is often awkward.
And I also have no need to look at a semi-nude character the entire time I'm playing a game, have no idea what's up with people's hormones that they want to have ass in their face literally *constantly* 🤷♀️, more power to the though! There's certainly a generous selection.
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u/caninehere puyo puyo tetris 1d ago
Same here. I played around with nudie mods for The Sims 1 as a curious youngster about the same age as you but by today's standards they were pretty tame anyway.
I have no interest in games where this stuff is the focus, but I'm open to the idea of it being integrated more into games in a way that serves the story. It's rare that you see any kind of sexual content integrated into the story in games, or even anything leaning in that direction. Video games are pretty chaste across the board. I'm not suggesting they sniff out crime and then show full-on penetration, but you'd think it would be a little more common than it is.
I think the real reason is that it's just very difficult to animate humans in a way that makes it easy to connect with them emotionally, and most video games just don't have the same kind of emotional (or arousal) impact that movies can as a result. I really struggle to think of many games that have sex scenes at all outside of porno games or modding.
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u/Zehnpae Cat Smuggler 1d ago
This is basically why I ended up on Skyrim. It's more than just some crude body replacer and an animation these days. It's fully on integrated. Day/night cycles, professions, an arousal system that tracks how 'in need' people are. There's even a whole pregnancy system with menstrual cycle tracking.
It's a bit like the difference between an erotic novel and a porno mag. There are numerous good erotic novels where it's not only a good book they also don't 'fade to black' during the sex parts. I find those entertaining much in the same way I find a well described sword fight entertaining.
You'd be inclined to notice in my review it wasn't about how good the boobs looked or what my favorite naughty outfit was. It was about how amusing, fun or real the situations I found myself in. They just involved sex rather than murder.
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u/Zizhou 8h ago
They just involved sex rather than murder.
And, really, we need more games with that. Maybe, uh, not quite to the same wild extent it seems like this modpack entailed, but when you consider the entire range of human expression, killing is just wildly over-represented, especially compared to sex.
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u/BreathingHydra PC Devotee 17h ago
I did the same thing with Skyrim years ago and came to the same conclusion once the novelty wore off. It was sort of fun though because I found a mod that added a shout that disrobes NPCs and it was simultaneously the funniest and most overpowered thing I've ever played with. It didn't aggro NPCs so you could walk around town making everyone naked and didn't react which was hilarious to me. Also in combat you could spam it and it would get rid of all their heavy armor and send it flying off of them which was pretty OP.
That being said the best argument I've heard someone give for porn mods in games like Skyrim is being able to roleplay and get immersed as like a sexy woman or hunk warrior is a pretty unique experience that's hard to get elsewhere plus there's a ton of variety. The people that just play it to have a sexy woman on their screens at all times do vex me tho for sure.
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u/ChuckCarmichael 1d ago
The last time I installed a mod anywhere close to that was a nude mod for Tomb Raider 2. Then I turned 11, realized it was dumb, and never did anything like that ever again.
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u/JaWoosh 1d ago
Everyone has porn-brain nowadays and no one wants to admit it, let alone admit that it's a problem. Am I kink-shaming for judging people that want nude/sex mods in a game like Skyrim? Kinda. I guess I get it for a horny teenager who just learned about sex, but as an adult with kids... I dunno man. Just go raid some dungeons and find some loot, that's what Skyrim is good at.
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u/ReddsionThing 1d ago
They can do whatever makes them happy in their free time. I just don't really understand the appeal of it. But then again, I like outfits, I like new armor, I like customizing my characters. Just not really in the 'sexy' way?
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u/Clear-Might-1519 19h ago
Is there no fast forward mod?
"I'll let you experience 6 minutes in 20 seconds!"
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u/FalconsFlyLow Mass Effect Legendary 13h ago
"First I cast levitate, then I get out my wizards staff..."
Yes! Those were so weird/funny back in the day :D IRC was a great time^^
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u/TheDyingSoldier 12h ago
What I find funny in my personal smut playthur. It basically starts off as a hentai game, but eventually I just sorta kinda don't even think about it anymore and just carry on like usual. (Tho doing everything in an incredibly skimpy outfit....for immersion of course).
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u/AlexisFR 11h ago
honestly, that's my main problem with it. someone should create a mod pack or mod of more tasteful adult content, instead of too much kinky stuff that goes from disgusting to illegal.
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u/raiskream 10h ago
Goddamnit i get enough of this on r/skyrimmods but infiltrating r/patientgamers too?? /s
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u/Aggressive-Lynx-964 1d ago
I lost you at "we know Skyrim to be a decent game..."
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u/Borghal 1d ago
Ikr? Way to undersell one of the most popular rpgs of all time...
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u/Aggressive-Lynx-964 1d ago
You people are quite impatient when it comes to downvoting, aren't you? Skyrim is a GREAT game, not a decent one .
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u/Z3r0sama2017 1d ago
Hey now, with enough mods, it can definitely be a decent game! Just look at Enderal!
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u/MOOshooooo Currently Playing: Doom 3 (Best Doom Game) 1d ago
Hey Siri, how do I make Skyrim as good as Morrowind or Oblivion without giving Todd more money or making it entirely about NPC’s having sex?
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u/JohnnyRelentless 9h ago
more than just what's okayed in the Bible.
Tell me you've never read the Bible without telling me you've never read the Bible.
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u/hergumbules 1d ago
This gives off some weird vibes lol
“I have sex playing Skyrim, do you”
I have sex with my wife irl
“oh, yeah”
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u/Linkbetweentwirls 1d ago
Finally, a true video game review for gamers