According to the ESRB "Forza Horizon 2 has revealing bikinis"

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LOL.

I’m way more interested in how it plays. Telling people it has revealing bikinis and short shorts is not really on my radar when it comes to game features in a racing game.

I know they have to give a complete picture of a game for those parents who pay attention, but nobody is going to be paying attention to female character clothing when they’ve got a Lamborghini Huracan covered in raindrops, driving under a rainbow. lol

Plus many of the girls i’ve met at car meets are just wearing t-shirts and jeans. I live on the coast, and there is still not an abundance of bikinis down the seafront when the petrol heads congregate. It seems a cheap way to attract teenage boys, the exact same teenage boys who then go online and act like ass-hats.

Isn’t it about time gaming grew up a little in general. It’s things like this that give people an erroneous impression of gamers as immature little boys who like boobies and swearing. lol

I mean, some conventions are starting to stop booth babes, it just needs to trickle down into game development.

I should point out at this point that a friend of my wife is a booth babe, she does all sorts, from gaming conventions to boat shows. She makes a good living out of it, and to be honest, she is a thick a pig[Mod edit - WSD, don’t allude to swearing]. She’s a really nice girl, but not bright, so this line of work was perfect for her, she’s pretty and just stands there. But I’d still see her out of work and having to find another career, than perpetuating this ‘sex sells’ policy, that seems to pervade everything. I mean i love boobs as much as the next man, but the novelty wears off when they’re everywhere you look.

This was meant to be a quick post, and went full on rant. lol. Sorry guys.

I’m just interested to hear what others say really. I can see both sides, but i’d still prefer gaming ‘grew up’ a little. Something like GTA V, it fits to be honest, and that’s ok, but for a game like this, i think this kind of stuff gets shoehorned in to appeal to the knuckle draggers, and it gives the wrong impression from the outside looking in.

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“Opening cutscenes contain brief images of women wearing revealing outfits (e.g., bikini tops, short-shorts), including depictions close-up or with panned camera angles”

It could just be some girls in bikini on a beach that you can spot for 2 seconds during a cutscene. It doesn’t seem a “game feature” to me…and even if It was, It wouldn’t be much different than MotoGP/SBK races, or other form of motorsports, with paddock girls. And I never heard anyone calling spectators “immature little boys” just because of paddock girls. Just my opinion of course.

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This game take place where they have some of the best beaches in the world. of course there need to be girls in bikinis in the intro.

https://www.google.no/search?q=beaches+cote+de+sur&client=firefox-a&hs=LG6&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=VMrkU6cXwfnJA_yfgbgB&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=982

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They are the two types of “beaches” if you know why I mean…

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lol how is this then a E10+ game? anyway what happened to the drug reference that made it T for teen. well at least it is no GTA 5

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Yet your post starts out with

I don’t personally see a big deal with women in swimsuits. As a parent I would rather my kids play a game like this than GTA or any other game with drugs and random killing for no reason.

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I agree, it’s not like the women are nude. Also, if you take your kids to any beach, swimming pool, waterpark,etc, there are sure to be girls there wearing bikinis and booty shorts.

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I’d say this thread does more to give off a wrong impression than that ratings description ever would have. Ratings boards provide their descriptions for advisory purposes, not marketing. Here’s the launch trailer for the first Forza Horizon. News - Forza See the bikini top? Would any reasonable person look at that advertising and come to the conclusion that the developers shoehorned salacious material in to attract teenage boys? Part of growing up is not overreacting.

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No I missed it Max. It was that brief. Anyways, if anyone has issue with a spectating NPC wearing a bikini top, they have some serious issues. What I’d like to know is how Horizon 1 ever references drugs. I’ve played the game nearly to completion and there is nothing to suggest this.

-k

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“Some sequences reference illicit substances (e.g., “Clean-living boy Darius Flynt has apparently never taken recreational drugs,” “drug-fueled jerks,” and “All those kids . . . taking drugs, fornicating!”)”

Maybe in some DJ/Radio chat?

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I remember before a race a driver(I can’t remember which) He said “Adrenaline is my drug of choice”. That’s probably one of the reasons for drug reference.

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You guys are totally right. There shouldn’t be bikini Girls in Horizon 2. I mean, this isn’t America anymore… :3

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Exactly. Now is the time to include bikini girls in the game. We’ve come to the land where it all makes sense and is lovely to look at. No more digging through 300 pounds of lard to find the bikini body.

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Why are Americans so incredibly breast-fixed ?

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Good question. I really don’t get the whole fixation on things that somehow have become taboo, especially since the States is supposed to be the land of freedom. I reckon nudity and respect for the naked body aren’t part of the freedom ideas. In media, violence seems ok for most of a general audience, but show some skin and it becomes a big concern. Crazy.
I’m glad I grew up in Europe where the human body is seen as something beautiful and natural, rather than something that people should cover up and be embarrassed about. I doubt the rendition of the south of France and the north of Italy will be accurately revealing from a beach wear aspect, but that’s fine. I understand that the game developers want to make the game ‘appropriate’ for as many people as possible, regardless of their views on how much naked skin that is still considered ‘decent’.
By the way, most bikinis are already quite revealing, so I’m not sure why the OP felt the need to add the word in the title. Unless the ESRB actually stated it that way… :confused:

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I live in America, and I have no idea.

Well, except for a theory I concocted. I think the whole thing about human mammary glands being taboo was drilled into the public consciousness by the right-wing religious nuts. The taboo itself is therefore to blame. We naturally want that which we cannot have. (Insert inane, babbling 3,579-page anti-religion rant here.)

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This is the part where Misato tells us to be sure to come back for the sequel, there’ll be plenty of fanservice.

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I don’t care one way or another about this. Most games that include nudity or near nudity do so because it fits a theme. The games that don’t have it do so because it also fits a theme. [Straight] guys like girls… Girls like girls… If booth babes help my favorite franchise to ship a few more units then YES, HIRE ALL THE BOOTH BABES. Hell, if hot guys in speedos were hired by booths and they interested more girls in gaming and it helped expand the community then I’d encourage all the hot guys to try and be a booth babe haha.

The people who are offended by this kind of thing, I feel, do more good than bad to this community.

By the way… you can’t depict a beach, waterfront, or oceanside town without showing bikinis or revealing clothing.

And yes, I think American religious practices, namely the “no sex before marriage/practice abstinence/no sex education” view, are the modern cause of this taboo. But one of Britain’s Queens is also to blame. I forget exactly which one, but she was very “proper” and religious, and was against revealing clothing, even starting new fashion trends to cover the legs and shoulders, to have high-hemmed necklines, etc, and was even against bare furniture legs because she felt it was a sexual influence.

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In America we can have a game about stealing cars, murdering people in graphic and violent ways, where we can drink and do drugs, and no one bats an eye. Then heaven forbid a game developer shows a pair of naked mammary glands or talks about sex at all. Our social desires and expectations are just a hypocritical mess formed through guilt and religious indoctrination, we have billboard advertisements of beautiful women in revealing and suggestive clothing, sometimes nothing at all, and men also in tight clothing or undies so tight it practically takes shape of his privates; yet sex is still largely viewed as taboo.

Instead of a “suggestive clothing” on the warning label it should read “Suggestive clothing, and you should feel bad about yourself because we have to make this a warning to appease you.”

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