Summer Lesson, the cheerful virtual reality flirt-'em-up from the Tekken team, may yet wink at Western audiences, as publisher Bandai Namco has trademarked the title in Europe. The game, which sees you attempting to teach a college student while she twizzles her hair, has been one of the few PlayStation VR titles to draw any real attention, with the trailers unsurprisingly garnering millions of views.
The gameplay looks pretty simple, with you nodding and shaking your head at the behest of your student's requests. It'll need to be fleshed out a lot if it's going to sell at full-price, but we suppose that there's potential in the idea as a digital download. The big surprise, of course, is that this could come overseas at all – especially considering the somewhat questionable content. It'll be interesting to see the, er, response to this one.
[source oami.europa.eu, via twitter.com]
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this would probably work best as pack in game with the PSVR at least it could show the basics of what it could do
@FullbringIchigo It's not universally appealing, though. It would be a disastrous pack-in.
@get2sammyb true but if it was included on a kind of demo disc with some other titles it could work
@FullbringIchigo Yeah, agreed.
@get2sammyb PSVR could also be good for educational/teaching content, like a music teaching program
@FullbringIchigo Yeah this is the thing. You could imagine it being used in schools for history lessons and stuff - instead of reading/imagining what time periods are like, you could visit them.
It's quite exciting.
This video has strengthened my belief that the PSVR will fail, I dont want it to as playing game's like BF4 or even Battlefront would be awsome but I reckon it's going to be more for walking simulater "game's" and Minecraft Story Mode (no building involved just X to say yes 0 to say no etc) and if it is it will fail.
@get2sammyb as long as the price point is right and with the right content this could be really successful
let's just hope Sony can pull it off and it doesn't become another Virtual Boy
Or if we're lucky we could teach a classroom full of people! that sound's pretty.........fun kinda.
The main question is, how long will it be until someone hacks this game and turns it into something more naughty?
@Cowboysfan-22 probably about a week, you know they will be working on it from the moment it's released
Blue balls the game
I'm gonna wait to judge this game. It looks interesting, but I don't know if the content will really be questionable. I honestly think it won't as perverted as some people are expecting right now.
@Jaz007 Oh, it will absolutely be all above board. Having said that, it's pretty clear what they're going for!
Where is the Dead or Alive version? That would sell like crazy...
OR, you could just go meet and talk with a REAL girl.
The VR fan service train has left the station.
@FullbringIchigo only this and DOA Extreme 3 will make me consider buying a PS VR and I agree... the VR should come with a demo disc with various short experiences including this one
The Fallout 4 divorce won't hold a candle to what will come from this!
PSVR killer app. bring this and VR headset will be day one for me!
@xMEADx I see you've never tried VR (That's not a knock on you at all, as it's a nascent technology not widely available).
But if you had, you'd know that VR isn't all about the Battlefields and Fallouts of the world like flat screen gaming is.
They'll have those games yes, but you'll be surprised how much you might not want to play them (this is coming from a guy who has over 200 hours into Fallout 4 BTW).
VR really does make you feel like you're "really there".
It's not all that much fun being "really there" in a super fast paced war zone, with people dying all around you, and everyone trying to kill you. Nobody wants to REALLY REALLY be there.
You'd be surprised how mentally exhausting something like that can be.
@FullbringIchigo Which is why I just don't understand.... Why not just allow that stuff in the first place??
Statistics show, that this is the first year that there are now officially more gamers OVER 30, than there are under 30.
You're making products for ADULTS. What's wrong with a little adult oriented stuff??
Allow it on your console, slap an AO rating on it, allow it to be sold only to those over 18 who are willing to verify their birthday, and be done with it.
I'm an adult. I'm their consumer. I'd buy a "naughty" version of this. What's so wrong with selling it to me??
I'm not talking about Rape-lay here, or Kiddie-porn. Jesus, why is the western world so freaking uptight about something that, if we stopped doing, we'd go extinct??!!
A huge, HUGE majority of people would have NO problem with it, as long as it wasn't purposefully and openly sold to kids. It's just a couple of bitchy old ladies with big mouths that keep the rest of us adults from enjoying some adult content (probably would be played with our wives and girlfriends anyway)
@Jaz007 I totally don't see AT ALL what's so "questionable" about this content as is??
Western audiences seem to eat up GTA V. Ever see that game? What's the author talking about?
@BodyW-outOrgans oh God. Shut up loser. Suppose you're also one of those guys who "doesn't" (see: does all the time) watch porn either cause :
"I don't need to. I get real woman in real life"
Go suck on a cyanide pill loser.
@Daveccarsley The problem is image. The stuff you seek will be on PC, but PlayStation is a family console and they can't really risk it being labelled 'PornStation' by the press.
Anyway, your latest comment just earned you a ban. And there I thought you were up for having a rational debate like a real person.
@get2sammyb but you cannot deny that controversy in the mainstream press often results in a sales bump... a controversy over porn on playstation VR will certainly result in extra sales for the headset
@BodyW-outOrgans you can't trade REAL girls for credit
@xMEADx hopefully developers are more imaginative than that. We have the tech to plug us into these environments - wouldn't it be amazing playing Ratchet and Clank in VR in the 3rd person, versus watching it on a flat panel?
I cannot wait for No Man's Sky ... I would pick up PSVR simply to experience that game alone.
It's a strange world we live in when the majority of games have you kill hundreds of people and break all manner of laws, yet a game where you flirt with one girl is seen as questionable
@DualWielding well you know the old saying
"There's no such thing as bad publicity"
@carlos82 Agree there. This probably isn't my type of game but I would be far more worried about my kids playing GTA in VR (if such a thing did come along) then flirt with some virtual girls. I think it is purely the image thing and the headlines that media outlets can make. That probably would hurt sales though - anyone bf's/gf's that wants to buy one will be like, oh right so you can get off with a virtual girl? That might cause stigma against VR.
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@Bad-MuthaAdebisi True enough.. that would be strange huh?
@get2sammyb Thanks! That seemed a bit excessive.
@BodyW-outOrgans that's one of the downsides about the internet, the anonymity of it allows people to show the worst side of themselves with no repercussion
he never would have said anything like that to your face in real life because he would probably get a punch in the gob
@FullbringIchigo sure enough... Then again, he probably wouldn't be brave enough to say anything like that to anyone in real life...
@BodyW-outOrgans my point exactly, it's easy to be tough and abusive when your hiding behind a computer screen
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