I just had a perfect idea for a VR game while at a bar yesterday. It plays to the strenghts of VR, and head tracking (and ideally gaze tracking if it were possible) is the core of gameplay. Behold:
Boyfriend Simulator.
You play as a guy going on a date with his crazy jealous girlfriend. Make your girlfriend feel like you are giving her enough atention, and don't let her see you are looking at other hot women around you.
It would be a mostly on-rails experience, where you follow her through a variety of diferent places. There'd be the dinner at the restaurant level, Sunday at the park level, Night-club level, friens gathering level, walk in the mall level etc.
Gameplay is based on male's hard to control willingness to look at womens bodies. It should have a exagerated and comically charicatural representation of the world, where your girlfriend is extra annoying and angry, and over-talkative, saying very uninteresting stuff. Ocasionally you have to nod to pretend you are listening. Fail to notice she made you a question, and you loose points. Nod up-down if she asked something like "do I look fat on this dress" instead of noding left-right -denial- and you loose a bunch of points.
The places you go to, would have all sorts of impossibly hot girls doing impossibly sexy things, though inocently. Something of Leisure Suit Larry level of absurtity, but girls have to look convincing and actually atractive enough for a man's natural instinct of checking them out to actually kick in. There'd be girls with short shorts everywhere, girls leaning on counters with big cleavege, girls leaning butt-to-the-sky to get things from the floor, women going up ladders wearing skirts... If you look at any of that while your gf is allert, she will call you out and you loose more points. Whenever some absurdly sexy thing happens around you, you have to do your best to look anywhere else.
Other moments you will have to interact with other women, like the host of a party you are going to, or the cashier of a store, she'd ofcoure have huge cleavage, you have to make eye contact with her, and NEVER look down. This would get extra hard as she would start moving in ways that would make her breasts shake, and whenever you look, you hear a huge Grrrrrrr from your gf, while the other woman subtly giggles devilishly.
Loose to many points and the date is over.
There could also be levels where your friends keep sending you messages in your phone, either inviting you to go out with them instead, or sending pictures of nude women. The objective here would be to keep up with the messages without letting your gf notice. This level would use a motion sensing controler to detect when you raise your hands in front of your face!
There could be football game level also. You are at a bar with her, she wants to talk to you about something very important about this bich that is giving her a hard time at work for some very petty reasons and through some very small passive agressive actions, and OMG, do you believe the other day she walked in with a.... (you get the picture) and while she is saying all that, there is a TV on the baground playing the soccer game of the team you cheer for. You gotta whach the most of the game you can whenever your girl isn't looking.
Final bosses would be:
-picking her up at a all-girls gathering she had with her girl friends and for some reason you have to stay there for a while and all of them are supper hot and hitting on you.
-Sunny day at the beach - enough said.
-Going to the gym - this one you could actualy not be punished by your gf sometimes, but acutally by failing to do some of the exercises and injuring yourself or looking stupid, like in falling from the treadmill or by hitting your heat with the weght you were supposed to be lifting.
The feminist comunity would of course get all butt-hurt over this for portraying old stereotypes, but that's just what they always do anyways. I don't have a gf like this, and never did, and I agree that relationships like that are very mediocre. I have never seen any gf of mine as just a parrot saying stuff I don't care about that I just have to endure. But still, there are people like that in the world -many infact- and it is a funny subject matter. There is no harm in poking fun at specific types of people, it shouldn't be a game's job to readucate society or pretend certain types of people and relationships don't exist and never existed just because they are seen as oldfashioned, and actually, setting out to do that is very arrogant.
Now, doesn't this sound like it could be a hell of a funny game? It also has the uncomon property that gameplay is not mechanically or strategically hard. Difficulty is actually based on self control and a guys natural desire to check beatyful women out. Homosexual men, or heterosexual women would probably see no point in the game and find it stupid, but that would be part of the fun!
Someone, please, make this happen.
