Personally, I could do without the cams. But voyeurism isn't really my thing, either. Spying on someone in the early stages of a game might have it's place in the slow escalation of sexual tension, but if it has to happen, I'd prefer it be peeking in person, say through a half-open door. Cameras just add an element of remoteness that just makes it less interesting.Wonder how long before we see a Big Brother remake... With the added bonus of the cams being more than just the protagonist's source of income, or an actual plan when it comes to development.
What always bugged me, and was practically never expanded on, was why the house already had a camera in it.
I mean, it was the ex-husband's house that he gave to the family many years after leaving them, with a camera already set up in the lounge.
Then there's the much later addition to Eric, where he's a con-man who knows about the house, wants it, and logically (I know, applying logic to this game is stupid) knows about the lounge cam, and has access to it.
It always felt like there was some sort of story there, but Dark Silver's concern for money vastly outstripped anything approaching artistic integrity, so that went the way of the dodo.
Then there was entire angle of Max allowing hundreds (or more) of strangers to gawk at his naked family while he made money with it. It painted Max as an asshole from an early part of the game, and his character just went downhill from there. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but the characters at the beginning seemed richer and full of promise before they all degraded in one way or another. Ann completely sold out her family for Eric, before seeming to slowly lose her sanity as she lounged around the house in a towel all day when she wasn't being talked into making porn or giving her son handjobs because of his supposed carpal tunnel syndrom. Alice started as just a bitchy big sister begging to be tamed or seduced, before eventually turning into a blackmailing dominant bitch. And Lisa started off innocent became increasingly superficial and seemed to care the least for Max out of the entire family. But she honestly seemed to become more and more devoid any emotion the longer the game progressed.