FitScotGaymer wrote...
The better sex scenes also consist of "mild", "medium", and "zesty". I use the medium ones which are slightly longer than the vanilla scenes and are a tiny bit more graphic than the vanilla scenes. They about as graphic as the sex scenes in Sex and the City. Mild is basically the vanilla scenes with better camera angles. And Zesty is longer than medium, a bit more graphic again; about on the level as Basic Instinct's sex scene i reckon.
I wouldnt class any of them as porn; maybe zesty might qualify as soft core but if it did it would be very very soft.
I use them mostly for realism. A bit of dry humping in underwear seemed just stupid to me. Especially in a game that features a LOT of gore and death; it also seemed vaguely hypocritical and foolish.
I wouldn't call the mild ones porn, necessarily, but I would call it gratuitous. Seeing one of the participants getting a BJ, for example, has no bearing whatsoever on the story. There's really no good reason for adding it other than to make it titillating for the viewer.
What we need to know, at the basest level, is that they're doing it. One secondary objective might be to highlight the "mood" of the occasion, meaning is it rough or tender or whatever...that still tells us something about the participants' character and/or the kind of relationship they have. For example, I think it being Alistair's first time is a valid thing to take into account. You'd miss that chance with a fade-to-black, and your only recourse would be to spell it out in "pillow talk" later, which has a high risk of being clunky or awkward.
But the thing is, none of that actually requires any nudity. Again I'll bring up Mass Effect 1. We see very little indeed, just half an ass. But most people agree it was miles ahead of DAO.
With DAO, it felt like they used these extremely blatant camera angles, and as a result they had to resort to the underwear. But if they had just used more subtle camera angles in the first place, there'd be no need for them. For example, take the Dark Ritual. It starts out with what is nearly a full-body shot of Morrigan facing the camera. I think even the most permissive gamer can appreciate why BW might want to avoid full frontal nudity. But rather than slapping the undies on her (which makes no sense because she's clearly not wearing that bra beforehand), what if they did an over-the-shoulder shot? Or maybe one from her waist up from the back, so you can see the Warden's reaction as her robe falls to the floor? Or if technical difficulties prevent disrobing, you could just show her bare back as she walks toward the Warden.
Anyway, these are just examples. Maybe not even good ones; I'm no filmmaker. But it feels like using the underpants was a band-aid for a problem they themselves created by not considering their camera angles more carefully.
Modifié par SirOccam, 03 octobre 2010 - 01:36 .
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