OK, game seems awesome in most ways (my only known trepidation is in just how much room for variation in the early part of the game), but nudity *is* important to me. I'll explain why. You can't really truly express the breadth of emotional and intellectual experience that any storyteller should be striving to achieve in the portrayal of these kinds of relationships and otherwise more and more mature kinds of stories without being true to the situations inherent there in, and rejecting those artificial taboos that chain the experience. You know, just in recent gaming, we have Heavy Rain, the single most powerful storytelling in gaming thus far IMO, where any restraint or timidity on the player's part is theirs alone, and is in so doing a part of the full emotional experience. We've even got Mass Effect 1, so emotionally resonant that I'm sticking with Liara for my male PC through three games and a total lack of development through Mass Effect 2 at launch. ME2's relationships' realisations seem shallow and stunted by comparison with the near exception of Jack's full romance, sabotaged by the odd prevalence of that strange leather strap. In DA:O, those odd brown skivvies intruded on what should have been important scenes and just left me wondering, along with everyone who watched me play, just what were they doing there? Why were they included simply to end up breaking immersion, as lovingly animated as they were? Why was nudity fine so long as it was monstrous, but not tender or beautiful or fully human? Imagine if Love and Other Drugs, or The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo, Let The Right One In, Winter's Bone, Baader-Meinhoff Complex, all recently in theaters (and highly recommended), had been so restrained? On television, what would Dexter, Rome, Spartacus (tonal similarities there), True Blood, Shameless, Californication, 95% of the best television produced, be if they were afraid to push the cultural envelope? Another thing Dragon Age and Mass Effect have in common with that list of quality art / entertainment is that they're all M/R rated for a number of reasons ranging from atmosphere and honest vocal characterisation to mature subject matter. Legitimately M games like these should not injure themselves pretending to be T games just because their corporate sides tend to over-avoid out of the box nipples. And they shouldn't embarrass themselves trying to replace legitimate nudity with T game-ish cheesecake. Also, if I were the kind of parent that was worried about nudity but ended up buying this for my kid, I think I'd be more concerned about a number of other aspects to these games. These are true M games. Nudity should not be treated as such a problem.
edit: P.S. Anyone wants to start a topic about this in particular to make more of point, feel free to quote whatever helps your arguement. I'm not on enough to run a topic.
Modifié par cindercatz, 01 février 2011 - 11:57 .
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