FrontTowardEnemy wrote...
The simple truth is that this happened because of two reasons: The media and all of the hyper-sensitive parents that, foolishly, might allow their children to play a game where half of the time you are covered in gore, would have a complete meltdown at the first sign of a bare nipple.
WE know the game is not intended for children. We KNOW that this is a mature game. Sadly, there are far too many parents, religious zealots and busy-bodys for something like this to not have repercussions. Unfortunately, due to societal pressure, companies like EA make decisions that they feel will have the least back-lash.
Simplest solution, barring someone making a mod, is to simply hit the ESC key when the scene starts. Personally, if this was the worst problem with the game I wouldn't care less.
Well, the thing is I'm not seeing any backlash from other aspects in the game such as beastility, rape, murder of children, sex with demons, nudity, open homosexuality, you know things which are usually up on the list of buttom pushers for the prudish and oversensitive groups. Yet making that scene the way we all know the developers intended it to be that would have been the straw that brokes the camels back? At least with Mass Effect the scene was the only thing in the game that went above the typical standard and even then it was over-zealousness and ignorance that made it out to be something that in actuality it was not. Dragon Age, Dragon Age is full of things which I thought would make the people who scolded the Mass Effect scene faint from shock, yet there has been nothing of signifiance to come out of it and in reality it's been praised left and right, up and down.
There is no doubt this was done out of fear of pushing the wrong buttons again, and I'd bet every penny I have that the order came from EA's side of the box rather then Bioware's. I just think they overestimated greaty and really, considering what else they left in the game, shouldn't have worried about it at all.
Is it wrong to want to have some integrity in your life? If you think so, then I feel for you.
You can fling you insults but I don't see your answer as to what purpose throwing nudity in a game serves.
Anyway, I don't want to get ignorant or into an insult match, just wanted to give some food for thought.
Integrity itself is a very personal and subjective word, you may draw a line here and I'll draw it 20 feet past you. It doesn't mean I'm lacking intregity, it just means I draw the line at a different level then you. With that said what is the line of integirty for a game? Having nude demons is fine but a nude lady not so much? Killing and possessing children and lobbing off heads is all fine and dandy but a short scene portraying the epitome of a relationship between the main character and their lover is going to far?
Mind you no one is asking for a 10 minute scene with vivid details and play-by-play action here, most are simply saying the scene could have been much better weather it actually involved nudity or not. As it is now it's rather subpar, odd, and clunky compared to everything else in the game. Most believe removing the underwear would improve the scene, personally I think the scene itself is pretty bad to begin with. Personal opinions and prefrences by people just like you who simply want the scene to better represent the moment so to speak. Having so certainly doesn't bring a game such as Dragon Age down on the intregrity ladder considering everything there is in the game, and if you feel it does then I must say it's quite hypocritical.