I'm not being sarcastic, I'm being very serious. Nudity is very important. What I failed to mention that it wasn't just explicit nudity that matters - ala the Witcher 2 (female nudity, at least).
Implicit nudity is extremely important too.
You ask most BioWare RPG fans about the topic of sex scenes and most of them will bring up ME1 as some kind of gold standard. That game doesn't have any explicit nudity, but the nudity is
implied. That's why people remember it.
The most important sex organ for either gender is the
brain. When people have sex, they burn more calories using their brain than they do their sex organs.
People like being able to fill in the blanks. We knew that the LI in ME1 was naked under those sheets at the end of the scene. We knew they were naked during.
Look at every BioWare sex scene since. There is no attempt at an illusion for the players - there are clothes, even in the most inappropriate places, because they probably wanted to avoid explicit nudity, when with some clever camera work, they could have implied the nudity instead.
Imagine if during the Miranda scene she takes off her bra as well, but you don't see her from the front. With clever camera work, the player knows she's nude and from that point forward, their brains can do the rest. A naked back can be just as titallating as the front just because we know the front is also bare.
Imagine if during the scene with Merrill, instead of them wearing their ridiculous undergarments, they're nude. But you don't see anything due to blankets, clever angles/camera work, etc. We know how people have sex, we know most people don't hurry to put on their clothes after doing it, and if we knew the principals were/are nude, even without seeing it, that'd be less..... babying than having them wear their little lingeries or whatevers.
TW2 does explicit nudity cuz they know their customers. They
know what they like. That's why they didn't even go near the topic of Geralt's mighty penis. Seeing that would have driven their customers into a mad rage accusing CDPR of trying to turn them gay or something. And explicit is
one way to do a sex scene.
But a sex scene using implicit nudity can be
just as exciting, just as titillating, if not
more, cuz our heads are doing a lot of the work instead, and this is a direction BioWare can go when it comes to their love scenes. They don't have to work blue. In fact, I'd prefer they didn't. But they should work
smart.
People are people and they're generally easy to manipulate. You want to titillate them? It's not that hard, and you don't need to flash any boob to do it.
TC - I read the original topic, but the topic has strayed since then. In any case, I don't agree with your premise that the prelude to the scene was done any better in either game, so there you have it.
Modifié par Rockpopple, 24 mai 2011 - 12:34 .
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