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Slimgrin sumed up what I was trying to say in a few lines. All ME2 is dry humping that's it for people can't handle TW2 type of scenes.
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I second this, a other reason why I made the thread. I admit that beauty of it prompted me to post the thread comparing how lame ME2 dry humping was.
"Can't handle TW2 type of scenes"? I'm glad you admitted that your original intent was to troll, but if you hadn't, lines like these would have erased all doubt of that. People don't like the Witcher 2 idiocy not because of the nudity or the depiction of sex, but because they're RIDICULOUS. It's not a matter of prudery. Seriously, the fact that people think this cartoonish soft-core nonsense is "mature" is just sad. It's the OPPOSITE of mature.
For what it's worth, ME2's "dry humping" is just as ridiculous. NEITHER is an example of a well-executed romance scene. A really good scene will have a point other than to let boys ogle boobies and get all hot and bothered by the girl's ooohs and aaahs of "pleasure". Soft-core porn has a point, but that point is not to forward a story, it's to give a guy a boner. Let's not kid ourselves, let's not pretend that it's about "immersion" or "showing the world" or any other stretch of the imagination. We all know why those scenes are there in the Witcher 2. I get that a lot of guys like them. Anything that titillates is going to be well-received by the titillated. And Triss certainly puts the "******" in "titillate". Happy you got what you wanted.
Well, what if you're not the target audience for the titillation? Then it's just insulting to watch. If Mass Effect went this route, I would be insulted, because I don't need five minutes of Shepard and some girl having a quickie. If I want to see boobies, I can look in a mirror. And amazingly, hearing digital characters grunt and sigh does nothing for me whatsoever, I just find it silly.
Whatever romance scenes are present in ME3 should primarily be about
conversation — what the two characters
say to each other in those intimate moments — not which kama sutra positions they explore. Can there be nudity? Sure. Should there be nudity? If it's right for the scene. But beyond a certain point it's just voyeurism, and that's not what I want out of a game. I'm sure there are plenty of other games like that for the people who want it. And there's always, you know, actual PORN for people who want that.
What would crack me the hell up, though, is if Mass Effect 3 DID do this Witcher 2 type of thing—
for all the romances. That's right, even the m/m ones. The backlash would be epic, and hilarious. And I would lol, truly I would lol. For I know that many of the people lauding the "maturity" of TW2's stupidity would be the same ones decrying the gratuity of Shepard's man-on-man action. A knee-slapping good time, that would be, and almost worth having to sit through those protracted digital "romance" scenes.