BlacJAC74 wrote...
rdrules wrote...
BlacJAC74 wrote...
Like the love scenes, they add absolutely nothing to the game whatsoever. I don't mind my porn and i love sex, so I'm no prude, but the whole 'love interest' thing is already taking up valuable disc space, which could have been used for other things, so adding in more useless content would only lead to yet more stuff being cut from the game.
they add massive amounts to the game, the lore and social interaction aspects would be the same at all, there is so much you can only learn about your squadmates in me2 if you romance them.
the game was always about interactions like this and mass effect wouldnt be the same without it
nah, i don't buy that. Remove the unnecessary love interest clap-trap and replace it with more dialouge and you get the same thing. Add to that, the time allocated to the love scence would be better used adding to other areas of the story or giving us 5 more minutes of actual game play would be better still.
whether i romance someone or not makes absolutley no difference to my game. I don't see what it adds. Seriously i don't. It's just there to get more $$$$$$ and free advertising.
Have i missed something regarding the lore? as far as i can see, you get the lore without doing the whole LI malarkey, so i dunno what you mean with the lore part of your argument.
Nah, you ain't missing anything it's just a straw man argument.
I think the real point is, over in the EU/Asia/Oceania we really don't care about nudity. Iirc you can get a crap-ton of nudity in a game or video without an "ADULT" rating provided you don't show genitals in sex or 'prepared' for sex (i.e. Hard on).
And when a game/movie is so up on the violence and has mature themes, people want the sex or romance scenes to be on par with everything else. Don't patronise the audience with 'bra' shots etc. I think it's a case of "do it right and fully or, don't do it at all."
As for the American 'tradition' of violence = fine, sex = taboo, I never understood it. Nipples are nipples, the sooner people get over it the better. If anything torture-porn is a helluva lot worse. And no, I don't want torture crapfests banned or toned down either, freedom of speech/artistic expression et al.