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Sylvius the Mad wrote...

..., but I still think corpses can be more affecting set decorations if they are naked. Again, I point to Cailan in Ostagar, and the heaps of bodies in Fort Drakon.....


To each their own kink. I don't judge. If you need to see naked dead people to think something is more realistic I wish you well in your career as an amatuer coroner.



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Please explain why darkspawn would keep his underwear on? Cailan's body had clearly been abused by whoever tied him to that post, and his armour was removed and scattered about. Does it make sense for his naughty bits to remain carefully covered?

Moreover, you're going back there to recover his body. Having his body left exposed makes for a more poignant scene.

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Chris Priestly wrote...

To each their own kink. I don't judge. If you need to see naked dead people to think something is more realistic I wish you well in your career as an amatuer coroner.

Not more realistic.  More moving.  Nude corpses lack the dignity of clothed corpses.

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Chris Priestly wrote...

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

..., but I still think corpses can be more affecting set decorations if they are naked. Again, I point to Cailan in Ostagar, and the heaps of bodies in Fort Drakon.....


To each their own kink. I don't judge. If you need to see naked dead people to think something is more realistic I wish you well in your career as an amatuer coroner.


It's for research purposes only!

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Chris Priestly wrote...

For me, and this is my personal opinion and not BioWare's opinion, I have never seen the need for nudity in video games, especially BioWare's video games.

I do understand the argument that "if you are going to show someone in a situation where they should be naked, then they SHOULD be naked" and I actually agree with this. It drives me nuts in a movie or TV when someone walks out of a shower and they are, say, conveniently wearing a bathing suit for some reason. It is jarring and, more importantly, makes no sense.

However, there are all sorts of ways that a game can be written where you don't have to show naked bodies. I have always been more tantelized by the suggestion of nudity and a wish that I could see what was "behind the curtain" rather than having it thrownat me directly in my face (so to speak). If you want to take off someone's armor it makes sense to me that they have underwear on under it (even leather armor chafes somethign terrible). Now, if you want to take off the underwear for whatever reason, well... I don't think that is a feature we would include. There is plenty of nudity on the internet if you want to find it. We can find better ways to make our games interesting without needing to have to rely on this.



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I agree with this. At the same time though, I think people need to understand that just because there can be nudity in games, doesn't mean it should be compared to porn, or something "offensive". Nudity can be done in a very tasteful manner if it is done right. I'm also fine with the fact of there being no nudity, and there just being camera angles, or whatever. But another thing too, is that nudity isn't just in question for sex scenes, it could also be used for things like brothels, or other things of that nature. Again it could go both ways, I'm guessing at this point you might as well steer clear of it. Amazingly this topic has such a wide view, and lots of different opinions, and might as well just stay the way it is. Just please don't do in depth sex scenes if you're not going to do it in a mature manner.

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Sylvius the Mad wrote...

Please explain why darkspawn would keep his underwear on? Cailan's body had clearly been abused by whoever tied him to that post, and his armour was removed and scattered about. Does it make sense for his naughty bits to remain carefully covered?

Moreover, you're going back there to recover his body. Having his body left exposed makes for a more poignant scene.


They took his armour and weapons off and divided it among their leaders. You know... cause it's good loot. How's Cailian's underwear good loot?

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Angrywolves wrote...

I'm saying Bioware can't go A lpha Protocol type romance when they've gone further that in the past. It would look like they're self censoring themselves in order to prevent criticism from the American right wing media.


What's wrong with Alpha Protocol type romances?  They were pretty much just "fade to black"  Okay SIE had a brief underwear scene and Mina got a scene afterwards just wearing a shirt.  What more is needed?

It's the development of the relationship that makes the romance.  Not what goes on in the bedroom (or the med center, in SIE's case)

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I want no such evul pron in my digital entertainment.

Modifié par slimgrin, 05 avril 2013 - 11:22 .


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Nothing wrong with Alpha Protocol type romances unless you've done more in the past and you aka Bioware feel the need to self censor the game you're working on aka DAI .

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Fade to black with implied sex - Example: Morrigan camp kiss
Fine.

PG13 nudity and fade to black - Example: ME1 scene
Fine

Overall, the above approaches are probably the best general approaches.

Explicit nudity and fade to black
Could be fine.  Though it becomes tricky.  Are you doing things in a way that makes sense for the story and because you don't care about controversy?  That's fine.  Or are you doing it because it's controversial?  Well, if that's your reason you run the risk of doing it just to be doing it and thus coming across as tasteless in your execution.

Explicit nudity and explicit sex.
Could be fine.  Same concerns as above.  Also, I worry about the quality of the animation.  It could be very awkward.  I think it's unlikely you would gain you enough artistically or commercially to be worth the trouble.

Underwear sex.
Awkward and not fine. Well, okay.  I can think of a scenario where that would be appropriate: back rooms at a strip club.  But those aren't the kinds of encounters Bioware is trying to present in their games.  They're trying to show something in the context of a romance and not sexual encounters that are completely devoid of romance.

At any rate, I think that nudity and sex are artistically neutral. I don't think one should say "It should be this way all the time."  It really depends on the situation.  What story are you trying to tell and what's the most effective way of showing that?

One more thing specific to games.  Games are, ideally, interactive.  Sex is interactive.  If you don't want sex gameplay or active decision-making during sex, then sex is probably better left to the imagination (via fade to black) in the context of games as opposed to making someone a passive viewer that might become "out of synch" with what their character is doing.  Again, that's just what I generally expect would be a best practice.  (Perhaps showing sex scenes would work fine in a game where  you're not supposed to be as in control of your character.)

Modifié par Giltspur, 05 avril 2013 - 11:58 .


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Heh, I agree with Chris Priestly entirely. Not that there's anything wrong with nudity, it could even be hilarious and fun characterization etc. to reveal that somebody is buck-ass nekkid at an odd time or place. It gets used in movies a lot like this, although usually all you see is skinny guy butt. I don't see any reason to just fill the game with gratuitous nekkid people for no reason, though, particularly not CORPSES, I mean, seriously, dead people void their bowels and bladder so if the corpses are just lying around nekkid, that means somebody was motivated enough to steal underpants full of crap.

If you actually visited a morgue or a site where dead people are stripped and washed and embalmed or similar, okay, but even then they usually cover them up with a sheet or similar.

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M25105 wrote...

They took his armour and weapons off and divided it among their leaders. You know... cause it's good loot. How's Cailian's underwear good loot?


Well, you'd at least want to check if it was enchanted, wouldn't you?

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Wulfram wrote...

M25105 wrote...

They took his armour and weapons off and divided it among their leaders. You know... cause it's good loot. How's Cailian's underwear good loot?


Well, you'd at least want to check if it was enchanted, wouldn't you?

Forgive me, but I couldn't resist.

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Wulfram wrote...

M25105 wrote...

They took his armour and weapons off and divided it among their leaders. You know... cause it's good loot. How's Cailian's underwear good loot?


Well, you'd at least want to check if it was enchanted, wouldn't you?

When you die your bowels release, enchanted or not why would they want soiled underwear?

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Avalon The Elf wrote...

Wulfram wrote...

M25105 wrote...

They took his armour and weapons off and divided it among their leaders. You know... cause it's good loot. How's Cailian's underwear good loot?


Well, you'd at least want to check if it was enchanted, wouldn't you?

When you die your bowels release, enchanted or not why would they want soiled underwear?


A human wouldn't. The darkspawn? Why wouldn't they?

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Angrywolves wrote...

Nothing wrong with Alpha Protocol type romances unless you've done more in the past and you aka Bioware feel the need to self censor the game you're working on aka DAI .


Still don't get it.  Even if Bioware has done more than fade-to-black in the past, I don't buy Bioware (or Obsidian) games just for the love scenes. 

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your actually questioning wulfs humorous one liner, oh god /sigh oh god i just died a lil again

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I'm guessing you think Geralt to be rather shallow then, since the man never takes off his pants.

It honestly makes my day when people hold up TW2 (a game that I thoroughly enjoyed) as a mature example of how to do nudity in games. The whole "boobies are great, wee-wee's are gross"-vibe in that game can really only be called mature by anyone who is... Um.. Well, whom I don't agree with.

But now that I have you guys here, how does that work?? Did you not notice that she's naked and he's wearing pants? Is it a practical issue, where you reckon it's at least easier for the poor guy to grind a hole in one pair of pants rather than two sets of underware? I'm honestly curious because I see this all the time in this discussion, and I don't get it.

On topic, just fade to black. Sex in games can probably be awesome if done right, but I'm betting it won't be and doing it wrong just makes the whole thing look silly.


You know what, that's a fair point.

When I hold up TW2 for that scene, it's because it feels like they didn't go out of their way  to make it less offensive.  I actually can't remember any other nude scene in that game except for Triss at the beginning and even that scene and the bath scene are blurry in my memory.  Triss pulls Geralt into the bath while he's undressing, right?  Geralt must have been either nude or in his underwear in the first scene though...as I seem to recall him putting on his pants.  Either way, I think both scenes worked realistically.  Even the Mass Effect love scenes were done well IMO, but the DA scenes were way too awdward.  I just don't like to see them sacrifice realism for...what?  It's not like they're going for a Teen rating.


Thanks! And the thing is, they DID go out of their way to make it less offensive. Hence the pants. They just didn't care if anyone other than straight males were offended. I fail to be impressed by that brand of "maturity".

Yeah, she pulls him in after having flaunted her stuff for a while and then a kiss and fade to black. I agree that there's something really appealing about the scene - the ambiance, music and interaction between the characters probably. Seeing her bush and his trousers just wasn't it.

And I'm sorry, mate. He wears some sort of pants in the first scene as well, what looks like really long boxers. He even wears them while a naked, naturally, lady is straddling him and making a jolly good time of it too. It's just not the best part of the game, and it surprises me that anyone would hold it up as a good example of nudity in games. Women suggestively stripping and men having sex almost fully dressed isn't really a great way to handle it.

Still, I'm grateful that you took the time to explain. I'm guessing many guys aren't really paying attention to what Gerald is wearing in these scenes, but I'm betting VERY few would praise the maturity and guts of the dev's if it had been the male who was full frontal nude while the ladies wore pants and a top during the whole act.

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Mostly "I don't care, but if pixels and no underwear". Personally, I don't think it's worth the time to craft individual, detailed sex scenes in the first place. It encourages using sex scenes as the ultimate goal for the romances, and I don't think it adds anything to the game or characters. 

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Nudity can have a purpose outside of something sexual. Someone else brought up the Return to Ostagar (with a mod) that added some dimension to the scene. Nudity can evoke a lot of feelings based on the situation. That said, nudity isn't really necessary to show this. When it comes to romance, I don't care as long as there isn't any dry humping in underwear on my screen. Ideally, I think the first Mass Effect and DA2 did it the best and basing the romantic scenes off of either would be perfectly acceptable for me.

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-TC1989- wrote...

Chris Priestly wrote...

For me, and this is my personal opinion and not BioWare's opinion, I have never seen the need for nudity in video games, especially BioWare's video games.

I do understand the argument that "if you are going to show someone in a situation where they should be naked, then they SHOULD be naked" and I actually agree with this. It drives me nuts in a movie or TV when someone walks out of a shower and they are, say, conveniently wearing a bathing suit for some reason. It is jarring and, more importantly, makes no sense.

However, there are all sorts of ways that a game can be written where you don't have to show naked bodies. I have always been more tantelized by the suggestion of nudity and a wish that I could see what was "behind the curtain" rather than having it thrownat me directly in my face (so to speak). If you want to take off someone's armor it makes sense to me that they have underwear on under it (even leather armor chafes somethign terrible). Now, if you want to take off the underwear for whatever reason, well... I don't think that is a feature we would include. There is plenty of nudity on the internet if you want to find it. We can find better ways to make our games interesting without needing to have to rely on this.



:devil:


I agree with this. At the same time though, I think people need to understand that just because there can be nudity in games, doesn't mean it should be compared to porn, or something "offensive". Nudity can be done in a very tasteful manner if it is done right. I'm also fine with the fact of there being no nudity, and there just being camera angles, or whatever. But another thing too, is that nudity isn't just in question for sex scenes, it could also be used for things like brothels, or other things of that nature. Again it could go both ways, I'm guessing at this point you might as well steer clear of it. Amazingly this topic has such a wide view, and lots of different opinions, and might as well just stay the way it is. Just please don't do in depth sex scenes if you're not going to do it in a mature manner.

I feel this way as well.  It's why I felt the Mass Effect 1 sex scenes were well done.  They had the characters naked like they were supposed to be but tastefully had them covered with shadows or other things.  That is what works best in my opinion instead of this underwear sex or fade to black crap we currently see.

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Priestly suddenly has afan club who agrees with his position. The fact he is a Bioware employee and a moderator has nothing to with it.rotfl. Most of us started out with the g rated stuff, Mario, Sonic and went on to FF, Suikoden, and Grandia and the like. Only in recent years have we played M rated games and those had blood and profanity in them and no sex. Bioware comes along and puts sex/ romance in and now fans who don't like it say get rid of it/ keep it out of DAI and that the fans who liked romances will feel offended and sold out by Bioware . shrugs. Does a quality rpg require sex or even any kind of romance. No. But Bioware as someone else pointed out hasn't proven they can do it.

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The thing with nudity in video games is that it almost always translates to bare breasts and nothing else. I don't want to see that type of "nudity" in Dragon Age, or any BioWare game for that matter; it would be too much like pandering to the male demographic. If BioWare's ever going to do nudity in one of their games, be it DA3, ME4 or some other project, then I want it to be full frontal and detailed, for both genders. Otherwise just do tasteful camera shots during sex scenes that imply nudity, like the scenes in ME1.

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Voted for the «camera and shadows» option. If done right, this would be no less sexy (or probably even more) than the «full nudity» option.

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Chris Priestly wrote...

To each their own kink. I don't judge. If you need to see naked dead people to think something is more realistic I wish you well in your career as an amatuer coroner.



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With respect, you're missing the point. It's not about kink and seeing private parts (dead or alive), but about the vulnerability and (sometimes) loss of dignity that nudity means in some circumstances. The symbolism of it, if you will. 

I wouldn't mind some strategically cast shadows to hide the naughty bits if they're so problematic in whomever's eyes they really can't be shown. I don't need to actually see the "offensive" body parts. But in some situations that have nothing to do with sex, stripping people of this last bits of protection / modesty / privacy / possession adds a lot to the general "feel" of the scene. And sometimes logic.

All this to say that nudity - whether actually shown or not - has other purposes than giggle!porn (or fulfilling mild necrophilia).