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 .