Stanley Woo wrote...
It's kinda funny that this topic keeps coming up over and over again. People who claim to be old enough and mature enough to handle sex and nudity in a game seem to believe that any lack of sex and nudity in the game is a sign of self-censorship. They generally don't believe that a game can be called "mature" without explicit sex and/or nudity.
Let me tell you, folks, that as a developer full of mature individuals, we are also free to not have explicit sex and/or nudity in our games, no matter what you, Fox News, the government, or Bunky the Wonder Clown has to say about it. We have never considered it a "problem," it is simply a choice we have made and we have every right to make that choice.
I talked about this a bit when I wrote a post about Mass Effect 2 being the best third person shooter I’ve ever played, with RPG set pieces.
Sexual content in a game, and the appropriateness has to do with the story. Look at Dante’s Inferno. The level of nudity fit’s the story they are trying to tell.
Now what does sex in Mass Effect do for the story? In ME1 it seemed like they used it to sell the game. It was a new IP and sex in games seemed to be a hot button subject. Even though ME1 turned out to be a good game, I believe the sales of the game was effected more positively than negatively by the press the game got, by advertising the sex in the game.
In ME1 as opposed to ME2 the Love scenes in the game seemed just like that, they were well choreographed and you really cared that Shep. finally got some. The music was nice, and the sentimentality was there, and it moved the story along.
In ME2 you have Jack, who yeah has a farley emotional scene one could hardly call it a sex scene, more like the two where there for one another. Her wall finally broke down and she just wanted to be with Shep. but seemed more like a make out scene than sex, but it was acceptable because it in a way moved Jacks personal story along. And the same thing with Thane.
Miranda and Jacob, seemed almost forced, or like an inevitability, and it seemed pointless, like all they were doing was ****ing, to blow off some steam.
Tali, was sweet, but seemed like a horny teenage girl, getting ready to be ****ed for the first time, by her hero. It was sweet, but fan service.
Garrus, was amusing, but still was fan service.
Its not that I don’t see sex as an inevitability to any romance, and it had its place in the story, to a point, you romance someone and just before the big bad suicide mission you shack up. But the way it was done in ME2, it felt almost like bioware said “ Well this is what the fans are expecting.” and half assed something into the plot, there is no scene of caring that this happened.
As far as the quality of the sex, I’m the type of guy, if your going to do it, do it. But if your doing it do it tastefully and make me care why your doing it. Sex for sex is not art, but just sex, in ME2 it just seemed like sex and not art, I didn’t care that Shep was ****ing the only girl with bigger than B ****** in the galaxy, because there was no reason to care, sure there was some emotional feel good stuff that he helped her get over, bur any good Captain of friend would do that
All and all was the sex in ME2 tame, yes, but they could have replaced it with the black Fable screen, and noises, and it would have made the same impact on me as it did. ME1 had that, go Shep, and that feeling of this works, and its not out of place, and that shock value, of ”WOW, they really went there, but it wasn’t trashy.”
All and all I don’t think it was needed, in this plot, because it didn’t work.
On that same note, I think there should have been something for people who stayed with the old romance, like having a conversation in your room over a com link, with your old love, and not just looking at her/his pic, and that to completing the requirements for the romance achievement.
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I want to know the option because M!Shep is cheezy as hell.
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