ESRB Dishes on Dragon Age 2 Sex
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eh, speak for yourself. While I don't like EA, and I hate buying new games, I'm going to buy Dragon Age 2 because the first one was good and I love BioWare. I usually only ever bother with big games like that if i love the company (Bethesda, BioWare, Valve, etc.)ItsAPaul said:
Haha, I didn't mean to make it sound like it did. I was just using your post as a springboard into my own thing. I couldn't agree more, to outright have a sex scene in a game would be tasteless, it's fine by me that they did the fade to black and let the imagination do the rest. Dragon Age sex scenes are exactly like ME2. Kissing, almost nude, fade to black. The only thing that really drove them home as tasteful and appropriate is that the voice acting was completely top notch on DA:O. Not that it was bad on ME2, but there was a visible direction the dialog took as the person you were pursuing liked you more. I went for Morgana, and she was a very different person when it got to the point you could finish the romance with her. The Romance was much better done in DA:O than it was in ME. The music in DA:O also was absolutely perfect. All the elements complimented each other so well, it actually did enhance the story of the game, especially right before that final epic battle. It's a shame you don't like the game, it came to a fantastic conclusion.ZeroMachine said:Never said it didn't, and never said they shouldn't exist. My basic point is "that's why I'd prefer a fade-to-black".The Stonker said:
I've gone after the relationships in Mass Effect 1 and 2 and, I have to say, they feel so forced and awkward that although it added to the overall story in a good way, the events themselves just felt wrong. And I'm not even talking about pixelated side-boob.Baresark said:
I've never liked Bioware's romance writing. I feel like they don't know how to portray that stuff correctly. I can relate to the connection between Monkey and Trip in Enslaved better. Or, hell, even John Marston and Bonnie in RDR, and that never even goes anywhere
Mass Effect 1's sex scene really does feel like shitty porn to me. 2's was better, but only in the fact that it didn't feel like shitty porn, but instead like a stupid Hollywood "romance", which, and let's be honest here, is just bumping uglies.
(For the record, in 1, I've gone for both Ashley and Liara, while in 2 I went for Miranda. And I've never seen the way the romances play out in Dragon Age, that game can barely hold my interest.)
I wish I did too. It's one of those situations where I feel like I should like it, but the thing is, the game takes way too long to pick up the pace for me. I wish it all felt as epic as the battle of Ostagar did. Unfortunately, it dulled down just a little too much for me.Baresark said:
Maybe if I just play the game in bits...
Australian #1: "Frankly, I find your American beer to be like making love in a canoe"
Australian #2: "Making love in a canoe?!"
Australian #1: "Yeah, it's fucking close to water!"
I love Monty Python...
Hopefully this one has some more freedom when it comes to sleeping around. After a rousing night of bum-tumbling to spite fox news, I might want to nail the hot elf chick for shits and grins.
Bioware is offering digital blowjobs now? $15 DLC could get that selling more Kinect + Fleshlight packages than anything else, I'd wager. Har har har.
Though, apart from the apparently revolutionary idea to include fellatio (and does this option apply to cunnilingus as well, or is this more of a story based thing for a male character?), it's the same old Bioware formula. Give a hint, a little tease, maybe a teensy flash of side-boob/bottom, fade to black, continue your conversation, kill something else. I always loved the hilarity of the blood-splattered heroes wanting to lay with each other in DA:O. It just made me laugh.
Well, that, and Morrigan's whole little "I'm a shy girl who's never been naughty before. [sub]but it was totally awesome so I hope you're coming over to ask me to do it again...[/sub]" routine.
Though, apart from the apparently revolutionary idea to include fellatio (and does this option apply to cunnilingus as well, or is this more of a story based thing for a male character?), it's the same old Bioware formula. Give a hint, a little tease, maybe a teensy flash of side-boob/bottom, fade to black, continue your conversation, kill something else. I always loved the hilarity of the blood-splattered heroes wanting to lay with each other in DA:O. It just made me laugh.
Well, that, and Morrigan's whole little "I'm a shy girl who's never been naughty before. [sub]but it was totally awesome so I hope you're coming over to ask me to do it again...[/sub]" routine.
But it's highly disturbing to think about in the order of fellatio followed by decapitation then dismemberment. Rather terrifying, really.JediMB said:
This is what we're talking about. Not necessarily in that order.
Either they want to or not there will be some sort of sex mod made eventually, so Bioware saves us the trouble and add the sex themselves, which is more than I can say for Oblivion...
You are a disgrace to all Shepards! No captain would EVER allow a loyal crew member to die!chemicalreaper said:
I hated the sex scenes in Mass Effect and Dragon age. The bodies don't move like a real human being. They're stiff and rigid. It was like watching two wooden puppets hump each other.
Why is sex so damaging to the "fragile little minds" of today?s youth... but violence & profanity not?? Just watch any American television show... you can't even breastfeed in public without someone leering or condemning you... what do you think boobs were made for??
I'm all for sex in Dragon Age, got no problem with it. Its realistic... except for one thing. I find it odd that there are no same sex relationships in Mass Effect, when that takes place in the future in a much more gay tolerant society. In the time period of Dragon Age gay guys all got burned.
You mean like in porn? *snap*Darkauthor81 said:
But I think Bioware is doing a good thing here, standing up for the industry.
If sex advances the story then why not include it in games. We've gotten to the point in the industry where we can have well developed characters that players can actually feel like they have built a relationship with them and if having sex with that character can further strengthen that relationship and bring the player further into the experience then it's a good thing.
I understand the uncanny valley comments though and in the interest of suspension of disbelief it's probably a good thing that most sex takes place off screen. Often what you don't see is more significant than what you do anyway.
I understand the uncanny valley comments though and in the interest of suspension of disbelief it's probably a good thing that most sex takes place off screen. Often what you don't see is more significant than what you do anyway.
Why do they put sex in games? Simple. Its because more-options > less-options. If you don't want to have sex, you don't have to. If you do, then you're not going to be stopped.
