How Star Wars: The Old Republic Handles Sex

13lackfriday

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I think the sex scenes in Mass Effect were understated enough.

All you get for your trouble is a couple of bewildering shots of skin here and there in a way too dark environment.

soaringbiscuit said:
I can see it now:

"FOX News Channel 10 with Laura Schneider. The newest Video Game console to be released from outlaw developer, maker of the perverted sex simulator, Mass Effect, has recently released a new game with the same concepts. This game is apparently based in the Star Trek universe. That's right folks, gamers who play this game have sex with Wookies and a variety of other races from Steven Spielberg's famous film. Bioware's Greg Muyzka could not be reached for comment, because right after he saw this broadcast, he killed himself."
Talk about ignorant media.
 

hcig

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I cant believe that this is an issue.

seriously, if anybody here is actually a mature person, they should be asking why there is sex in the first place.

sex has no place outside pornography, or my very, very sexy bedroom, i hate hollywood, and tv, and these video games that feel the need to put sex in EVERYTHING to get an a free thumbs up with goons who use their peckers as a regular consultant of daily function. ive never seen a good "it was vital to the plot" argument either, you can IMPLY sex, if its THAT vital, but actually having it in there is just a stupid get out of jail free card for bad writers. (how akward would lord of the rings have been if instead of implying it, they just plain showed frodo and sam slappin meat?) which brings me to my next point:

SykoSilver said:
psijac said:
They NEVER said gays don't exist in the Star Wars Universe. They said the labels for gay people don't exist.

During a press conference for Star Trek: TNG Someone once asked "Surely by the 24th Century they would have found a cure for male pattern baldness" Gene Roddenberry replied, "No, by the 24th Century no one will care"

although on the other hand if space is our Manifest destiny Gays have no place there. We need settlers and squatters to build lands, have kids and generally settle a place down. Even if a gay couple wanted to have kids I don't they will have room for an invitro clinic when settling a wild planet
Because gays cannot contribute anything to society if they can't have kids. =_= Gee thanks.

I don't care that BioWare isn't including orientation labels in their games. I get frustrated at labels too. What concerns me is that while this is OK, if they also intentionally do not include any male-male romances, then they have basically affirmed that such relationships are either unimportant, inferior, or even worse: offensive (and I believe they only included a lesbian relationship because their target audience find that titillating)
im only quoting that much, because im sure you were annoyed enough by the original post.

great job being the first butthurt guy to post on this thread, thats always an achievement.

for the love of whatever you love, STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THINGS THAT JUST ARE. i dont complain that rain is wet, you shouldnt complain that the colon doesnt make babies.

dont blame anybody that you cant help a fictional space station populate
which brings me to the last quote:

Lonko said:
So reproduction will be mandatory in these space colonies?
oh yea....oh, freaking yea.
shame we wont live to see such awesome "sacrifices" for mankind *theres a futurama reference in here, but im not gonna look the quote up*
 

Ajna

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SykoSilver said:
I am sick of the way this industry makes claims to being centered around an artistic medium but all it's concerned with is marketing and business.
Who do they think they are, wanting to make money off of a video game? Don't they realize that the whole point of creating a business is to make something "ground breaking" that causes you to lose three fourths of your audience because you made the lead character a homosexual male? I mean, gawd.

More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.

OT: I find the term "Wookie Nookie" extremely amusing. Expect to hear it become a meme in the near future.
 

Dragonblade146

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Good. THis a mature outlook on it and it is true. And anyone who says it is not. Needs to get their brain checked.
So what if a videogame doesn't haven't sex. Sex doesn't make a video game great. Take a look at Earthworm Jim.
=D
 

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Ajna said:
SykoSilver said:
I am sick of the way this industry makes claims to being centered around an artistic medium but all it's concerned with is marketing and business.
Who do they think they are, wanting to make money off of a video game? Don't they realize that the whole point of creating a business is to make something "ground breaking" that causes you to lose three fourths of your audience because you made the lead character a homosexual male? I mean, gawd.

More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.

OT: I find the term "Wookie Nookie" extremely amusing. Expect to hear it become a meme in the near future.
I'm curious now. Wookies are like eight foot tall bear-gorrilla's... Makes you wonder... *shudder*

Once you go Wookie, you always limp.

Anyway i'm going to go back to watching that Twi-Lek booty in the trailer.
 

hcig

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Ajna said:
More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?
 

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hcig said:
Ajna said:
More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?
I am not sure if this statement is win or fail.
Enlighten me escapists.
 

Ajna

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I3uster said:
hcig said:
Ajna said:
More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?
I am not sure if this statement is win or fail.
Enlighten me escapists.
Hciq's comment completely came out of left field for me... I wasn't thinking of it as a political statement, but as a character creation concept...

I'd say it's fail though. Unless he's saying it as a joke, in which case it's win.
 

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The_Oracle said:
Damn it! I wanted to have my Sith Bounty Hunter have a threesome with two twi'lek dancing girls! DAMN YOU, BIOWARE! FRAK YOU ALL TO HELL!


(Seriously, though, how much innuendo d'you think we can expect?....)
I can see it now


"Lightsaber Duels"
 

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soaringbiscuit said:
I can see it now:

"FOX News Channel 10 with Laura Schneider. The newest Video Game console to be released from outlaw developer, maker of the perverted sex simulator, Mass Effect, has recently released a new game with the same concepts. This game is apparently based in the Star Trek universe. That's right folks, gamers who play this game have sex with Wookies and a variety of other races from Steven Spielberg's famous film. Bioware's Greg Muyzka could not be reached for comment, because right after he saw this broadcast, he killed himself."
So true
 

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It sounds like someone asked them "Hey, you guys totally made a sex scene in a game! Awesomest thing EVAR! Ya gonna do it again!? HMMMM?".
I don't think there is a reason for them to put it in an MMO. But since it was so popular, they're not going to rule it out.
They'll keep the fans excited by giving them weak hints, like, "Yeah, its possible to make video game characters have sex and stuff, and cool people in movies usually flirt and shit."

If they are going to add anything sexual, it'll either be in the new story system they have, where they could add some relationship between a character you meet that will cultivate depending on your actions, or there will just be some dirty emotes.

Yay, I can't wait to be in the middle of some woods flipping through my items. And suddenly, I'm ambushed by a Clan of naked Wookies spamming the hip-thrust macro, dozens of 2 foot long hairy dongs whipping through the air smacking into my helmet, crushing the viewport and beating me to the ground, relentlessly plummeting me as I feebly tap the "Assume-Fetal-Position" Battle Stance, and the "Cover-face-and-cry" macro.
 

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As if anything could keep a group of MMO playing Star Wars fans from not forming their own little cyber orgies in the hope that they can get some sexy Mandalorian + Twi-lek + Twi-lek action.

Shame they didnt include a brothel in the cantinas, give my Mandalorian bounty hunter a way to get some downtime after a big job.

:)
 

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Ajna said:
I3uster said:
hcig said:
Ajna said:
More seriously: I think an interesting feature to stick into a game in the future would be an "orientation" option that is right by the "gender" option. Only a few lines of dialouge are changed when you change gender in a game, so the same would go for orientation.
oh, so like, now being gay is a choice?
I am not sure if this statement is win or fail.
Enlighten me escapists.
Hciq's comment completely came out of left field for me... I wasn't thinking of it as a political statement, but as a character creation concept...

I'd say it's fail though. Unless he's saying it as a joke, in which case it's win.
dude, thats awesome, my first win.

yea, i just felt like bustin yer chops, you were just soooo wide open for that one, figured i should take the shot as a joke, before some clown took it into retard city
 

Sigenrecht

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Oh, I don't know about any of you guys, but I'd prefer a crew composed entirely of Orion slave girls than anything Star Wars can offer, lightsaber innuendo regardless.
 

chstens

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Why bother anyways? Unless sex is a major gameplay or story element (It concluded a "side quest" Mass Effect) there's not really any reason to care about it.