No, I can guarantee you that I've met people who were up in arms about it. Granted, that was in large part due to their general ignorance about gaming, but the underlying anti-sexual viewpoint was still there.manaman said:No you watched a few news programs tell people that people where breaking out over sex scenes in Mass Effect, and you saw news stories about those reports, but did you ever meet anyone before those aired that was up in arms? Did you meet anyone after that really gave a shit? Probably not. This isn't to say some people didn't flip, but your average person didn't give a shit.bassdrum said:snip snip snip.
Sexuality figures big in all forms of media, from books to movies, to well you get the idea. Ubisoft seems to be under the impression people actually give a shit as well.
And yeah, exactly, you keep saying more or less the same thing that I've been saying. Sexuality is everywhere in America, but never explicitly. American society is obsessed with sex, but also terrified of it. What I'm trying to say is summed up quite nicely in this [http://satwcomic.com/it-s-complicated] particular image: America is in love with the idea of sex, but is stick in a weird conflict between arbitrary social rules and basic sexual desires.
Another example: Monty Python's Flying Circus was a prime time TV series, which meant that it aired during a part of the day when children would most likely be watching. Several of its sketches included nudity (and not just old paintings, one sketch in particular comes to mind which featured a nude woman). While I can't guarantee that there wasn't an uproar, having not been alive at the time, there's still the fact that a major British network ran footage of a nude woman during a prime time block. In the US, conversely, only a handful of channels (many of them only available via subscription, i.e. HBO or Showtime) start showing nudity very late at night when all of the reasonable people have gone to bed.
Finally, please, PLEASE stop telling me how I've come up with these views. These aren't ideas that I got just from turning on a TV one day or getting fed up with Ubisoft not releasing a game. My opinions come from years of living in American society and actively observing theses effects all around me. I can understand if you disagree, but please stop trivializing my opinions as the result of a half-baked news broadcast.