Dragon Age's New Direction Heralded with 'New Shit'

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  I was perfectly happy with 'fade to black'. I mean if you're playing the game to try and unlock a ligh... : TheGreatMadman
  • Totally agree with the above posts. I was on the fence, but then i googled "porn". That was an hour ago.... : scoobSMN
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  I really agree that "sex" in video games should be kept at the adolescent level. I agree that it is just... : IHATEDUST
  • That's silly and limiting. I would say *IF* you can't do it right, don't do it (or fade to black)...bu... : Vincent Grayson
  • You CAN do intimacy. go play The Darkness : bninja
• Man I can't forget the 2D blondes in Duke 3D, good old times... Shake it baby http://ngnews.files.wor... : Garfferen
• I want to be there for those mocap sessions. lol : thejay247
• Mass Effect made it twitch : FuzzyOnion
• mass effect did it pretty well, but yeah it definately shouldnt be done unless it can be done right : klearlyunseen
• Whatever, the more sex the better! Hot Coffee style. : Edges
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  Not sure what your talking about but Witcher did that pretty well. : Legion116
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    I thought the witcher did sex all wrong, especially later in the game where there are situations like, 'H... : SleeperService8
    • Here's 1500 dollars, go buy a wedding ring for 1000, and keep the change. Plus she'll shag you. ...... : vertdang
  • Are you kidding? It was juvenile as fuck. : Arceihn
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  It's not about hot. I thought the sex scene in mass effect really added to the experience. Sex is a power... : SleeperService8
  • I think indigio prophecy handled it well : uncle slappy
• As long as it's done tastefully, I don't mind sex in video games. And it's not necessarily just for the s... : angry jellyfish
• Wait the trailer had buckets of blood flowing in every scene, horrible music, but oh if two people with c : baron calamity
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  What, are you 12 or something? I you take games as a medium seriously, why won't you have one of the most... : utgaardsloke
  • The emotion can be displayed without the act, in fact, it often is in much more potent ways than sex. : one random winner
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  Sex in video games doesn't work for the same reason that violence DOES work, it doesn't look real.
  
  So called "graphic violence" in video games never actually looks like real violence. Spurts of blood shooting out everywhere and big bloody mist clouds, and guys getting swords shoved through them are things that it would be horrible to see in person, but in video games the combination of models, animations, and sound all being somewhat less than "realistic" adds up to an overall experience that is substantially less than real, and so in the end the "graphic violence" doesn't really bother most people because it doesn't come across as convincing enough to be upsetting, just enough to be "ooh he got crushed by that, cool!"
  
  Sex in the games is the same way but with the opposite effect, all that "unrealistic" stuff that makes violence that would be stomach turning in real life, ok to see in a game, applies to sex too and in the end what you end up with is something thats arousing and interesting and enjoyable when real people do it, that is just awkward and stupid looking when you try to make animated characters do it.

  May 11, 2009 6:44am PDT
  Sex in video games doesn't work for the same reason that violence DOES work, it doesn't look real. So ... : Serrin