Sex in videogames...yes or no?

My take on it is that if a developer wants it in their game then they should be able to have it in their game without any backlash from society. Whether it moves the game forward or not is irrelevant because the developer felt it should be in there. In fact, I actually wish they would push the envelope more due to the fact that society is so taboo about sex in video games.

We get knee-jerk responses from the media with games such as Mass Effect and that makes developers less inclined to keep with their vision of how they wish the game to be presented. Now with Dragon Age, a game with a deep engrossing story, comes around and my character gets to the point that Morrigan is attracted to him I get and she wants to "stay warm in her tent" I get a great built up kissing scene and some flirtatious sparring and then a slow fade to black. The moment has been built up, smooth music is playing and the scene opens up to reveal... two people in a bikini dry humping each other.

That completely takes me out of the immersion of the game because the story is so mature. I feel like I am being patronized with a "safe" sex scene.

When it comes down to sexual content and a developer wants it in their game, regardless of if it has a place or not, then I am all down for that. If anything, just to get us past this whole "OH MY! There is sex in that video game!?"-era that we are still continuing to go through.

Movies had to go through this. Music had to go through this. Books had to go through this. Comics had to go through this.

Well, I wish video games would hurry the hell up and go through this, too.

juradai

It's all about context - if it genuinely adds something to the game and isn't some sort of marketting gimmick then fine. What the idiots who appose sex in games and such don't realise is that devs sometimes add things to their games to set them off just for the free publicity. The contrast between acceptable violence levels and sex levels in games is truly ridiculous. Honestly at times its hard to see it as anything other than "Jeebus says boobies bad (huh?)".Kan0nF0dder

[QUOTE="Arach666"][QUOTE="Desulated"]

This. :lol:

dracosummoner

K, you like games, you like sex, so games + sex = good mix, no?

I think sexual scenes in games are totally fine unless it's... outrageously frequent?

I'm not sure. I don't want more debates on game. Sex is a issue that will certainly bring the age matter selecting games. And, I specially don't want my parents getting involved choosing me what games to play what not.slevenJ

I agree with the majority here, if a game has an age certificate, sexual scenes should not be a problem.