Originally Posted by Warlocke
Originally Posted by KillerRabbit
All we've seen are a few seconds from a few scenes being developed, scenes that were put into the context of a story about a group of people who wouldn't normally associate with one another asking themselves if their common experiences have caused them to forge common bonds. I was kinda impressed by the author they interviewed. I saw some wine glasses being clanked and some facial expressions that made me giggle.

Like all the "we the we have a pretty good idea" statements I don't think we have enough info -- we will on the 6th.

But, with what we do have, I agree with @LoneSky when I compare the (lack) of reaction to the (much longer) pulling the-brain-out-of-the-skull scene and the negative reactions to some story boards. I'm reminded of the horror / erotica double standard. If an exposed breast gets a knife through it, that earns the movie a R rating / if an exposed breast is gently stroked the movie gets an NC17. Will no one think of the children?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_film_rating_system


No, you still aren’t getting it.

The horror / erotica double standard comes from a conception that depicting violence is more morally permissible than depicting nudity or sexuality.

That isn’t what has been stated in this thread.

People by and large haven’t been saying that don’t like the sex scenes because it is morally wrong. People’s dissatisfaction is that sex scenes between video characters often looks dumb, going off the deep edge into the uncanny valley.

It’s not:

violence = okay
sex = bad

It’s:

Animated sex with video game characters doesn’t look good.

First off, I agree with @KillerRabbit in general here (that the violence and gore is what is over the top in the game). But @Warlocke I also get what you're saying in making a distinction. But I disagree with you in that IMO, no matter how bad animated sex scenes may be (and keeping in mind that we cannot necessarily compare how they will come out here to past games because the graphics tech level is significantly higher than in any previous similar game), even bad animated sex is -- for me -- way better than fade to black. Fade to black is the stupidest thing ever, and if that is what we get then I'd much rather we get no romance/sex cinematics at all.