But apologies, I think this thread is more about the actual sex scenes rather than the relationship that brackets them so I’m probably off topic.
Well it was supposed to be about the potential of what could come with the inclusion of genitals, but sometimes people are unable to separarate nudity and porn so it devolved into sex, whereas I was looking more for the realism potential the game might be going for
Ah! You’ve got us bang to rights there
With respect to nudity/genitals in general, I think in an adult game like this there certainly are scenarios in which it would be reasonable to expect to encounter nudity rather than folk in underwear (and I don’t find the underwear in game so far particularly convincing anyway). And if you’re going to show nudity then if your sprites don’t have genitals then, even if you’re not particularly zoomed in, it’s probably going to be noticeable and the smooth, featureless, nipple-less avatars you see in some games are weird and creepy.
But if you go there, you have to start thinking about things like whether sprites have pubic (or other body) hair and how much. Personally, lack of pubic hair on either men or women says to me either “doll†or “childâ€, both of which can be deeply uncomfortable in different contexts. But there seem to be plenty of folk who prefer no hair on one or all genders. And I have no idea how hairy your average au naturel dwarf, elf, gnome or dryad would be and don’t particularly want us or Larian to vanish down a rabbit hole of thinking about it.
I do think if you’re going to do nudity you have to do it well, and I wouldn’t blame Larian if they dodged the issue by use of strategic placement of cloth, leaves, hair, blood or limbs (dismembered or otherwise) and carefully chosen shots in cutscenes. But while that might be the safest option, if Larian decide to be brave and go for full nudity then all power to them. I’ll just keep my fingers crossed it’s done well enough to add to rather than break immersion.
