I keep seeing people fall back on the same arguments without seeming to understand a lot of the discussion. The actual scenes for many of us are not offensive, in fact none of it is about being offended. It is rather a visible effort to cheap push adolescent sexuality into the game for easy teen gamer interest. A system that BRRINGS nothing substantial to the game yet is pushed at hard. Do not think it has been impactful? Just look on this forum alone where the threads about various romantic and sexual woes are often more engaged than threads discussing how the lore was interpreted wrong, the game system has things missing and other things directly related to what the main "plot" of the RPG is supposed to be.
It sort of looks like this matter is "pushed hard" particularly by those who disapprove. On this forum at least. And what do you mean with "substantial" ? If the romance between Conan and Valeria were removed from the movie, they could still defeat Tulsa Doom. Nothing substantial changes storywise. But the experience would be substantially different from an artistic, emotional point of view. You may see this primarily as a fighting game and not so much an RPG, but I think the romance elevates the story.. (BTW, I think there is much more noise on the forum about how the fights are not hard enough, than about the sex and nudity. The fights are hard enough for me, so I could consider the effort to increase difficulty useless and wasted. But I'm not complaining. You can never make the perfect game for everyone.)
I have to agree that the implementation, or visualisation of the romance scenes is not particularly good. Actually, the rare times we see a lewd scene, it sucks... 90% of the time. Also, I think there is not enough romance and sex. In places and times where it would really fit in, well, it is absent.
No I don't think this was done to attract adolescents. I think that perhaps the developers were unsure how far they could go with romance in this time and space. Afraid of backlash from certain cultures and communities perhaps. And so they made a half-baked thing. If it was made a generation ago with the same technology, the sex scenes might have been done properly. But even the half-baked thing makes it better than what it would be without it, for me. ( BTW, 'm not an adolescent. I played AD&D in the early 1980's.)
