I can't count how many times I've seen people in this fanbase bring up the need for fully animated sex scenes, and my question is why?
I think a common response is "To justify the choice to implement genital options in character creation"
Though a more realistic answer would be immersion. Wierd fully clothed grinding on each other or disappointing fade to black sequences for such an act during the relationship can be jarring or outright turn an intimate act into something comical.
Sex can be a major point in character interactions, for some relationships it can be an incredible show of intimacy and skipping over such an interaction and thus not doing an important moment justice is terrible for characterisation.
Even for less intimate sexual encounters there's something to be shown there, where it's characterization that the people involved are merely looking for self-gratification which can contrast against the more intimate encounters.
Originally Posted by Rotsen
Are fully animated sex scenes really necessary in video games?
Are they necessary? No.
But can they add to a game? Yes.
Not everything about a game is "Really necessary". But it's still included because it enhances the overall product with its inclusion. For example, depictions of violences aren't necessary, BG3 could easily have it so when you go and attack a goblin there's just a fade to black and then there's a satchel of loot where the goblin died.
Fully animated sex scenes can add to a video game. Are they needed in every game? Of course not. But some games that may have a focus on deep characterization and romance might opt to include them to better portray an intimate act and how characters develop because of it (Without creating an antithecal effect of comedy from above mentioned poor representations)
Essentially, there's a lot of characterization that can be shown through sex scenes and it's a disservice to the medium to obscure or pervert the act which can significantly reduce the impact it otherwise would have, for what? So ignorant people don't claim "Porn game" when they are completely oblivious to the nuances in character development such scenes can provide? (Yes, I'm aware of other factors involved with fully animated sex scenes - Revolving around age ratings and censorship laws which cause such things to impact video game marketability. But pussyfooting around these things won't ever create cause for the repeals of such arbitrary decisions regarding sex in media)
