The MEA game ratings thread (ESRB rating description)

It's not the sex scenes that the problem we already had them in the trilogy. It's the full on nudity and the gratuity of it all that sometimes feels condescending are shoehorned.
I know romance are skippable but the are often the only way to the to know your squadmates which is what  I enjoy the most about Mass Effect among many thing. The sad part is when all of that is mired with alot of nonsense like in parts of Inquisition.
But I hope your right.

Again, this is not an argument. I'm not sure it's possible for you to make one, since all you seem to have here are feelings.

I suppose you could talk about the feelings, though. What triggers your feeling of "condescension"?

Some people keep saying that but can't seem to say what the story of Witcher 3 was about just top of mind.
It had good writing, but I good story? no , those are two different things.

Yes the Witcher had strong sexual content and alot were gratuitous and cringeworthy but it fit with what had already been established
within the witcher world. I see no reason why Mass Effect should be the Witcher.

I just saw the rating for Andromeda and it confirmed what I was worried they would do, Which is to fall into the same trap that many anticipated entertainment productions do, which is to overdo everything that frankly detracts from the central experience  like more gore and morbid violence to hide lack of suspence and story telling, more sex to appeal to base instincts instead of challenging the audiences intellects. The Mass effect Trilogy had some really excellent intimate and disarming moments, like in Mass Effect 3 right before the final battle and the scene with Liara. Don't missunderstand me the trilogy had some bad elements also but Bioware already had some very good template of what were good in the trilogy.
I honestly hope I've the wrong impression, but it doesn't look like that's the case considering the previews for Andromeda are very mixed regarding the quality of the game. And they seem to be making - Inquisition in space - along with it's cringeworthy explicit nude scenes. I just don't think explicit nudity works in what's already been established within the Mass Effect universe. Things like this breaks the internal logic and workings of the established universe in favor and t'n'a.

I've been waiting for this game for almost 5 years now, soaking up every tidbit along they way; even considering the fact that they've shown the game only very sparsely, and only recently with only weeks until release. Yet the more I see of this game the less excited I become to play it.