WOW those sex scenes are...detailed and well done.

How sweet of him.

Would've been a nice interrupt though.

And that's what's important in a romance.

So I've heard.

But I still question the necessity of including such detailed and graphic sex scenes.  Does Bioware really think that's what we're after in doing romance subplots?

Are they trying to out-Witcher The Wither?

They were inspired by both DAI and TW3, and I think it's fine tbh. PeeBee's scene is deeper than a fling, and Jaal and Sara is a big turning point for them if you are thorough with their romance and realize that love scene is not even a sex scene. Cora is the one that I felt was just too pointless and movie sex.

PeeBee has never embraced eternity with someone before, so it was a special moment and her first time.

Jaal going down on Sara is to show he loves her and wishes to please her, plus he tells her he wants to make love to her, which is why it's not a sex scene imo. 

If you don't like it, just don't romance them or refuse sex. Nothing is forced on anyone.

Neither had Liara. Did not seeing her blueberries make her scene in ME1 less meaningful?

Umm, there's sex.  Therefore, sex scene. 

Grand romantic gestures are fine and all.  But there's a million and one ways to demonstrate that .

Great in theory. But Bioware actively hid most of the romances from us prior to release. And then said "Yeah, some of them don't require sex to complete the romance, but we're not telling you which ones"

And then they didn't tell us which ones contain graphic sex scenes and which didn't.

So that advice rings rather hollow.[/p][/p]

Well...



When two people "love" each other very much they tend to take off clothes and... touch and stuff... Y'know?


Or are you jumping on the "sex in video games, oh noes!" bandwagon? Also,




Saying it's misused resources also falls kind of flat. Because while it may be true, "resources" are not the reason Andromeda is in the state it's in. Not even close.

Poor analogy. You're not watching sausage being made. You're watching it be eaten (which is what sausage is made for).

Also justyouropinionman.jpg

Live and learn? Or are you saying Scarred For Life™?


As I said, "resources" are not the reason. "Resources" do not allocate themselves. Someone at BioWare saw "my face is tired" and thought "seems legit" instead of



So any lapses in judgement go so far beyond "let's put a bit of thrusting in there shall we?" that it's not really worth mentioning.

And someone clearly thought Peebee's orgasm (And Cora's butt, and Sara/Jaal's frolic...) merited more resources than the face of one of the major supporting characters, among others, like every non-Peebee asari being a Lexi clone.

"But is the banging good?  Okay, there's no problem then"

Yeah, that's a serious error in judgement, imo.[/quote]



How so? A lot of players enjoyed and appreciated it, me included. I'd wager there are more who liked it than those who disliked it. Sex sells after all, which is what BW wants to do.

Even if there was a resource allocation issue I'd rather they had reallocated some resources spent on fetch quests than tone down the sex scenes.

Umm, DAI was the only game to have real nudity in it. And MEA blows right past what DAI had.

"Virtual boning has NOT been a main selling point of the series. There have been romances, yes, but little to no nudity of on screen sex. HEck the first game you could refuse sex from all three LIs without breaking the romances, or skip past the cinematics if Shepard does sleep with them.

And no "boobies" are not offensive. Though I am starting to take umbrage at your characterization. I simply happen to be someone who thinks sex is something more than entertainment. Shocking, I know.

Well yes, that is basically it. All the scenes were natural a had a good narrative space. It was not the final moment with the character LIs, it was part of the story like finding Ciri was part of the story, also they were fun enough to made me laugh. I think DA:I comes close but ME:A is a huge disaster. Unless of course your character his straight, than Jaal/Cora/Peebee are more on that level with maybe Jaal being the closest to The Witcher.

Agreed. The pacing was flawless and I felt the moments when romance did happen in TW3 was appropriate and fitting. What's even more interesting is that romance scenes have never happened right before the final mission in any of The Witcher games. They generally take place early on or at some point in the middle of the story.

I thought DAI was a better attempt by BioWare, but it was still rather awkward and cringe-worthy. At least in regards to the Cassandra romance, it was pretty difficult to watch BioWare come up with something that wasn't cheesy but also not uncomfortable to look at.

I felt that Jaal's romance was the only one that you could say was close to reaching the level of execution you see in TW3 romances. It was spot on from the dialogue to the scenery and even how the romance is presented. The level of passion was apparent and achieved. Cora's dialogue was decent and the kissing animations were excellent, but it was really nothing more than a gratuitous scene to show some ass and nipples. I haven't seen Peebee's romance yet (wanted to save that for my second playthrough), but it sounds like it's more on the level of Cora's romance rather than Jaal's romance.