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Anyone remember the Mass Effect game "sex controversy"

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In case any missed this, some conservative groups claimed that the video game "Mass Effect" contained full frontal nudity and hardcore sex that were in a "hidden sex scene" (though later they admitted they had never even played the game or seen it themselves).

Well here's the "sex scene" if anyone's interested (but I've seen more explicit stuff in the James Bond films, so you didn't miss much).

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKCmB_vOyE"]YouTube- Mass Effect sex scene[/ame]

Depending on the character you play as, you can get 1 of 3 different sex scenes (which are exactly the same as above, just with different characters) - including a lesbian human-alien scene (oh noes!).

This video basically sums up how this "controversy" went down after it aired on Fox.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixt1eu11LXk"]YouTube- FOX NEWS vs. Mass Effect: The Parody[/ame]
 
They did the same thing in Dragon Age. In that one, you can actually have same-sex.

I suppose Bioware wants to provide romantic sub-plots for all sexual orientations.

Note: Bioware is the developer of Mass Effect as well.
 
It's all stupid. I'm sort of playing through Mass Effect again right now when I get bored and I had forgotten all about the supposed controversy. People forget that all video games are not intended for kids and certainly that kids aren't as stupid and ignorant as the hyper-conservatives would like to believe. The fact is, kids aren't seeing anything they haven't seen before, they aren't being influenced by any of it, it's just a game and so long as you can recognize that, that's all it will ever be.

These people need to get lives.
 
Cephus said:
It's all stupid. I'm sort of playing through Mass Effect again right now when I get bored and I had forgotten all about the supposed controversy. People forget that all video games are not intended for kids and certainly that kids aren't as stupid and ignorant as the hyper-conservatives would like to believe. The fact is, kids aren't seeing anything they haven't seen before, they aren't being influenced by any of it, it's just a game and so long as you can recognize that, that's all it will ever be.

These people need to get lives.
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Basically what happened is a fundamentalist pastor posted an article on Townhall.com saying that the game contained "virtual sodomy" (later he admitted that this was not true and was forced to remove the article). But Fox didn't bother to fact check and invited people (who had never played the game) to speak about it and repeat the lies that the pastor had told in his article (claiming the game let you "choose what sex positions to bang in" and stuff like that).

EA Games got angry and cited defamation, and afterward the Fox News speakers were forced to admit they'd never played the game, and after seeing the 5 second sex scene (which is less explicit than the 60's James Bond films) one of them admitted that she "had seen episodes of Lost that were more graphic" and they abruptly canned it. However Fox refused to apologize to EA, saying the could come on the show if they wanted.

Just a funny example of what happens when you believe everything you read online. The most hilarious part of this is that the game never would have made it past the ESRB with an M rating had it included any nudity (the ESRB re-rated GTA: San Andreas with an Adults Only rating because of a sex scene which didn't show any actual nudity, but featured sexual noises in the audio). You said it right.
 
wow, i wonder how they would've reacted if the played fable, it's got an entire bordello in it
 
spud_meister said:
wow, i wonder how they would've reacted if the played fable, it's got an entire bordello in it
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Pretty much the only end result of this is that sales of the game increased dramatically after the Fox segment aired and mentioned a "sex scene". :lol:
 
Yep, I played through it and had 'sex' with the blue alien lady. All the scenes look the same, just with different characters. It wasn't controversial at all. I've seen more explicit things in R rated movies.
 
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