Uh, I think you mean Contact Harvest, Lomi. There were no smexy scenes in Cole Protocol. Just she-hulks, prototype battle rifles in everybody's hands and suicidal elites :)
Don't forget all the Hispanic immigrants from Madrigal who think they can join the Covenant 9_9.
LOMI: I have no doubt that Tony can probably come up with something even dirtier than Joseph Staten's ending to Contact Harvest. I'll be sure to put up an "explicit content" warning on the page.
This is supposed to be a decent (as in clean) story that tells of Felix's early life. I don't know how in the world it came to this, because I sure as hell didn't plan on turning this into an obscenity.
Oh don't put on the innocent act, it doesn't cut any ice with me. You know perfectly well why.
It's not sex itself that I have a problem with, it's the immature take that you guys have with it. Day and night, you joke about it as if it's not "the act of having fun/creating new life", because it seems to be more related to the reproductive parts of the body rather than "the act of having fun/creating new life". If someone so much as mentions sex, you guys break out in giggles, get boners, and start cracking jokes, as if it's not simply "the act of having fun/creating new life".
Oh don't be so haughty. I try and take it seriously for once and you rip my throat out.
I don't get boners whenever we talk about sex. It's fun to joke about. But then, so are a lot of things. Maybe you're the one with the problem, since you obviously aren't paying attention to all the other jokes we tell. Maybe you're just so fixated on it that that's all you see.
Mas brings up a good point, though; it's surprising why sex is so much 'worse' than shooting people, especially if we take into account that the former is a natural process of life, while the latter is not (well, mostly). Though, come to think of it, that may be the problem; since sex is one of those natural parts of life that many consider private, we don't really know all details about how people actually do it. So maybe, game/movie developers are unsure of how to express it properly in a realistic manner. Just something to think about, that there may be a reason other than fearing that a bunch of douches who think they know better than everyone else declare it porn the moment a women shows a bit of skin (Fox TV and Mass Effect, anyone?)
Doesn't stop me from thinking it needs to be changed however. An example on how ridiculous it is; on YouTube I've recently watched all cutscenes of God of War III. There we get to see the main character [SPOILER] (Kratos, a mad bastard child of Zeus, for those who don't know) repeatedly headbutt and then stick out Poseidon's eyes, rip out Hades' soul with his own weapon, chop Hermes' legs clean off, stomp on and then rip off Helios' head, cut a huge f***ing hole from inside of Cronos' stomach (causing the intestines to flood out), cause a huge crystal-spike-thingy penetrate said Titan's chin, impale Hephaesteus on his own anvil, snap Hera's neck, crush Hercules' head with his own cestus-weapon, and of course, beat the everloving crap out of Zeus until your vision in-game gets completely covered up by blood (yes, all that and more in the same game), and all this you could see without having to set an age-limit on the videos whatsoever, but when it comes to a sex scene with Aphrodite (which isn't even seen because the camera pans away), that video had to be uploaded on a different site. Anybody agree that it sounds ridiculous? [END SPOILER]
A game that does handle sex in a good, mature manner, is Mass Effect; not too much info, but enough to know that it's a special moment. That is how it should be done, I think. To a degree, Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age: Origins does this good too, but they feel a bit more "careful" (might be understandable, since Fox TV had just attacked them with claims that ME was 'graphic porn'; why they have to hawk down on a video game while there's actual porn out there is beyond me).
Oh well, that's my rant of the week. Hope it didn't sound too messy, I was kinda thinking it up as I went :)
Again, it's not sex itself I have something against, but how people portray it in ways that are unorthodox and just plain revolting. I mean, I do acknowledge the fact that jokes are jokes, but at least the non-sexual related ones are practical. People overuse sex jokes so much it's not even funny anymore, and it's that kind of thing that creates an awkward moment.
