Mass Effect 3 Controversial Scene

I never play Maleshep! :D

THAT'S THE SCENE? THAT'S THE FUCKING SCENE PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT?

Meh, good thing i'm not buying this game.

Uh, controversial to whom exactly? The only people that would have a problem with this are homophobes and their opinions couldn't matter less. :)

I think its more controversial to say hes thinking of hugging little boys.

How is this controversial? people and their narrow minds....

On the steam forum their was (or still is) a long thread about how and why it is and shouldn't be by people supposedly neither homophobes or anything, they just feel strange and totally uninterested to see this feature in the game.

I personnally don't care at all, it is there, and it's your choice to take that route or not, because you like it or for the kicks. Remeber DA:O with Zevran ? it made a fun reading and you're not forced to watch the cutscene.

The same "scenes" are in a lot of games. Screen fades to black, sex is implied.

I'll just be surprised if the gay option isn't DLC.

Imply it on TV? Perfectly fine
Imply / Show it in a Movie? Also OK
Imply it in a video game? OH GOD THINK OF THE CHILDREN

jack thompson's head just asploded

that is soooooooo gay

Oh, the horror. Yawn.

People must get offended over everything if they find this offensive.

The whole "controversy" part comes from the fact that so many people, myself included, are simply sick of this filth being shoved down our throats. We shouldn't be forced to choose whether or not to buy a game, like a movie, etc., because of ludicrous content in it. The same issue would be brought up if it were related to pedophilia or abortion, or any other major political issue. Simply put, they knew it would cause a huge fuss, but they did it anyway because they only care about making their gay activist supporters happy, not their regular customers. Same thing goes for The Old Republic, both of these games are ones I will not be purchasing, or even playing, ever. Any game that comes out with this kind of content in it will not be seeing my money, period. A wise man once said that if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. Remember that.

Here's my take on this whole thing.

The scene was less controversial because of homosexuality, but more because the heterosexual option was original the renegade option.

The connotations behind setting up the alignment like that is going to cause some issues, yes.

I just dislike Mass Effect 3 because its a shitty game from the leaks and everything else Bioware has done this quarter, especially watching the Tortanic and the Heplerberg quietly sink the sunset.

Can someone explain to me why this is controversial?

Because there is a sex scene in it? There was a sex scene in the previous games and those caused uproar but that was completely unfounded as far as I'm concerned. There is sex in all other media and it is much more explicit. I have seen movies, read books that easily have more detail in a single scene/paragraph than in this whole thing. And the same can be said about games. Anyone played The Witcher? I'm not even going to go on about the other genres ... you know them. Even so, why would this be a problem? It is rated 15+, isn't it? If there is someone who at that age doesn't know about sex then their parents aren't responsible.

Is the problem that it is gay sex? Is that what is offending someone? In that case that someone is the problem.

So really ... what is the controversy?

Don't care.

So, this thread got carried away pretty quickly. Since you people can't avoid getting all controversial about the supposed controversy, I will be closing this thread.