BioWare came under fire from the media last year for the sexual content in their game, Mass Effect. Clueless US news anchors jumped the gun on barely PG-13 material labeling it a "pornographic simulator". BioWare speaks about their latest RPG, Dragon Age and the sex contained within. BioWare states, "it's simply to reflect real human relationships in a sophisticated mature manner."
Does sex have a place in gaming? Are games a truly mature form of storytelling? Or will the stigma that it's for children always be attached to it?
When asked if games need to contain scenes of this nature, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk told us: "I don't think they need to have them, I think that in certain types of games it makes sense to have them."
"It's interesting because I think the Mass Effect thing was completely over-blown. There wasn't even really nudity; it was like the side of a leg. I think some of the press took huge advantage of the situation. The reality was that it was the kind of stuff you'd see on evening television," Zeschuk added.
Sex is a part of life, not having sex in some games seems more out of place than it actually being there if the story calls for it. If there is a mature game, with a proper rating attached to it, I want it to have mature characters along with it. Characters that act and feel as if they were real. Unfortunately gaming is still seen as a younger hobby. Will the media have a field day with Dragon Age when it's released int he same way they did with Mass Effect? Or will the gaming medium finally be realized as something that can contain adult material?
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