Not that long a small website reported a story, which was error filled, puclished a story on "graphic sex" in Mass Effect, few people bodered to check the news from that site as they were flat out wrong. The incident went without much thought in the world and everyone thought that the false statements would cease; we were wrong.
A couple or so weeks ago, Fox News recycled that story from the small website and blew it up into a full debate (see video on top of the page). This would had been perfectly ok, had they correct the errors of the original story unfortunately, they only added upon the already big pile of lies found in the original story.
First, as pointed out by the video game journalist Geoff Keighley, for the sex video to appear, the player has to follow a path that is both long and complex. The game does not just load and asks you "do you want to see sex scene now?"
Fox News repedeatly stated that the video game Mass Effect "featured full frontal nudity and interactive sex scenes." The reality is that the game does not show full frontal nudity since it only shows angled shots which display as much nudity as you would find in other popular prime telivision shows. The game is does not feauture interective sex either. Like many other video games and forms of media, it features a NON-interactive video with the shots previously defined before. If someone was to edit a few clips from some of the scenes of prime time shows, the outcome would be far worst. Looking at movies, things only get worst. Have any you guys seen or read the plot of the Saw series? Are you telling me it is ok to display "torture-porn" in movies, and to display sex in TV, but it is not ok to show a clip, on a video game?
The sad reality is that most of the people running the world right now have little to no idea of what a video game are or what they are made of. Indeed, video games have become the easy band wagon to ride to gain some votes.
For those of you reading this, just keep in mind that when you see something on the news, it does NOT have to be true.
2 comments:
Nice coverage Isaac I was playing this game the other day and to think that this is such a massive game with so many quest and side-quest that adds to thirty plus hours that the media would concentrate on such a small and really insignificant part of the story.
It isn't surprising that this clip aired on the most conservative news station, Fox News. Why does the media enjoy blowing sex and violence out of proportion in video games. Grand Theft Auto, Manhunt, and God of War have also all fallen under the harsh scrutiny of media giants. What these people who have no experience with video games do not realize, is that these video games are as equally inaccessible to minors as R-Rated movies, forms of media that have far more graphic depictions of sex and violence, (300 anyone?) Darn their ignorance, just for that video, I think I am gonna send Fox News clips of sex and violence that air in television show and movies on their publicly broadcasted channel...
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