Yeah, pretty much that

Here's an article that pretty much sums up how I feel about games today and the future of games. It's a great read, I suggest you give it a go.

One of the things they talk about in there is the sex scene in Mass Effect. Its been talked about a lot on both sides of the fence, and the big controversy came when detractors took the scene out of context. What no one talked about is how the scene looked IN context, at least if you wooed Liara, the blue alien chick: absolutely silly.

It looked silly with her because Liara was a terribly acted member of a joke of a race that suffered from Wikipedia syndrome. Bioware tried their goddamnedest to make us take their race of hot bisexuals seriously, but no matter how much you have characters blather on about their race and culture and history and blibbidy bloo, you still end up with a blue bisexual Data straight out of a juvenile Trekkie's puberty explosion dream.

In the end, when that scene comes up, it looks like (as so many games do) that someone took a team of professionals and millions of dollars to realize in expertly rendered videogame form a 13 year old fanfiction writer's story. The other versions of the scene aren't bad: Female Sheperd with Captain Carth Round Two is normal, as it's the culmination of a bunch of flirting and pretty interesting backstory between two normally written humans. Male Shepard and Christian Fundie Space Racist also makes sense, as it's two meatheads getting together. Liara's terrible though: It's all about the writing.