More sexytime news: ESRB reviews sexual content on Dragon Age: Origins

Posted Jul 25, 2009 at 5:28PM by Glenn M. Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: BioWare, ESRB, Kratos
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There has been a lot of talk about sexual content in video video games lately. There's the nudity in The Witcher, BioWare's take on sex scenes, and Obsidian's defense of the Alpha Protocol sex scenes. The latest sexytime news comes out of a synopsis posted by the ESRB as they reviewed the sexual content found in yet another BioWare title, Dragon Age: Origins (PS3, PC, Xbox 360). Article may not be suited for minors.

Apart from the usual heads-up for the game's violence and profanity, the ESRB summary contains detailed info on the sexual content, which is about as open-minded as anyone could get. There will be a brothel feature in the game, where a hostess asks you about your preference. "If players select "Surprise me," they can sometimes wind up face-to-face with a woman, a man, a transsexual, or an animal," said the ESRB summary.

Thankfully (or unfortunately, for some folks), the actual sexual activity will not be shown, nor has it been revealed as to what purpose the sexcapades serve in the game. Kratos-like, perhaps? Apart from the brothel, players can also initiate cutscenes wherein couples (both hetero and homosexual) will be depicted "kissing, embracing, and caressing one another as the screen fades to black."

Dragon Age: Origins, however, remains free of nudity - human nudity at least. One female demon character reportedly let her headlights hang out, which didn't seem to bother the rating board all that much.



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Comments [refresh]

by phiyuku - 2009-07-25 13:27
» Look

when movies have Nudity and/or sexual themes it would get an R rating and people won't complain. When games have it and get the appropriate M rating everyone starts *****ing. Games have ratings too so unless it gets to the point where a movie would be considered X-rated and into porn territory games should not get bashed when they have an M rating. If it does go to he point of an X-Rated Movie it would turn in to AO rating. Same thing goes with violence.

by jrsmaster411 - 2009-07-25 15:41
» ummm...

this game is also coming to the PS3 and this has been known since the game was announced. You guys should do a little more research next time

by ___ - 2009-07-25 22:04
» um

" BioWare title, Dragon Age: Origins (PS3, PC, Xbox 360). Article may not be suited for minors."

by jrsmaster411 - 2009-07-26 03:39
» thanks

they fixed the article but didn't reply to my comment saying it so now I look crazy to anyone who didn't read it before. It was pretty funny before cause they posted it was only for 360 and pc and at the end posted the esrb rated a ps3 version like if they were breaking news that their might be a ps3 version

by poopoopilot - 2009-07-28 03:42
» I for one

look forward to sexual relations between dragons, people, people dressed as dragons, hot dragon on dragon action, same gender dragon sex and all the other permutations involving my dangley bits - and dragons.

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