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ultimate_reaver posted...

I don't remember there being bikini armor in skyrim so I don't know if you're joking or not on that first point

The second is exactly what I'm talking about. People see aliens in space platemail or whatever and ignore all the scenes where the camera is basically flying up Miranda's ass, or Samara having an outfit that looks like it was taken off of a 90s forgotten realms novel cover where a drow is whipping dudes. There is an (optional but party usable) character whose sole story intrigue is she tries to get you to have sex with her to kill you.

Yes, the sex scenes are optional, but they are almost all positioned as end-of-the-game rewards for doing a character's subquest. And they are all written in weird uncomfortable ways where whoever you are with has a bunch of emotional baggage or trauma or whatever and your character is having sex with them to "fix them" which is seemingly the only way Bioware can figure out how to write romance.

It's bad writing 100% in Mass Effect, but I fail to see how you can view looking at a fully clothed, adult woman's ass or even a sex scene between consenting adults in a relationship as comparable to throwing a bikini on a 12 year or other loli nonsense.

Again, when developers do this stuff with adult characters in adult games, I don't give a shit. Quiet in MGSV was weird as fuck but at the end of the day it's an adult I'm looking at so I don't care. Rex's two girls in Xenoblade 2 might be showing their tits off, but they're very clearly adults, so I don't care.

Tldr: it's ok to sexualize an adult, it's not ok to sexualize a child.