Report: Singapore Bans Mass Effect Over Lesbian Love Scene

Hey! Maybe he could put mass effect in one of his court docs!

*Sigh* Like it matters. Singapore has so far off the world's radar that I seriously doubt anyone's really gonna care. While this scene will probably offend a select few, it's tame. Nothing is shown. I don't think there'll be problems in the States.

I think what they're say is, "Why watch lesbian sex in a game when you could go to our Orchard Tower and get the realy thing."

@ MaskedPixelante

Who cares? Having gay/lez/bi characters can make RPing much more interesting.

@Erik

No one ever said christianity was the exclusive motivation for media bannings- islam and others are just as bad.

Singapore, however, just has a stick up their ass. Its kind of common knowledge that they are heavy-handed on lots of things. I fail to see why anyone would be suprised.

The worst thing about this is that bioware is one of the few game companies that cares enough to tell a good story. I'm sure there was quite a buildup to the scene (although I do question why they would choose to show such a scene in isolation). Singapore only harms its domestic and international perception with this action.

Comparing Australia to Singapore is like comparing the United States to Nazi Germany in WW2, seriously I know people aren't that stupid......Or am I wrong?

"No one ever said christianity was the exclusive motivation for media bannings"


Uh, yeah actually Pandralisk has, repeatedly.

@Erik

But that's because he suffered from rectal-cranial inversion.

"[Mass Effect's] single sex scene is brief and undetailed, although there is breast nudity in one version of the scene," read the board's summary. "The sex scene is triggered by the player making a series of choices about becoming more than friends with a colleague. If playing as a male character the scene can take place between him and a human woman or a humanoid female alien. If playing as a female character the scene can take place between her and a male human or a female humanoid alien." (Emphasis added.)

Taken from a GS news article.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6179029.html?tag=result;title;6

I didn't see any breast nudity in that scene. Maybe the nudity occurs in the female/male or male/female scenes.

Hmm... there are 4 different versions of the "sex scene" in Mass Effect.

Female/male-human
Female/"female"-alien
Male/"female"-alien
Male/female-human

All 4 contain at least one person who looks female, and according to the BBFC, one of them has breast nudity. Before this video, if I had been forced to guess which one, I would have said it would be the "lesbian" scene, given that it has twice the number of breasts to potentially show. But it doesn't appear to be in that video. Is that really the full scene?

Wait a minute. They banned the game because of this! There is no sex in this scene. All you see are two heads, some kissing and a hand in the last scene. This is just completely idiotic. They rather ban a game over two people in a love scene than aliens and humans killing each other. If that is the case, that is really idiotic.

I am totally surprised by this piece of news.
This really comes from the little island nation where prostitution is legal, but also cover by insurance and receive health care?!

I hear more gay action than that on will and grace when i'm listening to it on my dual band TV radio reciever...

Tastefully done...but then again I didn't expect anything else from bioware.

You neglected to indicate that your posted video is the "tame" cut. There have been racier videos from the game posted on other sites.

i think singapore is ritw they should ban this gay game =)