10 Fan Controversies That Dominated Video Games
2. "Hot Coffee" Ignores Other Game With Interactive Sex Scenes
The backlash behind the 2005 discovery of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' "Hot Coffee" was insane. The media went crazy, as is the norm, making GTA the pariah of the indecency of gaming. In a game about organised crime, murder, etc.
As such, the fans split two ways: either outraged that their "murder simulator" had sex in it, or upset that it was cut in the first place. Not getting the full bang for your buck, as it were.
Yet weirdly, in all the furore surrounding it, another game came out that had interactive sex in it. The morally offending game in question:
Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy outside of the UK).
Quantic Dream's weird tale of Mayans and the internet disguised as old women (don't ask) had players actually play a rhythm game to achieve cli-... plot progression.
It was tamer in content than GTA's, but actually included in the game. Yet completely bypassed because Rockstar are the hot button for controversy.