10 Times Controversy Made You Discover Amazing Video Games

10. Mass Effect

Biggest Controversy: Fox News' description as a "sex simulator". Think of your fondest memories from Mass Effect - and try to steer clear of that bad ending minefield while you do so. Chances are you're thinking of certain mission pay-offs, some universe-sized conflicts you had to quell, that moment when you get the new Normandy - things like that. What you'll remember in less detail, is a focus on having it away with your teammates in anything close to a detailed fashion. Sure you were free to romance any and everything in sight - the resulting memes from which would have you believe Shepard would've gone after a particularly curvy plant pot if given the chance - but at no point was this pursuit of some foreign flesh the main hook. Naturally Fox News saw the cutscenes that featured such intense imagery as a woman in a bra or some sideboob and set about denigrating the 60-plus hour game as nothing more than "full graphic sex", reaching such forum-connoting lows as putting up the label 'Se'Xbox' on the screen. Not one to turn down a free ogle at something, scores of viewers then set about getting stuck into one of Bioware's finest alongside the rest, and discovered galaxies of the best RPG gameplay this side of the first three 3D Final Fantasys. To anyone who's ever played through any ME game, you'll not find a bigger display of mass misinformation than this broadcast from the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzF173GqTU