12 Unbelievably Shameful Times Video Games Tried To Be Sexy

2. Ride To Hell's Fully Clothed Sex Scene

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With other overtly sexually-charged games, they tend to have a modicum of self-awareness. Even Leisure Suit Larry's latest titles retained the mentality of "Hey, if you're into this too, you might be a loser like him", but Ride to Hell: Retribution? This was a whole new level of awful.

How? Because after helping out a female character who requests you deal with her abusive husband, your "reward" - after you kill the guy - is hands-down the worst sex scene in gaming. At least in 3D, anyway - let's not remind the world of Custer's Last Stand.

Seeing main-man Jake Conway go along with a woman offering herself to him - because men and women in video games, I guess - the following scene is fully-clothed, yet still has a ton of groping, gesticulating and undulating before cutting back to open-world gameplay.

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It's... quite something.

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