14 Most Controversial Video Game Moments Of The 2000s

12. Mass Effect Becomes A Casualty Of Misinformation

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How well do you remember the original Mass Effect?

Do you recall how smutty and offensive it was with all those scenes depicting sodomy, rape and full on sex between aliens and humans alike?

What? None of that stuff ever happened?! Weird, because it's what certain bloggers and news outlets were trumpeting to the public like a foghorn around the time of release.

Shockingly, all of the accusations turned out to be completely false: the most daring thing the game's so-called 'romances' did, being to show a bit of skin in scenes mild enough, even a prude wouldn't blink twice.

It's literally no exaggeration to say that a single episode of any Soap opera has more 'explicit sexual imagery' than this entire sci-fi series. A blindingly good one at that.

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