Quote Originally Posted by ReloadPsi View Post
The scene is less risqué when it's rendered with guys who look like lego men. Besides it's not like they have butt sex, plus at the time FF was still a series not many cared about at the time 7 was released (or totally unheard of in my case), as opposed to GTA which had enjoyed widespread fame and controversy since its earliest incarnation.

I'm just saying that with FF's popularity now, an FF game with an ostensibly straight bloke being pulled into a bath with a buncha gay guys would turn a lot of heads nowadays, especially in AC's graphics.
I don't think the graphics of a game make it any more or less risqué depending on the quality, but it wouldn't surprise me if the ratings people threw a fit over it. I just don't think, on principle, the game should receive a higher rating because of what would, presumably, mostly be updated graphics and nothing else that would effect ratings. There isn't any full frontal nudity in FFVII, is there? I thought that the closest FFVII got was people in either skimpy outfits or underwear.

If anything I would've thought that, at least in Britain, we were more accepting of homosexuality now than we were ten or so years ago if that were to be an issue. It's been brought up in the bastion of all that is sacred (Hollyoaks) after all.

Still, I'd say that GTA is a special case that's bound to provoke outrage no matter what incarnation of the game is because of the reputation it's got. GTA is pretty much synonymous with "computer game violence" in a lot of people's minds whereas I don't think FF has that same kind of label really and might not be treated so harshly. I mean, I only brought GTA up because it was the first game with an 18 certificate I thought of.