Many games throughout the year could be accused of being sexually immature, and many of them deserve it. What makes Dragon Age: Origins' sex scenes stand above most everything else, though, is their earnestness. Origins treats the relationships between characters with a degree of maturity that's surprising for our industry, so when I'm suddenly "treated" to stiff animations of virtual characters having sex with their unmentionables on, it not only robs the entire sequence of any emotional power, it also does a disservice to the rest of the storyline with that character; the culmination of my relationship with this person is an awful -- albeit hilarious -- display of puppet sex? No thanks.
Runners-Up: The Saboteur, OneChanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
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That's probably the entire point, actually. It'll always seem out of place on some level until developers start pushing it. Then one day the popular mindset will switch, such things won't automatically be seen as the imminent arrival of armageddon, and attemps will begin to better realize the concept.
