Spoilers for them Stand out show follow.
Stand out starts on a wedding day. It’s Lucy’s (played by) wedding day Yellow jacketis Ella Purnell) and she’s pretty excited. Not only is she thrilled to be married to someone and have a partner to spend the rest of her life with, but she’s also head over heels about having sex with someone who isn’t her cousin Chet (Dave Register). Head in love with it is love with it. When Lucy first sees the man she will marry, a man she believes to be a roommate from a neighboring vault, she and her friend Stephanie (Annabel O’Hagan) react in the most real way and wise: They look up and down at him and then give each other a knowing and lustful look.
It’s an obviously hot moment that sets the stage for the even hotter moments that come after. After the wedding and reception, Lucy and her new boyfriend excitedly excuse themselves from the rest of the party, check out their new home, and get to work. Once they arrive, he strips naked as quickly as possible, surprising and amusing Lucy rather than repelling her. Before you know it, Lucy is sitting astride her husband on the kitchen table, like married couples usually do.
Although Lucy’s husband “Monty” is eventually revealed to be part of a duplicitous raid that slaughters most of Vault 33 and dies trying to kill her, this does not diminish her sexual desire. After Lucy leaves her dungeon, the show follows her growing relationship with Maximus (Aaron Motten), which begins with fanciful notions of gallantry and nobility. Lucy, who mistakes Maximus for a real knight in his power armor, is immediately taken with him, and Maximus returns the favor by trying to be the fairytale knight who gets the princess in the end. Eventually they share a kiss, but not before Lucy very generously offers to have sex with him, simply because they have nothing better to do while they’re locked in a room together. In eight episodes, Lucy fucks more than anyone else in the franchise and becomes the poster child of Stand out
I say surprising because that Stand out Games aren’t known for their romance or sex. In fact, they are known for the opposite, a stark contrast to the way they are talked about in comparison to their contemporaries, such as Bioware’s numerous RPG franchises and last year’s famous Geil Baldur’s Gate 3. Mass effect was for a time loosely referred to as the “Ass Effect” by those who focused on the sexy sex Scenes, after all, and every woman I know who has played the series wants to Garrus should blow their backs. In comparison, this Stand out series, and really All of Bethesda’s games are pretty genderless
Everyone wants some
That doesn’t mean there isn’t sex or romance there Stand out series, but it’s just that they lack emphasis and any semblance of passion. Bethesda RPGs have no shortage of companions to talk to, learn more about through side quests, and start romances with. In most Bethesda titles, you can have a home, and after successfully seducing a character, you can name them as your life partner. They live with you and sleep in the same bed as you, but when it comes to sex or displays of affection, Bethesda is remarkably conservative and chaste. To be clear, Bethesda games don’t have sex scenes. They gesticulate during sex, black out and call it a day. Romance, love and sex are not glimpses into a person’s life but Empty boxes to check off on a list in these games.
Bethesda’s attitude toward sex and romance tempers the world around her. Take Stand out For example. A big part of the appeal of Stand out is its irreverence, like the deliberate weirdness of its retro-futuristic lens in the wasteland of one America that destroyed itself. Supporting characters and quest givers are weirdos, and many of the most effective stories are about the shitty things people have done to each other. You’re telling me people don’t have sex in this shitty version of the post-apocalypse few a little? Or have even developed stranger Kinks than the ones we currently entertain? The bombs fall and suddenly no one can lift them, unless it’s to create and build a fascist state from the remains of our country? I don’t buy that.
Neither Stand out show. During Maximus’ time with the Brotherhood of Steel, one of his bunkmates is explicitly seen masturbating under the covers in front of his fellow soldiers. When Lucy later asks Maximus to have sex, he clarifies: “You mean use my cock?” He speaks of his own phallus with childlike naivety that betrays his sexual inexperience, and says that “strange things could happen” if she have sex. The “strange thing” Maximus is talking about is getting an erection and eventually ejaculating, and he rebuffs Lucy’s advances despite her assurances that it’s actually completely normal. Even this glimpse into Maximus’ views on sex, in which he treats sex like an almost Byzantine artifact, wrestles with the series’ view of romance and intimacy more than the games ever did.
After the Vault 33 massacre in which Stephanie’s husband was killed, she mourns his death by attempting to have sex with Chet. However, instead of just sleeping with him, she dresses him in her late husband’s clothes and insists that Chet maintain her late husband’s facade. Before they can ever truly consummate this extremely strange moment, Stephanie’s water breaks, and although we never see them try again, Chet and Stephanie become a crazy, shitty post-nuclear family. This is weird shit Bethesda is not with what makes the characters of the series even stranger, but also much more likeable.
Before Bethesda Stand out At least the titles acknowledged sex and attraction in more ways than the current titles. The most famous of these recognitions is a sex appeal trait in Fallout 2 This has led to characters of the opposite sex treating you better. While it was clearly an outdated and binary view of attraction and sexuality, it was at least something that was indicative of the characters of… Stand out could have human sexual desires. Even NewVegasIt’s important to note that it was created by Obsidian Entertainment and not Bethesda. has better sex and romance in video games than the rest of the series. If the people playing with your property are doing it better than you, something is wrong.
I’m not demanding that Bethesda suddenly have incredibly graphic sex scenes. It’s understandably difficult to portray intimacy in this way, especially considering it’s all fictional. But if the Stand out games If they decide to take a page or two from the series’ script, this is definitely an element that Bethesda could still learn a thing or two about. I’m much more interested in the characters Stand out show than anyone else Bethesda has written into their games, not because they have sex, but because they’re treated like real, interesting people who occasionally poke fun at each other. How Bethesda continues to work Fallout 5this game, which won’t be released for another decade, should be considered by the team.
