Okay, this one did not bring in much controversy only because not enough people played the GTA IV DLC to actually experience this moment, but trust me, it was shocking. For me, honestly, I don’t think there was a single moment in the GTA series that I found as shocking as the moment in The Lost and The Damned DLC when you see full cock and balls.
I know that may sound juvenile, but think about all the games that deal with male nudity. They often (as in, always) pixelate the man’s junk. Cock and balls are ugly, so I always assume this is being done out of respect for the gamer, but the reality is, I think most companies do it to cover their own asses (some high quality double meaning, there), but by The Lost and the Damned, GTA was like: “Screw controversy, yo,” and they just f**cking whipped that shit out.
The best part is, they set you up to convince you that you WON’T see cock and balls in the “Politics” mission of Lost and the Damned, by keeping the naked man’s bits just out of frame. But then they pull the shocker and he stands up, and there is it. No black bar. No pixels. Just polygonal cock and balls. The more I thought it about it afterwards, though, the more I commend Rockstar for that move.
In many ways, that was the most “rock star” thing any game company could do. We have all seen polygonal tits before, and woman have been stripped and dehumanized for games long enough. It seemed only fitting that the ballisest game company in all of gaming would finally just say “f*ck it” and show us their balls, and that is just what they did.
Man, I don’t even know how to segue out of that….