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You proved my word by listing 10ish titles. That is it? Exactly what I said — the industry lacked good CRPG games (what I meant is we lack the good quantity of them, I didn't mean they did not exist at all, only handful of them), and ten games is nothing. I would not even include POE and others, and would keep only tactial turn-based CRPGs, that would narrow down it even more. It is easy to say it is a niche genre of something that doesn't exist — how can I play a game that does not exist? Well other corporate greedy companies were busy releasing Call of Duty and FIFA every year, but it doesn't matter anything they touch is crap anyway. After releasing BG3 you can tell that the demand was always there and Swen and Larian knew it.


Well, what are you trying to compare here? I am pretty sure you know the history of Larian studio, how they struggled with publishers, budget, deadlines, etc? Having years of years of pain and suffer developing games in rush without making any profit and making weird RTS just to kick things off, and finally somehow Swen, Kirill Pokrovskiy and a few enthusiasts created DOS1 working 24/7 in Swen's basement and finally did break even for the first time which helped them to crowdfund resources for DOS2 and finally deliver a finished, polished product that was well rewarded. Now, after leaving all pain behind and becoming a well known company with multiple offices and employees around the World who can afford buying almost any IP and have freedom do develop a whatever game they want, Larian spent 6 YEARS (I REPEAT, SIX YEARS) to polish BG3 that won GOTY.

Really? I mean, like do you really compare them? They are all CRPG but it is not an apple-to-apple comparison lol

Hi Larian,

first off, sorry for putting this here. I couldn't find an appropriate thread or forum and also no obvious person to contact for the matter.
I would like to delete my account. How am I doing this?

Cheers.

I for one would 100% welcome a much large variety of choice in physics, shapes, sizes, proportions and customisable options.

A game can easily cater to a much larger community by being careful how it allows these options to be accessed and used.

BG3 for example, already had nudity and sex scenes. WITH the option of turning it OFF.
Conan used a DLC, but had no sex.
These games are usually 18+, close to that age, or rated M for mature themes for a reason, as many games similar, suitable for children already exist. Literally thousands of them.

The world and most of the things you see are highly sexed already, social media is rampant with it. Some people really do need to just get over it, and some people just need to be more honest.

Very odd how some people who are so easily offended by the mere concept of relationships and sex, as an adult, want it banned or removed, just because they are not wired like many.
BG3 romancing options are pretty good, better than many and most games, but admittedly they do need some work, and need more options added to make it appeal to a wider audience.
But a lot of you are leaning heavily into your own personal choices or orientations and not considering a much wider audience.
Also, in BG3 you can literally just say no, or turn off the mature themes.... If you can't navigate away from relationships, romance and sex in BG3, it really isn't the type of game or developer style for you... hell it prompts you to turn off mature scenes and things at the very beginning of firing up the game!
You can even be rude to them if you really need to, or just use emotionless and dialogue-less thralls.

Whilst i agree a romance OFF type option could/should be added.
I strongly disagree with people complaining about the focus of the game being on it.
Relationships of any kind are present in every aspect of the real world.
BG3 centres itself on your chosen player arc and any form of relationship with any and every character throughout the entire game, most of which are NOT romantic, and certainly not sexual.
Just like in real life....
It has strong aspects if you wish to indulge in them, but it's a small percentage of the entire game. Some people just massively blow things out of proportion.
There are also a ton of games out there like BG3 without any adult content.

Personally, i agree heavily with the sensible comments about more options. SOME of the BG3 romance options are very shallow and if you don't perfectly romance almost every companion by the end of Act 1, they are systematically locked out by Act 2. THAT is the real problem. And once locked out or you make a mistake, there is no room for reconciliation.
You can't even apologise. You have a to re-load a save or Google the specific requirements and order for even getting someone to like you before you do other parts of the story they aren't even involved in yet.

"Might you be from Thay?"
"Like one of those red wizard lich lickers? Please!"

"Yes, ma'am".
"My name's Gribbo, idiot!"
"Yes, more the fool me."

"Twist 'em up!"

Blowing off Gale's pass
"...good night."


In Act III. Oops, never heard Twist 'em up! Good luck, young super-druid! Of all the lostlings you're the most likely to survive.