Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Children setting

This thread is still going and OP has not replied even once.

In Europe we get our impression of the USA from the extremes. If a town bans shorts on decency grounds then we hear about it. We don't hear or care about all the other places. At the other end of the scale, we see the clips and photos of 'Walmart people' wearing highly inappropriate clothing and showing bodies that might be better off left decently covered.

Like every other nation on Earth, the USA is viewed through a lens distorted by stereotype, media images and a love of the bizarre and outrageous.

Therefore, all Americans are fat, virulently racist or virulently antifa, afraid of nudity, conservatively religious, and go around singing the Star Spangled Banner at the drop of a hat.

Oh yeah, if this is about censorship or kid gloves or child-proofing the game then there is no question - this is a mature game with explicit content. Full stop. The main question is: are there certain things that are low effort, high impact, that could lower the age floor for being able to passively consume, if not play, it? The history of games has shown it to be possible, effective, not barring them from being blockbuster successes, and something that has demand. The feasibility of it will be contingent on things like them making design decisions to have storyline dialog and responses done whilst in [explicit situation]. Or, if they hear feedback early, do they decide to separate the two - making it so the disabling of one doesn't disable the other and allows them granular control of two things they are offering: 1. Sex & Violence 2. Story. If they divorce the two it gives them more control, anyway, and might allow them the benefit of extending a different experience than the one they have chosen to offer as their preferred curated experience.

Yeah, it's low effort, I'm just personally not sure if it will have high impact. But if you and some others think it will then yeah, why not have that toggle, it will not hurt anyone.

Sexual themes is different it's merely naughty, and at times offensive to some. Nudity is a different thing it's for the large part completely wrong. Even a covered breast as your feeding your little brat is seen as offensive. Yet it is fine to show scantily clad women draped over something in an erotic manner.... Swear I need to move to Europe or something..

It's why Americans are often viewed as they are sexual themes oooooh yeaaaaaah!! Nudity - omg Ethel don't look!! Thats barbaric, distasteful, yadda, yadda yadda, go shower with your clothes on hypocrit.

As for how it is part of the topic. It's a point that instead of using it as a learning experience, or even heaven forbid as a way for a person to grow up comfortable in their own body. (neither a religious or political view just a statement.) we instead try to keep it hidden. Much like the skeletons in my closet. It's the same with gore, video games can be a learning experience for kids. Teach them the difference between what is right or wrong, cause and effect.

For instance with the way I taught my heathens, I actually stupidly, took them to the store (not the stupid part) Held open the door for them, and then brain fart, turned took a step and walked into the door that I was holding. My youngest (the demon) laughed, because it was funny, and stated 'Dad, that was stupid, your not spose to do that.' (she was around 6 or 7) People were offended that she not only laughed, but told me it was stupid for me to do.

Wtelf/wtf with few more words. It was both stupid, and hilarious at the same time. Yet even with all that, if I look at one of my (now not so young) kids to this day. They stop what they are saying/doing because they know it's time to stop.

sorry rant/ramble yada yada, baby yoda over. Just wanted to show if you use things as a learning experience, and not taboo like nudity in a game, or blood/gore/violence etc, it's not a bad thing. and can actually while you still remain the parent, be a good thing.

By God, he was just a Steam forums troll sent here rile the populace. Curse you OP!

I quoted these two comments because I think that the idea of "whitewashing the gore" completely ignores the adult concepts in this game....I mean there is NO way that the idea of having a parasite/tadpole in one's brain is less adult than any amount of blood or nudity, and I've seen NONE of the comments on "add a child safe mode" that address this serious point.

Larian will release some modding tools for the game. I think that should allow people to include (*ahem* Loverslab *ahem*) or exclude content to their hearts delight.

Larian will release some modding tools for the game. I think that should allow people to include (*ahem* Loverslab *ahem*) or exclude content to their hearts delight.
I don't know why people generally think that stereotypes are utterly evil. They are a subclass in the set of heuristics. We would suffer massive cognitive overload without resorting to the use of heuristics. Many of them are wrong some of the time, some are wrong all the time but we simply couldn't do without them. I am a quite steretypical german and therefore biased when it comes to thinking about other stereotypes

Lover's lab or lover slab? I'm not sure which option is worse.

So instead of vodka jokes you get beer jokes?

I think that the idea of "whitewashing the gore" completely ignores the adult concepts in this game....I mean there is NO way that the idea of having a parasite/tadpole in one's brain is less adult than any amount of blood or nudity, and I've seen NONE of the comments on "add a child safe mode" that address this serious point.

some people think just blood/nudity toggle could make big difference and well it probably would for them.

So instead of vodka jokes you get beer jokes?

I honestly think by trying to protect children from everything we are doing the opposite. Creating thin skinned, hypocrital, prudes that are not equipped to go out into the real world. We are simply trying to fulfill some ignorant moral code that is causing more harm then good.

so we should in a large part use things that are readily avialable as a teaching tool, like games, (which are readily available in most places) to prepare them, while having fun.

*pounces on the ball of yarn, growling* 'Mine!!' (i wonder if it will help me learn to spell properly)

*Vometia has entered the conversation*

lol