For those folks who keep saying people on this forum are being ‘difficult’ (not referring to anyone specifically here), it really does make you intrigued as to what they expect to find on a thing called a ‘forum’.
If you want unconditional one-note praise of the game, there’s a thing that apes what a normal forum is called BG3 Reddit. It’s a really great place for people who don’t want to read criticism of anything whatsoever. In fact, it’s heavily moderated to ensure everything is praise of BG3.
To reply to the topic – yeah, it’s a weird contrivance and is clearly not particularly intelligent as to what makes someone attractive. Sure, as a straight dude I would place high priority on ‘looks’, so the default pretty drow girl works for me, and it’s no problem.
But women don’t think like men: as we all know, there are some legit gremlins out there going out with amazing looking girls – sometimes half their age. So this gimmick is just another problem with Larian’s frankly inept writing team, in that they always boil humanity down to a simple-minded little maths equation, where ‘good looks’ = attractive and the black and white banality of their good and evil characters.
So of course this is a relevant topic, and no one whatsoever is being ‘difficult’ in thinking about it – again, it’s back to sheep versus humans. Humans think about what they’re presented with and, depending on their wit, challenge it if something seems off.
Sheep just eat the grass they’re given. They also very easily get stuck in ditches and whatnot. It’s because they’re considered somewhat dim.
