Both pretty good, though lengthy, videos about BG1&2. He is more critical of the titles then your ususal BG player, which offers a new, fresh look at the titles.
The novel bit for me was the mention of TSR's Code of Ethics (1:49:55 timestamp) and it's potential effect on BGs take on morality. I am not sure if I would entirely agree - really, all later titles of Bioware were plagued by the very same issues as BG3, and while not shying from explicit and violent content, fall into the same pitfalls. Creating an alluring evil path is a difficult task and I don't think that limitations set by TSR was really THE problem.
It's a weird thing to say, but I think I am fan of those morality censorships. Skilled artist will find a way to navigate through restrictions, while it forces less competend creators to create more... decent content. Some of the most interesting works were created under moral cencorship - film industry in USA was heavily restricted for decades and it gave birth to Film Noir -
the dark genre of American cinema and daft hand required to create one only made the films so much more
special. Hitchcock as well had a habbit of blowing through restrictions like it's clever bypass of 3sec kill sure in
Notorious, or cheeky explicit imagery at the end of
North by Northwest. I wish BG3 was forced to provide character development, rather then using profanity as a characterisation, or write engaging relationships rather then producing an awkward digital porn. Sure, they are artists who can take advantage of the censorship, but for the most the explicit content just becomes a shortcut.
The videos also brought up the "relatibility" of the original games (and possible earlier D&D?) - with those being rather mundane medieval like settings with a touch of weird. While BG3 starts and has so much of "the weird" that I personally struggle to connect with anything. I think that is what people mean when they talk about how "dark" the originals are, rather then tone or mature content.
