No, he's just being belittling to people who might like cartoon porn. Honestly though, as someone who actually looks at 3d rendered porn, I find BG3's intimate scenes to be more far more awkward than arousing.
So the problem is that the porn is not good enough? lol
Actually, yes ^.^
As others have mentioned, this is not 'new' in any way - it's been in the game for a long time and it's been advertised as something you can do if you want to pursue it for just as long. there were even interviews that spoke about it, and their efforts to write and choreograph it.
It's important to note that - it's there if you want to pursue it, and if you don't want to pursue it, you can very easily turn people down, or not invite them to intimacy. Even if you meet all the conditions, you actively have to make the choice that says 'Yes, sir or madam, I would indeed like to have one sex with you, please!", and you are given two to three dialogue opportunities once you're in that conversation to back out of it again. You've really got to want to see it, to do so.
That said, there are those who want the story element to recognise that their character has become intimate with someone else, and to acknowledge that sex and intimacy are a part of the world (shock-horror!), without seeing it directly - that's fine too, and I support Larian adding in a setting that will be something you can easily turn on or off from the menu that will black fade the scene or not play them... but that may mean that some players will miss out on some relationship development, since, though it may surprise some people, sex is often the medium during which other growths and explorations of relationships happen - you get a choice or two in the post-coital glow with Minthara, and the dialogue decisions you make there are firmly entangled with the visual on screen at the time, which involves, at minimum, a naked breast or two.
So, my criticism is, yes, that the scenes as we're able to see right now are simply not satisfactory enough. They aren't well choreographed, they aren't well shot, they're awkward and clunky, and they have no pacing, no atmosphere and no emotion as a result; they are poorly done, and they don't adapt well to the character you bring to the scene either.
Just to illustrate that this has been along standing issue, and to say things more clearly than I will in this post, I'd like to invite those genuinely interested in a discussion of the scene and how it is designed to look over here:
As an aside - this seems to have flared up as a conversation topic right now, apparently because of something that data-miners found. As far as I've been able to see, the nudity that is in the game right now is purely female upper-body nudity, because the game models are barbie and ken dolls on their lower half, and smooth around the bends - we have modelled and textured nipples (and always have had for all female characters, player and NPC alike), but nothing down below. Was something found recently that changes this?
