having sex scenes added to the game does move it out of the reach of a lot of the people who were likely to have played the first games (myself included)
This is my point right here. Let's say BG1 and 2 were remade today. Yes, there was a brothel. Yes, you could choose to sleep with characters. However, it can be presented in a less in-your-face method so that it doesn't cause potential customers to not buy the game... or finish it.
Example: In the game Fate, you could get married and sleep with your wife. When you did, fade to black, you hear some giggling noises and knew what was happening, and it's over. They COULD have animated some naughty stuff, but they chose not to. There's LOTS of things animators can do besides showing naked people totally doing it front and center on the screen. It doesn't have to be so explicit so that it doesn't turn people away from buying the game or ever buying another Larian game.
I myself will hesitate to buy another Larian game because of their explicit sex scenes in this one. I will have to read reviews and stuff to see if people are saying that Larian has included explicit sex. As it is, I'm deathly afraid that Larian is going to add MORE vulgarity and sex in BG3 to the point that I won't even be able to finish it. I'm REALLY REALLY afraid that some later level - or multiple levels - is going to have naked men/women popping out of nowhere at me, succubuses trying to seduce my character with nothing on, or practically nothing on - or incubuses - walking in on other people having sex like the bugbear and ogre scene, and so forth. VERY afraid! Seriously. I'm not exaggerating. It is a serious fear of mine. If they include too much of this kind of stuff, I'm out. I won't be able to finish this game which has become my favorite game of all time. I've played this game WAY more than KOTOR, my previously favorite game. By simply adding this kind of content, it will completely plummet this game to TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE TRASH AND A HUGE WASTE OF TIME in moments. That's how strongly I feel about it. The only reason I tolerate it now is because it is optional to trigger sex scenes, and I can turn down my volume to not hear the duergar vulgarity. If they make it so that it just pops out at me while going through the story, like the bugbear and ogre scene but maybe even more explicit, it'll ruin the whole game for me. (Note: I totally NEVER go to the bugbear/ogre shack. EVER, because of just how much it affected me the first time.)
And it is a MAJOR downside to me that they don't have some way to turn off the sex scenes and vulgarity in its current state. When they added the duergar dialogues at Grymforge, I was disgusted and it really tarnished my gameplay. I had to struggle through it, gritting my teeth and just bearing it for the love of the overall game. If they add more, I don't know what I'll do.
I am not complaining. I am telling you how I feel. If this game gets MORE vulgar and sexual, it'll ruin the whole thing for me. I'm barely tolerating what they have in it so far.
However, IF they give me the option to turn off sex and vulgarity, my love and enjoyment for the game will rise again back to where it was when I first started playing it. It's as simple as that. Let me turn off the nasty bits and this game will skyrocket in terms of enjoyment for me, and it'll make me have faith that Larian will produce future games that give me such options so I can actually play them.
