You sort of touches this youself, not everything is for everyone, like a sauna, dont like it, dont do it, i payed for a dark adult romancy BG saga with stuff that some can persive as uncomfterble,
It is absolutely fine for you to enjoy what BG3 is doing and desire to stay the way it is.
But don’t pretend like BG1&2 anywhere in the same ballpark, even when taking into account overall increase in “mature content” in video games.
Your comparison to sauna is also dishonest - context is not sexual, and sauna is sauna, you get what you sign up for. BG as an IP has established a certain tone, and it is understandable some people who enjoyed tone and rating of BG1&2 won’t appreciate BG3’s choices. Even if Mature rating is front and center, it can mean many things. Pillars of Eternity 1&2 and fallout games also have adult rating, but they don’t contains content like BG3, while being by all accounts more “mature” and grim worlds and stories.
There is narrative shallowness a I think that is bothering me. If sex and prophanity had a narrative justification, I bet I wouldn’t mind it. It is, however, that those cutscenes seem to be for mine and mine entertainment only and it’s just embarrassingly awkward that devs think I do want to watch digital characters having awkwardly animated sex. Or that I will be amused by swearing dwarfs. I don’t and I would prefer to see those go. That’s my feedback, feel free to have a different one.
Oh, and there is no rose tinted glasses for Bg1&2 here. I play those games every couple years, and playing a bit of Bg1 right now, as I am away from my PC. Their content is pretty fresh in my mind.
