And that's what I mean by "a schism in entertainment". Go play an E rated game? Do you know of any good RPGs that are E Rated? And again, lots of REALLY bad RPGs exist, sure, but not very many are actually good.
BG1 and 2 and IWD were good. Neverwinter Nights was good. KOTOR was AWESOME. Sex scenes in those? Nope. None. Some naughty characters like harlots, but not sex scenes sold a gazillion copies too, proving GOOD RPG does not NEED sex to sell.
Solasta is good and Pathfinder. 100s though, that are good games? Hardly. I've been starving for another good Turn Based RPG, especially 5e, and there's Solasta and BG3. That's it. Not 100s.
So yeah. It's frustrating when I finally get a 5e game that is turn based, and there's content that is, imo, totally unnecessary. Some don't think it's unnecessary, but whatever. The point is, I finally get a good RPG to rival KOTOR after a decade or whatever, and it has stuff that makes my stomach churn and I have to grit my teeth and bear it. It seriously hinders my love for the game.
Interestingly, in spite of my preference, I'm not saying, "Screw all your naughty fantasies. Larian should just totally cut all sex from the game. Who cares what you think or like?". I'm just asking for an option and hoping maybe they'll give it to us - an option to shut off sex - to skip the raunchy bits so I can ALSO enjoy the 3rd installment of the series to the fullest.
Also, do you even know what a Puritan is? They are REALLY strict Christians who would never be caught dead playing a video game of any kind, let alone BG3. I'm a FAR cry from a Puritan. I don't agree with having these explicit sex scenes, but I'm not condemning anyone. I'm not even demanding that they remove the content so you who enjoy it can still do so. I'm just asking for an option.
If they give it, great. If not, I at least tried.
Well I'd cite Earthbound, but that's technically the now defunct K-A rating, and really beside the point, but what has yet to be considered by the hordes of players demanding that BG3 not have sex scenes is A: They are optional content that you are not being forced to engage in(You can ignore the romance prompts, it isn't hard), and B: We already know that BG3 is being planned with streaming in mind, and they've talked about giving options for stream viewers to vote on dialogue choices, so tell me: What is Twitch's policy on porn games?
Edit: I'd like to add an adendum. I'm tired of overly sanitized media. I'm sick of everything having to be clean and safe and neutered and sexless because "Think of the Children" or peoples personal discomfort. There's an abundance of sexless media out there for players to consume who don't wish to engage with an actual part of life. Maybe let us degens have this one? Especially since it seems like Larian are the same sorts of degens who made it clear from the beginning of development that this was going to be in the game. If we can have gratuitous violence where you're greeted to mutilated corpses and exposed brains in the first 5 minutes of gameplay, we can certainly stand to have a tiddy and not have society collapse.
