Sigh. Let's just get back to the point of the thread. Shall we? And can we be civil? That's really not called for, and I would expect more from someone who believes they are living "in educated times".
The topic is SEX in this game. It is not violence nor about killing children, etc. That has been discussed on other threads, and that was really the point of my last post. Let's not get into the whole violence topic because as you can see in my last post, we can very quickly veer into a whole new realm of conversation.
This topic - sex in BG3 - is very important to me because it can very easily ruin the game for me and prevent me from finishing it. Plain and simple. It has nothing to do with me trying to force my beliefs on others. It has nothing to do with me trying to ruin BG3 for others. It is simply me telling Larian that I am very worried that they will ruin the game for me and others like me.
Especially after this last update, I am stoked. I want to see Jaheira and Minsc again. I want to finish Act 1 and see the other acts. I am invested in the characters, their stories, etc. I WANT to finish this game, and I want to play through it multiple times.
But if Larian isn't careful, and they don't care about fans like me, they could easily ruin the game for us. If they focus too much on sex, and not enough of more important elements such as mechanics and story and things with more substance than one minute sex scenes, this game is going to tank. THAT was my point about Star Wars. Star Wars almost died as a franchise because of 8 and 9, severing ties with long-time fans who became absolutely disgusted by the direction Disney took. Disney took up the franchise and didn't handle it with care. They just regurgitated the originals, slapped a new paint job on it, did some weird crap with it, and it took a serious hit.
What saved Disney was Mandalorian and other shows like it. Don't believe me? Have you noticed? Disney isn't really producing anymore material for the sequels? Where are more stories about Rey and Poe and Finn? They don't exist because fans are not happy with them. They hate them. They don't want anymore stories about them because they were carelessly done. There was a total lack of respect for them.
THAT is also what I'm afraid of for BG3. Larian is picking up the reigns of a beloved game series and beloved world - Forgotten Realms. They need to handle it with care and not focus too much on 1 minute to 2 minute sex scenes. Focus on the mechanics. Focus on the story. Focus on things with substance that will create longevity for the game and series. IF you're going to have sex in a game, it should be the spice - the extra flavor. It should not be something they inundate us with. (And though I say that, I in no way approve of sex at all in a game. I'm merely saying that IF you are going to include it, it should be a minor feature and not something they focus too much on.)
Where was I not civil? For calling things what they are? So, as you said, let's avoid acceptable by your standard role-playing of murder hobo topic (which you can play for 150 hours non-stop) and get exclusively to "unacceptable" by your standard sex topic, which happens for few seconds in the cut scene only if you optionally romance certain characters. Such a huge focus on sex... yeah, the whole minute of a cut scene in 100 hours full walk-through.
First of all, calling the sex scene in this game a porn is already completely wrong. Either the OP doesn't understand the meaning of the word or deliberately twisting it. The word porn means "a prostitute" in Latin and the whole definition of porn movie is the a prostitute is getting paid to have sex so others can watch it. How does it relates to the BG3? It does not, question about cartoon porn closed.
Secondly, the whole "sex is bad" attitude. Sex is as bad as eating, drinking, shitting and so on. It's not only a natural activity of every human but any species in general. Sex is a mean to procreate and a goal in life of any specimen is to find a suitable pair by whatever means available, have sex, and produce next generation preferably successful to do the same later. Any deviations from this strategy cause the extinction of a person who failed to do that.
Then you go on a rant, by some reason, about Star Wars, which failure is not related to the topic whatsoever. It failed because of bad writing, not because of presence or absence of sex. So far writing in this game is fine if you don't deep dive into the evil path, which was inconsistent last time I checked.
