Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback WOW so Baldur's Gate has gone from fun GAMe to borderline cartoon porn?

I have seen this chart earlier in the thread, but I must admit, I am not sure what it proves, but it might be my lack of experience with the table-top speaking. I never questioned harlot's existance in D&D, BG1&2 had them. I will trust you on the images, though.


You are again conflating romances with explicit sex scenes. Stop that. The quoted above is just pure nonesense. First of all I would like you to introduce you to a small IP called Fallout. Original game was made around the same time as Baldur's Gate, were also isometric and released by the same publisher, but is a 18+ rated games. Bioware's choice to make BG games playable by teens was intentional - it is a simple hero story almost every one can enjoy. Even the silly gib animation was a toggle (which I tend to keep off, funnily enough to make the game more immersive). Also by your logic, few games would be rated below 18 if tech advancements were responsible for game's rating.


I don't think the quote really captures the heart of the matter, as it seems to refer to the existance of a violent act in the narrative, but not its depiction. How something is depicted has an impact on meaning - it can change the scene from comedic slapstic to horror, it can make something seem repuslive or desirable. I mentioned Watchman, so I will continue using it as example. The comic has sex and violence and uses it to show how unheroic it's characters are. None of it's mature content is indulged in, as it is not meant to be entertaning. Watchman film, however, does the opposite being a very gory film, and glorifying its violence and sex. It's message is completely opposite to the source material. The comic is a deconstruction of a superhero story. The film, is just an R rated superhero story - in other words, it is just an unpleasant to watch usual superhero story and would loose nothing by not being R rated.