Originally Posted by Wormerine
Originally Posted by Aaezil
Originally Posted by Wormerine
I interesting claim. As someone who played most major D&D and non-D&D cRPGs, and Baldur’s Gate series specifically I would be willing to call bullshit on that. But maybe you are right, maybe computer adaptations have been sanitised up to this point. Let’s see… D&D starter set… 12+ rating, just like your usual D&D cRPG. How… expected.

I’m talking about the forgotten realms dnd tabletop game setting that was creates by Ed Greenwood not computer games and not whatever 5edition wizards of the coast thing you linked. Nice job attacking a strawman though.
Didn't mean to be the strawman, just felt a need to be snarky after getting accusing of not knowing games that I have been playing for almost 20 years.

I am not quite understanding the differentce - isn't Forgotten Relms D&D (again, clearly not a tabletop player here)? But even so, we ARE talking about computer games and 5th edition as we have a sequel to cRPG Baldur's Gate3 as was created by Bioware allegedly based on D&D 5e. If Larian went for a hard reboot, that's another matter, but BG3 has "3" in the title, and brings back characters (and allegedly more) from the old games. I am not refuting the existance of 18+ rated Forgotten Relms content (I will believe you that it exists, I have no interest in seaking it out), but it is not just a Forgotten Relms game, it is a Baldur's Gate game and a sequel at that.

And even if it wasn't a sequel we can still have a conversation if the content found in the game is beneficial to the overall story, just like we can talk about design decisions.
Forgotten Realms isn't the whole of D&D, as Greyhawk is the original setting, and of course beyond that we also have Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Spelljammer, Eberron, etc(Though you wouldn't know it by modern WotC). The original Baldur's Gate games were based on AD&D 2E.

It also looks like this
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Now I don't need to be a rocket surgeon to surmise that you probably couldn't make a half-way decent sex scene with these visuals, though I'm sure they could be somewhat amusing watching tiny naked sprites with vague details alternating between different positions as you watch from your isometric God angle, being able to count the frames of animations between thrusts.

That aside, Baldur's Gate has had romance options since the second installment, and more has been added with the Enhanced Editions. Whether or not romance is beneficial to any story is subjective to the reader, hence why it's *optional*.