Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Who else watched bear sex with their kid?

Your logic is that because kids have computers, nothing adult should exist on them.

The other poster was right though, it is really crappy to personally attack the boss ( or any of the people working at Larians) in their own forum. You can say your piece without getting personal.

We shouldn't decide on what's "good" or "bad" in an M-rated game depending on whether kids will see it or not.

Back in the day on Sega Genesis and arcades we had Mortal Kombat where we had fatalities like ripping a heart from the chest.

Torture and dismemberment happen in horror movies.

Grand Theft Auto games allow you to run over pedestrians and kill indiscriminately.

Kids will always get ahold of media they shouldn't have access to. Or we think they shouldn't have access to.

It's not up to the companies to keep them out of the reach of children.

Gets warned not to let kids see it. Let's kids see it.

Its not just crappy actually, its against the forum rules. I advocate for everyone to try and calm down on the matter, is it really worth such a heated debate?

Real one. Adult stuff existed long before BG3. Never saw your dad's adult magazines? Never saw the Alien rip our someone's face on tv? Never took a sneak peak inside a sex-shop? Come on, children are exposed to a lot of things, there is no stopping it, as a parent your job is to explain things, not cover their eyes.

A lot of games got backlash from showing adult stuff. Remember Mass Effect? Hell, I don't live in the US and still heard the Fox News... news. What difference does the brand make? D&D was shunned as a satanic cult 40 or so years back, talk about backlash.


Eh, wouldn't really bet my money on that. We clearly won't settle this one, but the only people following games on forums are the ones who who have strong feeling about them - usually negative ones. The vast majority of people don't care enough.

Ok, as a mother to an autistic kid this struck a nerve. "Think of the children" is not an argument. Period.

He gave fans what they wanted. Funny how democracy works.

My discomfort wasn't with the scene's sexuality or the use of an animal form. It was the juxtaposition of a smaller, to my eye cowering, figure and a partner who abruptly turned into a thousand pound bear and said that when he's aroused he has trouble controlling himself. I'm pretty sure I'd have much the same reaction if my character had agreed to a romantic assignation with Bruce Banner, and he abruptly turned into the Hulk. Larian could have utilized the bear form in an encounter that was playful and/or tender (affirming the underlying humanity and mutual concern of both partners) rather than rooted in what felt to me like physical intimidation.

Perhaps this scene was designed specifically for Halsin and Astarian. However, as someone who views consent more as an on-going dance, rather than one partner's just saying "OK" and praying that the other partner's admitted lack of control doesn't result in them receiving serious physical injuries. What's funny as a cut scene between npcs, isn't necessarily funny when you subtitute a player character hoping for romance into scene.

"Things that should have stayed locked behind choice walls."


Ima quote myself here. All this could have been avoided with discretion.

Sven should really make a public apology, both to the community and abroad, for showing content that should have only be seen by a niche audience and then only if they somehow unlocked it for their own viewing.

I'm not sure why we need to be nice to Sven just because he's the head of the company, that's silly. He deserves as much respect as anyone else here, which is to say, we shouldn't be resorting to personal attacks regardless.

This would've been amazing.

Hopefully, since there are other options to choose, the scene can be explored in ways more like this one.

People joke about Sven and the team all the time. As you note, most of those jokes are not personal attacks or accusations though.

I was personally disturbed long before the bear.

Seeing the wanton encouragement for acts of cruelty was kind of insult to injury (and creepy), after not getting any effort put into a paragon play-through story (an absolute first).

This wasn't a small shift. It was like gravity started pulling everything skyward.

I don't think Sven needs to apologize for anything.

My thought process at the time: this will be tamer than the minthara scene we already have, because streaming, so it's likely no big

My action: say to the kid "so what he's saying is there will be nudity and maybe some sex, your choice if you stay or not"

I wasn't fussed about the screwing, he's 14, he knows what screwing is, and depictions of loving, consensual intimacy are positive if they're not too explicit.

But animal stuff, like with BDSM, toys, etc, is in my thinking a bit much for kids (or maybe most folks for whom this is still all theoretical).

It literally is locked behind a choice wall. Two, in fact. The player specifically has to select the dialogue option: "Don't apologise. I like it." followed by "Yes. Change back again. Let me have the beast...and the beast have me."

The audience *chose* to select those options.
You *chose* to continue watching after it was clear that option was being selected.

Sounds like Larian implemented it exactly as you wanted, so I'm not sure why there's a need to apologize..?

What about the fatalities in Mortal Kombat? That's far more brutal and encouraged and celebrated than anything in this game.

What about being able to play as Nazis and Stalinists in Paradox games? And being able to do actual genocide?

What about first-person shooters that encourage you to engage in mass slaughter or terrorist attacks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Russian

What about the tragic fates you can deal people in Dishonored 2?

Why is this game different from all other games?

Call me old fashion... but I don't think bestiality should be included in any form of media. Especially in as positive of a light as it is in this game. I don't think it should be a choice, locked behind a choice-wall or anything else like that.

I also don't think things like pedophilia should be in media either - regardless of if you have a choice to ignore it or not.

Don't care if there are some weirdos are out there who get off on animals having sex with humans. Just like I don't care if there are some weirdos out there who get off on having sex with kids. It's a line that I don't think we should cross. Could really care less if some dope on an Internet forum disagrees with me or not.

I totally agree, there is no reason at all for personal attacks. We can have different opinions and it is totally ok.

Tommy thinks we should have sex with 10 bears. I think we should have sex with 0 bears.

We compromised and had sex with 5 bears.

I am not a fan of all this compromising.

I actually believe that Mortal Kombat has turned into torture porn and should have the same advertising/selling restrictions as hardcore pornography.