I 100% agree with your dislike of the scene.
I bought this game as soon as it was pre-released. I've always supported and defended this game amongst my peers, and I've been eagerly awaiting the release. After that scene today, sadly, not anymore.
Any sexual relations between an animal / person isn't acceptable. I'll accept -a lot- from video games. Yes they're fiction. Yes it's an optional scene I could never see. However, it's too much of a slippery slope and it honestly made me feel sick seeing it.
I understand getting flamed in this forum. However, I made this post specifically in hopes that Larian receives the feedback. It's their game, they can do what they want with it, but so long as that scene persists, I can't support this game.
Larian, please remove this scene. It's extremely inappropriate, and no amount of magic / fantasy / video game can defend a literal pornographic scene between a human and animal.
So you're okay with people being able to murder everyone they meet in game, including children and squirrels, but are offended because they showed a scene where an elvish vampire spawn can have sex with a sentient Druid shapeshifted into animal form.
In both cases you of course can choose, in your play-throughs, to have your character not murder children nor squirrels and you can choose not to have your character have sex with a sentient Druid shapeshifted into an animal.
Perhaps your time would be best spent examining why the first doesn't offend you but the second one does.
To be completely fair, I had no idea you could kill children in the game. The only scene I saw that there was possible child death was the Kahgra(sp) scene and I spent a fair amount of time reloading to make sure the little girl didn't die. I am 100% not at all ok with children being killed and didn't know this was an issue in the game. I don't think this should be ok either.
Either way, this is a forum for feedback. This is my feedback. I highly doubt Larian will do much with it now. It is what it is. I wont' be playing the game. I'm not interested in exploring the darker sides of humanity, I can read the news if I want to do that. I was interested in playing a compelling and well crafted RPG video game that would draw the excitement of adventure, fun, and fear. I had played Divinity II and saw a darker tone being promoted in that game, but maybe the topdown / more cartoony aspect of the game provided a distance that didn't cause such a reaction in me personally.
Also, I do not take any of this as a joke, considering they've spent 10s-100s of millions of dollars to produce this content. If Larian wants to produce a 10s-100s of millions of dollars joke, then so be it, but I'm giving the game the due respect it seems to be asking from me.
It is what it is. I wish I had known what this game was going to be when I purchased it. I was on the side of excitement for this game before the panel. I'm not now. That's my feedback for Larian.
