We all have heard the controversy shortly before the release of BG3 when other game studios dissed BG3. But now that I look at the game and the reactions to it, I fear they were in some way right, but for different reasons.
BG3 obviously has problems. Act 3 is a mess, its full of bugs and even the story and characters are not all that great. But nothing of that matters. Why? Because nearly everyone is talking about sex and are simping for the companions. So what does that tell other developers? That they just need to add sex and characters specifically made for sex appeal and "attractiveness", checking off various preferences on a list and they are good. No need to invest much resources in writing and storytelling. This will sadly be the near future of RPGs. Sure there will still be PG13 RPGs without sex (although they too will likely create their NPCs in a way to allow for simping/thirsting) but the flagship AAA RPGs will probably all go into this direction.
Go ahead, the sex scenes don't bother me at all, in fact, I'm one of those who think that Larian should recycle scenes to make montages to go to sleep with your partner at the camp and have a romantic scene with your partner before the final battle, I think they are details that would give immersion because they are realistic behaviors. Having said this, I am concerned about the behavior of the community in relation to this, especially because these companies have investments, shareholders... who do not care about the quality of the result, they want to sell with the minimum investment. If the message that we consumers give is: you can give me an incomplete game and I can't stop saying that the game is perfect, how wonderful, because you give me a few sex scenes... in the future we are going to eat a lot of shit from games full of soft porn. And for the record, I hope they fix Baldur's sooner rather than later and it becomes the epic game it deserves to be, but right now it is not and we cannot forget it because of some erotic scenes (which, by the way, they have made these scenes very elegant, nothing scandalous).
I add that other games have had romances but it is the first that has such explicit romances, and with so many possibilities. Damn, you can fuck an illithid
