There is literally only one other AAA CRPG series in existence, and it’s horny as fuck. Dragon Age was doing sex way before BG3, so suggesting that all of the sudden BG3 is now ruining the genre by encouraging the inclusion of sex is utter nonsense.
I agree, but this is only true for Dragon Age: Origins. Granted, I haven't played DA2, but I did play Inquisition, just before BG3 and the only romance I've got was the chivalrous kind, without nudity or kinky scenes. It's like Bioware was afraid to go too far with sex scenes.
My experience with BG3 sex scenes is that... what the hell is this all fuzz about? I'm romancing Shadowheart and there was just one sex scene so far (I'm way past the middle of act 3) and it was really romantic. Apart from that I have triggered sex scene with Karlach (because those romance triggers were bugged in previous builds, so everyone was suddenly horny in my camp) and honestly it wasn't more hardcore than anything I saw in DAO all those years ago. I've also seen a sex scene with Mizora and if anything, it was unique, not kinky. So yeah, I totally don't agree this game is all about sex. Nothing like that at all.
My memory is hazy about the DA series. (Loved DAO, hated the genre change in 2 but eventually came to like the background lore the game introduced, and DAI really just fell completely flat for me.) But I thought DAI had some pretty racy sex scenes? Maybe it was 2 that they were absent from? I don't know.
But yeah, none of the sex scenes I've seen in BG3 have seemed all that shocking (granted I've only seen Lae'Zel and SH) and, like...this was done a long time ago. I think maybe what people are annoyed at, more than the sex scenes, is how everyone (well, ALMOST everyone) is playersexual and, because the game is actually narratively pretty short, they start their flirting ASAP - which can lead to feeling bombarded by flirtatious comments for a while, until you reject everyone and settle on someone.
