Originally Posted by Taril
Or rather, "It's not OVERLY sexualized, if you aren't forced to engage with the sexual content"

Which is a thing. Yes, the game has sex in it. But is it "Overly sexualized" if the sex is a minor and optional piece of content?

Since being sexualized and being overly sexualized are different things. The former is just the presence of sexualization. The latter is having too much to the point of detriment.

I'm not sure we should be considering any sexualization to be overly sexualized.

I apologize, but again this argument still doesn't work since you're basing it on 'being able to ignore it, thus its not a big deal'. Of course its optional, a lot of things within the game are optional but they are still there and the way they were included and the amount of it (that I personally don't consider minuscule) will influence how people see the whole game.

You mentioned detriment to the story/game. And yes I would say that BG3 has multiple scenarios where the inclusion of sex and the 'that's hot' mentality came as a detriment to characters and their writing. I might write a longer post later but for now I'll just quote Rahaya's.

Originally Posted by Rahaya
The romances exist in a bubble. WAY more effort was put into the reactivity of taking LIs to see some twins than to their LI literally dying in front of them. Hello?

There are SEVERAL occasions where the developers compromised their own characters in favor of sex/romance. A prime example being Shadowheart. Her initial stance is one of reservation. She will tell the player that Shar discouraged relationships so flings were indulged in secret. Cue Act 3, where you can discover any number of fascinating things, like how apparently Shar has multiple personalities and actually does encourage flings so the brothel thing is fine. Or double fine if you brought Halsin since SH has been thirsting over him for a while. Or how Shadowheart is an amnesiac commenting on how relationship drama is so last century fr fr ong.

Halsin's everything is the second example.

Ever noticed how much less a romance with non-Ascended Astarion gets? A friend of mine certainly did. How weird!

As for the whole argument that the other poster brought up about people being prudes.

Well that's another funny thing, isn't it. 'A person who is or claims to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity.' one of the explanations as to what a prude is, but for some reason a subsect of Larians fanbase has flipped it around and started attaching it to anyone that criticizes or doesn't like the poorly written erotica mixed with bestiality cuck porn. (I adore you Red Queen, my fave mod. I know you'll probably read this and cringe at the word but its true, that shit is in the game.) It's becoming absurd to be honest.

I think the majority of people on these forums are fine with sex and the exploration of sexuality but the issue arises like I mentioned as to how it was handled and to a degree how far certain devs/writers took it.

Last edited by Rotsen; 26/11/23 06:30 PM.