I would definitely have bought the game without the sexual content, because Larian earned my trust with Divinity 2 and Divinity Original sin, but I would have missed the hard choices I grew to love in dragon commander.

But it would not have been the best game i played in the past two decades.

Some background: I’ve been sketching the best moment of the last day almost every day for a year, and the past 3 months Baldurs Gate 3 absolutely dominated those sketches. But look at the sketches yourself and see which scenes more and more took over as the most impactful.


Around the middle of the month I started playing, you’ll see near the end where the romances started:

[Linked Image from draketo.de]

Start of this month Lae’zel confessed that she wants a more sensual relationship, not just fast sex, and that this was the hardest confession for her to make. Around the end I had sex with an incubus to enable Lae’zel to get Freedom for the new ruler of her people — and then watched the sunrise with her:

[Linked Image from draketo.de]

Then one month with little time for gaming:

[Linked Image from draketo.de]

EDIT: At the end of my first playthrough (now online) I asked Lae’zel for a kiss before battle (you’ll notice the reloads — that’s not an accurate count) and deeply enjoyed the new ending with Patch 5. And it so happened that I had texture glitches that caused several Characters to be half naked, which did not detract from the experience; rather the opposite (except for Withers who was stark naked — that didn’t really fit, but I think it was a bug due to playing this on Linux with pristine wine on an overpowered CPU but underpowered graphics card):

[Linked Image from draketo.de]

(these are from my "best-thing-today" sketches: https://www.draketo.de/kreatives/best-thing-today )


That is some spectacular storytelling, and it would not have worked without the sex. Because that sex is not mere fan-service. It is part of the plot, part of the bonding of the characters that makes them stand against most brutal odds and take hard choices (like
betraying the single one who never truly lied to you
).

Last edited by ArneBab; 19/12/23 06:13 AM.