The Emperor dialogs did not go the way I thought they should, and the sex scene diverted away from what could have been a very poignant conversation.
Not reading through this whole thread, because there’s too much of the same old ‘homophobic’ without actually saying what’s homophobic.
That was the main ask about the original content, and it was never explained by anyone with some kind of logic/rationale.
By sexually harassed – which is the bodily groping I mentioned – I mean that which is illegal and disgraceful, whether it’s a man doing it to a man, or a man doing it to a female. I’ve been through the ‘man doing it to a man’ thing, several times.
I never even went on a rant about it in the original post. But it’s not ‘homophobic’ to say that physical violation is criminal evil. Gay men have absolutely 100% authority to walk up to me and ask me for a date. That’s called ‘civil’.
I’ll reject, but have obviously no issue with it.
I quote the dude above to confirm I feel the same way.
They could’ve easily made a great narrative from the emperor’s ‘condition’, in that he’s still capable of human thought despite looking like a freak. It’s The Fly in the Forgotten Realms.
But unlike that film, everything is so rushed in BG3’s narrative that it never develops organically, and ends up being another ‘wtf’ moment, among many, because they’re trying to tell 1000 different stories at once.
Even the synopsis of the original BG3 story, The Black Hound, knocks this hyperactive tripe out of the water. It’s confident in its lowkey yet intriguing premise. And I would’ve loved to have played that game, as I loved the brilliance of BG1 and BG2.
PS: shout out to Raze who reversed the ‘ban’, which was unfairly applied for many provable reasons. This dude is a shining example of what Larian used to be, and could be again – pretty fucking cool.
