I can say I enjoyed having the other origin characters with me the first 3 or 4 times.. but after that I got REAL tired of a couple of them real quick.
Gale because of his constant nagging or wanting to tell me some useless story.
Shadowheart because of her flashbacks and mental issues.
Lae'zel because of her nagging about the creche then about the other issues.
Honestly most play throughs I play now I leave them in camp and take hirelings or I just dont bother with them and rely on hirelings.
As for the overly sexualized... well its D&D. Horny nerds and their fantasies.
Don't pin it on D&D. No other D&D game (BG1-2, NWN, Gold Box,...) was even a fraction as horny as BG3, nor needed to be in order to be successful.
Originally Posted by Marielle
Originally Posted by Hodo
As for the overly sexualized... well its D&D. Horny nerds and their fantasies.
Really? Where do you get this idea of D&D from? An audience that values "naked walkthroughs" and demands "more sex" has nothing to do with D&D and RPG players at all. It can be beneficial to attract just NOT a D&D audience, it's "mass-market". And they can ignore D&D and RPG fans and put rails instead of roleplay in various places of this game, because the audience, far from the concept of "roleplay" will gladly accept it, just to have more kisses and stuff.
Need I point out the old tropes of Bards sleeping with EVERYTHING that moves. Hell several D&D content creators have made fun of this since the beginning of time. (AllForOne, One Shot Questers, Critical Role to name a few).
Even the old video of the teens playing D&D.. Summoner Geeks... [video:youtube][/video]
