If I am remembering correctly in earlier threads she comes from a fanfic background ?
I think Fanfiction ought to just be used as an outlet rather than including peoples fanfic into a game if she went in on the Ascended is bad fanfic pool thinking the majority want this I'd say she's better looking outside of the twitter fanfic cesspool because abuse stories ain't that popular in real life what is popular in fanfic is the enemies to lovers trope not vice versa.
a game is supposed to be an escape point where you should be having fun .
Yes, that's right. In the lecture as well:
«I know because I was writing fan fiction about Baldur's Gate 3 before I worked on it.»
And now:
«It feels like a watershed moment in gaming history, where the fanfiction community felt like we were not a subculture within a fandom, but the majority audience that the game was catering to».
The image of enemy lovers. Thanks, now I see where this is coming from... In terms of literature and movies, it's already pretty corny in my opinion. But I don't usually read fanfics and I'm not well-versed in this subculture.
Originally Posted by starryophonic
I also want to add, if the intention for this or ANY game is to show abuse, gaslighting, or problematic behaviors, that can be incredibly triggering for many players (look how many people were triggered by the new AA kisses who previously did NOT find any of AA's behavior triggering). You can't just throw that stuff in a game without some kind of content warning. The player deserves to know what they're getting into.
Now that would have been great... Although, then I wouldn't have bought it and would have never gotten to know Astarion... The most frustrating thing is that things were completely different in EA. There was no fanfiction. Stephen Rooney, a fine professional screenwriter who had been at Larian for 9 years at the time, wrote Fane for DOS2 (the most interesting companion character in the game), and he was writing a script, not a fanfic for Astarion. Even after release, some things kept changing - the cutscene of the night after Ascension, Astarion's facial expressions...
