Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Was BG3 overly sexualized?

But in BG3 in terms of sexualization is clearly not to blame the fans of D&D, they have nothing to do with it. A recent lecture by the romance feature lead Baudelaire Welch lifted the veil of mystery as to who this is all for. Quote:

�So, take the bear scene from Baldur's Gate 3. Why did it make such an impact? This is what it meant to me while I was involved with pitching it.

Look, this was not in the depths of my subconscious when I was pitching it. A sort of shit-eating grin was on my face when I was pitching it. But this is what it culturally means to me. 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.

just in perhaps one scene or, you know, in a series of scenes, but still the majority audience. Players in the fan fiction communities had been joking for years post-Early Access about the different degenerate things they wanted to do with Druid Daddy Holson, and we gave them an incredibly silly scene which takes an identity moniker from the gay community literally. The gay bear becomes the gay bear.

And we gave them something which feels like it's from the tradition of CrackFic and present it as if it's a mainstream game feature. And then you feel like all the time you spent horny queer shitposting with your friends in your Discord is validated. It is real. It is a wonderful way of engaging with the game. It's seen. And how many other games on this sort of scale have made you feel that way?�



Time of the cited quote: 15.10

Judging by this lecture, it's for the " shitposters from Discord" and fanfiction audience.