For example I wouldn't go into this game assuming sexual assault would come up, whereas In a book or novel when you know the premise, you can pretty reliably know what could be included.
Not really.
I've read plenty of books where I was blindsided by sexual assaults, or tortures. Simply because these things are not advertised.
Like, unless it's a massively popular novel where people talk about all the things that are included within, you're unlikely to know what will be in a book. For example, Game of Thrones is super popular so it's likely you'll know about the things like incest and torture.
But other books? Not really. Same with movies, unless it's like the defining plot point thus comes up in the synopsis, you're not going to know about such things beforehand.
Yet, still. No trigger warnings.
I've read A Song of Ice and Fire before it became popular as a tv show and mostly knew, that Tad Williams Osten Ard sage (my favourite fantasy book series of all times) was one of GRRMs inspirations. While the Osten Ard saga can be pretty brutal in times, it is nothing compared to what awaited me in ASoIaF. It was ok for me, but if others did go in there expecting another Osten Ard, they'd be up for a rude surprise.
Gray Ghost:
I'm generally not against trigger warnings for the reasons I stated, but I do think, BG3 does a good job in setting things up, so that you can nope out - like Haarlep or the more unhealthier companion romances (one of them can end in your death) . There are the implications of
SA with Hope for example - or Astarion. But those are treated with respect for the topic imo, even so far that Neil Newborn as a survivor said how happy he was to be able to play a survivor.
the problem is, what people find triggering - going by recent discussions about certain face animations (please don't bring it in here, it's just an example) people seem to be triggered by very different and sometimes oppsite things.
I know at least one person, that was triggered by Abdiraks BDSM offer (without even knowing about Loviatar being an evil goddess), while friends from the BDSM community said, he is a great representation (since he stops immediatly, when you move away or get too badly hurt and has even something nice to say about it). Others are pretty offended by the notion, that you can kill goblin children, which I personally don't find so bad, because you don't have to do it. I always let them go (because I free Halsin last after dealing with the rest of the camp) and he is never fast enough to kill them before they run away.
And again anothers are not able to do the spider matriarch or are freaked out by Kar'niss because of arachnophobia.
Those are a few examples, but I guess all that -- the face animation, the bdsm priest, the possibility to hurt minors or phobia inducing stuff like spiders - makes it hard to put everything into a trigger. I had to affirm that I'm of age, when buying the game on Steam back in 2020 and there was a pop up about violence and sexual content and for me, that was ok. But if people think, there should be more, I don't have a problem with it.
