Larian Studios Forums Divinity General Discussion Re: the gore/smut

The trailer made me feel really uncomfortable watching. There i said it.

Now I just hope they double down on it. I would love to see a face ripper and have the characters you use it on actually have NO FACE. Fully detailed/zoomable/photo mode.
Hope the sex scenes are even more crazy than BG3.
I hope they go so nuts with everything and show off the crazy messed up world of Divinity but actually with the budget they've always wanted. I hope we see ripped off arms, crazy build variety, and other wacky fun shit that no ones ever done before.

Basically all the stuff DOS2 had in writing i want to see actually on my screen this time and MORE.

Just because something made me feel uncomfortable doesnt mean i dont want more of it lol. Hope you dont cave to the squirmy assholes on X.

PS: add lightning mages with plate armor ill forever be your bitch Larian and Swen.

Would be nice to see the company go completely unfiltered.

Though, realistically, they'll have to tone things down to avoid AO ratings which limit the sales of the game. Even more so than 18+ already does, which is why most games always tone down to 15+. Places like Japan outright prohibit AO media, to say nothing of many storefronts refusing to stock AO rated media (There was that semi-recent game that got notoriety for its AO rating and thus multi-country ban... Callisto Protocol I think it was?).

Such is the nature of media. It always needs to be censored by someone.

Agreed, the trailer made a lingering impact on me, I felt uncomfortable the whole day after it dropped. I thought it ingenious though in terms of presentation, because playing this at an event like Game Awards have kinda reflected on how we glorify violence as species. If you think about it, basically the whole Game Awards hall was cheering after they were shown such brutal and violent footage (parallel to the crowd from the trailer itself), all it took was a Larian Logo. The whole premise gave it the deeper meaning, kinda. A very cool topic to explore narratively in-game as well.

A thought came to me, does divinity universe have Hell as a realm? I think not and I wonder if what we see is the birth of Hell out of the human sin? It kinda vibes with "the gods are dead" and "new powers stir" thing, also the statue I think is called a hellstone or something?

I know there is Nemesis as a demon plane but I think Hell is not a thing in the universe as of now.

I get what youre saying but the japan thing is so ridiculous. They literally have hentai where a girl gets all her limbs cut off and raped by a horse in an apartment building lol. They are gore galore and lolicon and shit but AO game is banned? lmao what a joke reminds me of that 20 year old 4chan meme where its like "you can show a girl getting decapitated but GOD FORBID YOU DONT CENCOR THE CLIT"

I on the other hand want a well written game with a complex story and deep characters.

But as BG3 was none of that and got all its success from waifus and bear sex and Larian wants to make the game even "bigger" I fear it will go into the opposite direction and the content will be neglected even more in favor of smut and gore.

Again.... that is not what larian does or what BG3 was like. Did you play the game all the way through? Because that's a very small part of the game. It may have helped the marketing.... but that's not why the game is successful, or why it sold well.... it's maybe 20% of the reason at best.

I don't care for smut or gore in either way: I don't need it, but I don't make a fuss about it and I do hope, that Larian will find a better path between listening to community and visualising their own vision this time. I love BG3 dearly, but some storylines and characters suffered from fandom interference quite a lot.

I liked the atmosphere of the trailer, like I said, love folk horror and mythology and the nod to film classics here was undisputable. My first thought was indeed The Wicker Man and I was hyped. I was surprised that that trailer was shown at the game awards, but it got me curious and interested.
Again, it's not the gore or the sex I care for, is story, atmosphere and in this case the wonderful music.

And in this specific scene (like again in The Wicker Man) the ritual seemed to be a kind of fertility/thanksgiving ritual with a dark twist, so I think the gore was fitting, the sex scene was grotesque on purpose (it seemed more like a desperate mass frenzy)

It is a danger in making it too gory and lose the essence of a game. Gore should be a cherry on top, imo. If it's there all the time then it quickly get very tiresome. And it has to have a meaning with what is going on in the game. I really liked the way they did it in Silent Hill f during the ritual. It was also quite painful to watch.

Whatever this game ends up as I probably will wait until they are completely done with all the patches so I know what game I'm getting by the end. And to be sure there is no surprise rewrites (accidental or otherwise) of any characters.