Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback WOW so Baldur's Gate has gone from fun GAMe to borderline cartoon porn?

For those of you that have sided with, and romanced, Minthara instead of killing her you know what I'm talking about. For those of you that don't know I will elaborate. There is the option to side with Minthara insteead of just killing her. She has you go back to the grove and signal for her and her invading force and then you open the gate and let them in and help them take over the grove. You then get to romance her that night at the party. There is quite the surprise in store for you when you watch the night sex scene with her. It's literally borderline pron. They don't actually show any genetalia but they show her going down on you and then they switch to you lieing on a table and she climbs on top of you and you 69 each other. Yes the game says it has nudity. Yes the game says sexual content. I was NOT excpectting some teenagers wet dream borderline cartoon porn in my GAME. This is really quite rediculous. Thank you for basically ruining the Baldur's Gate franchise with unnescesary smut. Don't get me wrong, I like porn. NOT cartoon porn. Seriously? If you're one of those people that gets off on cartoon porn I truely am sorry for you. I'm NOT trying to call you a bad person or anything but it really is pretty messed up. But like a lot of things it's not something someone can actually choose to like or not like. You either do or you don't. I certainly don't. I certainly don't need it in my GAME. Yes some games are actually designed around sexual content. But this is D&D and it's Baldur's Gate. NOT Debby does Baldur!
I know some of you are thinking "You don't have to play this game" or "You don't have to watch it" but the thing is this is part of my 2nd favorite game franchise so of course I want to play it. No I don't want to watch the porn part of it but I DID watch it just to see exactly how far they were going to go with it. Pretty far! It's not only mentally disturbing but we actually are forced to PAY for this garbage if we want to play the game! Can I have a cheaper NON-PORN version please? Seriously! Why do we even need to put this crap in a GAME to begin with? Ok so we can romance others in the group. Fine! Doesn't require someone wasting time and money programing in actual cartoon porn that we are forced to pay for whether we want it or not. There's enough problems with this game and now i also have to PAY for cartoon porn too? Wow! Love you guys. LOTS of sarcasm there for those not keen enough to pick up on that.

This is a game for adults with adult themes which include slavery, body horror, murder, cruelty, the killing of children and you are upset about some "mild" sex with a horny/manipulative Drow that you have to take a specific evil path to even get to? Ok, that seems totally reasonable.

Minthara and the Drow in general use sex like a weapon, to control and get info and manipulate people, which is exactly what she does. It is an accurate portrayal of their culture.

This is a game for adults with adults theme...? Bold statement there.
And you sir are...how old may I ask?
Nonetheless, in my book from all the visuals, dialogues and acting this is a game clearly for teenagers/young adults. Its trying to be serious and edgy yet turns out to be silly and weird....Which is great! The hallmark of a fun Larian game.

The closest I can come up to an example is a ...bloody gory full a sex Disney fun and silly animated game. So even with these serious <adult> themes...I totally get why people think its messed up. Because at some levels it is. The game lacks cohesion within the Faerun universe.

You can avoid explicit scenes, just don't pick the very specific paths which scream "mature content". I have never triggered one of those by error and I don't see how you could.

I just cant believe people think these as <mature> content. I agree with the poster on that.
I would say its more.....silly, weird, strange, immature...
Like a 18 year old designed these scenes while his/her parents watch over and counsoled on what to do next.
Its disturbing and weird and not done with taste.
Like a B porno flick versus a very well directed love/romance/sex scene like in In The Mood for Love.
That is why its best generally not to include these type of scenes, It is very hard to get right.

More to the point you can simply skip the scene with the click of a button

Yeah, evil path was awkward. One would hope that Farrrenheit would teach people how bad of an idea explicit sex scenes are with dolls who can't even convincingly animate simplest of conversations.

Tonally I am just disappointed. Yes, Dragon Ages and Witcher aimed for a more dirty, *cough* realistic *cough* fiction, but Baldur's Gates havent been that. What we have is someone taking markatble bits of those games (explicit language, violence, sex) and putting them among wacky, slapstic driven comedy skits. The end result is just bizzare.

This dude took an optional path in a videogame that screamed "sex scene" because he "doesn't want" cartoon porn in his BG game. Yeah, sure, cool story bro...

Are you having fun with your little boomer judgemental fest? Because you don't clearly sound that much of an adult yourself with those funny little "comparisons" needed to prove a point that doesn't need to be proven to anyone. Meh.

Does it? From what I can remember it comes out of nothing - you slaughter grove and then she wants to shag. It is as much about an execution as it is about content. Bg3 narrative and character carry so little weight that yeah, sex scene feels like a cynical, disjointed addition.

The dialogue after the grove raid:

"Through her eyes you see yourself, skin glistening with sweat, hands bound - extasy... or terror? May be both? You feel her breath on your neck, her finger running down your spine"

Yeah... sure she was talking about a wrestling match.
BTW the whole evil path is rather cynical, so I don't find that addition disjointed at all. But to each their own.

This really isn't a new development, Larian has been advertising the fact that they are going to have fully animated sex scenes for a long time (and they are somehow even more awkward than I thought they would be), the Minthara scene is just the first one they put in that wasn't covered by a big "under development" splash screen.

It's also unfortunately on-brand for Larian, as in DOS2, you could have sudden meaningless sex with someone at least twice, in addition to the late-game sex scene with the companion that you had built a relationship with. These were mostly text based, with characters in posed tableaux sequences, rather than fully animated scenes.

I wish they would put in a "no intimate scenes" option for those who want it.

Which makes me curious what was Larian's intention as romances in D:OS2 was something I thought was Larian taking a piss. I chuckled through them, and I thought they were meant to be a parody of modern RPG romance. Now I am not so sure.

and here was me thinking i had gripes with the game hehe

To mister OP. There are different characters in the game, each of them covers different iteration of intimate relationship. If you are not role-playing, (which I think you are clearly incapable of due to your misunderstanding of NPC's narrative self-awareness concept) then you are expected to choose something that correlates well with your IRL preferences. If you want a romance with wine and flowers and you willingly chose Minthara - it is an equivalent of saying that you dislike fantasy movies while willingly watching Lord of the Rings and blaming it for forcing you to watch it. Thats why I think your post should be ignored - it is nothing other than hate speech and an attention-grabber.

Edit: I am talking about this particular post only by the way. Some of your other posts are pretty constructive criticism. But this one falls into the category of, as you said in the other thread:


Again, it is your and only your choice to pick that route. There are alternatives for people like you. Nobody poops in MY plate with that scene. Actually, the WHOLE game is about the alternatives. What is the reason for your post? What are you trying to achieve? Humour me. Would be very interesting to have a plain answer.

No it's definitely not that.

Will you elaborate or just leave it at that? Because it is nothing different then. Was my comparison incorrect?

No, he's just being belittling to people who might like cartoon porn. Honestly though, as someone who actually looks at 3d rendered porn, I find BG3's intimate scenes to be more far more awkward than arousing.

So the problem is that the porn is not good enough? lol

Just pointing out that words mean things. I don’t think criticising a game, no matter if warranted or not, counts as hate speech.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hate-speech