Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate 3 Early Access Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Kiste]

You're too far in the culture wars crap boyo.

A lot of people here are and they don't even realize that they sound just as deranged as the woke crowd.

 

[Swen]

Anyway besides the gay bear sex, let's take some time to celebrate the national belgian holiday

 

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[AwesomeButton]

The scene isn't serious but the decision to show it is real and there was a real thought process behind it.

I think most people around here who are signalling outrage at the scene, are outraged by the decision more than by the scene's inclusion in the game. It's a sex scene within a PC-NPC romance where the NPC is a druid whose animal form is a bear. And lo and behold, the devs decided in this particular combination that the scene will include the druid shifting during the act. It makes sense so far, in a goofy humor context. But choosing to display this particular scene in the panel stream is a separate matter.

Sure there's an obvious marketing purpose too, Larian knew this shit will cause outrage... Mission accomplished.

I too find this explanation more likely than Swen and the team sitting in a dark room and conspiring how to normalize zoophilia. But we live in the 21st century, every demand for a narrative will be met by someone to push that narrative

Still, I find it pretty distasteful even as marketing moves go.

 

[Fedora Master]

You're too far in the culture wars crap boyo.

A lot of people here are and they don't even realize that they sound just as deranged as the woke crowd.

"Those darn anti-SJWs, always complaining! Don't you think they're just as bad as the SJWs??"

 

[Swen]

 

[Kiste]

"Those darn anti-SJWs, always complaining! Don't you think they're just as bad as the SJWs??"

You are every bit as obnoxious as they are and just as adept at dragging everything into the political cesspit. So yes, you're just as bad as them.

 

[Fedora Master]

"Those darn anti-SJWs, always complaining! Don't you think they're just as bad as the SJWs??"

You are every bit as obnoxious as they are and just as adept at dragging everything into the political cesspit. So yes, you're just as bad as them.

Perhaps resetera and Reddit are more your scene then?

 

[Kiste]

Perhaps resetera and Reddit are more your scene then?

Why? Those places are infested with people that act just like you. Can't even talk about a fucking game without some asshole making it political and whinging on and on and on about this shit. I don't fucking care if it's the woke morons or whatever it is that you think you are. If anything, you are even worse than those retards because you probably think that your one-liner shitposts are witty.

 

[jaekl]

It doesn't matter if it's a woman, a man, a dog, a cat, a skeleton or a RealGolem(TM). If you aren't a girl and you're having little romantic fantasies about the characters in your video game... YOU'RE GAY!

 

[Fedora Master]

Perhaps resetera and Reddit are more your scene then?

Why? Those places are infested with people that act just like you.

Then perhaps gaming isn't for you. Have you considered taking up woodworking? Maybe read the Bible.

 

[processdaemon]

The scene isn't serious but the decision to show it is real and there was a real thought process behind it.

I think most people around here who are signalling outrage at the scene, are outraged by the decision more than by the scene's inclusion in the game. It's a sex scene within a PC-NPC romance where the NPC is a druid whose animal form is a bear. And lo and behold, the devs decided in this particular combination that the scene will include the druid shifting during the act. It makes sense so far, in a goofy humor context. But choosing to display this particular scene in the panel stream is a separate matter.

Because Larian devs have a history of trolling I wonder if they showed it because they're planning to do something else to wind up the people who play that romance later? If you let

Spoiler

Astarion drink your blood in the EA I think he can lose control and kill you

, since they faded to black after squirrel nut drop maybe the bear/Halsin does the same and kills anyone who goes down that route. Which would really be the best of both worlds when it comes to pissing people off, the 'it's zoophilia' crowd will still think it's degeneracy and the unironic bear fuckers will be enraged that it doesn't work out how they want it to

 

[Ryzer]

Anyway besides the gay bear sex, let's take some time to celebrate the nation belgian holiday

History of Belgium:

Just kidding, I like belgian bros

 

[Swen]

Btw the bear joke ended with the squirrel dropping a nut and this:

Like I said if you take it serious you're a legit retard.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Btw the bear joke ended with the squirrel dropping a nut and this:

Like I said if you take it serious you're a legit retard.

If processdaemon turns out right, this will be such fun. Some people itt will be outed as quite the thickies, and have every reason to feel not a little silly about themselves.

 

[Fedora Master]

Btw the bear joke ended with the squirrel dropping a nut and this:

Like I said if you take it serious you're a legit retard.

Missing the point as usual

 

[whydoibother]

Tick-tock, Larianiggers.

 

[MasPingon]

I feel like I'm a research worker, watching twice a day a group of faggots, simps, cuckolds and wicked degenerates trying to convince others they are actually interested in rpg mechanics. It's even more intense in this thread. Now "it's a pixel, it doesn't exist". Everything on your screen is a god damn pixel.

 

[whydoibother]

I feel like I'm a research worker, watching twice a day a group of faggots, simps, cuckolds and wicked degenerates trying to convince others they are actually interested in rpg mechanics. It's even more intense in this thread.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Anyway besides the gay bear sex, let's take some time to celebrate the nation belgian holiday

History of Belgium:

Just kidding, I like belgian bros

Inventing spiral binding ain't such of a much.

 

[Saravan]

Btw the bear joke ended with the squirrel dropping a nut and this:

Like I said if you take it serious you're a legit retard.

Missing the point as usual

The point being that it’s super degenerate but not degenerate enough to not play the game, ironically of course. Wouldn’t want anyone to mistake me for a bear loving faggot.

 

[Darth Valer]

You're legit retarded if you take the bear scene serious.

You know, I've heard this argument already. And speaking for myself, I'm not taking it seriously. But you have to try to explain something.

Of all the imaginable for this context things-that-shouldn't-be-taken-seriously, why did they decide to go with a bear-on-man sex scene? That's what I'd like to hear someone rationalize.

Halsin and Astarion are, I believe, the two main characters horny redditors have thirsted over during the years of the Early Access. Halsin for being a muscle daddy, Astarion for being a vamp slut.
Halsin has ended up being a companion literally because of the thirst of the tumblr-esque community.

The sequence they showed was an attempt to capitalize on the fan-favorite characters of the 'romance-invested' community, and it was so over the top I think both as a means to #Meme with them (hornyposting on Reddit always has a certain layer of irony) and with what I understand to be the trope of Druids intermixing their shapeshifting abilities with sexual intercourse, or at least the recurring joke of it in the TTRPG discourse.

It was basically a Tumblr-meme-vignette, a way to show their affection towards an important segment of their audience. Larian is most likely kink-fetish friendly, but I think the "bestiality" angle is just ultra-reactionary retardedness.

 

[Steezus]

The scene isn't serious but the decision to show it is real and there was a real thought process behind it.

I think most people around here who are signalling outrage at the scene, are outraged by the decision more than by the scene's inclusion in the game. It's a sex scene within a PC-NPC romance where the NPC is a druid whose animal form is a bear. And lo and behold, the devs decided in this particular combination that the scene will include the druid shifting during the act. It makes sense so far, in a goofy humor context. But choosing to display this particular scene in the panel stream is a separate matter.

Didn't they let the audience pick the dialog options? If yes, then of course everybody went with the bear, because it's so fucking ridiculous. Everybody who's still outraged about the bear scene is fucking heavy with the 'tism.

 

[Theodora]

Of all the imaginable for this context things-that-shouldn't-be-taken-seriously, why did they decide to go with a bear-on-man sex scene? That's what I'd like to hear someone rationalize

Hard to guess why it was included without knowing what else is in there (and how that compares in terms of being outlandish), but at the very least the timing of that reveal and the resulting ~shock factor~ (more through word of mouth than first hand reactions) can translate into more people talking about it shortly before release, which is probably a good marketing move. The best time to market a game is a few weeks to a month before release, because it's close enough that anyone left "excited" after looking into it won't have forgotten about it, or totally moved on, when it releases. A few weeks also gives people time to schedule a day or two off work or whatever (I doubt it releasing on a Thursday/Friday (geography depending) is an accident either).

Is hard to imagine an American or British dev doing this, but mainland Europeans are typically a lot less squeamish around sexual topics and humour in media to begin with.

 

[whydoibother]

Is hard to imagine an American or British dev doing this, but mainland Europeans are typically a lot less squeamish around sexual topics and humour in media to begin with.

I think anglo supremacy in western media has given some people the wrong idea about what is funny and what is "degeneracy".