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Mebrilia the Viera Queen

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By making it possible and showing this scene, the developers clearly intend to indicate that everything is possible: Homosexuality, transexuality, zoophilia....
You would have told me 20 years ago about something as ridiculous, I would have not believed it. Yet here we are.

What's the next step? Necrophilia?
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If that makes you feel better. Astarion is actually a Vampire Spawn. So here you have it Necrophilia too!
 

Mebrilia the Viera Queen

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And in all of this Bg3 is now the third game much sold on steam first one dosn't count as counterstrike is free the second one is remnant 2
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How do you do, fellow kids?
Say, don't you think its weird how there are bad words, like "damn" or "fuck" in songs? What's next, a pledge of allegiance to Satan at every chorus?
 

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How do you do, fellow kids?
Say, don't you think its weird how there are bad words, like "damn" or "fuck" in songs? What's next, a pledge of allegiance to Satan at every chorus?
Yeah, fellow white man, don't you think pointless profanity is cool? Aren't black people cool too with using "nigger" all the time?

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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.
Far more likely explanation, is Larian catering to a massive furry audience. There is no masterplan to cause outrage, or haha adding ironic bear sex for funsies. It's simply business. Furries are a massive audience, and it's not the first time Larian caters to this type of people, they already had Big Red Lizard companion anally destroying your PC in DOS2, was that also ironic? Catering to trans/gay/furry audiences pays much better than anything else, so the game is made specifically to suit the tastes of these groups, and codexers in love with BG3 are probably members of one of these groups too - just either in denial stage, or staying hidden on purpose.
 

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Furries are a massive audience

Catering to trans/gay/furry audiences pays much better than anything else

I'm sure you can cite some market research data to back that up...
I wouldn't understimate the guy's knowledge. I for one had no idea the Red Prince can "anally destroy" the PC in D:OS2, but he seems to be perfectly versed in the subject.
 

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massive furry audience
Larian is selling to millions. The furry audience may no longer look as massive to them as it does to you.
There are a lot of furries, and they're incredibly loyal audience and willing to spend as lot on games that "support" them, same as trannies and gays. Pathfinder had nothing to do with furries, and yet when WotR had a poll for an additional race, furries massively rallied and made catpeople overwhelmingly win. Furries/trannies are very overrepresented in RPG gaming circles, and most devs are catering to them, it very cost effective to add some furry/tranny custimization options and sex scenes and shit and in exchange get million furries and trannies swarming your game - not to mention majority of the game journos being trannies/fags/furries and don't actually playing games they review, so even if they had nothing else but this singular gay bear sex scene and couple of pictures of chicks with dicks from character creator as a promo, it'd already be enough to guarantee them majority of 10/10 reviews.
 

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Pathfinder had nothing to do with furries, and yet when WotR had a poll for an additional race, furries massively rallied and made catpeople overwhelmingly win
1. Overwhelmingly by what absolute numbers? 1000? 10 000?
2. I thought foxes won.
 

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Catering to minorities is really easy- you just have to flip couple conditionals on the mechanics you already would have had to make for an average RPGs.

Examples:
Pronouns already have to be there if you can pick between man/woman.
Romance- just remove gender lock
Genitals, as they said, were already a switch in their in-house NPC creator (which is kinda weird to be honest), so they just gave it the to player.


You get all American critics sucking your dick for a week of easy work.
 
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Imagine thinking that not speaking like an actual trash, low IQ peasant makes you puritan. You try too hard.
Imagine thinking that high class, high IQ people don't use le bad words :lol:
Деамаааамудеа братчет, айде малко по-сериозно. Не е нужно изкуството да е изкуствено, може и малко натура да му туриме, може и малко по-близко да е до народния изговор.
 
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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.
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5:33:18 if timestamp doesn't work

4:10:20 Character Creation
4:36:14 Dark Urge gameplay
5:04:10 "Break" ends
5:27:29 Date with Karlach
5:32:49 Bodice Ripper Afficionados appreciation time (and furrys)
 

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