I can save her bro!
"Now"? You have a very stretched definition of the word, because you could say the exact same thing 20+ years back and it would still be true. Hell, even Conan has plenty of "sex and chix" (OK, maybe not exactly sex, but the descriptions often venture into the realm of erotica).
I can't speak for ancient myth and classical literature, but romance has been an almost omnipresent feature in cinema since its inception, and quite common in the 20th century literature I've read. Comic books as well, and those date back to the 20s.
I think it's a good play with the player's expectations. Quite a few evil characters have been redeemed before, either by forming a close friendship with them, playing therapist for them, or via a romance storyline. I've seen so many accounts of people getting burned thinking that Camellia could have a happy ending regardless that I'm convinced the character is effective at that. It's not a knock off those players either, it should be fun to experience that. Like watching a story about the underdog, seeing them grow and succeed, pine for them, only to see them die in the end. Those emotions are what stories are for.
It's the opposite now thanks to woke neo-puritanism in movies and games. 90s movies ususally had at least one sex scene with mostly partial or rare full-frontal female nudity. Bioware RPGs had awkward sex scenes when ME1 caused the last conservative backlash and GTA: San Andreas caused outrage with Hot Coffee. Now we don't have sex scenes in mainstream and AAA games.
Pretty sure BG3 is planning to blow the top off of that trend.
Ive talked to that guy on /vg/
This is true. The queer cleric aggressively tried to force his faggotry onto my Lawful good Aeon Paladin with literally no input from me as a player. You can tell him to go fuck himself and avoid it, at least at some point. However I feel something like romances should require some type of at least hint from the player. I guess the point is that morally he is a degenerate gambling pervert masquerading as a priest. Perhaps not so different from a lot of real priests? Is this why he has access to so many necromancy spells? I digress, in real life people can be forceful with their unwanted and inappropriate advances even when you’ve given them no hint of mutual interest. I say this as an obviously straight man with 3 children.
this is not the level of normal posting i'm accustomed to in a wrath thread
He never said anything like that to me. Sounds like you clicked on one of the "this could be interpreted as friendly but it's actually a come on" lines. You have to give these guys the cold shoulder and express as little interest as possible.
One of the main reasons I hate gayshit in games is that it’s hard to be bros with somebody that wants to sodomize you.
You are probably right. It made me feel angry when it happened because I was just trying to do companion side quests and I felt like it was a bit too easy to trigger this guy to try and crawl into your elven arse*. But in reflection perhaps it wasn’t so bad because it actually made me feel something, which is rare in the vast majority of games. Based on both Pathfinder games I don’t think this was the reaction intended.
Have you thought about therapy? I think you might benefit from it
I love this website between the PFP and this I cant believe I dont need to pay for it
80-90s films injected gratuitously sex and nudity because that was the only way ordinary folk could get their erotica in a socially acceptable manner. It got inserted simply for the sake of it. Desiderius is correct. Troons and neckbeards lack the ability for romantic fulfillment, so they seek it in their video games. With the improvements in AI chatbots and text to speech software, we're only a few years away from Her. Maybe then video games can return to being games.
