• evilcultist@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    Big mainstream games that are heavy on sex, like Baldur’s Gate 3, are a recent phenomenon.

    Heavy on sex? Just which mods did the author install?

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      16 hours ago

      It’s fairly accurate isn’t it? Every single companion (bar Minsc and Jaheira - though the Jaheira romance was cut content) lusts for you with the uncomplicated ferocity of a hormonal teenager, some after having exchanged barely a sentence or two with you (looking at you, Halsin). There is a bear fucking scene, Mizora wants you for some reason and hell, you can even bang a god damn mind flayer.

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        The bear-fucking scene will always be my answer to things like this.

        You can’t look at BG3 and go “yup, wholesome family fun for all ages”

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          14 hours ago

          Yeah, but you don’t HAVE to fuck the bear.

          Joking aside, if romance and sex aren’t your thing, you as the player have control in most games to just not do those things.

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      16 hours ago

      You can romance and have sex with pretty much anything with a heartbeat in BG3.

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        Yeah there’s some romance, but there’s barely any sex. You can only romance one character at a time and there’s like one short cutscene per character, with some being a fade to black, in a 100 hour long game.

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          There’s not a bunch of full frontal nudity or raunchy sex scenes, that’s true.

          But the game is shamelessly horny. All characters were designed to be maximally fuckable and they’re all desperately tryna fuck. The sexual tension is palpable and several of the MC outfits wouldn’t be out of place at a sex party.

          Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t call the game softcore porn by any stretch, it’s just… canonically horny. Which is perfectly fine.

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          12 hours ago

          When was the last time you saw a game that was more than that outside of porn games and maybe dating sims? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Cyberpunk 2077.

          I always think of this kind of stuff when these kinds of polls come up because they’re always by big corporate companies who put the most shallow of these themes in. People want this stuff like they want strong female leads: they want stuff that actually puts the effort in to make it good, not half-baked content just to maximize market reach or that one gay side character with one line of dialogue mentioning his husband who never actually appears in the movie.

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            When was the last time you saw a game that was more than that outside of porn games and maybe dating sims? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Cyberpunk 2077.

            AAAs games have always been about putting as much stuff as possible in a neat package, there’s a lot of everything, but not much of anything. As you say, if you’re looking for a game heavy on sex you need to turn your eyes towards the indie scene - Eternum, badik, coc2…