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Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards by thaumasiotes on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:56AM (#38567913)
> and I spent the next eight hours playing through most of act 1 with some friendly fellows from across the world.

> Eventually there was a sex scene, and the host graciously enabled the setting to let us all watch.

It took you eight hours to get to a sex scene? I learned about the game's obsession with sex the second time I camped.

Kind of put me off playing it, since that just keeps happening whenever you talk to anyone.

Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards by yvdriess on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:07AM (#38568007)
Famously, companions throwing themselves at you immediately was a bug they patched early on.
Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards by sillysaurusx on Friday December 08, 2023 @07:04AM (#38567981)
They set out to get "the best sex scene" according to them, which - apparently - is the one you get when you betray the Druid defenders instead of repelling the oncoming horde. The horde leader is a woman who shows up in your dreams.

One wonders if they used mocap animation. There were about four different positions during the ~3min scene. Bravo to the animators.

I think that was about four hours in. We eventually got to a spider nest, and somehow just barely won. Then we ended up in the forest hag’s lair, and got our asses handed to us five times in a row, at which point we all passed out from exhaustion.

That was probably the most fun I’ve had in a game in a long time. There were a bunch of memorable things. E.g. I was playing a berserker, and they told me to take off my armor because otherwise I wouldn’t get a special damage boost unique to berserkers. So I stripped off my breastplate and leggings, and then realized I could take off my bra and underwear too. They all burst out laughing when I stormed in to the next fight naked. (I was playing as that devil-looking woman that normally you recruit a few hours into the game, since I didn’t feel like setting up a character from scratch.)

Re:Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year at the Game Awards by ThrowawayTestr on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:25PM (#38571563)
There's mods to remove romance.