https://baldursgate3.game/news/community-update-26-evil-endings-new-beginnings_117
We’re working on our next game update, Patch 7, which will add improved evil endings to the game for even darker conclusions to your most sinister playthroughs, and yes, that includes you non-Durge players.
I suppose this is good news, but I also bet it's because the bulk of the playerbase finally finished the game ( As if it was that difficult to do ) a lot of the positive reviews were based on Act 1 or Act 2 and people hadn't even gotten to Act 3 yet which is a piss take. They're admitting now the hype has died down they had an unfinished game on their hands and now they seem to be finishing it.
Baldur's Gate 3 is a great example of why steam metrics are worth jack shit in terms of research and marketing purposes. Any honest reviews get drowned out by fanbois and spam or bots reposting shitty memes and bumping each other up. The whole site has turned into a reddit clone with blatant shills covering for each other.
People who bitch about BG3's bear scene only looked at the surface and really didn't understand how bad it is. I personally don't mind romance at all in a game, it can add a lot of depth to characters like with Mass Effect 2. However yeah, there's a big difference between doing that classic Bioware style as opposed to Tumblrites and Redditors inserting their fetishes into it all.
It's also really telling how they turned all of the male companions for the most part into muscle chads or femboys and you instantly knew who the game was marketed at mostly when they beat women with the ugly stick. That's all the aesthetics problems that the game had and I've ranted in the past about the gameplay mechanics having it's own blatant issues.
It does bring up the man or bear question in a new light.
I managed to go through the whole game without fucking any animals. And the only gay scene I noticed was the Ogres played for laughs. And that's kind of, if not especially funny. In any case, I'm not opposed to buggery jokes. I'm sure there's more in the stories, if you read all the notes, but I don't.
So... I think people have been going through the "romance" content on YouTube. Why? This is like going to Bing Image Search, turning off safe search, searching for this shit and being like: Mom I saw porn.
The bear/gay vampire scene was used as a hype trailer prior to the game's release and was specifically chosen to be shown to a mass audience of women in an auditorium who clapped like seals for it.
So, regardless of how you were able to miss it, it was very important to the Devs themselves and the audience they intended to court with it.
In fact, until the game was released and "suddenly and organically" it was the best game ever made, that's literally what it was known for. Because that was the information they specifically choose to represent their game in marketing.
I don't know who I'm defending here. Not Larian. Maybe the right to just experience a game and not thirst over every trailer or EA.
That's fine. I love plenty of games that are Woke or even downright bad. In fact, I dare say a lot of Woke games are downright fun, great games too. Hades 2 is currently dominating my freetime, and according to most people its the Wokiest Woke ever.
But we also can't just ignore those things or argue "well its complex and nuanced and not that big a deal and missing context" when its the games we love either.