Baldur’s Gate 3 will defy everyone’s wishes, make characters less horny
By Ash Parrish, a reporter who has covered the business, culture, and communities of video games for seven years. Previously, she worked at Kotaku.
The companions in Baldur’s Gate 3 have redefined the term “player-sexual,” or the idea that a character’s romantic and sexual orientation are firmly and solely fixed on the player. Usually, in a game that allows you to romance other characters, it takes a moment for the sparks to really start flying. There’s a general buildup of flirtations before you get to have a romantic interlude with your chosen somewhere around a game’s climax. (See what I did there?)
In Baldur’s Gate 3, there is so little time between the initial “I like you” and visiting Boning’s Gate that a whole speedrun category has been developed around getting to a sex scene as quickly as possible, with the world record currently sitting at two minutes and four seconds. Turns out, your companions aren’t really that into you. In an interview with TheGamer, BG3’s game director, Swen Vincke, says that a bug was to blame for all the sexy shenanigans.
“The approval thresholds were too low when we shipped,” Vincke said to TheGamer. “That’s why they were so horny in the beginning. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. We’ve fixed it since, at least for some of them. We’re still fixing a few of them.”
According to Vincke, Gale was most affected by the bug. Personally, I didn’t think of our little moment weaving spells together as romantic. I thought it was a very intimate and emotional interlude while also being platonic with the possibility of blooming into something more. It’s rare that a game gives you an intimate moment with a character that’s not tied to sex. I thought Gale sharing his deep love of magic to be a
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