Now Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Out in the Wild, Its Full Nudity Is Giving Players a Shock

ign.com:

Baldur’s Gate 3’s full nudity is giving unsuspecting players a bit of a shock, particularly at the character creation screen.

Right at the start of Larian’s sprawling role-playing game, a warning pops up asking you if you want to turn nudity off. But even with nudity left on, there’s scope for a surprise eyeful. Baldur’s Gate 3 has deep character customisation options that even include different types of genitals. And it’s the character creation screen, which includes a button you can click to “hide clothes”, that’s causing a few yelps from players.

You might have expected “hide clothes” to show your character wearing underwear only, as it does in most games. But in Baldur’s Gate 3, hiding your clothes hides all your clothes, including underwear. So, yes, you can see your character completely nude.

Even high-profile streamers are getting caught out. First-person shooter specialist Shroud took to Twitch yesterday, like so many others, to give Baldur’s Gate 3 a whirl, and couldn’t resist a cheeky click on the hide clothes button. MissMikkaa, famous for beating Elden Ring with a dance pad, was surprised to find “hide clothes” actually hides all her character’s clothes. “I don’t know guys…” said a shocked AnnieFuchsia after letting out a scream. Etalyx got a fright, too. Streamer sodapoppin was amazed by the sheer number of different penis options included in Baldur’s Gate 3.

The Twitch streamers immediately click to hide their clothes, perhaps in fear of falling foul of nudity guidelines. But Twitch’s rules on video game nudity leave plenty of wiggle room to show off a character’s bits as long as they're not the “core focus”, and you “only spend as much time as is required to progress”. Character creation seems fair game, then,