Minthara with child... *cut content*

[snowyonetwo]

What are your thoughts on this cut content?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z8WXh0qr7c

[ivandrago654]

If you added all the cut content back in they truly would have been catering to every revolting "fetish" that exists. Minthara pregnant, Halsin in bear form, "interfering" with a corpse as Dark Urge, getting pegged by Karlach, and then the cut content "halfling werewolf" bard which would have been the worst of all.

I imagine Larian is one of those teams that has like one sensible person carefully trying to rein in all the absolute madness and depravity of other staff members. I salute that person, whoever they are.

[Aria Athena]

Good choice

[Moonbane]

Halfling Werewolf Bard? Now that sounds glorious.

[snowyonetwo]

Originally posted by ivandrago654:

If you added all the cut content back in they truly would have been catering to every revolting "fetish" that exists. Minthara pregnant, Halsin in bear form, "interfering" with a corpse as Dark Urge, getting pegged by Karlach, and then the cut content "halfling werewolf" bard which would have been the worst of all.

I imagine Larian is one of those teams that has like one sensible person carefully trying to rein in all the absolute madness and depravity of other staff members. I salute that person, whoever they are.

IWL, that Karlach one... That sounds interesting.

[Ereghor the Enigmatic]

A cynical part of me does think that the real reason for cutting it is because it'd mean acknowledging the PC's gender, and we can't have that in a mainstream (yes, somehow a more or less archaic CRPG is mainstream, thanks to their marketing efforts) game these days.

Or it'd have to be based on your choice of parts instead. Or on your identity, which would be a freakstorm in and of itself... Basically, they screwed themselves into a corner (euphemism intended) when they've decided to go with the "inclusive" approach to character creation.

[Zaris]

Originally posted by Kernest:

What I find most interesting about that is that Karlach has a recorded line about it, because currently there's no official method to have them both stay with you.

I read just some days ago about Cyberpunk romance options that CDPR had audio lines recored "in bulk" for multiple situations if they needed to rewrite the story. For example in the final game Panam is straight while Judy is lesbian and only male / female V can get them but audio lines were recorded for both. That's cheaper to make them all in one take instead of having the actor getting back months later.

[snowyonetwo]

Originally posted by Zaris:

Originally posted by Kernest:

What I find most interesting about that is that Karlach has a recorded line about it, because currently there's no official method to have them both stay with you.

I read just some days ago about Cyberpunk romance options that CDPR had audio lines recored "in bulk" for multiple situations if they needed to rewrite the story. For example in the final game Panam is straight while Judy is lesbian and only male / female V can get them but audio lines were recorded for both. That's cheaper to make them all in one take instead of having the actor getting back months later.

Not to mention that, in general, plans can change and it's just generally easier to be prepared.

[Moonbane]

So many approaches cut content with the fallacy it was maliciously hidden from poor players wanting the TRUTH!

[xburcus]

Originally posted by Ereghor the Enigmatic:

A cynical part of me does think that the real reason for cutting it is because it'd mean acknowledging the PC's gender, and we can't have that in a mainstream (yes, somehow a more or less archaic CRPG is mainstream, thanks to their marketing efforts) game these days.

Or it'd have to be based on your choice of parts instead. Or on your identity, which would be a freakstorm in and of itself... Basically, they screwed themselves into a corner (euphemism intended) when they've decided to go with the "inclusive" approach to character creation.

this is my suspicion as well, unfortunately. sad to see bg3 go under that trend.

as a comparison, played da:inquisition after bg3, it felt so nice to see a character that gets different reactions for being whatever gender they chose, and companions with set sexual preferences (some of which go for all, some have racial restrictions as well) - gave depth to their personalities and history. although, to be fair, bg3 has around half the amount of companions so it would have given us less options.

aaaanyway, i wish a lot of the cut content for dear bg3 was not so.

[The_Dipl0mat]

Originally posted by xburcus:

Originally posted by Ereghor the Enigmatic:

A cynical part of me does think that the real reason for cutting it is because it'd mean acknowledging the PC's gender, and we can't have that in a mainstream (yes, somehow a more or less archaic CRPG is mainstream, thanks to their marketing efforts) game these days.

Or it'd have to be based on your choice of parts instead. Or on your identity, which would be a freakstorm in and of itself... Basically, they screwed themselves into a corner (euphemism intended) when they've decided to go with the "inclusive" approach to character creation.

this is my suspicion as well, unfortunately. sad to see bg3 go under that trend.

as a comparison, played da:inquisition after bg3, it felt so nice to see a character that gets different reactions for being whatever gender they chose, and companions with set sexual preferences (some of which go for all, some have racial restrictions as well) - gave depth to their personalities and history. although, to be fair, bg3 has around half the amount of companions so it would have given us less options.

aaaanyway, i wish a lot of the cut content for dear bg3 was not so.

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