Where were you when you first saw Astarion get it on with a bear in Baldur’s Gate 3? I was on my sofa, innocently flicking through X (then Twitter), and while I’m hardly conservative, I was rather taken aback. As someone who’s played a lot of Dragon Age and definitely didn’t smooch the Desire Demon in The Fade, I’m accustomed to weird and wonderful romance scenes, but Larian certainly took the metaphorical biscuit. Warframe 1999’s Eleanor romance path certainly followed BG3’s example with, erm, alien tongues, making Owlcat’s 2024 CRPG Rogue Trader look tame by comparison. The studio’s upcoming PC game, Warhammer 40k Dark Heresy, is looking to push those boundaries, but it isn’t BG3’s “bear sex” that inspired it.

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