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Barbie And Baldur’s Gate 3 Prove That Go Woke, Go Broke Doesn’t Exist (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Barbie and Baldur's Gate 3 have undeniably progressive elements and are unstoppable money-making machines.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is Baldurs Gate 3 considered Woke? Why?

Is it the bear fucking? It's the bear fucking, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Maybe the fact that several characters are canonically not straight including

minor spoiler

The daughter of a benevolent god

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I am quite aware of that. My current Char is in a homosexual relationship.

My comment was supposed to be a humorous jab at the fact that BG3s romances go way further than same-sex relations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not just your companions, which could have been seen as just being "player-sexual", but also NPC characters in relationship with other NPC characters, which are more direct statements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Exactly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah ok, cool. Difficult to discern facetiousness online sometimes 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you open the article and read it, it will answer your question!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The question was intended to be slightly humorous.

Someone got a stick up their ass about all the companion characters exposing their desire for the protagonist. Yeah, I saw it. I don't think there's anything wrong the freedom of choice. Although I do agree the implementation of the romance options is a bit heavy handed.