You are, most likely aware, that Baldur’s Gate 3 lets you have sex with a bear. Now to be fair, 33% of players have hair in their underwear, so it didn’t scare its audience beyond repair. If you’re wondering why I’m rhyming, it’s because in constructing the above headline I may have quite possibly gone mad.
As reported by our friends over at GamesRadar, senior narrative designer Baudelaire Welch discussed the impact of the ursine-themed scene on the gaming landscape to a captive audience, via a presentation at Develop: Brighton 2024.
Specifically, Welch focuses their analysis on the traditional practices of both fanfiction and meme nonsense. Like it or not, both are a pretty big part of contemporary gaming culture nowadays—especially in a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 wher…