"Have you ever considered the joys and pleasures of sexual intercourse with a feral druid? Because at Larian, we finally got on the side of giving people what they want." I get it. [When I saw the romance scene between the elf vampire Astarion and the handsome druid Harsin (who eventually goes into grizzly bear mode) that Larian presented at the final "Panel from Hell" preview of Baldur's Gate 3, I was amazed at the amount of effort that went into this scene

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Early on, there is a tasteful sprinkling of Austin Powers-esque scenic censorship in the scene where the two get naked. This is the second time in less than a month that I have witnessed this "king of gags" in a game: Infinite Wealth. The scene with Harsin seems to have myriad developments, including vanilla, bear mode, and "Sorry, I have a headache tonight."

In the final moments of mating with Uri, the camera cuts to a nearby squirrel watching from a tree branch, the little guy drops a small acorn, his mouth agape like something out of "Shrek," and let me tell you, I was chuckling aloud.

The date in downtown Baldur's Gate, demonstrated earlier, was with Tiefling's fellow barbarian Karlak Demonsbane, who seems to have some sort of hell bomb surgically implanted in her torso. Like the grizzly scene we saw earlier (badabing), this sequence appears to be impressively tailor-made and well done. Whether you ask the grumpy half-orc waiter for a bottle of wine like a regular Don Juan or opt for tea for the table like a good-natured ...... My luck with Carrack Demonsbane hangs in the balance.

My hopes for BG3's romance storyline, like the game as a whole, promise very high production values tied to the classic RPG flair of choice and reactivity. During the presentation, the Larian writer explained that there are many combinations of romantic subplots, depending on how they are approached, the main quest or side story, and that some companions are tolerant of polyamory, while others want to remain exclusive.

Look, I'm not trying to water down "Starfield" here; remember in "Skyrim" when you wore the "I'm single and ready to mingle" talisman and brought NPCs to your house where you could just hang out and sleep in your bed?

"Starfield" has many unique selling points, but when it comes to the four screwed-up astronaut employees who are supposed to start a workplace romance, they don't stand a chance.

I sense a change in the wind: the great sleeping masses of core BioWare romance fans on Tumblr, the type of gamers who made the Anders and Fenris fancams in Dragon Age 2, are awake again, although CD Projekt has occasionally offered something similar, BioWare has been in the dark for so long that this Sardauker has been wandering the wilds of the Internet without a unifying cause; if BioWare is Robb Stark (Anthem is the Red Wedding, maybe), Larian is Jon Snow. The North has a new king. Get ready for an unprecedented economy of funcams and fan art by Asterion.