Baldur’s Gate 3 is in Early Access and from what I’ve played of it, I fell in love. But you can also actually fall in love with the in-game romances and it turns out? We’re all a lot hornier than we realised. At least according to Larian’s data pulled from key choices made in the game.
In a recent interview with IGN, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke opened up a bit more about how the Early Access period is going ahead of another update on the way. “They’re all horny, I can tell you that,” he said as if that was anything new and unexpected.
It turns out that we’re not all just horny, we’re evil too. Or, at least, we don’t have a good moral code when looking at how many people went to bone town with Minthara. When talking about some of the data findings from the Early Access period, Vincke said: “I can see how many people slept with Minthara. That’s quite large, and to get there you have to be evil. There’s certainly people that have had no moral scruples.”
Who is Minthara, you may be asking? She is a potential companion in Baldur’s Gate 3 that you can only get if you’re on friendly terms with the Goblins. To get her to like you, you have to do some not-so-nice things like betraying, and killing, every Tiefling after betraying Zavlor. She’s kind of a jerk, obviously, and in one of my runs I did recruit her just to see what she was like. I felt very gross after and couldn’t wait to roll a new character. But, you can romance her, technically, so do you, I guess?
Just like any good role-playing adventure, there are good choices, bad choices, and choices that make you feel like you need a cold shower. Minthara is the latter two, just in case I wasn’t clear about that.
There was a lot to love about Baldur’s Gate 3, including how the campfire sequences made me remember what I loved about Dragon Age Origins. As for what’s new, the team did just release a hotfix that addresses the Windows 7 crashing issue as well as some bugs attached to the Revivify scroll. It will be interesting to see how the Early Access period continues to evolve. Hopefully we’ll be getting a full launch release reveal sooner rather than later.
