A year on from the blockbuster success of Baldur's Gate 3, the team at Larian Studios have reminisced about the game's infamous bear nookie scene and how it changed people's perceptions on what the hell Baldur's Gate 3 was all about.
During the PAX West 2024 Baldur's Gate 3: A Retrospective panel embedded below, some members of the development team were asked about how showing off that scene at a pre-launch livestream changed the trajectory of the project. Once Larian Studios had aired the scene, showing the player character, errr, courting a druid in bear form, the internet lit up with memes, some mild controversy, and tons of eyes suddenly glued to the threequel.
