Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Story & Character Discussion Romancing WAY too easy and quick

Some are trolls. but the majority of people complaining about this issue just legit have an issue with it. and then got dogpiled by fanboys over it in classic steam cesspool manner.

It is not. I was not in a hurry to make bed with Kar, just a good chat here and there, and she turned me down in act 3 right before i gave her combustion chamber upgrade.

Yes, I heard that line too, which makes it all a bit more relative in her specific case.

Weird anyone would get dogpiled over wanting certain objectives (including romance) to be challenging to make their achievement more fulfilling.

It took ages here, but maybe you went to the goblin camp straight away, and got the celebration early. Either way, it happens quickly in real life too if you go out, so imagine people that have a parasite in their head and can die at any time

I've completed all the character quests for Kar, SH and Lae, but I still can't start a romance (I'm going through act 3)

Yeah, every npc hits on me, and everyone is into dwarves, lizard people, men and women. It way it handles romance is silly, way to fast and unrealistic. It is by far my biggest complaint of the game.

I did Shadowheart's romance and I think there are maybe six dialogs in the whole game? It feels like they shouldn't have bothered if they had so little time for them, like you're travelling with a bunch of 2d sex pests.

It was quite something to see how Lae'zel went from being rather difficult to impress enough to romance by the end of the goblin camp stuff in EA, to being willing to do it as soon as we'd done the Zorru conversation.

I accidentally triggered Karlach's romance like 30 hours ago because I didn't realize the dialogue options were yes, yes, yes, absolutely not. Now I'm locked out of the romance scene at the grove celebration.
I can't even break things off with Karlach because there is no dialogue option for it. I might have to shelve this character until there's a a way to fix it. Been playing this game obsessively for almost 2 weeks so this is pretty frustrating.

OP point proven. lol

I never got to see the ending of Gale's romance because a bunch of other story cutscenes overwrote it... I feel you

I think it's normal, Laezel treats sex as a pleasure. For long courtship there is a Shadow Heart

I too felt like the romance / flirting happened really fast and that EVERYONE was coming on to me, but it was not really a big problem, and by the time I had the camp party after saving the Grove, it felt like a good time for the first intimate scene.

I just wish there were more intimate scenes like that. I romanced Lae'Zel and this is the ONLY intimate scene I got with her all game. Don't get me wrong,m I loved the way her romance played out, but it feels odd that the only sex scene happened in Act 1 when the romace hadn't really even started, yet. And you can tell that the developers put in much effort to make these scenes great.

I think every romace just needs at least one additional sex scene in Act 2 or Act 3.

I mean you probably have days to live with all things considered. Not even wake up next day as you. Might as well enjoy your final days/hours. On a serious note I understand your sentiment, but also wouldnt want to sweat for it too much either

I found the party way too quick to get into romance, too. I will say that the reminder of the story setting and the stakes the characters are in did help alleviate most of my issues with it - so credit to the people that brought that up over the past 2 weeks as it has helped evolve my view into one of acceptance.

Sex in video games/movies is just not something I get anything out of or care about, so I'm probably not the target audience for that particular flavor of content anyways.

I think I agree with OP. Personally, I don't play this game for the sex scenes, and don't care for it.

But I'm kinda annoyed that every male and female is trying to get into bed with me as early as Act 1, and I wasn't even trying to flirt with them. As a general rule, I prefer to gain their approval because experience with such games have thought me that being favoured by NPCs is always better than not. CRPGs are known to throw you a curve ball at the end where non-favoured NPCs start going against you.

However, in BG3, having a an approval rating above yellow appears to be synonymous with romance, male and female alike.

Call me a center liberal/conservative, but i think there should be some NPCs that won't try to romance you. As a male, having every other male in the camp trying to flirt with me is a turn off. Gale in particular asked to show me some "magic". I could either say i'm interested or rudely decline. Now, is there an option to not be rude but not open the floodgate for romance? Nope. "Pretending" to be interested because i didn't want to decline him apparently is my signal to him that i'm interested in gay romance. Yeesh

FWIW the new patch actually did fix the "sex or I hate you" Gale setup.

I just wish I could be friends with all my companions without them expecting me to kiss them. ): One or two is fine, but it's every single companion.