Halsin was originally intended to be a Dekhard Cain type old man until he was redesigned to be swole. Due to the massive positive reaction to his character I predict he will be a companion some time down the road.[/spoiler]
Oh yes, I heard that one too. So many women are totally fangirling over Halsin, meanwhile I'm sitting here with an eyebrow raised so high I think it should pierce a hole in the roof. I like Halsin, but not like THAT.
I'm on the fence whether or not I should embarrass myself by writing a diatribe on the value of monogamy or to just chalk this one up to poorly implemented design. Not only are all the characters playersexual but they all make advances on you at the same time. In my first playthrough I could have had a gay orgy with Wyll, Astarion and Gale if the game had that option. These moments need to be spread out more across the Act or even removed entirely in exchange for scenes like the one with Shadowheart.
Yes, 100% I've been advocating the same changes whenever I could on these forums too. Imho, Larian should rewrite a lot of these characters and give them more depth, give the players a reason to really care, aside from 'oh, Shadowheart is cute, let's bang, mkay?'. I like the direction they're going with some of the characters, but the pacing is all wrong. Want us to have sexy time at the tiefling/gobbo party? Give us a good flirty time spread around act1, before the 'culmination' of the party so to speak.
Like snap, it's not even that hard - make these little cutscenes like the elusive stargazing scene (Astarion) or weave sharing scene (Gale) trigger organically, rather than having to jump through hoops to get these scenes to appear. I recently, on my 3rd playthrough, finally managed to trigger the entire chain of Gale's scenes, and holly molly, he's got a lot of content, makes me wonder why Astarion, Wyll and the ladies have none of that. I swear, if the finished game will still have all these messed up triggers for scenes, I'm gonna be real mad.
Overall, I quite agree with what OP has written, not everything, obviously. Especially the stuff about making Lae more of a... nasty person than she already is. Like legit, if that happened, I would keep her around only to trigger Astarion's stargazing scene, then it's off to the camp.
