1. to choose a dialogue option to watch a cutscene
2. feel an accomplishment for watching a cutscene
3. to play this game
I would recommend removing the romance scenes, and anything past a campfire discussion or glass of wine.
There is no need for it in this game, and it only causes individuals to not role play a character in order to watch a cut scene.
I would recommend putting more resources on the Dialogue options for the player character, and overall party companionship options.
This is a D&D game right, so the focus would be better put elsewhere.
my 2cents.
Again, you don't like romance? Just don't do it. My toon easily maximized Gale's approval so the weave cut scene triggered. It was a nice scene that allowed my toon to better understand the wizard, and then between the options there was the romantic one, I just choose another because my toon is not interested.
My toon would is facscinated by Astarion (I decided my toon is naive so the stile of the vampire looks charming to him), still I didn't change his choices so to maximize the pale elf's approval, that is at the end of the early access my toon didn't triggered any romance options from the rogue.
Same situation of Gale (that is very high approval) is that that my toon have with Laez'el and Shadowheart, still no romance options are triggered because in all dialogues my toon went just for information and suggestions.
Do we seriously have so much need to have everything fixed so that we can not take turns and get away from a due route?
And it's not only about romance, is about barrels, height, and many more, it seems that the fact that there is a chance to do something bring people to complain and to ask to remove them while you can just decide not to use. I'm not strategist and I'm quite impatient so I rush into enemies whatever is the position of my party (reason why in most games I grind xp to overpower the main bosses and enemies
,, also I'm distracted so I never gather enough barrels, and the game didn't force me to use those.
Again: yours is the choice on how to use the choices in the game.
My next toon is going to be straight and a warrior so I would use dialogue options to try to romance Laez'el (again I won't make my toon make choices against how I think he will be just to bed the Ginthayiki warrior).
And the other one I have is into dwarve ladies so he wont do anything to romance any of the companions.
The last i quoted is an halfling that will be a strategist so with him I'll use strategy, while with the previous one I decide he is a stubborn and not so briliant warrior so he will lead his party in almost all frontal attacks, also he is too much into fighting so he don't even think about romances or sex stuff (indeed in his background he is chaste).
As I said choices.
What I would like in romance is more options (for example to let people charcaters to be more nuanced going from the naive and virgin one to the experienced filrty one), and more difficulty, Early Access and already able to bed a companion what's this grindr or its straight version?
