Originally Posted by Ormgaard
Originally Posted by FatePeddler
OP, what CRPGs have you played?

If you look at any CRPGs, or even any Action RPGs, they will have romance scenes.

The Dragon Age series, The Witcher series, Knights of the Old Republic series, and I'm sure cause CDProjeckt Red is working on it, that Cyberpunk 2077 will have romance scenes as well.

It is *not* for horny 13 year old boys. How sexist are you OP?

If you don't want to romance anyone that is your prerogative, but don't complain about it since so many games, and so many gamers like it! >_<


I have played all of them , im 53y old and i also enjoyed most of them, i have no real problem with either nudity, sex or romancing in games, but i do have a problem when i feel its getting forced upon you, right now in BG3 every single character wants to have sex with you, just for the sake of " hey we need to find one for everyones taste" it gets beyond stupid and there is absoloutly no romance building involved its the eqivilant of going to tinder and look for a sexpartner.
I think the romancebuilding and sexcenes was very well done in The witcher wild hunt where you could go to a brothel if you just wanted sex or try to build a romantic realationship with yenneifer feks, but you had to actually work on that instead of every woman or man throwed themselfes at you even if they had a crush on you you actually had to be nice to them. also DA:O and Mass Effect was vey well done in that regard.

Is it Sexists to say that a certain demographic mistakes whats going on on Pornhub for reallife?? (i was a 13y old boy once and i remember what i thought looking at those colored mazines i found in my dads closet) I can point you to several studies that shows that is exactly the case. if your 13y old and not in that boat i apologize for hurting your feelings.
My point is that calling mass banging for romancing is to off touch with reality and for me personally i dont really care for such options because they rarely reassemble anything that could arouse me in any way.
My Question was if the poorly (in my opinion) implemented romancing in BG3 so far is what to expect , i would like to have an option to make my own neutral party.

I am not advocating to remove romanciong options , i am advocating to make them meaningfull, interesting and optional..


I am 43 years old, and again and again I wonder how do people doesn't understand the concepts both of roleplaying (my toon are monogamous and somehow shy, so all the hornyness and gangbangig, didn't happen in my playthrough) and freedom of choice, I agree that Larian (but a lot of games do that) give not so many choices in dialogue options, and that the fact that all companions now are pansexual (ah i much I loved to play a homosexual toon in Dragon Age Origins who loved Alistaire, the fact that it was an one sided feeling only make the rpg aspect of it more engaging) can feel like a sort of cohercion, but you still have the option to avoid (and its not so complicated or pressing or repetitive as some players seem to find) them.

i play characters of different sexual orientations (fron asexual to pansexual) and is I the one who remains in control, I wanted a toon to fell for Astarion and so I let him to feed with its blood, still my toons made his choices despite what Astarion would like or not and so no romatic options, the same character declined the chance to romance Gale after the weaver cut scene, and didn't even thought of flirting when first met Shadowheart, with this character I ended Early Access without a romanced companio. Next toon, my fighter one, will be straight and fell for Laez'el, but again my dialogue options and the choices him will do wont be so that he can hit the other warrior.

But I plan to made, I dunno if a cleric or a rogue and I don't know if male or female, a pansexual polyamori toon to see if Larian gives the option to romance more than one character at the time.

As you can see choices I made.

The fact that larian gives the option to mass bang doesn't imply a player should do it if they don't feel that way. The more I read this thread the more I can not understand how that's not clear, or how players feel forced when I just ended early access without any romance because roleplaying my toon in a coherent way means he wont bend and change his ways even if it means to him to remain far from his beloved pale elf.