Originally Posted by Sozz
Originally Posted by mrfuji3
[...] another big reason is just not wanting to be locked out of contact because of your chosen in-game gender. Take DAI; I had a friend who liked Cassandra (the obvious best romance option) but couldn't romance her because Cassandra is straight. Should my friend be locked out of this content because they chose a female PC at the beginning of the game?

Is the (slight? depends on who you ask) improvement in companion characterization/personality/realism worth forcing players to install playersexual mods or replay the game as a different gender to romance their preferred NPC?

As someone who replays BG:2 every so often you can be sure I've got the all genders/all races mods turned up in order to see everything in one go, but I don't know If I would have wanted my first play through of that game to have been without those constraints, if that makes sense.

Originally Posted by Verte
This much. I tend to romance same NPC, most interesting one, so changing sex of MC for next playthroughs could lock me with some bore ones. Just an example from player's perspective.

As loathe as I am to have the solution for everything to be "a toggle", a potential fix for this might in fact be a toggle? Default the toggle to "companions have sexual preferences" and allow the toggle to be changed anytime during gameplay.

Because I very much agree with @Tzelanit and @Ixal that NPC sexual preferences can definitely add to the realism of the NPCs
Originally Posted by Tzelanit
But yeah, having Blackwall basically be like "I appreciate the attention and I'm flattered, but wrong tree, my friend" was shocking because it was so on-point.
That was a fantastic and completely unexpected, realistic reaction to how that situation typically goes.

Larian is certainly guilty of a bit of herosexuality, and although I don't exactly hate it because it's typically well-written, it does feel lazy and safe.
This is a good post.

What's important is to do it right, and not fall into offensive stereotypes. Also have a good mix of NPC options of each sexuality so that the clear best option(s) isn't gated off to certain gender PCs