Can't say that I agree. For example in DAI, some of the romances were gender and race locked and I just ended up using mods just so I could experience romances with them.
I'd like to have a game where my character could be with anyone. I'm also a person that doesn't believe your sexuality defines who you are as a person. Being locked from possibilities in games isn't fun to me (such as gender-locked classes and ect). Larian seems interested in giving their players freedom which is shocking to me that a lot of players actually seem more interested in taking away. Please continue to give us freedom, Larian.
There are things that have nothing to do with our opinions or personal ideas. If I let an object to fall it will fall with due speed and acceleration based on the height some factors like resistance of air can alter the actual speed, but speed still will follow the physics rules.
Same goes for sexuality, indeed there are corollary factors that have an influence in one person's sexuality, still the core is one and only one.
Obviously there is the fact that sexuality is an spectrum with pure homosexuality and pure heterosexuality situated at the extremes, in the middle there are all the shades of bisexuality, pansexuality and even asexuality.
And sexuality plays a big role in the development of a person, because it has to do with a primal pillar of human interaction within a society, for a lot of reasons. In my case my sexuality made me cautious, more than what i think I would be, of others, made me thougher to slurs, made me question the reasons behind a lot of things I loved to do, even the fact that I maintain completely separate my personal and work lives and never openly come out (pretty sure all the people I know gest that I'm no straight, still I'm not interested in openly sharing this part of my life), all of these are things that were strictly tied to my sexuality and parts, important ones, that define the man I am.
Furthermore studies have shown how sexuality is indeed fluid but not as much as we would love, and how the dominant trait in those who are not in te extremities is not so easily shifted to the non dominant one (indeed sexuality shifts in non full bisexual or pansexual people, requires very heavy conditions, in some cases for the shift to happen the conditions have to be traumatic).
Said that, I get that is frustrating (somehow) not to have complete freedom in a game, but that is what makes interesting and engaging a game, the fact that we have to move inside a set of rules and boundaries, when I buy a game I know beforehand what is the set of rules.
At least that was it used to be, now major companies that produce rpg games are pushing through the sopiling of players by allowing them to have characters with almost absolute freedom, something that has tainted this kind of games.
I loved Dragn Age Origins also because the npc's, like in real life, had their own sexuality, you could, as a male character, create an amazing brotherly relationship with Alistaire but nothing more and so on.
Alas I know that things aren't going backwards, a big bunch of players want to be able to have romances with all the npc despite of the gender/race/class of the palyer's character thus companies are going to make npc's herosexual.
I'll adapt my playstyle making my characters to be the ones who choose if and wich companion they'll interested building a relationship (in all the shades from friendship to full bunny stuff).
