Allow certain opportunities to flirt during dialogues. Maybe not start to finish, but it least early on allow players the ability to have minor flirting that if the player flirts later dialogues provide more flirting options.
That would be more or less like Mass Effect. You get a little heart next to the dialogue option, so you know you are flirting.
Originally Posted by GM4Him
My big issue isn't personalities as much as no leading up to sex. It is SO lacking romance. My first playthrough, I was stunned that anyone wanted to have sex with me. There was nothing leading up to it.
Larian has 3 acts to tell their stories. They have to reveal some secrets this early or it'll feel too rushed later. I want more character interaction not less. We need more leading up to romance.
Also, don't have characters solicit sex. The player should initiate, and if the right flirting options are chosen it builds up to something more.
I suspect early access is rushing things a bit to get feedback from players. Which is ok in my opinion, since it's early access & it's fine to try things out.
As for sex, it depends on the character. If it's a barbarian warrior guy/girl, it might make sense if they are blunt. If it's a shy & meek character, it would not.
Originally Posted by Hilarian
I'll take lazy over discriminatory policy any day. The issue is that there hasn't been a single game developed that give equal attention to gay characters, it's also heavily one sided toward the straight players, which I already said to be expected as it's the majority of the players.
There are literally hundreds of games which specifically target homosexuals. And some of them are actually quite good. If you need pointers, I can provide them.
The statement that every game would somehow have to give exactly equal attention to heterosexual or homosexual characters doesn't make sense.
Originally Posted by Hilarian
In regard to your example, you have a bunch of choices already, so you just happen to stumble upon a gay character, you could just say that maybe you could go for them, but for the gay characters with limited options, you don't get to have that luxury.
I specifically praised that Zuvi's rejection of a male player character makes her character more believable.
I know games out there that made for homosexuality, but that doesn't relate to how I want the games I play, especially mainstream, to be discriminatory. That's like saying if you don't like Baldur's Gate, just play King's Maker. I play specifically a game because I like certain elements in this game that is not in other games and romance is just a part of it.
See? we are at an impasse, you think it's okay to have slanted numbers simply being a majority while the other group should just bear with it, and I disagree since I just don't satisfy with that because the underlying reasons. That's why I prefer the playersexual simply because I don't have to deal with those discriminatory where my worth is judged based on something I can't change.
