Originally Posted by mrfuji3
To be clear, the companions are player-sexual, not bi-sexual. Each companion seems to have some sexual preferences about other NPCs, revealed through their history or dialogue or banter, but always wants to bang the PC.

If companions remain player-sexual, I think their sexual preferences should be at least mentioned. E.g., Wyll and Gale (mostly presented as straight) should, when flirting with a male PC, have some dialogue line similar to "I've never felt this way about a man before." Whereas Astarion (who flirts with all companions during banter) wouldn't have such a line. Companions should have a defined personality and desires that remain consistent within the game, and any deviation from that should be adequately explained or else it is jarring/unbelievable.

The funny thing here is that we are seemingly in agreement.

We can say on this forum there's such a thing as 'playersexual' but that doesn't help with credibility for the in-game story and characters. Astarion being 'bi' seems about right, the way he behaves and such...not so much the others. Having Gale saying 'I've never felt this way about a man before' is better than nothing but still stretches things...and when/if more than one companion were to do so it would snap credibility completely, imho.

You yourself say 'any deviation from that should be adequately explained or else it is jarring/unbelievable.' and that's my whole point. Credibility is being unnecessarily diminished when there should be better and subtler ways to deal with this.

And that still wouldn't counteract the sexdoll nature of pretty much everyone wanting you. In my last playthrough I only paid attention to Lae'zel's approval but I was propositioned by several others.

The answer seems so simple to me. Let the player start romance options off, job done. In fact, I have an asexual friend who specifically dislikes being asked for sex/romance in games so it doesn't necessarily help people of that persuasion either when 3-5 people ask, unbidden, for sex in the same scene. Sex separately, of course wink

Last edited by Mordenkainen; 12/07/22 02:02 AM.