Originally Posted by urktheturtle
You arent helping, there are real problems with the romance system. Characters being LGBT... are not the problem.
I gave feedback along those lines during very early EA. I find the portrayal of Astarion genuinely offensive.

If you go into the gay bar in my hometown, youre not Brad Pitt and you randomly start calling people "Darling" - youre going to get slapped sooner rather than later.

He is an awful gay man stereotype who borderline sexually harasses you and that is really not cool. Most gays arent this ridiculous flamboyant stereotype. They do exist, in the same way that heteros have histrionic people as well. But its really not the average gay person. Its like people who arent gay wrote him and just looked up the flamboyant gay man stereotype online. Like writing a mexican and making him lazy, tired with a sombrero or writing a stupid american. its just kinda insulting to me.

On the topic of omnisexuality - i do like the larian approach of romance being written with everyone in mind (like in DOS2). I also think the critique of characters being a bit too pushy is valid and making the overall immersion worse as a result is valid as well.

Last edited by NoLoGo; 11/08/23 04:36 AM.