Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Romance trigger and reactivity problems (formerly "Add a 'no horny' option PLEASE)

I agree that it's pretty clear that some folk will read romantic or sexual intent into some lines when others will see them as ambiguous or friendly. And, though you'd hope that the writing would help preserve the illusion that the dialogue was specifically tailored for our own particular playthrough, of course some of it is actually written to be ambiguous so that it can fit various different contexts - clearly some better than others. I think I'm more forgiving than some of the odd off note due to the practicalities and compromises of creating party relationships that can develop in multiple different ways without it becoming utterly unmanageable, but it's also the case that the game is very reactive - sometimes, it seems, incorrectly so - and therefore the scenes can actually be different for different players.

In my playthrough, other than the already mentioned slightly too-close sitting, a rather too-speaking glance and the odd line that made it a bit too obvious that some of the same animations and dialogue would also appear in a different version of the star-gazing scene that did include a romantic element, for me Gale's stargazing scene wasn't romantic and definitely not sexual. There were no attempts from Gale to get it on, and my character had no obvious lines that could take the scene in that direction either.

Rather, for me what this scene was about was (in spoiler tags as it has plot implications)


In short, for me it was the sort of example of friendship that people are saying they want, but which they're cutting themselves off from the possibility of if they're just pushing companions away.

But, coming back round to different people apparently reading the same scenes in different ways, I thought I'd just share screenshots of the scene as it played out for me so they can make up their own minds. In spoiler tags below.