Seems like people are scared of having this conversation so I am just going to do it.
I do not hate gay people. I have no problem with gay people (or other people). Everyone should be able to live their life how they want. But some sense of realism would be nice. Do even gay people like this portrayal of gay? Let me just make clear that I will use gay as an example here. But it is all of it. Gnomes dating orcs. Gay ratio. Mindflayer romance? I mean come on. I have seen people on this forum saying they slept with half the party members in a single playthrough and had foursomes and so on. It is ridiculous.
This random all polyamoury all sexual stuff kills all challenge and realism in romance. It is literally almost impossible to not succeed in romancing someone. They have no type. They just bend to whatever you decide. It kills immersion and makes everything feel fake and unrewarding. In an actual romance you have to actually seduce someone or flirt in the right way that speaks to the actual person. In this game everyone jumps at you and accept you(even chase you) even if you just
start murdering everyone around randomly.
They should add more companions, and actually let each companion have a type. It is ridiculous in the current state. That or a setting slider/checkbox where I can set romance to REALISTIC or something.
Cannot help but feel that this is the woke agenda once again. The gay spam is ridiculous. The amount of gay relationships from NPCs(or advances from NPCs/companions) outnumber heterosexual ones 8/3 and I am not even kidding. And every time I run into a character that is gay it is always "HEY LOOK AT ME I AM GAY, THIS IS THE MAN I CHOSE". How does any living being exist in this game when not even half of the relationships are heterosexual? Does Larian thinks every gay person in the world has the urge to say that they are gay loudly in the first sentence when they speak to people?
I don't think I should succeed in romancing someone unless I look like, and act like their type. THIS SHOULD BE REWORKED COMPLETELY, but at least please add an option for making this realistic. ONLY THEN can you actually do justice to people of all orientations and races.
EDIT* I would just like to add a thought experience here, to mirror what I am trying to say. Imagine you are romancing Karlach. She asks you;" so what kind of things do you like? "
In playthrough 1 you say: " Bad girls". And so she acts like a bad girl for the rest of the game being a bit*h and so on.
Playthrough 2 you say: " I like music. And so, she insists on singing for you all the time for the rest of the game.
Playthrough 3 you say: " Killing people. And so, she wants to kill people left and right for the rest of the game.
Could I make this more clear? Is it not clear how this cheapens a character?
