I both agree and disagree with that vid. Sure, romancing someone in DA or ME series is nice, but not necessary. Heck, I loved first Pillars of Eternity and it had no romance whatsoever, in Fallout games I avoid romances like fire (both the old and Bethesda abominations - but becoming a porn star in Fallout 2 was pretty funny lol). It's not a end all and be all kind of deal like the guy suggested.
But yeah, as a whole I will agree that romances in BG3 are... a bit too easy to achieve. And sure, it's in character for Lae or Astarion to want to bang you pretty quickly. But the rest? Like for some damn reason on all my runs I got that stupid Wyll dance even though my character romanced Astarion, seeing Wyll's hurt puppy eyes when you deny him hurts. But why does that happen to begin with? I never gave him, or Halsin any signs that I do wanna romance either of 'em.
And yeah, Halsin 100% is bugged. I can confirm it now. I avoided any flirty lines with him, didn't even use the 'I BEARly know you' line and yet he still comes to me in act 3 asking for a bang saying that I asked him about his love life (which I never did, avoided all of those lines and dialogue trees like fire) - and that is on Larian now to fix it. Situations like that shouldn't happen. If you reach certain approval point with a companion (aside Astarion and Lae - for them it makes sense like I wrote), they shouldn't be prostrating themselves before you trying to secure that magic cooch or ween like their life depended on it. You flirted with them before? Fine fine. Never flirted? Red zone, sure maybe Wyll could take you to the side (not a dance) and say that he has a crush on you or something.
Also, the game is indeed lacking scenes of genuine friendship and camaraderie. In ME series I felt no greater pleasure, as a damn woman myself, than securing both Miranda and Jacks friendships. Altho Jack is weird at some point, but still. Their friendship paths were so damn well written it makes me wish BG3 had it (for a while we did with Gale and Shadowheart, but SH is still the best possible friend you can have in the game - on Selune path at least). In ME series you could genuinely feel that over the course of the game all companions eventually get closer and become friends, even Ashley gets over her xenophobia! You can feel none of that in BG3, well, okay, only in some banters with Jaheira companions kind of feel like they're 'friendly-ish'.
Last edited by Nicottia; 02/11/23 03:46 AM.
