As expected, purely based on appearance, of course. You expected a reasonable and in-depth response and honest thoughts from the Reddit community. It's a cancerous site. Your average BG fan is not going to like Wyll or Halsin; they want to obsess over Astarion and Shadowheart. Why I m not surprised Black person is there on lowest. Wyl Mizroa scenes are better than any of Astarion whining. Jesus, this generation, thats what women want these days, Astarion type, they dont want a real man,but a child. Any man or woman that shows the slightest touch of pragmatic, reasonable, stoic behavior is against; they want crybabies and drama queens. I am team Minthara. You see these poor souls have not even included every recruitable character. Disgusting. Reddit attracts worst vermin out there.
Gale is most played, well of course, Typical generic human and humans are one of the most played races of all interesting the ywant to pick standard ones. Wow. A wise choice ,once more. Its crazy how community loves simplicity and mundane races. Humans, you are a human, Developers are offering something unique and you wish to pick something so ordinary. Its a trend that keeps on and ever on
intelligence and creativity of gamers is getting lower and lower , but gamers are evolving and BG is a pinnacle at the moment. Incredible its going on reverse. Its disgusting. You have already ravaged characers with over sexualization and presenting them as in wrong light
Ok, it seems as if you have a problem with Astarion or Shadowheart. If that vote were about looks, Halsin would be on top. He just became a companion, because people wanted to have sex with him - you clearly have not been here in EA, since otherwise you would know, that he was treated as a sex object the whole time (yes, I know, there were one or two people, who wanted him as a companion for his character, but mostly it was clear, what people wanted from him). The phrase 'climbing Mount Halsin' became so wide known, thit it was even inserted as a joke in game (I think, Astarion uses the phrase). And his whole stick is being a sex toy, he has no story, no development, nothing in act 3, but his sex obsession - he is literally, hwat you critizise about other, well developed characters. If you take Halsin and Astarion for example. both have suffered SA, but in Halsins story it is treated as a joke, while in Astarions story it is handled in a very believable and healthy way. Halsin is the least liked character, because he sucks writing wise - he lacks the depth, you seek.
Minthara I can't say much about, because I don't play murderhobo. But when she will be included in a good playthrough, I certainly try her out as companion. But again, you haven't been here for long: Minthara, like Halsin is a fan request. She seems to be handled better from what I hear, but still, people basically wanted the hot drow, the new Viconia.
And as a woman: I'm not interested in Astarion or one of the other male characters in that way, my type would be Karlach, but I play games for content and to see different stuff, so I probably will do all romances at one point (not Halsin though, since he lacks content apart from sex scenes - and those don't interest me).
And pulling out the racist card is a bit unfair - Wyll has simply less cntent than the other origin companions and a big rewrite from EA to full game - I liek new Wyll more, but there are people, who preferred EA Wyll and that is ok. They both are interesting. I like him well enough and have him nearly always in my team - as I said above, Wyll would probably the one, I would want to be friends with in real life.
I personally would have preferred some companions from more diverse races like halfling, gnome, dwarf, dragonborn or half orc. But sadly, it is mostly the elves, half elves and humans, with one gith and one tiefling for flavor.
