It does seem like the game itself punishes the player for romancing Gale--or at least second-guesses their choice and shames them for it. Between the "mock me if you will but I have a thing for Gale" being a player choice when romancing him to also telling Sorn that if the player wants boring sex they can ask Gale (when in a romance with him), when there's none of these kind of dialogue options when romancing other characters. It's... off-putting. Like *why*? Why have this if not to just dunk on Gale needlessly?
I get Gale was bugged on release and that led to the player-base memeing him as a horny, pushy guy and what-not, but the game beginning to reflect the more meme'd aspects of Gale's character and how fans responded to him because of bugs leaves a bad taste.
And then to see the IGN interview also just entertain his "blow up" ending and call it "right" and continue calling him "annoying". I don't know. Especially when I don't get why people complain so much about giving Gale 2-3 magical items when no one complains to the same degree about needing to fetch Karlach's internal iron. Just double-standards.
