Originally Posted by Icelyn
I disagree with this! For me the issue isn’t that they added him, but how they did it. They could easily have added him in a way that I would have loved!

One issue I had in EA was that I couldn’t find any male love interests I liked because the male love interests were either evil (Astarion) or involved with other women (Gale and Wyll). Adding Halsin as a love interest would have been perfect because he is good and wasn’t involved with anyone in EA! But then they made it required that your character agree to be involved with other people to date him! frown If they had written a sweet romance with only him, I would have been very happy! I still hope they will add a path like this for him!

This is personal taste, but one of the biggest issues I had from EA is that I had a hard time connecting with the companions, but I loved Halsin! To me the game is lacking in companions who are good. I hope in their next game they will make a larger variety of companions from the start and not just focus on the evil or neutral companions (even if they can change later). Having Halsin available earlier as a companion would help with this for me, although it would take more work recording voice lines.

I agree with this, I felt the same struggle. While Astarion is charming, I never felt a real connection to him. I tried romancing him until the evening after I saved the grove but it never clicked. I also never felt a real connection to Wyll or Gale and being a woman I was never interested in dating a female companion, althought SH made it difficult to say no lol.
Halsin literally was what I like about men, he was grown-up, somewhat older and wiser, he is a big guy with muscles and I like that he isn't smooth but more like someone who's scars tell their own story. He looks more 'realistic' in a way, if that makes any sense (well, not the ears lol). The way he talked was really nice and the more you get to listen to him, you look forward to finally be able to start dating him. I remember when I finished act 2, it felt like now we are going into the right direction until he shocked me when we talked about how he sees a relationship.

To get to the point: I agree with you, it is more than annoying that dating him also means the need to allow other people to be involved and I would love to see Larian adding a path with a sweet romance just between him and Tav. That way, we could have a path for those who like roaming free and for those who want just him.

On a sidenote: There might be people who say his relationship is perfect as it is and that he represents polygamy, but the more I think about it, the less I can understand that. He clearly states he wants to be with Tav only while encouraging the Tav to also seek the joy with others, means he lives monogamous with the Tav being his focus while encouraging the Tav to live a more polygamous lifestyle. Every sexual scene that involves not only the Tav and Halsin but additional characters is more of less initiated by the Tav. Correct me if I'm wrong but Halsin never really approaches you and tells you he had sex with another NPC.
So what I'm really wondering is, if said fans who love the status quo would experience Halsin telling the Tav how good his sex with, let's say, Lae'zel was, would they still consider it being perfect? To be honest, not sure about that.

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Thank you!