Originally Posted by Tuco
Originally Posted by fylimar
To be honest, I'm fine with player sexuality, imo it is handled well in BG3.
hard disagree.
I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of "playersexuality" in general and I definitely prefer when the members of the cast have a set orientation, but that's beating a dead horse at this point.

I definitely think BG3 handled it extremely poorly, though.
It's a game where every single conversation with every main member of the main cast is almost assumed to be flirtatious by default and you have to tiptoe your way around not ending in the sack with each one of them.
Which admittedly could be exactly what a part of the user base wants, but that's definitely not me.

I was incredibly annoyed about the way I had put active effort in avoiding picking lines with Halsin, Karlach or situationally Wyll and Astarion. Wait, Gale too... You know what? it was poretty much every freaaking one of them.
It's also not made better by the fact that often "gentle rejection" was barely an option and the range was something dangeroudly close to going from "Let's cuddle right now" to "Fuck off, you nauseating freak".

I fully agree, that you can trigger romances too easily. I haven't found out, how to not trigger Wylls dance scene yet and I don't talk to Halsin about anything but Thaniel and the Shadowcurse nowadays. At least, Lae'zel and Karlach handle it gracefully, if you say no.
But when you do romance them, the ones I did, were good. I think, they should go over the dialogues again and make triggering a romance by accident harder.
And yes, gentle rejection should be there. They did better with Gale, who has a really good friendship part now, but Wyll will always be miffled, when you try to let him down easily in the dance scene.The others, I'm mostly ok with, but Halsin is a nightmare, he just won't stop. Luckily, there is a daggerloving lady in act 3, who needs some abduction victim ...


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