Are there no straight characters in this game?

[DEUS✠VULT]

Literally every character can be seduced and hits on you constantly. This is immersion breaking, it's like a group of horny 13 year old woke kids wrote the 'romance' system. This is by far the worst part of an otherwise amazing game.

They should seriously allow options to roleplay. Maybe let us select whether or not we're straight in the character creator? Have the party acknowledge you're not gay, so you don't have to perpetually put down and stave off every male hitting on you? It's so massively immersion breaking when everyone is hinting that they want to have sex with you. It's tarnished the 'character development' of the party.

Larian... want to patch some discerning and mature content into your game please? This is a lazy system in a game seeped in detail. Why is this so poorly implemented?

[Aeden]

I've yet to have anyone flirt with my character without me specifically choosing a flirtatious prompt first.

One response was a flat denial and the other was along the lines of "lets see what happens."

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

During my romance with shadowheart everyone seemed pretty convinced that I was in a relationship with gale despite never hitting on him or letting him hit on me, ever. I even did a flat out "this is a fantasy and it needs to stay that way" to turn him down hard and cold.

Can't even be best buds without him tryin to gay up your night.

[Kage]

Originally posted by Aeden:

I've yet to have anyone flirt with my character without me specifically choosing a flirtatious prompt first.

One response was a flat denial and the other was along the lines of "lets see what happens."

Everyone flirts without prompts. Gale threw me off the most out of everyone. I was not expecting it at all. Obviously you can turn them down nicely, but just a normal conversation turned into him flirting and hinting at romance, for no reason. Also the fact that romance options are not gated by approval is odd, what is the point? Asterion basically hates me but yet he wants my ass lol

[SerraShaar]

Originally posted by Aeden:

I've yet to have anyone flirt with my character without me specifically choosing a flirtatious prompt first.

One response was a flat denial and the other was along the lines of "lets see what happens."

Same here...

I've got the Vampire in my camp. Lazel, Gal, Wyll, Shadow Heart and went and got that guy that help you hire merc?

All I got was normal chit chat from each ones. The Vampire did some 'Starring' at my character and I told him off....but he was the only one.

I'm smelling BS...about the 'Everyone wanna get in mah PANTS! EW GAY STUFF' lol

[Kyutaru]

All the companions are playersexual. They're attracted to main characters.

Just like every anime girl ever made.

[DohItAgain]

Originally posted by BLACK✠GUARD:

Literally every character can be seduced and hits on you constantly. This is immersion breaking, it's like a group of horny 13 year old woke kids wrote the 'romance' system. This is by far the worst part of an otherwise amazing game.

They should seriously allow options to roleplay. Maybe let us select whether or not we're straight in the character creator? Have the party acknowledge you're not gay, so you don't have to perpetually put down and stave off every male hitting on you? It's so massively immersion breaking when everyone is hinting that they want to have sex with you. It's tarnished the 'character development' of the party.

Larian... want to patch some discerning and mature content into your game please? This is a lazy system in a game seeped in detail. Why is this so poorly implemented?

Hi, there is a dialogue feature you may have missed. Underneath the other choices, are additional choices that unlock different dialogue trees and outcomes; some of which may be related to your class or skill. You can use this to get more information out of characters or even reject romances your character would not take part in, depending on your choices. I know a game like this can be complex, but I hope this helps.

[Coldest]

It's only going to get worse with companies hiring woke activists per ESG mandates.

[milkflavour82]

Be prepared for the "you're obviously just a closet gay because it never happened to me" posts that basically accuse you of being homophobic whilst using "closet homsexual" as an implied insult.

Honestly man, I totally get your point.

They're either not paying attention or flat out bull ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

At that Druid party I was talking to the wizard guy, it went like this.

Wizard: hey, you know how I'm a wizard right well I've got some really cool magic to show you later.

Me: oh, cool, yeah man, sounds good.

Me then talking to another character:

Them: hey, I'm interested in getting closer to you.

Me: yeah, I'm interested in you too.

Them: didn't you already agree to blow that wizard dude though?

Me: what the ♥♥♥♥?

Honestly man, i dont believe people can't see why this is a problem, immersion breaking, unwarranted and unwanted. I really think they're either being willfully ignorant or totally ideologically possessed.

Its not even an issue of gay/straight, not for me at least, its just totally unwanted and jarring as hell.. however,.i think because a) most players are male and b) most of the companions are male, it means most of the unwanted and intrusive sexual advances are gay. I totally get why people don't like this and it has nothing to do with being some kind of istophobe, well, not for many people anyway, of course there are some who do have strong negative beliefs about homsexuality, but I think it's just the really lazy and intrusive way it's been implemented.

I also think a lot of people are just tired of what seems to be a constant stream of so-called progressive nonsense forced into every nook and cranny of life to the point it's totally inescapable.

When all is said and done gay people make up about 3% of the population, trans people less than 1% so when 100% of your characters are gay/bi/chicks with ♥♥♥♥♥ or whatever you can totally see how people don't see this as representation and see it as something else, even if it isn't intended that way.

[RebelStorm]

Nothing wrong with some HLA (hot lesbian action) but ya can't have dudes trying to play touch butt with other dudes. I dunno what Larian was thinking with that.

[BeautifulFlowerField]

you mean the one time you have an option to go down a romance dialogue with anyone when the refugees visit camp? you're exaggerating, a lot.

[Talia Sendua]

Originally posted by BLACK✠GUARD:

Literally every character can be seduced and hits on you constantly. This is immersion breaking, it's like a group of horny 13 year old woke kids wrote the 'romance' system. This is by far the worst part of an otherwise amazing game.

They should seriously allow options to roleplay. Maybe let us select whether or not we're straight in the character creator? Have the party acknowledge you're not gay, so you don't have to perpetually put down and stave off every male hitting on you? It's so massively immersion breaking when everyone is hinting that they want to have sex with you. It's tarnished the 'character development' of the party.

Larian... want to patch some discerning and mature content into your game please? This is a lazy system in a game seeped in detail. Why is this so poorly implemented?

Have you ever considered that THIS would be the norm if there wouldn't be prejudice and discrimination towards all the non-straight people IRL?

People would hit on you, you would tell them they are not your type. Just as it would always be, only difference it wouldn't be limited to straight people only due to the (still IRL) persistent frowning towards non-straight people flirting in trial and error publically.

You have to understand that people, no matter IRL or in video games have no "I am [gender orientation] and feel attracted towards [gender type]"-pin on our foreheads. It was alyways part of taking the risk to approach someone and find out. Only difference is that AI Companions have no shame to experience because they are scripted to do so.

[Sicho84]

I'm pretty sure, if a merry group of men and women in real life would venture together and sleep in a camp each night, they would all the time try to ♥♥♥♥ each other. Hell, you can't even go play MTG in a local game store or just have a beer somewhere or just meet a person of the opposite sex while being single without being hit on in RL... especially as a woman.
So it fits.

[GladiatorB200]

pretty much
5 pp options but can't change height, body, boob, butt, face beyond a few face presets in any way, really apparent what this game is about
sucks, its so close to good but all this

[ArkhanTheBlack]

I wonder if people are aware that the fact that all companions are bisexual, also means that if you want to play an origin character yourself, you'll be forced to BE bisexual. Meaning, neither hetero normis are supported, nor a significant part of the LGBTQ community, like gay or lesbian people.

[Gwynhara]

All of the companions are bisexual just to provide the player with more options for roleplay romance.

It wouldn't be appropriate to allow players to toggle off same sex advances or something like that -- just because you're not gay doesn't mean you have the right to never be hit on same sex. You can reject, of course, but you have no right to not be approached. This is also the case in RL so it is not different in the game.

I myself avoid all of the romance stuff, and always have in video games, because I find it generally very cringe and inane. And it's easy enough to avoid the responses that go down the path of romance, even if it causes the relationship to otherwise end due to the way the companions are designed.