Gale romance too forced.

[grangoat]

At the party where everyone wants to sleep with everyone else for some reason Gale is all like wanna see a magic trick and i am just like you had too much to drink. Then I talk to shadowheart and she is like you missed out, you could have had me, too bad you are already dating Gale.

I dont even use Gale in my party. If you even show any polite interest in conversation with Gale the romanceable girls see you as taken.

[Blacksnake]

You guys are weird. Nobody hits on you until you hit on them. My Gale only talks about how much he loves Mystra.

[HTakara]

I just wanted him to show me magic and then he tried to make out with me, like wtf dude.

[Sheepona]

I did the magic trick with gale and no one was against it until we did full deed then people cared and Astarion was like "I'm open but I have standards won't be in a triangle with gale"

[Iconoclast]

The real question is: why are you playing this game if you're not even gay?

[Sheepona]

Originally posted by Iconoclast:

The real question is: why are you playing this game if you're not even gay?

FACTS!!!

[Marigold]

All the romances advance very quickly I don't think this is exclusive to Gale. Once you start to become slightly close to a character they tend to advance to intimacy pretty quickly. I personally do not find a problem with this because in my mind these characters know that with the tadpoles in their heads. They don't really know for sure how much longer they are going to live and I think pleasures of the flesh are simple. It makes sense why things move as quickly as they do in my opinion though I can understand why some people would be put off by it.

I will say I think having a good relationship with a character shouldn't automatically lead to intimacy as sometimes you just want a bro to fight demons and ♥♥♥♥ with.

[HTakara]

Originally posted by Marigold:

All the romances advance very quickly I don't think this is exclusive to Gale. Once you start to become slightly close to a character they tend to advance to intimacy pretty quickly. I personally do not find a problem with this because in my mind these characters know that with the tadpoles in their heads. They don't really know for sure how much longer they are going to live and I think pleasures of the flesh are simple. It makes sense why things move as quickly as they do in my opinion though I can understand why some people would be put off by it.

I will say I think having a good relationship with a character shouldn't automatically lead to intimacy as sometimes you just want a bro to fight demons and ♥♥♥♥ with.

shadowhearts is the slowest, she'll kiss you in act 1 and think it was naughty. and won't even do anything else with you until act 3.

[Lamp]

Originally posted by Blacksnake:

You guys are weird. Nobody hits on you until you hit on them. My Gale only talks about how much he loves Mystra.

Gale's stuff right now is a known bug.

I barely interacted with him the whole game and in Act 3 my straight, always 100% Lae'zel committed MC dude had dialogue options referencing the "night they spent together" that never happened. Same thing happened to a friend of mine playing a female MC on dark urge/playing the game in a completely different way.

And to be clear buddies char only had eyes for Minthara... and maybe Shadowheart.

[Nustaniel]

Originally posted by Blacksnake:

You guys are weird. Nobody hits on you until you hit on them. My Gale only talks about how much he loves Mystra.

Not accurate, I have not once done anything romantic with Gale, at a specific point in the story, Shadowheart said she has romantic feelings for me, asking if I felt the same, as she was the only character I had romanced up until that point, I said yes I have been waiting for this for a long time. Right after, Gale in my party has a ! over his head, I talk to him, he's upset. We had a thing out of the blue. He is hurt I didn't tell him I liked Shadowheart. Which is strange, since early on in the game he asked who I liked in the camp, and I said Shadowheart, so.. I kinda already told him? Now I have to pick, her or him, who is it to be? It's out of nowhere. I have literally never done anything romantic with the guy, but the game treats it as if I had. That breaks my immersion. It brings the story down. The idea of a love triangle thing like this I don't mind, but I mind that Gale out of nowhere is romantically involved with me. I even declined his magic proposal that's been brought up and said he's drunk or something.

I noticed that there was supposedly something romantic that had happened between me and Halsin during the party when I talked to him in camp afterwards too. He made a remark about our night together. I guess I must have blacked out entirely, because I never saw a scene of that, nor did I know it had happened when he brought it up.

The romance system needs sorely some work in the future. It's bugged.

[Vorg444]

Originally posted by ✪Miharu:

Bruh in act 1 it kept forcing Gale at me so I stopped talking to him altogether once I reached act 2. I’ve been trying to romance Shadowheart since the prologue and I’ve just reached act 3 and am realizing something seems wrong, because I have her affection (or w/e that bar is) maxed out but no new dialogue or options of romantic nature have appeared yet. Fml am I going to have to restart my run from scratch…?

Sadly yes you'll have to do it all over again. She should declare her love to you at the end of act 2, and i'm pretty sure you have to save Nightsong in order for it to happen.

[Ancient Toaster]

Originally posted by ✪Miharu:

Bruh in act 1 it kept forcing Gale at me so I stopped talking to him altogether once I reached act 2. I’ve been trying to romance Shadowheart since the prologue and I’ve just reached act 3 and am realizing something seems wrong, because I have her affection (or w/e that bar is) maxed out but no new dialogue or options of romantic nature have appeared yet. Fml am I going to have to restart my run from scratch…?

It’s a game bro. She’s not your real girlfriend

[anonomoose]

I just had a weird experience with him too. I literally wasn't romancing him even a little bit and it didn't seem like from any dialogue choices that we had anything going on, but suddenly after I definitively chose Astarion in Act 2 he's acting like we had this deep romantic connection and I had to choose one of them, I wish I had a dialogue option to say "Bro what made you think I was into you, like, at all". I plan to romance him with a different character in the future so at least I know it'll be easy lol

Edit: Okay literally right after that conversation mirror image Gale showed up to try to take me out to boink. This has to be a bug, there is no way they made him like this on purpose lol because at this point it's creepy

[Thadeus]

Gale: "Hey, would you like to see some cool magic?"

Me: "Sure. Ok."

Gale: "Nice. Here's some cool magic. And now we kiss"

Me: "What?"

[XGear]

Originally posted by grangoat:

At the party where everyone wants to sleep with everyone else for some reason Gale is all like wanna see a magic trick and i am just like you had too much to drink. Then I talk to shadowheart and she is like you missed out, you could have had me, too bad you are already dating Gale.

I dont even use Gale in my party. If you even show any polite interest in conversation with Gale the romanceable girls see you as taken.

@OP

It's your fault OP, you gave Gayle the attention he couldn't find among all the other team members, and you know, that loneliness, in that camp, with no hope of life because the worm inside the group members' heads. Then Gayle thought:

"If I must die, at least experience all kinds of things this life still has to offer"

It's your fault, Gayles was there, in her quiet place, why did you go there, with a lot of things to talk about, with just your underwear and that hairy chest? You can blame Gayle, but you were the one who go to him at this point! If you were looking for Karlach, Lae Zel etc, surely Gayle wouldn't have caught you on that magical night!

[Whiff Smith]

Originally posted by Drake:

Yes it's all the characters.
People are freaking out about "woke" stuff etc.

It's not woke or whatever.

It. is. just. badly. designed. The person that did the romance is clearly not experienced in writting romance in games.

Woke is mostly pretending something anyways and then be mad it isn't a universal Law and generally accepted thing. Can I be woke too and use a mod that removes sS Interactions of that kind and pretend that I can adjust a completely fictional role playing experience to my parties needs or am I forced onto their status quo?

Basically, does their freedom to enjoy the game like they want to do necessarily need to interfere with my freedom to enjoy the game the way I wanna do?

And in conclusion, since the afforementioned question could only be honestly answered as "Yes" in the long run, one can see that "woke" is a joke.