Give us the option to choose sexual preference during character creation

[MPN22]

They really need to give the option to choose your sexual preference in character creation. This would be easy to do and allow you to role-play your character easier.
Simple selection: Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual, None.

Everyone gets what they want and its just a matter of flagging dialogue trees or whatever is going on behind the scenes. I'm all for player choice, this option gives it..... Do it!

[Lord Adorable]

Why? You can just make the choices in-game anyway.

[MPN22]

Not really unless you are bi-sexual. Talking to most of the dudes and just being nice starts a homosexual relationship if you're playing a male character. I miss the days when RPG developers wrote characters as real people and didnt go the "romance everyone" route its lazy. But that's beside the point.

[Swift]

Of all the stupid anti-LGBT nonsense that orbits around anything involving anything that isn't strictly cis\straight people in gaming (or Bi women nobody seems to get offended at bi women) this is the one time I actually agree.

While the 'more realistic' in-game method of just turning down advances is one thing: A. Several people make MULTIPLE advances, even if told you're not interested (Looking at you, Gale) and B. If you do say you're not interested the cutscene heavily implies somehow YOU'RE the one letting them down. (Perhaps realistically having to deal with turning down an advance and the friendship fallout that comes from that; but also why should I have to deal with that in a videogame?)

Anyway. Probably easy to implement via the tags system. You could avoid the whole "My sexuality isn't listed therefor Larian are bigots" discussion by simply providing a checklist of the available ... creature types... there are romances for. You tick them off, or leave them unticked.

[Hyena]

Originally posted by MPN22:

Not really unless you are bi-sexual. Talking to most of the dudes and just being nice starts a homosexual relationship if you're playing a male character. I miss the days when RPG developers wrote characters as real people and didnt go the "romance everyone" route its lazy. But that's beside the point.

That bug is supposedly fixed in the latest patch. Haven't tested it myself yet.

[Zerostalgia]

Originally posted by Hyena:

Originally posted by MPN22:

Not really unless you are bi-sexual. Talking to most of the dudes and just being nice starts a homosexual relationship if you're playing a male character. I miss the days when RPG developers wrote characters as real people and didnt go the "romance everyone" route its lazy. But that's beside the point.

That bug is supposedly fixed in the latest patch. Haven't tested it myself yet.

You mean how in the patch notes it says

During Gale's spell-teaching scene, you now have the option to picture a future with Gale that falls somewhere in between kissing him and kicking him in the head.

That's not fixing a bug... That's providing an option that isn't extreme outside of walking away (you could always just peace out despite what certain people alleged).

[MPN22]

Originally posted by Zerostalgia:

Originally posted by Hyena:

That bug is supposedly fixed in the latest patch. Haven't tested it myself yet.

You mean how in the patch notes it says

During Gale's spell-teaching scene, you now have the option to picture a future with Gale that falls somewhere in between kissing him and kicking him in the head.

That's not fixing a bug... That's providing an option that isn't extreme outside of walking away (you could always just peace out despite what certain people alleged).

Shame they cant write friendships that dont turn into arkward "im not gay" moments. In my life iv'e had one of those with a coworker and I'm 40. in BG3 everyone you meet has that moment if youre not careful... maybe its the worms.

[Hyena]

Originally posted by MPN22:

Originally posted by Zerostalgia:

You mean how in the patch notes it says

That's not fixing a bug... That's providing an option that isn't extreme outside of walking away (you could always just peace out despite what certain people alleged).

Shame they cant write friendships that dont turn into arkward "im not gay" moments. In my life iv'e had one of those with a coworker and I'm 40. in BG3 everyone you meet has that moment if youre not careful... maybe its the worms.

Patch notes state:
"Made it less ambiguous that you're starting a romance with Gale when choosing certain dialogue options."

So it should be easier to not get tricked into a romance.

[Father President]

I agree! Pretty sad that we need to check a "I'm straight' box during character creation, but hey, until the world gets back to normal, this is what we have to do.

[Teufels Beitrag]

Gving a preference before the start is actually a good idea. I mean progessive means that we accept LGBTQ, but i think it is discriminating against hetero people if this is forced up on us.

[Zerasie]

The more realistic would be to have all straight since the probabilty of you or the companions being gay is about 3% and 0,6 to be trans. So

[Old Surehand]

The companions seem written by a bunch of horny, cringe teenagers. It's just disappointing writing.

[direwolfd20]

That could be interesting since there are no indicators next to dialog options to let you know what it will do. Being able to cut down on the "I'm not into you that way" talks would be great.

However, I'd still want the NPC's to remain Bisexual. It stinks to really like a character and get locked out of that because the devs made them either straight or gay.

[['w']]

I've another solution, after you've chosen you preferences you'll still get all dialogues but with some kind of sign added to the end of the line, like two grappling wieners or a hotdog or a pair of scissors, to make things clearer

[.hK-]

Originally posted by MPN22:

They really need to give the option to choose your sexual preference in character creation. This would be easy to do and allow you to role-play your character easier.
Simple selection: Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual, None.

Everyone gets what they want and its just a matter of flagging dialogue trees or whatever is going on behind the scenes. I'm all for player choice, this option gives it..... Do it!

Altough i think it would be better to do it as well im 100% sure they wont ever do it.
A lot of things, simple fixes really, would make this game WAY BETTER but they wont ever do it because they designed the game to FORCE IT INTO YOU. They made sure everyone has to deal with this or simply not play the game.

[BT]

Originally posted by MPN22:

Not really unless you are bi-sexual. Talking to most of the dudes and just being nice starts a homosexual relationship if you're playing a male character. I miss the days when RPG developers wrote characters as real people and didnt go the "romance everyone" route its lazy. But that's beside the point.

It's the romance all that is weird in this game.

There is no separation between friendship and romance in the appreciations unless you refuse a relationship ...