Romance?

[Shadowblade]

So far the romance in this game has been lackluster (I'm in Act 3, in the lower city btw)

I'm curious as to how the romance will be in the ending? And when I finished Shadowheart's questline? (currently romancing Shadowheart because why wouldn't I)

[Eve - wife of Maciej Nowicki AHI]

I never talked to Halsin in the camp, and he just tried to romance me out of nowhere... everyone knows I'm with Shadowheart

[BAD BOY]

Originally posted by .:

I never talked to Halsin in the camp, and he just tried to romance me out of nowhere... everyone knows I'm with Shadowheart

you can have threesome with him :P

[FreshRevenge]

Originally posted by .:

I never talked to Halsin in the camp, and he just tried to romance me out of nowhere... everyone knows I'm with Shadowheart

Lmao. I had the same thing happen to me. I only had him in my party for one mission and that was with the kid.

I get into the next area and he wants to talk to me. He says some fog has been lifted and I ask him what he saw and he said it was me. Creepy.

I told I wasn't interested in him and he said I was nature's lover or something. All because I help restore the shadow curse lands. Just because I help you don't mean I want to screw you.

[Swayze]

So, I just finished some quests, went to camp to rest and saw that Mizora wanted to talk, she told me she'd visit me tonight and when I went to sleep I got a vision with the emperor having the audacity to hit on me when I was looking forward to spend the night with Mizora, the problem is however,

after that night is over Mizora won't appear in the next night and the conversation option is also gone, looks like the game locked me out of this encounter, which is to put it mildy BS. Also when I tried to just skip the night without talking to Mizora about the visit I get a warning that "a camp member wants to talk" however I can still talk to Mizora about the visit next day and she says she'll come but the encounter won't trigger when I go to bed.

This Is not the first time that Main Quest "dreams" tempered with the companion encounters in camp and im pretty mad right now that this is not working properly, you straight miss special moments with your companions. Needs a fix asap.

[.Master Jiren, The Strongest]

Originally posted by Johnny Silverhand:

So, I just finished some quests, went to camp to rest and saw that Mizora wanted to talk, she told me she'd visit me tonight and when I went to sleep I got a vision with the emperor having the audacity to hit on me when I was looking forward to spend the night with Mizora, the problem is however,

after that night is over Mizora won't appear in the next night and the conversation option is also gone, looks like the game locked me out of this encounter, which is to put it mildy BS. Also when I tried to just skip the night without talking to Mizora about the visit I get a warning that "a camp member wants to talk" however I can still talk to Mizora about the visit next day and she says she'll come but the encounter won't trigger when I go to bed.

This Is not the first time that Main Quest "dreams" tempered with the companion encounters in camp and im pretty mad right now that this is not working properly, you straight miss special moments with your companions. Needs a fix asap.

If you think thats bad, you can **** yourself.
im not giving anymore details than that.

[Midnight Meows]

Originally posted by FreshRevenge:

Originally posted by .:

I never talked to Halsin in the camp, and he just tried to romance me out of nowhere... everyone knows I'm with Shadowheart

Lmao. I had the same thing happen to me. I only had him in my party for one mission and that was with the kid.

I get into the next area and he wants to talk to me. He says some fog has been lifted and I ask him what he saw and he said it was me. Creepy.

I told I wasn't interested in him and he said I was nature's lover or something. All because I help restore the shadow curse lands. Just because I help you don't mean I want to screw you.

I've said it before, but whoever wrote the "romance" portion of this game only has experience with Tinder, and they wrote what they knew.

Slightest bit nice to them? Must be sex. Help them? Sex, somehow. A basic level of politeness? Somehow that also means you want to romp.

The rest of the game is pretty alright, but the companion stuff is just weird and maladjusted.

OTOH we know how to hit on whoever wrote this stuff, so there's that, if you're so inclined, I suppose.

[Swayze]

Originally posted by Rye:

Originally posted by FreshRevenge:

Lmao. I had the same thing happen to me. I only had him in my party for one mission and that was with the kid.

I get into the next area and he wants to talk to me. He says some fog has been lifted and I ask him what he saw and he said it was me. Creepy.

I told I wasn't interested in him and he said I was nature's lover or something. All because I help restore the shadow curse lands. Just because I help you don't mean I want to screw you.

I've said it before, but whoever wrote the "romance" portion of this game only has experience with Tinder, and they wrote what they knew.

Slightest bit nice to them? Must be sex. Help them? Sex, somehow. A basic level of politeness? Somehow that also means you want to romp.

The rest of the game is pretty alright, but the companion stuff is just weird and maladjusted.

OTOH we know how to hit on whoever wrote this stuff, so there's that, if you're so inclined, I suppose.

I was pretty okay with everything until ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ emperor squidward made a move on me, like the cutscene STARTED with him wearing no shirt, like a p0rn scene. There has been ZERO talk about anything into that direction in every encounter I had with him before, its almost like someone thought "yeah lets make it an option to f*** squidward why the hell not"

[Torpex]

Originally posted by Rye:

I've said it before, but whoever wrote the "romance" portion of this game only has experience with Tinder, and they wrote what they knew.

I think it's worse than that. Whoever wrote the romance options had "adult" experience from "young adult" fiction.

[Shadowblade]

Originally posted by Johnny Silverhand:

Originally posted by Rye:

I've said it before, but whoever wrote the "romance" portion of this game only has experience with Tinder, and they wrote what they knew.

Slightest bit nice to them? Must be sex. Help them? Sex, somehow. A basic level of politeness? Somehow that also means you want to romp.

The rest of the game is pretty alright, but the companion stuff is just weird and maladjusted.

OTOH we know how to hit on whoever wrote this stuff, so there's that, if you're so inclined, I suppose.

I was pretty okay with everything until ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ emperor squidward made a move on me, like the cutscene STARTED with him wearing no shirt, like a p0rn scene. There has been ZERO talk about anything into that direction in every encounter I had with him before, its almost like someone thought "yeah lets make it an option to f*** squidward why the hell not"

Wait the Emperor tries to ♥♥♥♥ you? Dude what the ♥♥♥♥, are there zero platonic relationships in this game? Can two people not be friends? Jesus christ

[Swayze]

Originally posted by Shadowblade:

Originally posted by Johnny Silverhand:

I was pretty okay with everything until ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ emperor squidward made a move on me, like the cutscene STARTED with him wearing no shirt, like a p0rn scene. There has been ZERO talk about anything into that direction in every encounter I had with him before, its almost like someone thought "yeah lets make it an option to f*** squidward why the hell not"

Wait the Emperor tries to ♥♥♥♥ you? Dude what the ♥♥♥♥, are there zero platonic relationships in this game? Can two people not be friends? Jesus christ

yeah sorry you had to hear it from me.. but what made me really fuming that he came onto me the VERY NIGHT Mizora told me she'd come to me.

[Shadowblade]

Originally posted by Johnny Silverhand:

Originally posted by Shadowblade:

Wait the Emperor tries to ♥♥♥♥ you? Dude what the ♥♥♥♥, are there zero platonic relationships in this game? Can two people not be friends? Jesus christ

yeah sorry you had to hear it from me.. but what made me really fuming that he came onto me the VERY NIGHT Mizora told me she'd come to me.

♥♥♥♥ blocked by a mindflayer, truly these Illithids are the greatest evil.

Now if The Emperor came to me as the drow guardian I spent 30 minutes creating in the character creation...Then we may be able to work something out.

[Truen]

Originally posted by Shadowblade:

So far the romance in this game has been lackluster (I'm in Act 3, in the lower city btw)

I'm curious as to how the romance will be in the ending? And when I finished Shadowheart's questline? (currently romancing Shadowheart because why wouldn't I)

BG3 actually convinced me that adding this trash into games isn't a good thing anymore.

[DawnCry]

The best point of the game is how many ways you have to solve quests, it is very flexible on that aspect, related to relationships and main quest it was quite disappointing.

Relationships in games tend to be... disappointing, mainly because they kinda make it like an "extra content" that doesn't matter, and if they take it like that then why bother.

[golfan88]

My personal favorite was that I was romancing Shadowheart and I felt it was bugged that the final romance option in Act 3 wouldn't appear. So I started talking more with Mizora as I was curious why she was actually there. Next thing I know, she wants to visit me that night and I thought - well, my girl didn't want me to get to know the Drow twins even as a Drow myself even when I invited her along. She in fact, said she wanted to be my first. Then she ignores me for who knows how long. But now that I say yes to Mizora, who wants to finally talk? Shadowheart.

I swear she knew. She thought, "Like hells that is going to happen!!! Get OVER HERE!!" So literally they both want to on the same night and the game defaults to the good girl. My ride through the nine hells wasn't meant to be I guess.

But generally, I agree with the sentiments that these romance storylines are odd and unrealistic. Plus the fact that I swear every NPC I meet happens to be LGBTQ. At least in Cyberpunk 2077, the romance options had actual preferences. In BG3, everyone wants some action from the main character. It is harem trope to the max! The diversity in options when it comes to quests and quest outcomes is fantastic but the romance is subpar and super unrealistic.

Plus on a slightly different note, it is kinda off-putting whenever you are only swapping party members that every companion is butt hurt about it every single time. It is like you told them that they are ugly and you insulted their entire family. It is crazy.