Hows the romance?

[Shadowblade]

I know that romance isn't the main point of this game, but I'm a sucker for romance in these kinds of RPG games. Is it nice and sweet like Div 2's romance is? Or kinda bare bones.

[Razer]

It's enough to make me go "Nope!". If that answers your question.

[dataseer21]

The companions that I would romance I don't think I can. Instead it is just people with tons of red flags.

[smellibear]

Depends on your romance target. You have a variety of options, not innumerable but there's enough. I only have experience with Daeran, who was a great. I found Sosiel boring. There are also mods, like Woljif's romance mod, which is great

[Sunohara]

There's a little something for everyone
-IGN

[Immortal Reaver]

It ranges.
Yay soooooo sweet on Arueshalae (bi) romance if she ascends from her demonic nature and becomes good, bonus if you are Azata Mythic Path. But she sleep with you whenever you ask if she falls back to being evil demon (and you need to be CN/CE Trickster or Demon).
Then you got big romantic gestures on Daeran (bi).
Artistic and poetry gestures on Sosiel(gay).
Wenduag (bi) submits to the power, then cuteish in last event.
Nope, nope, nope on Camelia (straight), last romance event can be sweetish in its own perverted way.
Normal on Lann (straight).

Non-companion.
"I climbed ladder on Demons path and stayed loyal so gimme" on Nocticula (bi).
Court the Queen Galfrey(bi) if you are of Lawful alignment (she also becomes companion).
Fun one night stand with Socothbenoth (bi) on Trickster.

And then cherries on top. Sacrifice your romance to become Lich or eat them when you become Swarm-that-Walks.

[Yannir]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

It ranges.
Yay soooooo sweet on Arueshalae (bi) romance if she ascends from her demonic nature and becomes good, bonus if you are Azata Mythic Path. But she sleep with you whenever you ask if she falls back to being evil demon (and you need to be CN/CE Trickster or Demon).
Then you got big romantic gestures on Daeran (bi).
Artistic and poetry gestures on Sosiel(gay).
Wenduag (bi) submits to the power, then cuteish in last event.
Nope, nope, nope on Camelia (straight), last romance event can be sweetish in its own perverted way.
Normal on Lann (straight).

Non-companion.
"I climbed ladder on Demons path and stayed loyal so gimme" on Nocticula (bi).
Court the Queen Galfrey(bi) if you are of Lawful alignment (she also becomes companion).
Fun one night stand with Socothbenoth (bi) on Trickster.

And then cherries on top. Sacrifice your romance to become Lich or eat them when you become Swarm-that-Walks.

You forgot Ulbrig. No idea how his romance works, I just know that it exists.

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by Yannir:

You forgot Ulbrig. No idea how his romance works, I just know that it exists.

Yeah forgot about him because I did not play it with that DLC. Finished it with Season Pass 1 and now I am waiting for all DLCs (even if there will be SP3) to release until I pick it up again.

[reidj062]

Originally posted by dataseer21:

The companions that I would romance I don't think I can. Instead it is just people with tons of red flags.

I wouldn't say that's entirely true, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the options are limited in a silly way. Okay, sure, you can't romance Ember cause she's a kid. Makes sense. Nenio probably believes sex is uninteresting. Finnean romance wouldn't make sense. I hear there's no Wolfif romance, and why is that?

It also feels incredibly inorganic, as most of these things do. "Do all my companion quests, and I'll romance you."

[Shadowblade]

Originally posted by reidj062:

Originally posted by dataseer21:

The companions that I would romance I don't think I can. Instead it is just people with tons of red flags.

I wouldn't say that's entirely true, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the options are limited in a silly way. Okay, sure, you can't romance Ember cause she's a kid. Makes sense. Nenio probably believes sex is uninteresting. Finnean romance wouldn't make sense. I hear there's no Wolfif romance, and why is that?

It also feels incredibly inorganic, as most of these things do. "Do all my companion quests, and I'll romance you."

most of these games that have romance are rather inorganic, but I enjoy the budding relationship nonetheless. I'm just curious because I'm fresh off of starting act 3 in Baldur's Gate 3 and the romance so far has been...Lackluster...

[Razer]

Originally posted by reidj062:

Originally posted by dataseer21:

The companions that I would romance I don't think I can. Instead it is just people with tons of red flags.

I wouldn't say that's entirely true, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the options are limited in a silly way. Okay, sure, you can't romance Ember cause she's a kid. Makes sense. Nenio probably believes sex is uninteresting. Finnean romance wouldn't make sense. I hear there's no Wolfif romance, and why is that?

It also feels incredibly inorganic, as most of these things do. "Do all my companion quests, and I'll romance you."

It's like this with every game, because game devs look at romance from a If Then Else perspective. I'm currently romancing Daeran and I have no clue how I got into this romance. I recall something like this happening in Mass Effect games on multiple occassions. I wanted to romance Liara, but for some reason was stuck in a romance with Kaidan. Guess who bit the bullet on Virmire? Piss off Kaidan. Same with Jacob in ME2, when you play female most of your dialogue options with him are "Let's shag" when you just want to converse with him. Like what the actual F.

Games just shove romance down your throat like it's something everyone is constantly looking for.

That said, if a romance is kind of endearing or fits the story, flow of the game then I can enjoy it. It's just most games don't because the devs themselves do not understand romance and they just throw it in there to tick a box: "oh yea we need romance so just have everyone bang everyone." Like in Pillars 2 where everyone is bisexual for some bogus reason. That kind of stuff is just immersion breaking to me.

[Shadowblade]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by reidj062:

I wouldn't say that's entirely true, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the options are limited in a silly way. Okay, sure, you can't romance Ember cause she's a kid. Makes sense. Nenio probably believes sex is uninteresting. Finnean romance wouldn't make sense. I hear there's no Wolfif romance, and why is that?

It also feels incredibly inorganic, as most of these things do. "Do all my companion quests, and I'll romance you."

It's like this with every game, because game devs look at romance from a If Then Else perspective. I'm currently romancing Daeran and I have no clue how I got into this romance. I recall something like this happening in Mass Effect games on multiple occassions. I wanted to romance Liara, but for some reason was stuck in a romance with Kaidan. Guess who bit the bullet on Virmire? Piss off Kaidan. Same with Jacob in ME2, when you play female most of your dialogue options with him are "Let's shag" when you just want to converse with him. Like what the actual F.

Games just shove romance down your throat like it's something everyone is constantly looking for.

That said, if a romance is kind of endearing or fits the story, flow of the game then I can enjoy it. It's just most games don't because the devs themselves do not understand romance and they just throw it in there to tick a box: "oh yea we need romance so just have everyone bang everyone." Like in Pillars 2 where everyone is bisexual for some bogus reason. That kind of stuff is just immersion breaking to me.

Baldur's Gate 3 suffers heavily from the last example.

[Razer]

Originally posted by Shadowblade:

Originally posted by Razer:

It's like this with every game, because game devs look at romance from a If Then Else perspective. I'm currently romancing Daeran and I have no clue how I got into this romance. I recall something like this happening in Mass Effect games on multiple occassions. I wanted to romance Liara, but for some reason was stuck in a romance with Kaidan. Guess who bit the bullet on Virmire? Piss off Kaidan. Same with Jacob in ME2, when you play female most of your dialogue options with him are "Let's shag" when you just want to converse with him. Like what the actual F.

Games just shove romance down your throat like it's something everyone is constantly looking for.

That said, if a romance is kind of endearing or fits the story, flow of the game then I can enjoy it. It's just most games don't because the devs themselves do not understand romance and they just throw it in there to tick a box: "oh yea we need romance so just have everyone bang everyone." Like in Pillars 2 where everyone is bisexual for some bogus reason. That kind of stuff is just immersion breaking to me.

Baldur's Gate 3 suffers heavily from the last example.

Well that sucks. I mean I do understand why they do it, because it's easy and you can appease everyone. But real life isn't like that. For example I played through Cyberpunk 2077 a few times and Judy only likes girls and Panam only likes guys.
First time as a street kid girl and dated Judy. It was complex and bittersweet, but also painful at the end due to what choices I made. It kind of sucked, but it was part of how it worked so I had peace with that. It felt real. Second time I played as a man as a nomad. choosing to go with Panam and reunite with the Aldecaldos. Think I got the most bang for my buck on that playthrough. The romance was great and fitted the story perfectly including the choices I made. I think it was my favorite playthrough of all of them. https://i.imgur.com/5AVyaHz.png

[Shadowblade]

Originally posted by Razer:

Originally posted by Shadowblade:

Baldur's Gate 3 suffers heavily from the last example.

Well that sucks. I mean I do understand why they do it, because it's easy and you can appease everyone. But real life isn't like that. For example I played through Cyberpunk 2077 a few times. First time as a street kid girl and dated Judy. It was complex and bittersweet, but also painful at the end due to what choices I made. It kind of sucked, but it was part of how it worked so I had peace with that. It felt real. Second time I played as a man as a nomad. choosing to go with Panam and reunite with the Aldecaldos. Think I got the most bang for my buck on that playthrough. The romance was great and fitted the story perfectly including the choices I made. I think it was my favorite playthrough of all of them. https://i.imgur.com/5AVyaHz.png

The romance in Cyberpunk were honestly magical, Judy's was great with the whole diving underwater thing, and after I learned that there was a console command to make it so you could romance Judy as male I went after her immediately. If you want another sweet romance I do recommend Larian's other game, Divinity Original Sin 2. Its the same thing where you do a companions quest and you unlock romance options for them, but the dialog is just so sweet it nearly gave me diabetes.

[Immortal Reaver]

Originally posted by reidj062:

I wouldn't say that's entirely true, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the options are limited in a silly way. Okay, sure, you can't romance Ember cause she's a kid. Makes sense. Nenio probably believes sex is uninteresting. Finnean romance wouldn't make sense. I hear there's no Wolfif romance, and why is that?

It also feels incredibly inorganic, as most of these things do. "Do all my companion quests, and I'll romance you."

It is because Woljif is teenager still, like 16 years old. They wrote him like that, and they said it every time somebody asked about it on QA streams.

I would say Wen, Daeran, Lann, Sosiel are like that. They jump on you quickly. Though Wenduag does not do it because of love, but just to get in grace of most powerful being she currently sees.

Camilie is not like that, it is more of "Do you wanna shag? If not, I find somebody else." She also is not keen on you two being serious.
Arue is exactly opposite she does not want to be romanced to avoid draining your life force, because she is scared it would awaken that desire and draw her back to evil.
You have to court Queen too.

[smellibear]

Originally posted by Immortal Reaver:

Originally posted by reidj062:

I wouldn't say that's entirely true, but I am increasingly getting the sense that the options are limited in a silly way. Okay, sure, you can't romance Ember cause she's a kid. Makes sense. Nenio probably believes sex is uninteresting. Finnean romance wouldn't make sense. I hear there's no Wolfif romance, and why is that?

It also feels incredibly inorganic, as most of these things do. "Do all my companion quests, and I'll romance you."

It is because Woljif is teenager still, like 16 years old. They wrote him like that, and they said it every time somebody asked about it on QA streams.

I would say Wen, Daeran, Lann, Sosiel are like that. They jump on you quickly. Though Wenduag does not do it because of love, but just to get in grace of most powerful being she currently sees.

Camilie is not like that, it is more of "Do you wanna shag? If not, I find somebody else." She also is not keen on you two being serious.
Arue is exactly opposite she does not want to be romanced to avoid draining your life force, because she is scared it would awaken that desire and draw her back to evil.
You have to court Queen too.

They literally confirmed that Woljif is a legal adult. This question came up all the time on reddit