[FLIRT]

[WastingSanity]

I created a male player character like I typically do, I reached the name your character. I notice the pronoun was she/her. What?! I go back and apparently the face I started with before manipulating the character was a woman's face... even though the person looked like an old man. Started over, skipped a lot of the character creator aspects because I just wanted to make sure the game understood the character was a guy. He/him. Okay... that was silly, but fixed.

As I progress through the game, I am talking to the starting companion when she wants to talk or when the game requires it. All of a sudden I start to notice she is looking at me a certain way and the way she is saying her words has changed. I avoided all the [FLIRT] warning dialogue on purpose and the only thing I am guilty of was clicking a few joke dialogue options that did not have the [FLIRT] beside it. The most I talked to her was handing her various things to hold on to. Now here we are... she clearly is acting like we did something in a broom closet some where. I try to ignore it and press on.

The game requires me to now group with a male companion as the main story is connected to this character's personal story. I do so... after a series of conversations, making sure to avoid the [FLIRT] dialogue options and after only one main story quest he to has the desires over coming him. Sure I picked some joke options in the dialogue, but again there was no [FLIRT] warning. He even has a kid! Yet, he is now acting like we had each other in the back of the ship or something.

So I believe the relationship mechanics are a bit broken in this game. The biggest clue was the male companion wanted to talk to me while we were in the middle of a side quest. We just finished killing NPCs, I talked to a NPC, there were still plenty more bad guys around and then he asked to talk to me. I thought he was going to give me something like the starting female companion randomly gives me things from the field. OH, he wanted to give me something alright, his heart! So right there he basically starts giving me a heart to heart talk. I wish I was kidding. He talks about how things are easier with me.. blah blah blah.

Can't we have platonic relationships with NPCs anymore? I mean seriously...

[Avoca]

What?

[Selvon]

I think this guy is mistaking friendship for romance. They really don't go for romance unless you choose the lovey dovey option here.

Sounds like Sam was saying how he trusted him, and this guy here thinks that's love.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Selvon:

I think this guy is mistaking friendship for romance. They really don't go for romance unless you choose the lovey dovey option here.

Sounds like Sam was saying how he trusted him, and this guy here thinks that's love.

What is being conveyed on the face and in the voice of those 2 companions is not coming across as just someone being vulnerable.

[Selvon]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

Originally posted by Selvon:

I think this guy is mistaking friendship for romance. They really don't go for romance unless you choose the lovey dovey option here.

Sounds like Sam was saying how he trusted him, and this guy here thinks that's love.

What is being conveyed on the face and in the voice of those 2 companions is not coming across as just someone being vulnerable.

Nah fam, maybe you've not got friends that feel comfy being open with you, so you don't recognise that? But none of that comes from the companions here unless you choose to go down those paths.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Selvon:

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

What is being conveyed on the face and in the voice of those 2 companions is not coming across as just someone being vulnerable.

Nah fam, maybe you've not got friends that feel comfy being open with you, so you don't recognise that? But none of that comes from the companions here unless you choose to go down those paths.

I don't think you ever experienced a close friendship with a straight male before... there is a difference.

[Shield]

OP experiences their first friendship, finds themselves confused

[Luther]

Originally posted by RaidPanties:

OP experiences their first friendship, finds themselves confused

lmao yeah i agree already gone through that part of the story and i didn't find the dialog being uncomfortable.

he should definitely avoid boulders gate 3 tho, dude wanting to suck on your neck and stuff might push him over board.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Sabishii:

Originally posted by RaidPanties:

OP experiences their first friendship, finds themselves confused

lmao yeah i agree already gone through that part of the story and i didn't find the dialog being uncomfortable.

he should definitely avoid boulders gate 3 tho, dude wanting to suck on your neck and stuff might push him over board.

Yeah, spreading awareness... the sure sign of someone on the edge.

[Exiledpotato]

i have a diffrent quetion....i missed one flirt dialogue option (didnt select it cuz it sounded corny) ,would this totaly lock me out of the characters romance path

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Exiledpotato:

i have a diffrent quetion....i missed one flirt dialogue option (didnt select it cuz it sounded corny) ,would this totaly lock me out of the characters romance path

I haven't flirted with any of my companions, but I still get the flirt option here and there. Just don't upset the companion and you should be fine.

[mutantbeth]

i think youre just gay

[Wanderer]

Baldurs gate suffers from the same problem. You cant even act like a bro with a guy or be nice to a girl anymore, they will immediately fall in love with you and want to tear down your cloth even if you tell them you dont care.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by mutantbeth:

i think youre just gay

Please stop trying to pick a fight with me. Thank you.

Originally posted by Wanderer:

Baldurs gate suffers from the same problem. You cant even act like a bro with a guy or be nice to a girl anymore, they will immediately fall in love with you and want to tear down your cloth even if you tell them you dont care.

In a way, BG3 is worse as there are no warning indicators. I am starting to think that when a game has the option to pick pronouns it is giving a warning to the player that there are no platonic relations in their game without it being awkward.

[Nox]

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

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Can't we have platonic relationships with NPCs anymore? I mean seriously...

The romance grasping in this game is SUPER hamfisted. Something like the first three companions you get start comparing you to their old gay lovers (I am not kidding) and start the romance stuff.

Jesus man back off. This place must be the league of extraordinary horndogs or something.

[WastingSanity]

Originally posted by Nox:

Originally posted by WastingSanity:

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Can't we have platonic relationships with NPCs anymore? I mean seriously...

The romance grasping in this game is SUPER hamfisted. Something like the first three companions you get start comparing you to their old gay lovers (I am not kidding) and start the romance stuff.

Jesus man back off. This place must be the league of extraordinary horndogs or something.

For me, the more memorable relationships I have seen in entertainment had nothing to do with romance. It was more along the lines of friends giving each other a hard time. Like how Lord of the Rings started out where Legolas and Gimli didn't like each other at all, then after traveling together for some time it became more of a friendly rivalry than a animosity towards one another.

It even branched out to other interactions where they were making comments like "Don't tell the elf!" When Gimli was about to be thrown across a gap by Aragorn. Then eventually reaching a point where they had a competition of keeping count of how many orcs they killed. I find character development like that far more compelling than characters hitting on each other. Sure I like sexy women and skin being shown... but that for me those are less memorable than solid character development.