Romance

[Gab]

You can only romance two characters and both female...-.-
I feel like whoever have this idea only focus on "Female" lol

[Niels]

...you can literally romance every single named NPC in this game?
But if you're looking for horny cutscenes you might want to go back to Baldur's Gate.

[Jamation]

Originally posted by Niels:

...you can literally romance every single named NPC in this game?
But if you're looking for horny cutscenes you might want to go back to Baldur's Gate.

I think the clear implication was that there were only two romance questlines and both were female.

[Player Zer01]

i see where you coming from but you can romance anyone in the game. only the 2 woman have a scene.

[Lavian]

Originally posted by Niels:

...you can literally romance every single named NPC in this game?
But if you're looking for horny cutscenes you might want to go back to Baldur's Gate.

Not exactly. The game is explicit about it being romantic with the cutscenes for both of those characters.

Also the fact that both of these are just the endings to quests probably makes it kind of awkward if you aren't interested in romancing them and just wanted to do the quests.

Otherwise, the end credits call the people who have highest affinity your "dearest friends", so it's a bit more ambiguous with everyone else.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by Lavian:

Also the fact that both of these are just the endings to quests probably makes it kind of awkward if you aren't interested in romancing them and just wanted to do the quests.

It's super awkward. I don't understand why you can't tell them you aren't interested. The fact that they use sex as a reward for quests that take like minutes to get through, also feels weird.

[BEOWULF]

Why are you gay?

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Screams of an Absolution:

Originally posted by Lavian:

Also the fact that both of these are just the endings to quests probably makes it kind of awkward if you aren't interested in romancing them and just wanted to do the quests.

It's super awkward. I don't understand why you can't tell them you aren't interested. The fact that they use sex as a reward for quests that take like minutes to get through, also feels weird.

The quests you are referring to, are literally quests to get to know them better / build affinity which leads to the culmination of a relationship

Why would you bother spending time getting to know them better if you didn't want a relationship with them??

[No' Name]

Meh, both "relationships" in this game suck, and have absolutely no meaning, especially where one of them you'll never see them the entire game after you've done it.

The relationships in this game are meaningless useless. Think of Relationships in this game as "Junk Mail" in your email, it's just the same crap mailed to you over, and over again, especially since they're mostly basic items you can find out in the wild, or just buy. Only instead of clicking "Select All", and hitting "Delete", you simply only have to accept 3 items at a time when you go to rest.

[Jamation]

Originally posted by tankanidis:

The quests you are referring to, are literally quests to get to know them better / build affinity which leads to the culmination of a relationship

Why would you bother spending time getting to know them better if you didn't want a relationship with them??

Wilhelmina's quest only triggers after her affinity is high enough because she "trusts" you. The quest-line's all about Uncovering corruption and secret murders. We get the bonus of finding out about her past. I would've been satisfied with just getting to know her. Didn't need the extra bit at the end for me personally.

Ulrika's line is all about Rebuilding towns attacked by the dragon, dealing with corrupt government officials, and a small bit of racism sprinkled in None of which necessarily needed her involvement. I'd rather have simply deepened the friendship we'd been building.


Affinity doesn't have to equal smooches. Friendship should be a viable path. Not everyone wants to have those experiences with the characters, but they still want to have the good outcomes for their questlines.

[Humble]

People got confused with romantic and platonic relationship, I guess, when NPC's high affinity, that might anger people, as some just want friend, and some want romantic but romantic and platonic can easy get people confused.

[Arthur Morrigan]

Originally posted by BEOWULF:

Why are you gay? :re3nemesis:

Because I like ♥♥♥♥.

[tankanidis]

Originally posted by Jamation:

Originally posted by tankanidis:

The quests you are referring to, are literally quests to get to know them better / build affinity which leads to the culmination of a relationship

Why would you bother spending time getting to know them better if you didn't want a relationship with them??

Wilhelmina's quest only triggers after her affinity is high enough because she "trusts" you. The quest-line's all about Uncovering corruption and secret murders. We get the bonus of finding out about her past. I would've been satisfied with just getting to know her. Didn't need the extra bit at the end for me personally.

Ulrika's line is all about Rebuilding towns attacked by the dragon, dealing with corrupt government officials, and a small bit of racism sprinkled in None of which necessarily needed her involvement. I'd rather have simply deepened the friendship we'd been building.


Affinity doesn't have to equal smooches. Friendship should be a viable path. Not everyone wants to have those experiences with the characters, but they still want to have the good outcomes for their questlines.

Well i agree that the quest should have a - 'let's be friends' and a 'i love you too' option at the end

[luzthelumina]

DD2 pretty much didn't change the romance system from DD even though many fans complained about it. I tend to play as female characters and my boyfriend plays as males. It's just strange when you can't have a normal platonic relationship with characters without flirt dialogues showing up. I hate this romance system where all characters are possible love interests no matter the gender of your character. Baldur's Gate 3 made all main characters bisexual. It's lazy design and boring.

I thought it was better when RPGs had a mix of characters you could romance. Some characters were straight, some were simply uninterested in you as a love interest, and some were bi. Dragon Age Origins did a pretty good job with this, and made me replay the game as a different character just to see the different outcomes.

[Sam]

Originally posted by Screams of an Absolution:

Originally posted by BEOWULF:

Why are you gay? :re3nemesis:

Because I like ♥♥♥♥.

obviously

[Quintosential]

Romance system is so shallow... BG3 had it done right. This was just pathetic. If your gonna allow us to romance any npc... then give us the cut scenes and more animations to show affection. like omg. 70 bucks for this??? Game is trash.