Male Romance Options

[MoonstoneV1]

I heard only two female romance options are available in the game. Although I am not playing this game for romance, but a little disappointed there are no male romance options.

[Blackfrost]

Originally posted by Moonstone2015:

I heard only two female romance options are available in the game. Although I am not playing this game for romance, but a little disappointed there are no male romance options.

You can romance pretty much every single NPC in the game, I don't know what you're on about

[risbolla]

if you picked up dd2 for a dating sim then you are going to be sorely disappointed to find that fournival is not in it

[Street Preacher]

I need you to fight for left handed people it affects gameplay i know storyline is important too but the left handed gamers have gone far too long with nothing

[DreamDecker]

Originally posted by Blackfrost:

Originally posted by Moonstone2015:

I heard only two female romance options are available in the game. Although I am not playing this game for romance, but a little disappointed there are no male romance options.

You can romance pretty much every single NPC in the game, I don't know what you're on about

Romance is a stretch.
In DD1, it was a "romance" in the sense that you're both attracted to each other.
Here, it's more of a "best friend" kind of situation. You don't even kiss your "Beloved" (which, depending on who you get, it a blessing or a curse).

[Random Zero Gravity]

Technically only 2 officially with a cut scene.

[Edstyles]

Most games get it wrong when it comes to romance. Only mass effect aka bioware had good romance and for some reason other games dont copy pasta biowares recipe for romance. No idea why.

[Shivers]

Originally posted by ANT-MAN AND THE WASP:

I need you to fight for left handed people it affects gameplay i know storyline is important too but the left handed gamers have gone far too long with nothing

Agreed, we left handed people need more representation.

[Xeriath]

Originally posted by Random Zero Gravity:

Technically only 2 officially with a cut scene.

Yeah, it seems people almost forget that people which ask this think from a romance with a cutscene. Blushing and princess carrying has nothing to do with a romance, at least not with any romance which is more adult targeting. Here we have only Wilhelmina and Ulrika which hint something more happen. The whole friendship/romance system is bad in this game. Nobody should play this game because of the romance; you get pretty disappointed.

[LeonserGT]

Originally posted by Edstyles:

Most games get it wrong when it comes to romance. Only mass effect aka bioware had good romance and for some reason other games dont copy pasta biowares recipe for romance. No idea why.

Tbh, its not so easy to copypaste, because best and most natural romances are with characters that stayed throughout the whole trilogy, it wasnt enough to have a good written characters, but also get players attached to them during at least several games in the series. You gotta plan to release a whole series of games for that to work...

[Saturn830]

Originally posted by LeonserGT:

Tbh, its not so easy to copypaste, because best and most natural romances are with characters that stayed throughout the whole trilogy, it wasnt enough to have a good written characters, but also get players attached to them during at least several games in the series. You gotta plan to release a whole series of games for that to work...

DA:O had solid romances and just really good companion storylines overall that were played out within a single game. If you're spending 100+ hours in one playthrough that's a lot of time to get to know people. The drawback for DD is that you don't spend a lot of time with meaningful npc characters because your party is just pawns.

[Zeel Ara]

The two romance quests lead directly to romantic scenes without further player input or a way to say "no thanks". Imagine if a male character was forced into a romantic scene with another man. There would be a massive outcry against "woke" agenda. But since straight guys can still jerk off to the idea of two women together it is perfectly acceptable with forced same sex encounters in that department. Hypocrisy keeps the world turning :D

[Edelgris]

The romance cutscenes are extremely simplistic. You're not missing much at all.

[Shadow♥]

The male elf archer is a nice beloved choice. I got a nice scene at end of game true ending where he is shown looking at ocean. It was very sweet. The only actual romance type actions like kisses however, are between only female characters if your Arisen is female like mine was. It is disappointing that you get kissed by other females with no way to avoid it when your character is female. It would be nice to have a choice to say no if your Arisen is female. But, i still love the game as I realize that romance has never been good in the first game either. LOL.

[Shivers]

Originally posted by Ratley:

The two romance quests lead directly to romantic scenes without further player input or a way to say "no thanks". Imagine if a male character was forced into a romantic scene with another man. There would be a massive outcry against "woke" agenda. But since straight guys can still jerk off to the idea of two women together it is perfectly acceptable with forced same sex encounters in that department. Hypocrisy keeps the world turning :D

I really don't like the forced scenes, since Wilhelmina and Ulrika don't understand that no means no, I've decided to keep them "locked in the morgue". I would class this as a woke element myself, but considering the courtly tunic and such is still a male outfit on female characters, I think it may have been more of an oversight in this case, could be woke, but idk.

All I do know is that when you get to the quest which has this forced scene, if Wilhelmina is dead and you ferrystone out of the castle once you are no longer in doors, you don't have that scene happen to you. You still need to escape the guards, but ferrystoning to checkpoint rest town and then taking an oxcart back is one way you can entirely circumvent that scene, not sure if Wilhelmina has to be dead for this to work, but if she is she can't do that to you.

[Shivers]

Originally posted by Shadow♥:

The male elf archer is a nice beloved choice. I got a nice scene at end of game true ending where he is shown looking at ocean. It was very sweet. The only actual romance type actions like kisses however, are between only female characters if your Arisen is female like mine was. It is disappointing that you get kissed by other females with no way to avoid it when your character is female. It would be nice to have a choice to say no if your Arisen is female. But, i still love the game as I realize that romance has never been good in the first game either. LOL.

Agreed, you should be able to at least avoid the main quest scene if you ferrystone out of the castle as soon as you're outside though, not the best way to escape that scene, but it is a way at least.