So, the romance..... *possible spoilers*

[California DMV Gaming]

Well, I've been digging around and I've seen some information where if you play as a male character, there's a 75% chance that you'll get gay romance and ther's a 25% chance that you'll get some sexy ass maiden. IS THIS TRUE!?

[Davoodinator]

or olra? bhahaha

[Skovde]

You may need to resort to beating the crap out of a high affinity character to lower their affinity

[GrayHound]

You're going to be screwed in more than one way if you'll play without any spoilers/guides. For example, I let my childhood friend die because I left the quest for later and it failed after progressing with the story. There is a lot of missable things, too.

That's part of the charm, though.

[Wanderer]

Publicado originalmente por Davoodinator:

can the super item merchant in BBI be romanced? that would be interesting.

omg, I never thought of that.

[Eymico]

Publicado originalmente por GrayHound:

You're going to be screwed in more than one way if you'll play without any spoilers/guides. For example, I let my childhood friend die because I left the quest for later and it failed after progressing with the story. There is a lot of missable things, too.

That's part of the charm, though.

Definitely. I would advice everyone to just.. not read too much on things though. Just remember to take their time with things, think stuff trough and use their heads a littlebit. Theres alot of stuff going on in the game which the game does not explain to you outright. I love stuff like that.

[Senpire]

Publicado originalmente por Redfeather75:

Publicado originalmente por Davoodinator:

can the super item merchant in BBI be romanced? that would be interesting.

omg, I never thought of that.

I need to know this. Can someone confirm or deny?!

[Wanderer]

Publicado originalmente por Siggan:

Publicado originalmente por Redfeather75:

omg, I never thought of that.

I need to know this. Can someone confirm or deny?!

I just finsihed reading an old gamefaqs topic that said when talking to Barroch and Orla it doesn't give the option to give presents like with other NPCs. So if you want to max affinity with Barroch before it's too late you're going to have to spend TONS of gold just to see if that works.

[Lord General Nacho]

Do literally any female character's "loyalty" quest

I for one have a hard time finding a male character to romance when playing a female. It seems like they had no intention of ever giving us a proper romance path for playing as a hetero female :/

[Mending Mage]

Publicado originalmente por Redfeather75:

Publicado originalmente por Siggan:

I need to know this. Can someone confirm or deny?!

I just finsihed reading an old gamefaqs topic that said when talking to Barroch and Orla it doesn't give the option to give presents like with other NPCs. So if you want to max affinity with Barroch before it's too late you're going to have to spend TONS of gold just to see if that works.

The DD wiki states that their affinity can not be raised.
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Barroch
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Olra

[Wanderer]

Publicado originalmente por Paper Quartz:

Publicado originalmente por Redfeather75:

I just finsihed reading an old gamefaqs topic that said when talking to Barroch and Orla it doesn't give the option to give presents like with other NPCs. So if you want to max affinity with Barroch before it's too late you're going to have to spend TONS of gold just to see if that works.

The DD wiki states that their affinity can not be raised.
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Barroch
http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Olra

Ah well that solves that. Thanks for finding out.

[Sir Dookface McFerretballs]

Holy crap... This game just became even more awesome.

Gay hunky dwarf love is legal! Yay!!!!

[Skovde]

Publicado originalmente por Sir Dookface McFerretballs:

Holy crap... This game just became even more awesome.

Gay hunky dwarf love is legal! Yay!!!!

When this first came out on consoles, most people had no clue that there would be a forced love option foisted upon you at the end. Some people were shocked to find that their charcater had developed a love affair with the Court Jester on the sly. :) or the teenage goth girl It was a bizarre ending for many. Perplexed. And some could even have gotten Symone, a child

You just encoutered the big boss battle at the end and you find out that you are in love with the Dwarven Court Jester, dressed as such, or a little girl needless to say it kinda detracts from the moment. Probably the biggest example of trolling in a major release ever.

Videos on Youtube of the moment, for those interested. I agree with a comment at YT, 'laughed so hard I had an asthma attack'. The jester romance ending is one of the funniest game moments of all time.

I had Valmiro, the beach village guy during my ending and I had no idea what was happening, why it was happening. I saved Aelinore and did all her quest line, but I didn't know that the romance was built in to the ending, and I barely remembered that Valmiro guy from the first beach village.

Here is a forum discussion on how to avoid problematic endings. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3486035&pagenumber=426&perpage=40#post433675557

[Lilly]

I had no problems getting my chosen guy when I played. I picked Julien both times. I may go with Maximilan this time, or Barnaby.

[Skovde]

Publicado originalmente por Lilly:

I had no problems getting my chosen guy when I played. I picked Julien both times. I may go with Maximilan this time, or Barnaby.

When I first played this, I had no idea that there was any romance at all, or that there were hidden mechanics behind the romance. I was very surprised by the ending I had with Valmiro, some random guy I helped at the start of the game, who I barely remembered. He came back to be featured in the main scene when I had interacted more with Mercedes or Aelinore.

It wasn't the ending I was expecting nor was it the ending I even wanted. It was a "Huh, what the heck is this! I don't love this guy! I'm not gay" moment.

[Davoodinator]

ok so for the npcs that you cant give gifts to, the trick i had found before on ps3 was to just talk to them and after like a 1000 times you would max affection. i think they patched it along with the moldy carrots and other exploits. so maybe it isn't possible anymore.. hmmm. ill find out on friday. i really dont want that long run when i am duping rare components!