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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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Too horny? (self.baldurs_gate_3)

submitted 1 year ago by half_built_pyramids to c/baldurs_gate_3

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I just had to turn down a prancing Wyll. I tried to let him down easy, but he wasn't getting the hint.

Is this what it's like to be a woman? Dudes come prancing up to you out of nowhere like it's their best move, then get bitchy when you don't drop your pants for a two step?

I know I risk summoning the worst of the Internet with this question. I'm still curious if anyone's experienced similar in the game. Maybe I'm way off thinking there's some empathy lessons in here. It's obviously not the message of the game, but maybe one of the messages.

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[–] bouh 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People asks you out when they find you attractive. I fail to see how this is too horny. If any, I'd say it's prude to see that as a problem.

It was a bit buggy at the beginning. I had Gayle and Halsin not register I rejected them. But I saw it fixed in a patch note I think.

I felt BG3 much more natural and real than previous games of this kind. Bioware games for example are much more mechanical about it, which is much weirder than BG3 to me.

[–] tomi000 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You probably started playing after they patched the romances. On the playthrough I started first, Gale and Asterion are super horny for my male character with absolutely no romantic interest in men. I was casually nice to them, just being friendly. Apparently I made huge romantic progress because the options were literally 'take me to your magic world' or 'i hate you fuck off'. Both of them basically started going 'I want you so bad' every other sentence, I had to switch them out of my team. What BG3 is really lacking in this regard is the option to become good friends in non-sexual relationships, even after the patches.

[–] bouh 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had gayle and halsin bugged with this. Maybe not halsin. Gayle thought we were together when it never happened. Halsin was in love but correctly rejected. I had to turn down Wyll in act 1 and he was not very happy, but that seems very normal to me.

You know I feel like many irl relationships works more like in BG3 than any other game. People sleep together or get rejected or hide their feelings. Most people either are in a relationship or looking for one. That's just how it is. To me this makes BG3 companions more real.

[–] tomi000 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I get what youre saying but 'Everyones gender preference equals my gender and everyone wants a relationship just with me' is kind of the opposite of my rl experience. It just feels so unnatural that all female characters are hetero while all males are gay automatically. The exact opposite if your character is female. Also, why cant you reject someone by saying you arent attracted to their gender? Coz thats what I would do irl, not just say 'leave me alone'

[–] Anticorp 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I felt that there should have been an option to set your orientation during the creation scene. It would have avoided a number of weird encounters. IRL life you'd tell them you're straight and the advances would stop.

[–] bouh -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the case in all bioware games, and cyberpunk 2077 was criticised for not doing it.

But I'm worried now. Is it really the homosexual attention that's so concerning to you? Because it is starting to look like this.

[–] tomi000 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is not the homosexual attention per se thats bothering me, it is the lack of non-sexual friendship. Why cant I just be friends with someone without being hit on all the time. Sure, being hit on by women bothers me less because thats my sexual preference, but its just unrealistic in both cases. Yes its nice to have the option of all kinds of sexual relationships with characters, but I dont want it forced on me. I just want the option of being friends with men and women without them constantly seducing me.

[–] bouh 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was friend with Wyll and Minsc and Jaheira.

[–] tomi000 2 points 1 year ago

Yea actually my critique was aimed at the earlier versions of the release. In my second playthrough it seems less awkward and more casual. So props to the devs for working so hard on the game after release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I originally thought it'd be the mechanical BioWare do the quest and talk to them and eventually they'll come. In the end the only one to proposition was Halsin after talking to him once.

I've since learned that listening to the dialogue might be key for some characters but I didn't think I'd accidentally romance Halsin in the process.

[–] bouh 2 points 1 year ago

Halsin was bugged on that matter. I don't know if it was corrected. Or if it's only a matter of doing everything right for him and it's quite easy to do.