[ SECRET POST #7001 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7001 ⌋

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OP

[(Anonymous)]

It's more the 'everyone is hitting on you Very Sexily and Sexy Attraction Happens First' aspect, Gale commenting on your musk and trying to put the moves on you, Halsin being like 'he sure wouldn't mind being had', Minthara VERY CLEARLY wanting to be MORE THAN A FRIEND, Shadowheart asking for a drink and actually meaning A Kiss, like literally everything is in the Sexytime Category and finding your character sexy, regardless of whether you WANT your character to be perceived as sexy or not, even if you make your character the most unsexy possible.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Makes sense since kissing and sex are the same exact thing /s

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Flirting is not equivalent to sex though? Like I can understand not wanting to do a romance route or what have you, but having NPC's flirt with the PC is nothing unusual in games like this so this comes off more a subjective issue, which is fair, than a problem of the game itself. Even the flirting levels are different, some flirt harder and some are gentler about it, but you can reject the NPC's at any point and you're not 'locked in' until act 2.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

DA but that is not what I thought OP was saying. It isn't that they think heavy flirting = sex, it is that there is no build up of a relationship, everyone is just immediately attracted to you and hitting on you hard. Sounds like OP wants more of a variety of relationship building and attraction/flirting types.

But I'm not OP so I could be wrong.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

DA but that's also how I read it. They didn't say the characters "are fucking my character" they said the characters "find my character hugely fuckable" which isn't the same thing

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

You can be anything you want and play any character you want and if you want to play a 70 year old that just wants to be the Team Dad, every single character now has an age gap daddy kink out of nowhere.

Yeah, it gets weird.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

So, I refuse generally to play romance games disguised as rpgs, and I don't D&D, but I have played BG3 because the overall gameplay mechanics were enjoyable. And I will 100% give you Gale and Halsin because holy fucking shit calm down especially since you can't even fuck Halsin till Act 3 but he's so damn horny on main.

But, OP, please tell me you know it's a mechanic. You know it's not about your Tav creation, it's a programmed response to your positive/negative reaction balance for all of your IC choices, right? You know you can be a goody-goody and get Wil's approval 20 times which triggers the automatic "now let's kiss" response? You can be evil as shit 20 times and now Asatarion is into you? You can be sarcastic in 20 situations and now everybody's eyeballing you?

I get it, it's shit that this was baked into the development and mechanics, and unfortunately Gale was bugged for so long that no matter how many times you chose the "not interested in romance" response he still somehow gave you romance responses, I'm told it was fixed but I have yet to see it. I refused to play Dragon Age because it was so cleary dating-sim-disguised-as-rpg according to everyone on the internet. I pushed through and forced nothing but platonic relationships with all the companions, and once you're not trying to deliberately game pos/neg (to be fair you have to keep from dropping into neg or characters will leave you forever and Astarion is too broken in combat to lose) you'll be able to just be friends with everyone as you wish. Just fucking turn 'em down, they'll live and they won't actually leave your party unless you make them actually angry.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure OP is aware it's a game mechanic. But having to stick to a mechanical system can still make character writing force itself to fit and end up worse and more unnatural than it could have been. Being able to ignore the awkward parts doesn't make that writing good or better, it makes it ignorable lol