[ SECRET POST #7001 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7001 ⌋

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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