Love and romance have become an integral part of Baldur’s Gate 3, but former Dragon Age and BG2 writer David Gaider says BG3’s romance is “too overt.”
Love and romance have become an integral part of Baldur’s Gate 3, but former Dragon Age and BG2 writer David Gaider says BG3’s romance is “too overt.”
I was trying to romance Lae’zel and was a bit taken aback at how blatant and easy it was. It didn’t seem particularly realistic or well done to me. We were basically just traveling companions and then a single dialogue option was enough to initiate romance. I’ve basically never talked to her before so this seemed rather sudden. Perhaps the games assumes a lot of hidden dialogue that travelers would engage in, but when the rest of the game feels realistic it seems out of place. Maybe she is just the type of person that is really open romantically, but considering others have felt the same way about many of the other characters I suspect this is not the writers intention. Then after having intimate relations it seemed to have no relevance to the story and the character didn’t even care that it happened. The intimate scenes themselves were also rather lackluster and didn’t show anything explicit. I’m not sure why the character creation had you so vividly pick what type of genitals you wanted if it was irrelevant to the intimacy scenes.
That was confirmed to be a bug, I believe it is fixed as of the last patch.
Good to hear they may have changed it. I probably won’t get around to a 2nd play-through assuming I manage to finish my first play-through.
Lae’zel is something of a special case, but I understand where you’re coming from. Her romance essentially starts with “Wanna be friends with benefits?” and doesn’t develop from there for a while.
And then having what I considered to be a casual one night stand with her then basically locks you out of most other romance options, which is stupid
That’s true but I think you can just say “I’m ending our fling” and choose another romance from there, right?
Not with shadowheart unfortunately, she doesn’t allow the romance there to go any further, at least in my playthrough
Well, Shadowheart and Leazel have quite a rivalry between eachother. It would make sense that sleeping with one would make the other mad.
Totally agree, but this was in my playthrough where shadowheart showed the romantic interest of an acorn, and lae’zel was like “quick one night stand to get the muscles stretched?” And then from that point shadowheart was like “oh you guys have a good thing, I don’t want to mess that up” even if I broke ties with lae’zel, showed no further interest. Might have just been a bug or the specific approach I took. It’s all good, I’ll spend the 20 hours it takes to get into shadowheart’s pants next playthrough lol
Well, I had the opposite experience. I was having that fling with Lae’zel and could start the shadowheart romance no issues. And that was even before patch 1.
Oh interesting. That is a bummer then - I wonder if the patch fixed it.
It’s certainly possible, I’ll definitely have another playthrough after this so I’ll be sure to treat the horny githyanki with more caution that time lol
This wasn’t my experience. Shadowheart just confronted me after, giving me the option to choose who to stick with in a pretty obvious way.
Laezel doesn’t care about romance at first as far as I understand it. She wants the sex. Which is something normal for travelling companions, especially when they have a killer parasite in the head.
I can’t tell for the scenes though.
I can kinda get behind the friends with bennies angle, but there’s a lot of “yours and mine” chatter too. Like, don’t make our lizard frog sex weird, Laez!
I actually had fun with the romance options triggering so easily, because it cemented my Tav’s personality, lol. The poor thing is horribly social awkward and has no idea why all these weirdos she’s stuck with keep trying to get into her pants while she’s failing so hard with the one person she actually likes (Halsin). Her only plans now are to find a way to run screaming back into the woods once this shit is done and never deal with people again (she’s a ranger). Playing a character having to fend off everyone as she strikes out with the only one she’s into has been hilarious af.
Gay sex with Lae’zel on day 1, let’s go!