new romances in BGEE.
schalafi
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Have any of the new romance characters been revealed yet? I'm very curious because I was really disappointed in the romance for female players in BG. I hope they are more realistic and good looking!
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I'm betting it's the neutral character (makes sense), whichever one that is.
But I'd still kill for a BG1 Viconia romance.
BTW: We have 2 new man and only one woman romance and authors think gay romance make us happy ?
Really ?
Damn, give us one more woman !
<--- Heterosexual
I so hate realizing in the middle of the adventure that due to the race I picked, or one of the stat scores, a romance is prevented. Sure, it's a small part of the game story, but having to metagame the romance requirements (and especially failing at it) really annoys me. It makes me feel like I was cheated out of game content I wanted to see due to restrictions I couldn't anticipate and can't affect after I have rolled my PC.
It's understandable to have restrictions. I'd personally prefer that all romances were available to all characters and were only restricted by choices during the game, but I understand restricting based on gender and to some extent alignment. I dislike race restrictions and restricting based on ability scores, however.
If I remember correctly, ability score romance requirements appear only in mods. One thing I wish the modders hadn't thought of, but at least most of them have had the good sense of writing it down in the Readme
In vanilla BG2 only human, half-elven, elven and halfling females could romance (Anomen) :-P Male gnomes could court Aerie and I believe Viconia was supposed to accept half-orcs (so it's a bug that she doesn't).
I'm pretty sure Dorn is straight. Not so much because they'd be afraid to make an "evil bisexual" (Morinth from ME2 was one), but more because he'd be the "natural" romance option for evil ladies, mirroring Viconia as the "natural" pick for evil men.
So, between Rasaad and Neera... I'm pretty confident Neera is going to be the bisexual one, because this way both genders would have 4 options, as mentioned by @the9shadows.
And thus nobody dated Anomen anymore...
As a side note, I hope in the sequel there will be the scrapped Haer'Dalis romance. Both for male and female protagonists, since he's bi (another hint that the new bisexual character could be Neera).
There already is an Aerie romance, and a Haer'Dalis/Aerie one. And if you date Aerie, Haer'Dalis gets jealous (with... varying results).
It would be cool if they intertwined together even further, expanding on Haer'Dalis' jealousy if he's ALSO dating you.
Oh, and as a last option... the protagonist (a male one, since Aerie's straight), Aerie and Haer'Dalis could decide to form a three-people family unit. How about that?
I can hear the fangirls squeeing.
Another scrapped romance from BG2 would be the one with Valygar (for a female protagonist). It could be interesting. Especially if you're a mage.
@Raistlin82 I'd be interested in seeing Haer'Dalis and Anomen Valygar* romances as well. As for the new ones, at the moment I'm mainly hoping that Rasaad won't turn out to be one-dimensionally goody-two-shoes. Nothing like another Paladin-type romance with another non-Paladin... *groans*
*) Edit: corrected, thanks @Raistlin82
Correct. The Haer'Dalis romance is incomplete (same for Valygar). He starts flirting and then stops abruptly...
@Moira
The Anomen romance is already there. O.o
It would have been funny as hell to see player-initiated lovetalks with female-Edwin too (whether fans would want a full-fledged romance is another story). On that note, player-initiated lovetalks is really something that mods have covered that the original game should have had. It lets the player be more than a passive recipient of NPC interactions. Must.... resist... the tempting voice of Michael Bell XD
It made so much sense when David Gaider said that Anomen wasn't originally intended as a LI and the romance was added on the already existing character. It made me feel a bit better about it. A bit >;)
As a bonus I'm now inspired into creating my first ever halfling character in BG:EE ^_^
(...naturally, with my luck the new NPCs are only interested in tall people.)
I think Dorn would be especially difficult to romance if you're a halfling. If you're a dwarf, maybe he'd at least be able to admire your physical strength?
1) things that are established in the game/narrative ("true" canon)
2) things that may vary between playthroughs (some may be treated as canon, some isn't)
3) things that are not established, i.e. the game doesn't really cover them (not canonized, obviously)
Mazzy's sexual orientation would currently fall into the third category since I believe nothing has been stated about it in the game. (Or did she used to have some thing going on with that mate of hers? Clearly need to refresh my BG2 memories. Anyway...)
When I mentioned that as a LI I could imagine Mazzy going for either gender I meant that I consider there to be room to write her as hetero-, homo- or bisexual, since so little has been established. Personally I'd like her romance to fall into category 2) in which case some playthroughs might have her with a female protagonist and some playthroughs with a male protagonist. Or she could be truly bisexual within the story, i.e. established bi-sexual in the category 1). (IMO a character that can be romanced by either male or female protagonist is bisexual only if they're actually written as bisexual - if their bisexuality exists in the narrative within one full playthrough of the game. For example, in Dragon Age: Origins, Zevran mentions in the dialogue that he enjoys both male and female company, so he is bisexual.) Due to a halfling being small in size? I don't see why Dorn couldn't appreciate and adore a brilliant, badass and lethal little sex goddess
I get the feeling he finds it hard to respect something thats smaller than whatever weapon he happens to be using at the time. Then again, its not like ive played the game yet :P