Gay/Lesbian romances in "BG:2 EE"
MrScrewedx
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We are all expecting there to be a Baldur's Gate: 2 Enhanced Edition, or whatever you are going to call it lol, but I was wondering if the Gender lock in romances (only straight romances) could be removed for some characters, now I assume it wouldn't be something to major to ask for as there wouldn't be many things to change (or so I am thinking at this point in time) such as changes in the text eg: "he" change to "she", but even if it is a challenge I'm going to assume the BG/Gaming community would respond well to this should you consider, and if you can not because of reasons with no exceptions, then I (and many others) mourn the loss of an enjoyable trait to the game.
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"2. Altering the dialog of encounterable npc's in the campaign, including minor ones
-small scale text only changes are possible."
And latched on to it hoping that this change would be rather subtle, but now I see that it isn't so, lol, I will definitely be checking out the new character's romance options though.
OMG how do I do that blue strip spoiler drop down thingie?
[ spoiler] [/ spoiler], without the spaces.
Dorn is bisexual, so gay romancing him is possible. Personaly I would like Neera to be bisexual, but whatever... I wonder if Overhaul will grant us a lesbian in BG2:EE. Just Saiyan, thought.
from requests for fat jedi!(who are supposed to be living ascetic lives,something between monk and paladin) in swtor to the constant homosexual romance banter in most rpgs, or the shorties/half orc romance debates...if you were a handsome half-elf would you be attracted to a halfling? or can you imagine an Avariel being attracted to a half-orc? she wouldn't even survive the experience...if the answer is yes,how about half-ogre? it's not a matter of skin colour but of an alien physique,elves don't mate with dwarves,period.
romances are just minor dialogues in the game,why do we HAVE to have every single option possible?
not that i mind,but it's not like the resources are infinite and that is nowhere near top priority,wouldn't a gameplay improvement(that everyone will enjoy) be preferable to this(that very few will even know it exists)?
+from the new npcs only neera would make any sense being heterosexual
Rassad would be odd to say the least, and imagining Dorn being romantic is kinda hard,especially if his object of desire is a male Bhaalspawn(male gnome romancing Dorn! come on admit it that's funny! but BG is supposed to be epic,not comedy...not to mention that,if he ascends the new God of Murder will be a gnome/halfling male that was having sex with a brutal half-orc,that must be kinda hard for his worshippers to face-painfull for him too!)
Frankly it is the treatment of romance storylines as something different and separate from the plot and story elements that is the peculiar thing, not the other way around.
That said, I would have preferred Rasaad to have been the male s/s romance option (and I don't see how he would be any odder than any other option), but I would have settled for any non-evil romance partner.
Frankly, the thing that prompted my to place a pre-order for the game was the revelation that there would be a male same sex romance option. I literally decided to purchase the game on that instant. The reason I have yet to even start my first playthrough in the game is that the only existing m/m romance option is unavailable to me (I do not like playing an evil character).
EDIT: Personally I try not to think to hard about the half-dragons.
I never played him, but my recollection is that all of his scripted events had weird pathfinding bugs.
EDIT: Looks like I had his stats wrong:
Strength: 16 Dexterity: 17 Constitution: 13
Intelligence: 11 Wisdom: 9 Charisma: 14
Of course, Overhaul can't legally touch that. It would make for a good mod, though, and now that I think about it I'm surprised it hasn't been done.
Anyways, I remember some thread on GameFAQs called Worst of the Worst had some negatives to say about Nate... can't remember exactly what they were.
Kill all romances and replace with Improved Friendship/Comrade/Companion packs.
With Nate, I think the complaints were related to glitchiness and the (admittedly standard) "romance as therapy" vibe.
Enjoy it if you wish, no problem with that. My preference is for it to be burned with fire until it goes away.
In your opinion it might be cloying and juvenile, but nobody could reasonably claim that's the most positive interpretation of the romances.
I at no point found the romances engaging or interesting. In fact I found them more than cringeworthy at points. I couldn't care less about the gender specificness either. Gay or straight, I wish that they were all revamped to remove the romance element (I don't really understand why so many games have to revolve around coupling up with an NPC) and were instead replaced with a relationships/friendship style format where emphasis is placed on team-bonding and building across all NPCs instead of focusing on having a romance with a single one.
I'll never understand the fascination people seem to have with romancing NPCs and how important is is to them that they can do this in their favourite game. If you are that attention starved then go out into the real world and meet real people and start a real romance.
Moreover, you keep insisting that these games "have to revolve around coupling up with an NPC" - I don't know what you're playing, but if we restrict the discussion to BioWare RPGs, romances are optional. You dislike the concept? Don't flirt with your party members! It's that simple. The fact that you begrudge the existence of content that other players find appealing (even if you personally don't) speaks more poorly of you than of them.
As for friendship/team bonding, these components exist in more modern RPGs like "Mass Effect" and "Dragon Age" (usually expressed through personal side quests). Not only is BG an older series, it's D&D, a template that doesn't typically require that kind of complex internal interrelationships between party members.