Romance for same gender ?
Ainith
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Hello everyone,
I wanted to know if there was a mod that allowed same gender romances ? (if I remember well, the romance cheats in bg2 allowed us to romance any companion npcs, so...) For exemple, all female companions can be romanced by a female player, same goes for male companions and male player.
I apologize if there already was a post about this specific question, I can't seem to find it...
(Also apologizing if it isn't the right section for this kind of post haha!)
Thank you for your time!
PS : Sorry if I made any mistakes, I'm not english, grr, in which case you'll hopefully understand what I meant hehe.
I wanted to know if there was a mod that allowed same gender romances ? (if I remember well, the romance cheats in bg2 allowed us to romance any companion npcs, so...) For exemple, all female companions can be romanced by a female player, same goes for male companions and male player.
I apologize if there already was a post about this specific question, I can't seem to find it...
(Also apologizing if it isn't the right section for this kind of post haha!)
Thank you for your time!
PS : Sorry if I made any mistakes, I'm not english, grr, in which case you'll hopefully understand what I meant hehe.
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@Wowo Yeah I knew about these romance options, I just wanted to know if there was a mod that could make them swing both ways hehe !
@Beetle Thank you, I wasn't sure about the BG2Tweak Pack mod, so I tried it, but apparently, it skips the Romance Cheats section saying : "this component is not available" for my game. I don't know if it's because I already installed some mods earlier, so I'm going to try without any mods installed and we'll see.
CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("Check_________Match","Global","1")
CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("_________Match","Global","1")
CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("_________RomanceActive","Global","1")
You can also edit those variables that @JLee provides with Keeper, if you don't want to deal with the console.
I also discovered a workaround of my own once. The goal was to play a male character who could romance any romanceable males. What I did was to create the character as a female. Doing so sets a base gender variable that cannot be changed, and that the program refers to when setting the romance match variables.
Then, I used Keeper to change the character's avatar to male, and I selected a male voice set. I had already given him a male name.
One of the problems with using this workaround is that there will still be a female-sounding caster voice for any casting incantations. Also, the whole world will see you as a female, leading to some pronoun issues in a few npc interactions.
The biggest problem with forcing same-gender romance through any of the methods that have been mentioned, though, is that the base stories are not written that way. Your romance interest will not only treat you as the opposite gender, but will use all the wrong pronouns.
Plus, we gay people have a certain way of talking to each other, flirting with each other, romancing each other, and sharing personal information with each other that is just...different, from how straight people interact with and romance each other.
So, forced same-gender romances feel inauthentic and phony.
Once, I got all the NPC Project romances going at once. I had Ajantis, Xan, and Coran all romancing my character. I started finding it very irritating. They kept bugging me to death wanting to talk about how they were falling in love with me while I was just wanting to play the darn game. Plus, they all have the same Bioware trope of "lover-as-psychotherapist" going on, except maybe for Coran.
And, I got really tired of being called "my lady", and being told what a beautiful woman I was, when I was playing a male character. There's a thing called "camping it up" in gay culture, where a lot of cross-gender jokes and references are made, but what Ajantis and Anomen do is definitely not that.
So, my advice is not to try to force gay romance with characters who weren't written for it. There are some really good gay romances available as modded npc's. My favorite for M/M is "Faren". I haven't checked out the F/F, but I think there are some good ones of those available too.
Beamdog's attempts to include same-gender romances are laudable, but Dorn doesn't do it for me. I can't stomach his evilness, plus, I think his relationship is kind of abusive.
I still sigh and smile when I think of Faren, though.
@Jlee Thank you very much, I'm going to try that method aswell if I manage to open the console (always seem to have problems with that hahaha) ^^
You may also be interested in Delainy/Durlyle Same-Sex Romance Options.
The console commands in @JLee's post will not work for the official BG:EE romances.