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Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power. (Website)

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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."

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[–] Izzy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

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.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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