Funnily enough, if i recall correctly there was a patch for exactly that as the companions were too damn horny and wanted to fuck after almost nothing so it got adjusted.
They didn't even code properly whether or not you were in a relationship with a companion already which just goes to show you how rushed the release was. Really basic stuff being completely left out and bugged.
Probably because the "people" who made it don't believe in closed relationships in the first place, and they forgot not everyone thinks like themselves.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker actually goes out of its way to address this with the player in multiple ways. IE, you might end up confronted further down the road if you've been getting deeply serious with multiple characters (not just from a friendship counter, but after making you've been making a number of clear and explicit dialogue choices).
One or two characters, iirc, openly allow for open relationships, but the writing makes it clear that they want to be sure there'[s some open communication going on and that the player's being at least a little mature about it. Other characters though encourage you to make up your mind and make an honest and open decision. In general it was handled pretty damn well, almost right off the bat.
Not that the way Kingmaker handles it is entirely new, a few other RPG's have done this in a somewhat similar way in the past. Even from a basic design and programming standpoint though it sounds like BG3 totally half-assed the way they implemented it. Perhaps in a partially deliberate way.
Exactly, when you actually see good story writing this is where the defence of Baldur's Gate 3 falls apart. Another one that springs to mind is Mass Effect 2 where if Shepard tries two timing he gets confronted over it. The annoying thing is about Baldur's Gate 3 the voice actors are all quite good, however no amount of good voice acting can carry a woke storyline.
Honestly Kingmaker seemed just as bad. The couple you save from slavers both hit on you if you talk to them twice. I was like WTF, kill them.
Kingmaker had horrible companions, is not that I did not care about them but I hated them to the point I made mercenaries and played with those. I understand that the second game has better companions but looking and seeing that there were no white male companions was a hard pass for me.
I wouldn't be so sure that it shows bad coding. Being in a relationship rather than just being in "situationships" and "open relationships" considered morally repressive to Leftists. Marriage and babies enslave women, so it's correct for women to sleep around regardless of "relationship status". Same with gay men: but marriage is a cis-heteronormative patriarchal construct, so it's even more important for gay men to either never get married, or sleep around when they do.
I get that argument, however at the same time I wonder if the woke shit is just a great way to get the SJWs talking about them in a positive light. The pronouns are a great example of this, even a youtuber I initially liked and praised for his content was making the point that adding pronouns was barely any effort and it made them happy.
So instead of making the relationships work as one would expect them to they can just brag about how tolerant they are as a company by allowing open relationships. The reason I think this is the case because unlike in RPGs of old from what I've seen the dialogue options barely seem to react to them. I know allegedly there's some interaction on that if you do try and cheat. However I doubt it's anything as involved as Baldur's Gate 2 where you had companions literally ready to duel to the death over romance options the PC picks.
Holy shit thinking about that makes me miss good writing even more :(
Woke shit has always been a way of trying to guarantee income from the ideologically captive. That's the whole point behind: go broke, get woke, croak.
It's a defensive mechanism to appease institutionally captured consoomers followed by massive partisan investment by ideological hedge funds devoted to propping up those political causes.
Funnily enough, if i recall correctly there was a patch for exactly that as the companions were too damn horny and wanted to fuck after almost nothing so it got adjusted.
They didn't even code properly whether or not you were in a relationship with a companion already which just goes to show you how rushed the release was. Really basic stuff being completely left out and bugged.
Probably because the "people" who made it don't believe in closed relationships in the first place, and they forgot not everyone thinks like themselves.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker actually goes out of its way to address this with the player in multiple ways. IE, you might end up confronted further down the road if you've been getting deeply serious with multiple characters (not just from a friendship counter, but after making you've been making a number of clear and explicit dialogue choices).
One or two characters, iirc, openly allow for open relationships, but the writing makes it clear that they want to be sure there'[s some open communication going on and that the player's being at least a little mature about it. Other characters though encourage you to make up your mind and make an honest and open decision. In general it was handled pretty damn well, almost right off the bat.
Not that the way Kingmaker handles it is entirely new, a few other RPG's have done this in a somewhat similar way in the past. Even from a basic design and programming standpoint though it sounds like BG3 totally half-assed the way they implemented it. Perhaps in a partially deliberate way.
Exactly, when you actually see good story writing this is where the defence of Baldur's Gate 3 falls apart. Another one that springs to mind is Mass Effect 2 where if Shepard tries two timing he gets confronted over it. The annoying thing is about Baldur's Gate 3 the voice actors are all quite good, however no amount of good voice acting can carry a woke storyline.
Honestly Kingmaker seemed just as bad. The couple you save from slavers both hit on you if you talk to them twice. I was like WTF, kill them. Kingmaker had horrible companions, is not that I did not care about them but I hated them to the point I made mercenaries and played with those. I understand that the second game has better companions but looking and seeing that there were no white male companions was a hard pass for me.
Sounds like the bad harem ending in a visual novel.
I wouldn't be so sure that it shows bad coding. Being in a relationship rather than just being in "situationships" and "open relationships" considered morally repressive to Leftists. Marriage and babies enslave women, so it's correct for women to sleep around regardless of "relationship status". Same with gay men: but marriage is a cis-heteronormative patriarchal construct, so it's even more important for gay men to either never get married, or sleep around when they do.
I get that argument, however at the same time I wonder if the woke shit is just a great way to get the SJWs talking about them in a positive light. The pronouns are a great example of this, even a youtuber I initially liked and praised for his content was making the point that adding pronouns was barely any effort and it made them happy.
So instead of making the relationships work as one would expect them to they can just brag about how tolerant they are as a company by allowing open relationships. The reason I think this is the case because unlike in RPGs of old from what I've seen the dialogue options barely seem to react to them. I know allegedly there's some interaction on that if you do try and cheat. However I doubt it's anything as involved as Baldur's Gate 2 where you had companions literally ready to duel to the death over romance options the PC picks.
Holy shit thinking about that makes me miss good writing even more :(
Woke shit has always been a way of trying to guarantee income from the ideologically captive. That's the whole point behind: go broke, get woke, croak.
It's a defensive mechanism to appease institutionally captured consoomers followed by massive partisan investment by ideological hedge funds devoted to propping up those political causes.
The game already took ages to come out of early access