Some Bioware games did this on occasion. I'd choose to say something slightly nice to a character and suddenly said character was hitting on me, getting all pissy when i responded with something like "whoa there, chill".
I'm playing the Mass Effect Legendary edition and I haven't run into this, my guess is you just weren't paying attention, but who knows.
In my case it was one of the Dragon Age games. Didn't get this sort of thing in the ME games.
Anders is also a tantrum throwing lil bitch. Never really had issues in ME 1.
Oh no! My spouse whom I the player, have known for about 10 minutes has been killed!
And then he dumps your ass between games, gets married and has a kid. Great job BioWare. No wonder he's one of the most hated characters in the series.
I was with you until you started dissing the heel meal. I'll not have it done such a disservice as being in the same sentence as the stalest of stale breads known as Jacob.
I assume the last sentence means "as far as girl's names go, 'Hackett' isn't a bad one".
Ah, the OG catgirl romance, you have good taste, sir. Though I have always went for Carth for the rare fem!PC playthroughs of that game, because he might be a knock-off, inexplicably straight-laced Han Solo, but he is my knock-off, inexplicably straight laced Han Solo, damn it. Going straight for a mourning, revenge fueled widower did feel pretty awkward, tho, especially so soon after playing BG2 and being torn up about pursuing Jaheira. At least we hadn't been adventure buddies with Carth and his wife for a whole previous game to make it extra uncomfortable.
Were they Obsidian games, by any chance? Cause seem to have at some point made a conscious decision to move in the opposite direction to Bioware, creating games that are progressively more devoid of any notion of PC-NPC romance.
Bioware: The companion means nothing if you can't fuck them!
More like Paper Mario. BioWare games (specifically, KOTOR and the ME and DA series) and KOTORII are really the only mainstream "big boy" RPGs I've played for any decent length of time; I did once try out Skyrim and some MMORPG I forgot the name of, and they weren't really my style (protagonist too undefined for the former, too complex controls for the latter (though it was on PC, and I'm a console gamer, so...)).
What I like about that romance is the questline involved. The endcard you get for her after throne of Bhaal left me a bit miffed though. She basically leaves the PC for years at a time due to work. I'm not keen at all on that notion.
The older Bioware titles like Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire? They are pretty great if you an get past the graphics and some of the mechanics jank, some of them became cult classics for a reason, and the rest are worth playing for any fan of the genre. Though maybe less so now, when classic CRPGs are experiencing a mini renaissance in AA segment.
You gotta forgive her, she has it hard, being an ADND druid and a multiclass one at that. If she was from 3d or 3.5 edition, she would have had all of her circle's business wrapped up before breakfast, and went right back to your bed.
The 14 y.o me that played BG 2 for the first time was so stupidly in love with Aerie, it's frankly embarrassing. I was really lucky at the time to completely miss out on recruiting a certain fiendish rogue and having to deal with the love triangle, heh. She was one of the reasons I actually got around to digging up AD&D tabletop systems, too. Not keeping her around simply wasn't an option, and so I needed to git gud to be able keep her weird hybrid build in my party at all times.
Yeah, you can. It's very rough and difficult, as not being evil is not what she initially seeks in a lover. But, she is quite dissatisfied with how things have gone/are going for her in drow society. In the end she says she'll try to be a better person, and shifts to True Neutral.
I didn’t feel like any of them were forced and they’re all pretty nice. Married Abigail on my first playthrough, and I think I’ll romance Elliot in my Switch game.
I usually choose Abigail or Maru. But as stated, romance in SDV doen't seem forced at all. The player has to actively pursue it beyond close friendships.
