Pumpkin
is an EoFF Legend
Pinkasaurus Rex

That does sound fun! Not every game we play has to be deep and angsty, it's great to sometimes play something that's dumb fun for a change. I love the Sims for similar reasons - it's not a particularly intelligent game, but you get to play around with (and mess up) your imaginary people's lives and relationships.

One thing I love about the above mentioned love pentagon is something that I wish happened more in games - not all love triangles (or romances in general) focus on you. I wanna see more cases where your character is interested in a person who is interested in someone else or maybe your best friend is interested in them first. Just to get the feel that, you know, you're not the center of the universe and panties don't just fly in your direction specifically because you're the player character. I want more side-romances for NPCs, is what I think I'm getting at

That sounds kinda neat You said girl 1 in gen 3 has terrible fashion sense! I can't really see it on that pic. I think she looks kinda cool Is this game Xbox exclusive? If so, I may not ever have the chance to play it

The male romance options in BG also have some interesting twists. If you have the original three romanceable girls in your party (or any two of them) and start taking conversations down the romantic route with all of them, they will start fighting with each other until the triangle (rectangle?) is resolved. To throw an additional wrench into that, there's this bard character who is always romantically interested in Aerie, the girl I chose ok my last playthrough, potentially making that into a love pentagon. Depending on your choices, it can have different outcomes too.

Not often enough! Good luck with the review :]

Thanks! It's Karen from Kiniro Mosaic. I think Dat Matt has her as well but dressed as a pirate. How you doing?

So you actually play through several generations in this game? What romance options did you get in the previous?

Also, if you ever play BG, there's only one lesbian character, so if you wanted to romance the girls, you'd need to play a guy. Women used to have only one option who was downright insufferable, but now they also get Dorn, that lesbian lady and another nice monk dude, so they're all pretty okay now.

I think I'd go with girl number 1 since I like me some stories of prejudice But they all sound cool, so I guess you'll be okay no matter who you choose? The third sounds like a typical genki girl - not really a type I particularly enjoy, but I guess you can't have too much positive energy

As for my romance options, I have five. All the girls are elves of some shade

Girl 1 is Aerie and she's a lawful good winged elf who lost her wings and was taken in a circus. She liked her gnome foster father a lot, but she still spends a lot of time angsting. She was my character's love interested the first time around and while I really loved the storyline, I don't think I wanna do the same thing again. She's also a cleric/mage which is a phenomenal class combo. Here's a portrait:



Girl number 2 is a true neutral half-elf fighter/druid, Jaheira. She's basically the first girl you know, since you meet her early in BG1. Her romance is complex since she just lost her husband. I'm a bit iffy about this one since her husband was also a friend of the main character, so while it's interesting with all her moving on, etc. it just doesn't feel right for me. Then again, it's one of the options for playing against type, eh? Also, she's the resident tough guy/action girl, so that's interesting.



Girl 3 is Viconia. She's a neutral evil drow (dark elf) cleric. See, in the Forgotten Realms, the drow are an always chaotic evil race who love underground. Viconia, even though she's evil herself, has decided that drow society is too evil for her and now she faces discrimination on the surface. Apparently, through the romance you can redeem her, and she's one of the most mean spirited characters, but that's also kinda the way she expresses affection.



Girl 4 is one of the newcomers in the enhanced edition. Neera is a half-elf chaotic neutral wild mage. As such, her magic often gets out of control and from what I'd gathered, that's what most of her storyline centers about - accidentally destroying things and feeling guilty about it, not to mention being hunted down. She's pretty quirky and adorkable, but I guess romancing her would not be out of character for a character I usually play.



Lastly, there's Dorn, the evil half-orc I told you about. He seems pretty interesting, in that he is unapologetically evil and murderous, but at the same time very honorable and loyal, and also faced prejudice in the past, because half-orcs are descriminated against by humans and orcs alike. I think I'm kinda leaning toward him now, since I don't normally go for the gay option, plus he's really evil and I'm curious as to how this will develop. Though I'm still not interested in him that much more than the others, so I still need to do some mulling over.

Tell me about it It's even harder when I'm trying to play against type this time. I gotta keep reminding myself that this isn't me and this character has a differ t moral compass.

And how are your game romances coming along?

Im having trouble deciding whom I should romance in Baldur's Gate

How does Pumpkin feel about humanoid toads who kick butt in space?

You mean the graphical update? Sure it's possible. Do the graphics bother you?^^