Okay, so I played through the game once and romanced Cassandra, but saw options to flirt with Sera and thought that for my second playthrough I'd romance her. I took the fact that the flirt options were there to mean that she was bi-sexual, though she clearly favored women. I thought this meant she'd be harder to seduce for a male inquisitor, and I thought that the challenge might be fun. Well, now I am 125 hours into my second playthrough and I was unable to begin any romance with her, and I am at the end of the game with no more acts except for the final battle, and now I am being told she is a lesbian. If I knew that, I would have made a female inquisitor...
Anyway, I am not complaining that she is a lesbian, I just find it awful that after investing 125 hours into a character I was not able to romance anyone because those flirt options misled me into believing she was bi-sexual. If you were going to allow male inquisitors to flirt with her, it would have been nice to at least have her say that she only likes women before people invest so much time into a character that they no longer can romance anyone else.
A problem with Sera
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 06:20
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 06:29
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 06:46
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Females can flirt with Cass. Males can flirt with Cullen. Neither of those allow a romance to blossom. Sera would have told you she isn't interested. "It's not you, it's... you".
I didn't know, the earlier games only let you flirt with characters your gender could romance, and that isn't very specific
I am merely going off of precedent set in the earlier dragon age games. How the heck was I supposed to know that they changed it up in that way?
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 06:51
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I didn't know, the earlier games only let you flirt with characters your gender could romance, and that isn't very specific
I am merely going off of precedent set in the earlier dragon age games. How the heck was I supposed to know that they changed it up in that way?
To make it more realistic I guess. In the real world, you can't always tell if someone is straight or gay. You just have to try and hope they tell you straight away that they aren't interested.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 07:10
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My boy flirted with Cullen (Cullen awkwardness is adorable) despite that he's not romancible with a male. As I understand it, they are all supposed to turn you down if you're not the right combo of traits (gender/race) that they are interested in. Cullen only like female humans and elves, Blackwall only likes women, Solas is a picky sod and only goes after female elves (who have not flirted with anyone else, ever, so I am told).
I'd recommend just looking up who's available, but avoid their history so you don't get spoiled.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 07:15
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Not unlike in real life, not everyone in Dragon Age wants your dick in them.
Like I said, I decided to romance Sera in my second playthrough, I took what I saw in the first playthrough to mean she was bi-sexual, but favored women, so a male inquisitor would have a harder time, I thought that would be a cool challenge. Had it been made clearer that she was a lesbian, my second character would have been female, as I'm in it for the story. I am not timid about lesbian or gay relationships in the game, I just thought I'd go for the greater challenge, or what I thought was the greater challenge based on past precedent in the franchise
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 07:22
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I didn't know, the earlier games only let you flirt with characters your gender could romance
Origins removed a lot of same gendered player advances. DA2 had several flirts for non-romanceable characters. Namely Varric, Aveline and some random Dalish girl.
Given that both previous games feature flirts which cannot work, I don't think at any point you could say that being able to flirt with someone meant that they had to be interested in your character.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 07:23
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Not unlike in real life, not everyone in Dragon Age wants your dick in them.
Thank the Maker.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 07:53
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My male Inquisitor got shut down by Sera very early. "That would be a problem yunno...because we both like women" and that was the end of it.
Try being a female romancing Cass, all my creys.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 08:12
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My male Inquisitor got shut down by Sera very early. "That would be a problem yunno...because we both like women" and that was the end of it.
Try being a female romancing Cass, all my creys.
I never received that message, that would have been very helpful. Of course, Inquisition has that error where speech gets screwed up sometimes and is indecipherable, so if she says that, maybe those words got mince-meated. It really sucks that I didn't know, though, I mean, 125 hours is a lot of time to invest into a character only to not be able to romance anyone because it wasn't clear enough.
Origins removed a lot of same gendered player advances. DA2 had several flirts for non-romanceable characters. Namely Varric, Aveline and some random Dalish girl.
Given that both previous games feature flirts which cannot work, I don't think at any point you could say that being able to flirt with someone meant that they had to be interested in your character.
Geyna in DA:O was clearly not going to be romancible, same with Isabella in Origins, and as for Varric and Aveline, it was clear to me early on that they were not romance-able, though it was long enough ago that I have no idea how I knew. The problem with Sera, at least in my case, was that it was not made clear enough. Fiddles dee dee gave an interesting quote, that if true, would have been extremely helpful, but I never got or heard that, unlkess it got butchered by the games occasional audio error.
Point number two, Sera is NOT the same situation as Varric or Aveline, as you could not romance Varric or Aveline regardless of whether you were male or female, Sera CAN be romanced by female inquisitors,so the flirt option is extremely confusing.
And I repeat, that it sucks to be 125+ hours into the game and then learn this after trying so long to romance Sera. I hope they can fix that audio error soonish.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 08:16
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Honestly, after 20 hours if I still couldn't figure it out, I'd have just looked it up. Maybe I'm just not that patient. My LI is Dorian, and I know there's some bugs with his. I got to 25 hours, then looked around to figure out if I had the bug or just not enough approval (it was the approval for me).
I guess I just figured most people would have known ahead of time. I knew Cullen was female only, and that Dorian was same sex only, long before the game came out.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 08:33
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Geyna in DA:O was clearly not going to be romancible, same with Isabella in Origins, and as for Varric and Aveline, it was clear to me early on that they were not romance-able, though it was long enough ago that I have no idea how I knew. The problem with Sera, at least in my case, was that it was not made clear enough. Fiddles dee dee gave an interesting quote, that if true, would have been extremely helpful, but I never got or heard that, unlkess it got butchered by the games occasional audio error.
Point number two, Sera is NOT the same situation as Varric or Aveline, as you could not romance Varric or Aveline regardless of whether you were male or female, Sera CAN be romanced by female inquisitors,so the flirt option is extremely confusing.
So you learned that Varric and Aveline were not romanceable for your character by evidence other than them having flirt options. The point is that flirt options have never been reliable evidence of romance content. You have to look elsewhere, and Sera never shows interest in men.
And I repeat, that it sucks to be 125+ hours into the game and then learn this after trying so long to romance Sera. I hope they can fix that audio error soonish.
Surely the flirts not going anywhere was a clue?
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 08:48
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Solas is a picky sod and only goes after female elves (who have not flirted with anyone else, ever, so I am told).
In that case, I need to restart my Elf playthrough.
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Posté 13 décembre 2014 - 08:57
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In that case, I need to restart my Elf playthrough.
Nah, Solas will go after a female elf who has flirted with other people - but make sure the first flirt option you pick after getting to Skyhold is with HIM, and not someone else, or you will get locked out of the romance.
