Neverwinter Nights

Have to admit Aribeth was my first video game crush. Looked pretty good for a cubicle head.



Hell, still looks better all others.

Yeah, the male that was supposedly a romance in the OC can't even be found on the net. Lol. Fentik? Fendric? Something like that. I guess it was released at the height of the sentiment that women don't play videogames and romanceable males just creep out male gamers while they run their waifus (ironic as it sounds).

"No romances" is a bit of an oversimplification.

Let's start with Aribeth. If your male PC got her to stand down, you meet her in the dungeons on the way to the last dungeon and can speak to her. She implies that she has feelings for you, and you have the option of saying you return them. You can't actually do anything with those feelings besides talk, but there's some pretty obvious romantic feelings.

Male characters can also follow similar plots with Sharwyn and Linu if they flirt with them when given the opportunity, complete that character's sidequests, and choose to take that specific character past the Point of No Return in the final dungeon. Again, there's no actual animations, but there's obvious feelings involved.

I've never played a female PC in NWN1, so I wouldn't know whether female PCs can do anything like this. I think I remember reading something online about being able to do something like this with Lord Nasher's spymaster, though. Edit: Yeah, found it again on TV Tropes. It doesn't mention other female options, though.

But yeah, I'd put money against being able to do anything like that with Fenthick. He and Aribeth are an item right up until he dies, and the two of them seem to take that pretty seriously.

I seem to recall a hint that she wanted more, and that you can hint that you do too. But given that you're saying this from opposite sides of a cell door, of course that's not going to go anywhere.Well, nothing physical happens, but it's made clear there's mutual interest, and while my memory is a bit blurry on this part I think Sharwyn hints (or states; again, this is blurry in my memory) that she doesn't plan on going her own separate way when you're done with Morag. That's why I said that saying there's no romances was an "oversimplification" rather than outright contradicting you; actual kiss and romance scenes don't happen, so it's less like the romances with Josephine or Leiliana and more like what I understand the "romance" with Harding to be, and even Bioware doesn't seem to think of that as a romance judging by the Keep slide that they didn't make for it.

But on the other hand, they're... something. Half-romances, maybe?She presumes she's a widow, since the communication item she had to keep in contact with him went dead. Her Act II quest involves finding the other end of the line in a dungeon, and discovering that she was right. As for being strictly friendly, I think you can flirt with her and get as romantic with her as you can with Sharwyn... though I don't think you can do much of that until she learns for sure that she's a widow.

I'd imagine it's the same "flirting, but no physical payoff" thing they do with other romances.

Yeah, I doubt it was interesting because Valen is what’s associated with a romance for a female in NWN1. I think he was in one of the expansions. I am unsurprised that it’s a black human male. Seemed to be one of bioware’s repeat tropes all the way down to Andromeda.

Yeah, that. In 20 years the romanceable males were either Caucasian or Black. Sky was the only Asian guy we've got to romance w/o SWTOR customizations And save for Yoshimo no other Asian humans either.... Curiously, we had more male non-humans to romance & play with than male Asian humans, and that's counting Jade Empire. Same happens in reverse as well. Iirc only Raina is black and JE's Silk Fox and Dawn Star are Asian female LIs.

Well, it's nearly 2018, and BG1 came in 1999, so... that's pretty much 20 years for me. No, I am not ignoring Sky, I am saying he is the only Asian interest, with Yoshimo, Sky, Zu and Black WW being the Asian males, while Dynaheir, Safana, Isabela, Raina and Kasumi are non-Caucasian females.

Black human male LIs are that guy you shown from NWN1 (whoever the heck he was), Valygar was supposed to be an LI but his romance was cut, than there was Jacob, Corso, Iresso, Liam and that new guy in SWTOR who looks like Liam.

Basically, I cannot think of a black male in the companion cast who was not an LI for a female PC, save for Valygar but he was supposed to be but, well, yeah, no luck (hmm, but not for a male PC for some reason...).

I would not mind seeing an Asian leading male in the next game or a black leading lady....

Ah, I am just hoping... seriously, with the non-humans, on the girl's side we've romanced male elves, a Turian, a species invented for us to romance, an Angara, a Qunari, a Cathar, a Tiefling, a Half-Elf, and a guy who had a special relationship with space termites. We studiously avoided dwarves. I dunno why, just no luck with the dwarves. Or Asian leading males. Go figure....

You had a wagon-load of human females in SWTOR, there were Jack and Miranda; and Cora in Andromeda. Obviously two ladies in JE as well.

I do like interesting romances (who does not) but character looks matter to me, that's why I really like SWTOR companion customization feature

I also have an inkling that the guy from NWN1 was not exactly a riveting romance, hence he was forgotten.

There's a mod for that 

Yeah, I have to keep a list of setstage commands otherwise the game will not progress.

There was a liverstream today. SKipped ahead t when they actually started answering questions:



Not sure I like the new Aribeth model.  She's kinda...blonde...