-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
It's not looking good for male same sex romantic supports in FE: Three Houses, and that's not acceptable. (Support Spoilers)
- Thread starter Hours Left
- Start date
Conifrmed male x male possible pairing :
- Byleth x Linhardt
- Byleth x Gilbert
- Byleth x Alois
As for support between student they are present but none go the S level, so no romance between student go trough the support.
Yeah, really.
Based on the leaked info, the game clearly already had a bit of a bias for Edelgard (with two endings focused around her) but not having Claude and Dimitri as gay options feels really wrong.
I definitely would've gone for Male Byleth x Claude :(
Oh hmm, well we dont really know about the no romance thing between students exactly, right, since who knows the romance might blossoms at A instead of S for the non-Byleth supports, hahah.
As for the mxm choices... Huh, that's a weird selection. No Claude in there? Hummm.... That's weird.
FE was always a shitty dating sim. I prefer to call it shipping sim.
Sorry I should have been more specific.
It seems that you can support other characters together for C-A, but only Byleth has access to anyones S rank.
Imagine all characters be professional or stick to just platonic relationships ;p
Seriously...or joking... I don't know...
I don't get why the same people who complain that the MM options are a bit stereotyped also want Claude who is obviously a bit queer.
Alois and Gilbert are (hot) the least common gays/bi IS could chose.
Alois and Gilbert are (hot) the least common gays/bi IS could chose.
My hope is that eventually FE does away with gendered restrictions for romance, just let m or f Byleth romance anyone.
As for the suggestions to cut out the romance system entirely, I, and many other people would just stop buying the games. My interest lies primarily in character interactions, strategic gameplay is a distant second. And without the "shipping" crowd the series would fade back into borderline-irrelevance it was in before Awakening.
As for the suggestions to cut out the romance system entirely, I, and many other people would just stop buying the games. My interest lies primarily in character interactions, strategic gameplay is a distant second. And without the "shipping" crowd the series would fade back into borderline-irrelevance it was in before Awakening.
He's got the same flirty dialogue regardless of the player character gender.
Didn't people complain in Fates that the gay option was a flirty dark skinned guy because it was stereotyping? It's a little weird to me that people would assume Claude is gay for that same reason.
"Only" is the word you're looking for. Femme guys are going to be attractive to people who want an m/m shipping option, but having that be the -only- option is stereotyping.
It was more that Niles was a psychopath. Claude seems to be a three-dimensional character.
But sure, I would have personally preferred Dimitri as an option.
Because of this article, and what seems to be good old fashioned queerbaiting in-game. Directed at M!Byleth:
School dance (M!Byleth's hand):
IS doesn't put restrictions for no reasons, adding the permutation to romance every character in the game would be a significant amount of work. Voice acting, many additional cutscenes/scenarios, programming and so on.
Sounds like a nightmare to me. If three choices (possibly more that they haven't found yet) isn't good enough, I say just remove the dumb e romance stuff from the game entirely.
Nope, still lost. Can't romance the mommies.
Speaking of which, where are the moomies. FE has this weird stigma against having older playable women for some reason.
Not gonna lie Claude not being an option is very disappointing, especially considering Edelgard is. No that would be too much to make a queer baiting character queer, can't be sullying our male leads like that can we now? Married dads are on the table though!
Edelgard is bi, so it would be fair to assume Claude and Dimitri were too.
But IS hasn't an ounce of sense.
Do you really think for the bi-characters S support will be different depending of Byleth gender ? I don't believe that for a second.
You can't go up to S-rank until after the timeskip, so for all we know his wife could die during those five years.
I'm not calling you out specifically, but this is super depressing to me just in that I know it's true.
It's not my call to make regardless, but I really wish the series didn't have to be a dating sim to survive.
It was more that Niles was a psychopath. Claude seems to be a three-dimensional character.
But sure, I would have personally preferred Dimitri as an option.
Because of this article, and what seems to be good old fashioned queerbaiting in-game. Directed at M!Byleth:
School dance (M!Byleth's hand):
👏give 👏 me 👏the 👏golden 👏deer's👏rear 👏
Compared to Awakening and Fate, the dating sim in Tree Houses are toned down quite a bit since this time its only between the Byleth and another character, so no longer any matchmaking between your unit, and more importantly no children.
Yeah that arguably sounds like the dating sim elements are increased. Now no one will be romantically involved with anyone except the player. Before, it was a gameplay mechanic, now it's wish fulfillment.
It's Binding Blade all over again.
To be fair in Fates the lesbian Rhajat support was different from the straight one
In Japan anyway they changed it to be the same in the localization for some reason.
I love how people toot this out without realizing there's a straight LI in Seb.
Edited because assumptions are bad.
This is the most unintentionally horny thing I've seen in a game.It was more that Niles was a psychopath. Claude seems to be a three-dimensional character.
But sure, I would have personally preferred Dimitri as an option.
Because of this article, and what seems to be good old fashioned queerbaiting in-game. Directed at M!Byleth:
School dance (M!Byleth's hand):
The way I see it, if they're not going to make anyone gay then they might as well make everyone bi.
Probably because Sebastian was DLC.
I keep forgetting he was dlc XD probably because I always buy BW DLC cause it tends to be well intergrated (except that darkspawn dlc for origins where it was just killing everyone. That blew).
That said as a romance he sucked. But I attribute that to his character than anything :X
First, I have bad news for you, there's no shipping except for the mc
Second, I think people overestimate how important the romance system is. The casual mode and the better marketing was that made the series popular, specially when romance already existed before in the series with the GBA games.
I dont think it has to be a dating sim to survive, the Tellius games are highly praised and they have little romance. It just needed to be marketed better and be more welcoming to casual players.
i love seeing this posted because the very next line out of Byleth's brain is "But the smile doesn't reach his eyes"
Yeah and the ones for the other characters show its more a character analysis on Blyth's end than anything.
Honestly, they should've made Claude a pick. Well, they should've made Claude and one other traditionally hot character into options, just to bring it into parity with the F/F options, but Claude is the really obvious one.
I will say, I'm intrigued where they're going with Gilbert and Alois. Having older characters with kids be M/M options is... unusual, to say the least. Could be an interesting story there.
I think it's good for the overall health of the character writing, though I get why it bums out the dedicated shippers.
I will say, I'm intrigued where they're going with Gilbert and Alois. Having older characters with kids be M/M options is... unusual, to say the least. Could be an interesting story there.
FWIW, apparently some students do romance each other at A-rank, or even below that - it's just that because every opposite sex relationship doesn't have to end in marriage/kids, there's more granularity to what the relationships are. Some of them just won't get along and can't even hit A-rank, others are already engaged (they're nobility, after all) or have other existing relationships, so that plays itself out. How that works with Byleth's ability to romance more than half the cast is going to be interesting.
I think it's good for the overall health of the character writing, though I get why it bums out the dedicated shippers.
OP
OP
You can't S Rank anyone during the school portion.
I don't think any previews have discussed anything post skip.
Hmm, but we've seen screen captures of the character lists showing S-Rank availability. Are those determined at the start of the game then that can be accessed in that menu then? (I guess it makes it so that the player knows who they should be spending time on)
I believe that the lists we've seen are being taken from the "bonus" section of the main menu, where you can re-watch the supports, so I'd call it unlikely, but possible - it could have stuff hidden until you have a playthrough far enough in.
I doubt it, though.
Definitely didn't get the DLC!
I was so annoyed with how the game handled relationships, dialogues, and samey dungeons that I didn't even think of getting it.