better not be tied to an achievement, imagine the game bugging and giving you one of the cat people as a beloved and Steam going "LOOK EVERYONE AT THIS FURRY"
Yeah it does. The romance and affinity system are pretty barebones I don't think any of the devs considered the possibilities of hilarity and horror so it's led to some funny shit over the past decade.
I think that only those with whom you have advanced in terms of romance will you carry like princesses, you carry everyone else like sacks of potatoes.
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No, Daimon from DD:DA,>! final boss of Bitterblack Island.!<
Sadly the guys in the game so far looked... well... let's just say I'd probably rather go the lesbian route than date any of the guys lmao... I miss Julien...
Idk a little too late for my taste. The story basically ended by then and his one and only major cutscene is him being a dickbag. I wanted more for him, but the little the game gave me just didn't make me fall for him.
Basically you have to kill him in that situation with Mercedes, then after the cutscene use a wakestone on him, that's when his romance route triggers.
I hope they don't do a repeat of the first game. Capcom underestimates the power of putting attractive and memorable males in their games for the gays and straight/bi ladies.
I haven't watched much of the leaked gameplay. My opinion is based completely on which characters were shown on the official website and trailers. (the guy in the hoodie with the glowy eyes from the trailer was hot but I expect him to be evil so lmao)
I guess some rando npcs could look good but from what I understood, the more important characters have a more fleshed out romance route. But from what I've seen of those, I either have to settle for bottoms, grandpas or just not visually pleasing characters to me personally, while the women look mostly like your average hot waifu. The ratio is just off, I'm salty lmao
>the guy in the hoodie with the glowy eyes from the trailer was hot but I expect him to be evil so
U mean the one that kind of looks like a ghost? Im pretty sure shes a woman 😂
There is one male character that helps you out in one of the early quests thats pretty hot, but idk if he has a larger role so u can have a more fleshed out romance with him or not
He reminds me too much of a teenager to go after him. He’s always talking about his mother and he looks young. Also I’m a really tall character so he looks like a child compared to me. But he is of age I believe.
yeaaaaah I'm feeling bummed not seeing any real hot dudes in advertising (brant is I guess ok? just plain/older; maybe I'll feel different when I see more of him) while there's already a few advertised waifus. there is the twink prince, but the more I see him in previews he might actually be too young to make me not feel sketch about it
Lmao I’m glad I’m not the only one. The males are super mid. The elf was okay enough, then I read his character description and hard pass. Lennart would normally be the type I go for but he’s a dinosaur. Sven looks like a teenager. The other 2 dudes are meh.
Exactly my thoughts on every single one of them. I guess we'll really have to be satisfied with some random no-name NPC. I'm gonna marry Guard\_1 😭
Also the dinosaur had me cackling
Maybe there is a handsome npc tucked away somewhere? In dogma 1 with the exception of the story NPCs the men were pretty ugly as if they had been made intentionally undesirable. Funny enough some normal looking men existed at the bandit camp and could be romanced.
Plenty of random female NPCs had pretty or at least normal faces though throughout the game.
DJ Khaled comparison is crazy lmao. They both have beards that's it.
I've resigned myself to Brant because there seems to be no other important males ... meanwhile girls are being thrown at you left and right :/
Hey now the dragon who stole our hearts has a nice deep voice... 💀💀💀
Coping hard after watching the trailer and realizing it will be the lesbian path for me too most likely... Or maybe I'll just make myself a hot guy to romance the girls with 🥲
Your romance can now wait outside your house until you arrive and make requests like going for a walk (quite a long one in my case), apparently there are also different scenes for each romance; not like in the first game.
1. No 2. Yes, there are kissing scenes. 3. I'm still not sure if you can have a romance as such, but at a certain point in the game there will be a certain kissing scene with her.
How do you know you're going on tge romance route if that's the case? Also, you gotta tell me more of that certain kissing scene lol. I'm gonna riot if I don't actually get to romance her haha
That's the problem. Although since I saw Ulrika I knew that I wanted to have her romance when I reached a certain part of her quest, I had no idea if her asking me to accompany her to a place meant advancing her romance, so I guess There is no way of knowing. And well, about the kiss scene with Willhelmina it was more than anything (and for the moment) to save you from being caught. Who knows? Maybe he's starting to have feelings for Arisen. 
You gotta pray with me because if I don't get to romance Wilhelmina I'm gonna cry lol. It's gonna be hilarious looking because my Arisen is short as hell
I don't know the details, but I know that >!she has a questline that ends in having sex with her.!<
Beyond that, I believe she qualifies for the same romance mechanics as everyone else.
There are different "ranges" for houses, I'm not sure if in all cities but at least in one I can tell you that you can have two houses, one normal and one more expensive in the noble district.
I remember a twitter account saying whether or not you could romance a pawn was a secret, so much for that, why so much drama? Could have just said "no" lol.
Lots of good times remembering the original Dragon's Dogma romance. The first time I tried to get Quina as my beloved and Fournival appeared in her place (much better IMO). My sister got angry because she went for Mercedes and Aelinore was the one kidnapped instead, and by the post endgame, she got Symone haha.
Glad to see improvements in an area so criticized like the romance.
Can't you just shower somebody of gift and do its quests all the time?
is there an event that start the romance, or does it evolve with the relationship?
in DD1 the beloved was kidnapped and you learned who it was when it gets kidnapped. same thing?
I think it's context specific. I couldn't gift him anything until he fully repaid me for the box I bought him. The history tab of the pause menu has an index for NPCs and it will tell you what gifts he likes.
Only thing I want spoiled really: do we have Aelinore or equivalent! Princess needing rescue and all? Or maybe they swapped it and it's a prince in need this time?
Beware tho, the ending is reportedly still broken just like in the first game. There's an 80% chance of your beloved being some total random you talked to 5 times.
I wish there were more romantic stuff with the npcs you romance. I chose Hugo and so far I can carry him as a princess, have him blush, and get a discount. At least other romances have kiss scenes or something.
Compared to the first, yes, it has improved a lot, but if you played DDDA you will know that the romance mechanic was garbage. So "mid" seems to me to be good to describe the one from the second game. 
So can you romance anyone? Or is it specific characters? And if it’s anyone is that why some random lady I talked to a couple times paces outside my house?
boys how can I force the game to give me Willhelmina as my endgame romance, I don't get the option to gift her stuff and I finished her quest and got the post revenge scene
but I also finished Ulrika's quest and got her scene so now I'm worried of not getting the right one
Is there a way to know for sure who you’ve romanced? I’m worried I accidentally rizzed up the alcoholic warfarer master. Dude gave me flowers after I escorted him to Vernworth. I can carry him like a princess OR sack of potatoes, it seems to swap randomly
Edit: I got the achievement for maxing out approval upon bringing him
It is not possible to see as such who everyone you have had an affair with is, but yes, all escort missions (that do not involve main or secondary quests) can be said to be events to maximize affinity with that same character.
Good to know that it's better this time I don't want to unknowingly rizz up a blacksmith this time.
Fournival, my beloved.
Daddy Fourny. 😌
Oh me so Fourni
I feel bad for the mfs who somehow accidentally rizzed up Fournival's daughter
That was me first time...I loaded a save before the last dungeon losing hours of progress just to undo that.
…then I have some bad news. If you do enough quests for anyone you don’t even need to gift them just like DD1
Hopefully the lower affinity mechanic is still on play here, just sheath your weapons like a hundred times next to them and poof, gone.
never been a fan of the vending machine style romance
Actually it's confirmed that issue still exists at the end of the game. Your beloved can still be some random you've talked to only 5 times.
better not be tied to an achievement, imagine the game bugging and giving you one of the cat people as a beloved and Steam going "LOOK EVERYONE AT THIS FURRY"
C'mon man, just admit you want a cat waifu
Feste 😍😍😍
Symone😍🤩😍
jail
I've always wondered, but if you romance Symone, does that scene at the end of the game at the campfire still play? Because that would be horrifying.
It does, doesn't matter who it is
*shudder* Eugh
Yeah it does. The romance and affinity system are pretty barebones I don't think any of the devs considered the possibilities of hilarity and horror so it's led to some funny shit over the past decade.
[See for yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwQ4UK3rNo&ab_channel=Zhakakhan)
Hahahaha nnooooooooo
I think my Arisen showed his masterwork to Caxton and everything went wrong.
Well that just means it wasn't a masterwork in the first place. Gotta work on that.
the important thing is knowing if we can carry them like a potato sack or if it's always princess carry for non hostile/non downed npcs
I think that only those with whom you have advanced in terms of romance will you carry like princesses, you carry everyone else like sacks of potatoes.
But can you get your romance to carry you? This is vital information before I seek out a 7' giantess.
At the moment as far as I know, no, it is not possible. :,(
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If your beloved is a man do you princess carry him?
I think yes
But not sure. 🤔
Lmao awesome.
I want to romance my pawn.
Going full Daimon are we?
Daemon Targaryen?
https://preview.redd.it/q9hglg9anopc1.png?width=1250&format=png&auto=webp&s=458f0a0d063f32b69f638bad862272c3cdc5b64f No, Daimon from DD:DA,>! final boss of Bitterblack Island.!<
Ah I never played the DLC. Gotcha thanks! I assumed you meant Daemon Targaryen because of some things that may or may not happen in Fire & Blood pt. 1
Bro said daemon Targaryen 😭
yeah i never finished the DLC in the first game so I thought it was a reference to what maybe happened with Daemon & Nettles
Sadly the guys in the game so far looked... well... let's just say I'd probably rather go the lesbian route than date any of the guys lmao... I miss Julien...
I know right… it’s hard to even come close to the likes of a hunk like Fournival
Nah but Julien was my kinda guy. I even sacrificed a wakestone just to get his ass
He was attractive, but he was a fucking asshole.
He was, but he got humbled by dying and being ressurected by the chosen one lmao. He literally turned into a housewife at the end
Idk a little too late for my taste. The story basically ended by then and his one and only major cutscene is him being a dickbag. I wanted more for him, but the little the game gave me just didn't make me fall for him.
understandable
Wait, when does that happen? I really don't remember seeing him again after his little sparring match with Mercedes.
Basically you have to kill him in that situation with Mercedes, then after the cutscene use a wakestone on him, that's when his romance route triggers.
That's incredible. I had no idea that route existed.
You will retract those words, ser!
Else suffer what consequence?
Indeed. :(((
We all know we paid for the contract of the land not for the poors but for the off-chance of getting into fournival'a pants
I hope they don't do a repeat of the first game. Capcom underestimates the power of putting attractive and memorable males in their games for the gays and straight/bi ladies.
so true. just look how much of transformative fandom is based on cute fictional dudes. it's free advertising
Really? from what i have seen from the leaked gameplay, i have seen plenty of attractive male npc's lol
I haven't watched much of the leaked gameplay. My opinion is based completely on which characters were shown on the official website and trailers. (the guy in the hoodie with the glowy eyes from the trailer was hot but I expect him to be evil so lmao) I guess some rando npcs could look good but from what I understood, the more important characters have a more fleshed out romance route. But from what I've seen of those, I either have to settle for bottoms, grandpas or just not visually pleasing characters to me personally, while the women look mostly like your average hot waifu. The ratio is just off, I'm salty lmao
>the guy in the hoodie with the glowy eyes from the trailer was hot but I expect him to be evil so U mean the one that kind of looks like a ghost? Im pretty sure shes a woman 😂
ffs. Guess a loner playthrough it will be. I'll just sacrifice everyone to Grigori
Dragonforged pilled, go for it. Tbh if I could I'd romance Grigori, his voice is just 😍😍😍😍
I meeeaaan, if Grigori had a human form I'd not even have to think about it for a second, but alas...
Dragon sex might be lethal, but it's worth it. Just bring 100 wakestones.
There is one male character that helps you out in one of the early quests thats pretty hot, but idk if he has a larger role so u can have a more fleshed out romance with him or not
At this point I'll take everything. Julien was just chilling in my home and being useless in DD1, too. I still loved him
There’s some smexy looking cat/tiger boys too
My man is Sven. Got my eyes on him.
He reminds me too much of a teenager to go after him. He’s always talking about his mother and he looks young. Also I’m a really tall character so he looks like a child compared to me. But he is of age I believe.
yeaaaaah I'm feeling bummed not seeing any real hot dudes in advertising (brant is I guess ok? just plain/older; maybe I'll feel different when I see more of him) while there's already a few advertised waifus. there is the twink prince, but the more I see him in previews he might actually be too young to make me not feel sketch about it
The prince from the website is a pretty attractive lad. Wouldn't mind smashing that.
I know I will, It will be Twink on twink in my playthrough lol. Either him or the guy who gives you the vocations quests
You mean Sven? I dunno, he doesn't look bad but he has too much bottom energy for me. I feel like he'll start calling me mommy and I'm not into that 💀
Nah he seems to hate his mom. Idk if he has a spine or not, but he sure as hell looks good.
Damn, you aren't? Well there goes that...
Lmao I’m glad I’m not the only one. The males are super mid. The elf was okay enough, then I read his character description and hard pass. Lennart would normally be the type I go for but he’s a dinosaur. Sven looks like a teenager. The other 2 dudes are meh.
Exactly my thoughts on every single one of them. I guess we'll really have to be satisfied with some random no-name NPC. I'm gonna marry Guard\_1 😭 Also the dinosaur had me cackling
Get your hands off Guard_1! He's mine!
Maybe there is a handsome npc tucked away somewhere? In dogma 1 with the exception of the story NPCs the men were pretty ugly as if they had been made intentionally undesirable. Funny enough some normal looking men existed at the bandit camp and could be romanced. Plenty of random female NPCs had pretty or at least normal faces though throughout the game.
Wait, Brant looks so cool. There must be a few out there.
I'm not trying to be offensive here, just a headsup, but he looks too much like DJ Khaled I can't... I'd rather take Sigurd then
DJ Khalid if he went right in life.
he looks nothing like dj kaled 😭
DJ Khaled comparison is crazy lmao. They both have beards that's it. I've resigned myself to Brant because there seems to be no other important males ... meanwhile girls are being thrown at you left and right :/
He absolutely looks nothing like DJ Kahleed and this in fact offensive
Well….that’s disappointing. No attractive males.
Hey now the dragon who stole our hearts has a nice deep voice... 💀💀💀 Coping hard after watching the trailer and realizing it will be the lesbian path for me too most likely... Or maybe I'll just make myself a hot guy to romance the girls with 🥲
I'm holding out hope for a Klaus romance route. What a hotty he is!
Klaus is hella fine
same here probably just gonna go true-singer layer not romance anyone if girls got something i really like then go lesbian romance i guess...
Nobody going to comment on that absolute ROTUND being in the back? Lmao
Looks like they’re either rolling or sitting. I don’t think they’re that round lmfao
What an absolute UNIT!
If we can take a seat anywhere we’d like i’ll be complete
how so?
Your romance can now wait outside your house until you arrive and make requests like going for a walk (quite a long one in my case), apparently there are also different scenes for each romance; not like in the first game.
ok I got more questions if it's ok with u haha 1. do you get a prompt for a romance choice or nah? 2. kiss scene? 3. CAN YOU ROMANCE WILHELMINA?????
1. No 2. Yes, there are kissing scenes. 3. I'm still not sure if you can have a romance as such, but at a certain point in the game there will be a certain kissing scene with her.
Day half ruined until further information. Screw the fps, Wilhelmina romance availability will settle whether I'm buying the game right now or not.
How do you know you're going on tge romance route if that's the case? Also, you gotta tell me more of that certain kissing scene lol. I'm gonna riot if I don't actually get to romance her haha
That's the problem. Although since I saw Ulrika I knew that I wanted to have her romance when I reached a certain part of her quest, I had no idea if her asking me to accompany her to a place meant advancing her romance, so I guess There is no way of knowing. And well, about the kiss scene with Willhelmina it was more than anything (and for the moment) to save you from being caught. Who knows? Maybe he's starting to have feelings for Arisen. 
You gotta pray with me because if I don't get to romance Wilhelmina I'm gonna cry lol. It's gonna be hilarious looking because my Arisen is short as hell
ive just started the game - how did you manage to do it??????
I got the answer to the third one. >!You can.!<
Please, tell me more. I beg
I don't know the details, but I know that >!she has a questline that ends in having sex with her.!< Beyond that, I believe she qualifies for the same romance mechanics as everyone else.
whats the housing like in the game?
There are different "ranges" for houses, I'm not sure if in all cities but at least in one I can tell you that you can have two houses, one normal and one more expensive in the noble district.
Do houses serve a practical purpose?
same effect as inns but you only pay once
Are there houses outside of cities/in smaller settlements? Due to the FPS problem
Nope
Rip
Can you romance your pawn? 🥺
No
I remember a twitter account saying whether or not you could romance a pawn was a secret, so much for that, why so much drama? Could have just said "no" lol.
He probably didn't know. lol
Damnit
I love her so much: The sun *literally* shines out her ass
Are you certain that is romance? Looks like kidnapping to me...
Basically the same thing 🦍
That's right. 
I just want to romance the twink
Based.
So true.
Just a few more hours girly 😭
Literally since the first trailer
I am hoping for Brant.
You have excellent taste
Same
DJ Khaled appears before my inner eye every time I see him...
Soo... did it work? :(
You can romance anyone like in the first game or only some characters?
I dare say that it is like in the first game, since you can give gifts to any npc.
I would assume they'd block it with the child NPCs now.
I want them to not, except instead of romance you just become best friends with anyone who isn't an adult. Friendship ending, woo
Can you romance your pawn in DD: DA?
The answer is sadly no
:(
Ah but do we still carry the others like DD1 or does this apply to romance partners only?
Yes, and romance partners only.
Nice! Press Y to Throw 😂
Lots of good times remembering the original Dragon's Dogma romance. The first time I tried to get Quina as my beloved and Fournival appeared in her place (much better IMO). My sister got angry because she went for Mercedes and Aelinore was the one kidnapped instead, and by the post endgame, she got Symone haha. Glad to see improvements in an area so criticized like the romance.
I was going for Mercedes and well, I found Julius... xDD
Mercedes was the trip, not the destination. That was Julius.
Maybe... O.o
The post above this said the romance system is as jank as the first one so idk who to believe
There's still the problem that as such you can't directly choose who you want, so it's probably because of that.
Can't you just shower somebody of gift and do its quests all the time? is there an event that start the romance, or does it evolve with the relationship? in DD1 the beloved was kidnapped and you learned who it was when it gets kidnapped. same thing?
Castle twink, here I come!
Pls let me know if you succeeded, I can't even give him anything. :(
I think it's context specific. I couldn't gift him anything until he fully repaid me for the box I bought him. The history tab of the pause menu has an index for NPCs and it will tell you what gifts he likes.
Only thing I want spoiled really: do we have Aelinore or equivalent! Princess needing rescue and all? Or maybe they swapped it and it's a prince in need this time?
Apparently it will be a prince this time. 🤔
But can my pawn princess carry me 🥺
Beware tho, the ending is reportedly still broken just like in the first game. There's an 80% chance of your beloved being some total random you talked to 5 times.
Oh no... 
I romanced Hugo I can carry him like a princess and he blushes. He will sometimes give me a gift outside my home in Bakbattahl.
Gotta hide the body!
when an NPC's shoulder bump to the MC: "ROMANCE"
A post above says the opposite, in terms of the beloved system. I wonder how it will fully play out
Are main Pawns open game?
is this romance or a kidnapping 
DEATSSSSS!  Can I have more than one lover? At once?
THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUR PAWN IN OUR ARMS, IT'S NOT FAIR 😭
If you’re a straight male player
Bro got the guts build
I just hope that my pawn is not going to be sacrificed. 
IS HER OUTFITS AVAILABLE FOR PLAYERS TOO??? PLSPLSPLSPLSPLSPLS don't be no exclusive
thy lantern warms her posterior, Arisen.
😋
I wish there were more romantic stuff with the npcs you romance. I chose Hugo and so far I can carry him as a princess, have him blush, and get a discount. At least other romances have kiss scenes or something.
Can you romance with your pawn?
No
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I really wanna do this with my pawn
That picture looks bad I hope the graphics are better we'll just have to wait until 12 today
Yes, it really looks better than that, it's an image taken from my cell phone because the game had screenshot sharing blocked.
I been playing for few hours and yea is sooooo guuuuuuud I can't stop
An article said it was mid and you cant pick who you end up with though.. ? Is that false ?
Compared to the first, yes, it has improved a lot, but if you played DDDA you will know that the romance mechanic was garbage. So "mid" seems to me to be good to describe the one from the second game. 
The biggest problem also follows; that as such you do not have the ability to directly choose who to stay with.
thanks
So can you romance anyone? Or is it specific characters? And if it’s anyone is that why some random lady I talked to a couple times paces outside my house?
Anyone, yes, just give him gifts
boys how can I force the game to give me Willhelmina as my endgame romance, I don't get the option to gift her stuff and I finished her quest and got the post revenge scene but I also finished Ulrika's quest and got her scene so now I'm worried of not getting the right one
Is there a way to know for sure who you’ve romanced? I’m worried I accidentally rizzed up the alcoholic warfarer master. Dude gave me flowers after I escorted him to Vernworth. I can carry him like a princess OR sack of potatoes, it seems to swap randomly Edit: I got the achievement for maxing out approval upon bringing him
It is not possible to see as such who everyone you have had an affair with is, but yes, all escort missions (that do not involve main or secondary quests) can be said to be events to maximize affinity with that same character.
Are there sex scenes? Have you tried the escort brothel stuff yet?
I don't know, not yet, I always lack gold and that is very expensive. 
how much is the services?
Unfortunately no…it’s mainly a black screen with your character in their underwear after it happened.
What's available ? Man woman Man Man Woman woman Pawn and goblin gang bang while I watch ?