ironically enough, Chris' main contribution to the original campaign of New Vegas was Cass and originally there was going to be a quest wherein you'd get drunk with her and wake up married.
Sounds more a direct FO2 reference and probably a satire of game romance rather than actual game romance.
Looking up the quotes, it was actually Josh Sawyer who said he hated how romances are inserted into the games, not Avellone. My point still stands.
No, it's freedom of speech. Enforcing those things is communist.
Sawyer is fine when it comes to designing games but it terrible when it comes to anything else. Have you played the Pillar games because they have writing bad enough to ruin the rest of the game. Although I kind of agree with the take romances can harm these types of games I wouldn't listen to anything he has to say about how to write a story. A game with the older bioware writers deigned by him would probably be pretty good though.
Deadfire is no Dragon Age Origins but its pretty good if you skip all the story elements and just create your own party. I sacrificed the homofish to some random god for that weird doll thing.
Yeah, the mechanics and itemization are great, the game also looks terrific... but the writing is pretty weak. Unfortunately, I'm a huge storyfag, so the bad writing hurts the game more for me than it probably does for most.
There is a scene where if you've developed enough of a relationship with Visas, she and the Exile meditate together, seeing each other through the Force. It's as close to a romance you can get without actually saying it. And I think that is the strength of Chris's writing.
NNNNOOOOO
Dear God NOOOOO
Ah Hamburger Hepler
Yep, Bioware did say a reason for their own setting was to be able to destroy it.... Looks like they did
Same here, Origins was so good
Oh NOOOOOOWas kind of hoping the Lucianis guy would provide equal opportunity fanservice, since you know at least one of the female characters is gonna have a scene as explicit as Cora in Andromeda. (Apparently her romance scene is the most extreme in all of Bioware history like bordering on bg3 explicit)
Canceled my preorder. I'll wait til it goes down in price then I'll get extremely high and play it. Apparently the companions lack any real kind of moral conflicts. Andromeda had that issue as well but I'm one of the few people who thought Andromeda wasn't as bad as people said it was....granted I had played it years after it released.
I hope Morrigan doesn't bite it. It would be fun to see like...Rhys and Evangeline. Apparently the troon from the comics is in. The blonde one. I forget the name its Maeve or something
I understand why they needed to delete the EU if they wanted any stories post Endor but a LOT of pre Episode 1 EU stuff was excellent.
I won't because he wasn't. Romance has been part of adventure stories for decades. Guy gets the girl in the end, simple. It's just slightly more interactive in games because it's an interactive media. Somehow we did it just fine for ages without slipping down the degeneracy slope.
Is this pre or post trooning out photo?
How does that even work? All of your companions are super woke and down to clown when it comes to gender and sex stuff, but we still want to have our after school special presentation about coming out to your parents?
Are they ever? Companies are always trying to attract the wider audience because in their hubris they think they've already won over their former fans and expect far more new fans.
Yeah but retaining existing users is usually cheaper (and more reliable) than roping in new ones, and finding new audiences normally comes with large investements where you try to find a product-market fit. This is in product dev, and I know video games as an industry does not really invest into market research and user research in the same way (they merely invest into QA and bughunting once products are close to launch) but I think with more and more "for new audiences" games failing this will eventually change.
