Stop romancing characters

Stop romancing characters.

no, user marry characters instead

No

Cass is my waifu and there isn't anything you can do about it, JE.

I hate him.
He's deliberately fucking avoided writing or including romantic storylines in any games he's been part of.

Damn it, romances dont have to be shiftily written. Romance and love is an important part of the human experience, and there's a reason that romance and love is included in most fucking adventure stories.

Damn Sawyer.

Being able to marry EVERYONE is not the solution, either.

>Protagonist has the natural ability to make anyone want to follow him to the gates of hell themselves
>But having those people form a romantic interest in that same protagonist would weaken the characters somehow

Is that the TempleOS guy? He's my hero.

Stop ruining Fallout

Learn to write a romance beyond a second grade level.

That's not natural, it's an innate force ability
Stop using the force

It's not like you or anyone here will ever get to second base, I don't see the problem.

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>Learn to write a romance beyond a second grade level.
>he says this as he posts anime trash
LMAO.

Give me a well written romance story in video game, user.

Love stories can be a powerful tool for creating a tragedy, just don't half-ass them or make them too obnoxious.

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But user, I was in a six year relationship and was left three months ago and I've decided to swear off 3DPD because it's not worth it and I find more fun and fulfillment in pursuing gaming, writing, and my musical endeavors.

Dragon's Dogma where you get the fat tit merchant lady as your love interest from spending a bunch of gold in her shop because it directly mirrors real life.

>Don't try to improve something, just throw the whole idea out
Bioware-tier execution desu

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Xenogears.
To the Moon.
Nier + Automata.
Odin Sphere.
Darkness.

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Not an argument.

Form an argument without a funny meme reaction or using the term "hurr" or "durr"

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Pillars 2 has some kind of romances though, doesn't it?

One of the stretch goals was deeper companion relationships and they mentioned that they could fall in love and such. They did say it would only happen if it felt appropriate though.

Dude, this is Sup Forums.

Asking for an a geniuine opinion will ALWAYS have someone shitting on that opinion.

You could say "Well, give me an example of a well written book on Strategy!", and someone said "Sun Tzu's Art of War!" , and someone will shit on it with a contemptuous meme reply.

Taste varies. Someone's well written romance is someone else's crap.

>They did say it would only happen if it felt appropriate though.
AKA never, and if it does it'll happen exactly once under ridiculous circumstances
Sawyer is a hack

>bird eyeing Pallegina
Oh boy, it's gonna be that kind of game?

better yet, give a well written romance in a RPG game. obviously games with completely scripted linear stories can integrate romance better and make it natural and meaningul to the story, but in an rpg its just "fill this checklist to unlock this dialogue with her and end the questline with fade to black".

Sengoku Rance.

>weeb pedoshit
kill yourself asap you pathetic embarassment

Viconia DeVir.

not an argument

Well I may as well...

The Art of War really isn't a great strategy guide, it is mostly just really obvious, commonplace ideas and overly specific observations. "Take care of your armor in salt marshes because it may go rusty". The only reason it is mentioned so often is because of its age and its insight into Chinese culture. Reading it won't turn you in to an ace strategist or 2nd Napoleon.

>games like Fable, Dragon's Dogma or even Skyrim allow you to romance every or at least a lot of otherwise inconsequential characters in the world
>none of them give you a harem option
When is the West finally going to catch up?

Properly. Might mean that it makes sense for the character themselves to want to be in a relationship. They did say as well that it would work for companions also.

Anyone got a screenshot of the portrait's? Edér, Aloth's and Pallegina's don't look great. The new party members portrait's look fine though.

Sorry, forgot meme image.

Romances in crpgs are the most cringe inducting part of the writing, so it is not a bad decision from him

>romances dont have to be shiftily written. Romance and love is an important part of the human experience

That's exactly why he doesn't do it. Getting romances right mean a ton of time that their schedule doesn't allow. So before half-assing it, he prefers to not be there at all and focus on other, more crucial aspects.

He's not aganist romance, quite the opposite, but he's only interested if it's done right.

I love these games, but to be fair, they're scripted romance. It's different than how it's done in a game with multiple choices.

>So before half-assing it, he prefers to not be there at all and focus on other, more crucial aspects.
If that was true there'd be no story at all lmao

NWN2 has Elanee romance and a partial Neeshka one with some cut content you can mod back in.

PoE2 had romance as a stretch goal that has been met.

In alpha protocol you can get strapped down to a table and roughly fucked by your sexy german bombshell captor

Completely agree, though. Romances in RPG's especially are pretty much always just pathetic wannabe self-insert bullshit.
The Prince is a better guide on sociopolitics with a few general observations about military matters that are nonetheless more practical in modern application. You won't really find strategic guides written at any point in history that even completely encapsulate the military situations of their own time period. Like, even if Sun Tsu had written about everything from siege-work to mountain raiding to occupying captured cities, tactics would immediately adapt to all the morons aping their strategies out of a book. And then technology advances, and all those strategies are pointless.

No strategy guide stays accurate for long unless it's incredibly vague and obvious shit like "maintain situational awareness" and "train and pay your troops well".

I was going to call you a faggot, but considering how Obsidian's stories have turned out every time Avellone wasn't the main writer, I find it hard to disagree. Fucking hell.

>literally fuck the book's story so hard it turns into a story about Triss trying to cuck Geralt's wife

I simply don't like romances in video games. Its just a empty ego masturbation over stuff that's is just there, your character is simply doing that because he wants to wake up from the nightmare that brought him there, just wanting to survive. It's not impressive it should be a trait that every human being should have in order to not be cucked by life.

>I love these games, but to be fair, they're scripted romance. It's different than how it's done in a game with multiple choices.
It's pretty much impossible to write a game with multiple well-done romance storylines you can choose from unless it's a VN. It's always better to limit everything to one canon love storyline but make it well-integrated into narrative and fairly powerful.

Why do you look like pre-mental disorder Terry?

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Not an argument

I'm sure thats what you had to tell yourself every time the yelling started, didn't you user?

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This 100%. I bet this is the work of some CIA niggers

Sure, never said it was better or worse, they're just different approaches. With multiple choices the player can feel more engaged for role-playing, but more limited overall, but a scripted one will probably be a lot more developed and polished and eventually much more satisfying, but it can suck if it's not the character you like and you're still forced to go that way (FF VIII).

A nice balance would be the Persona games, even if it has its own problems.

Stop making shit games

Stop writing 'deconstructed' fiction

Stop stop posting

The romances in Persona are fucking garbage though

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I'd say the best romances in a game with multiple choices are in KOTOR2.
Visas is probably the best-written western romance in vidya.

Right, because she totally didn't fuck a random NCR-soldier named Tyrone so she could enjoy his Long D. Johnson, while the Courier was outside for just a few minutes.

Not an argument

lol

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uh ya it is

>Romances in RPG's especially are pretty much always just pathetic wannabe self-insert bullshit
I find this sentence funny

To be exact think Sun Tzu Art of War is less of a strategy book - as you mention, there's very little strategy in there (the strategy bits were generally found in the familiarly passed annotated versions of the book which are a lot more interesting to red in that respect, on top of the historiographical one), and more about ideological reframing of war and and its practice.

And you can see how its influence managed that too. War before that book in China is more the old exercise of death number crunching. After that there's a slow drift to a reversal of the later Clausewitz quote, with politics becoming a continuation of war by other means.

There's two kinds of people: Those who want romance in their video games and and those who have actually fucked a girl.

Good, romance options in games is for losers.

Likewise, two kinds of people

Those who want every RPG and general vidya story to be about becoming the great hero who single-handedly saves the day and is admired and feared by all

and those who've actually done something with their lives

You're forgetting the whole market of women who, having been fucked or not, just want their romance fantasy.

everyday we are straying further away from God desu.

Anyone interested in Chris Avellone's new game Pathfinder: Kingmaker?
The Kickstarted has 629,441/500,00 pledged with 6 days left.

>being a retard
Good job lad.

Wasn't Avellone her writer user? If so it's him who got you cucked, not Sawyer.

Hell they originally thought about you getting married after a night of heavy drinking vegas style.

I'm honestly surprised no one has made a mod to let you romance the companions, or at least tried to make one.

jesus christ kys weeb

I wonder if its coming to steam or GoG.
Looks interesting enough but ill just wait till the waters have settled and it goes in special. Anyone heard of owl games before? Looks like a bunch of slav developers with Avellone tacked on for the narrative.

>waa waa fuck the rivven they are weak and deserve to die emotions are for pussies
>waa waa my brother wasn't like my other siblings, he actually cared waa waa

Viconia is literally worst girl. She has no conviction and is a pathetic excuse for a drow. 1000 lashes of the tentacle rods are too good for her.

I wish more directors made director's cut mods of their own games

*sips tea*

Unironically Catherine.

lol no

ok josh

>can't romance superior winged qt instead of bold she-wizard
ugh