A final warning to all RPG game developers. No romance? No buy!
>>724780021Heterosexual romance with hot female characters**Fixed for you. They might get the wrong idea
>>724780021that's the game by that racist dev who hates white people and wants to replace them all with blacksi shall not be spending money
>>724780021are you a woman? why do you want fake romance?
why do you need romance? it’s gonna be lame as shit and never live up. not even persona gets that in depth with it. I mean I get a little flirting or fun dialogue here and there (paper mario does this) but it’s better when it’s all in your head and you imagine your interactions. That’s why when I was a kid I read so much fanfiction about pic related (she also has a recent fanmade VN of her own hoo boy) even though there’s no romance in pokemon. go to fanfiction sites, or better yet use an AI chatbot it’s 2020+5. you’re gonna miss out on a lot of rpgs
>>724780021why would anyone want romance in western rpg?
>>724780603Because I enjoy it.Why do you want fake shooting things?
The first game was extremely barren and mediocre, mid even. No one asked for a sequel
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Honestly you dont even need actual romance, just make some of the girls cute and try not to write them as completely insufferable
>>724780021who do you even want to romance in this anyway?
Caring about romance in video games is pretty pathetic desu
>>724780021i want straight romance with cute white people
>>724780653ok now that I think about it maybe persona does it okay. I just remembered playing 4 and remember even snippets of cute dialogue in the dungeon crawling sections with your romance option. I don’t know if p5 had that? also never played baldurs gate 3 and never finished a rune factory so I can’t definitively say romance would never live up in an rpg. though I admit playing persona 4 I remember feeling the tingles. even in that game I was wishing I could do more or have different dialogue but that might have been way too much for the devs when you already have a massive 80 hour rpg there.
>>724781001HELLO SAR
>UGH I NEED MY FADE TO BLACK SEX SCENE!>I NEED EVERY FEMALE CHARACTER IN MY PARTY TO EVENTUALLY WANT TO FUCK ME>I NEED MY SHITTY RPG CHARACTER TROPES WHERE I HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN A TACITURN GF, AN AGGRESSIVE GF AND A LOVING GF why? its so fucking cheesy.
>>724780021>Wokeslop flops >UH IT'S ACTUALLY NOT BECAUSE IT'S WOKESLOP
I fucking hate millenial writingNo one acts like a real person in this game
>>724780021Romance isn't a factor; it's that they've spent the last decade being a complete mediocrity at best. All a lack of romance does is make them lose out on a potential bit of marketing if one choice manages to go viral.Sure If I had a gun to my head and was forced to choose between a new Obsidian, Bethesda or Bioware game, I'd pick Obsidian in a heartbeat, but that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
>>724781118This is what heterosexual men want. Nobody cares about gameplay anymore. Look at those Ninja gaiden numbers. Team Ninja should have just released that dead or alive gacha in the west
>>724780048fpbp
>>724781084>hating cute blond white boysjust how brown are you?
>>724781118It's not cheesy it's just gay as fuck. You do it once as a gag to see what happens then you never interact with the system again unless you're a woman or tranny
>>724780965>>724781118Pretty much this. Wanting romance in your game is a pointless endeavor and you're better off writing fanfic.
>>724780021Goy Pass.
>>724780021The only fuckable companion in the game is the robot so no romance isn't much of a loss. The game being mediocre just like the first one is the real problem
>>724781408But I thought everyone canceled their kikepass after the price kike?
>>724780021>No romance? >No buy!more like:>No sex?*>No buy!who cares about romance lmao
>>724780021Why would you want to romance someone in a games as ugly as this?
You don't need romance, you just need to avoid a sea of pure brown and black, and an interesting art style. I can't believe Microsoft tried to sell this for, what was it 80 or 90 dollars?
>>724781236>Being gay
>>724781669>he doesn't deny the brown accusationlol, jelous nigga. so pathetic
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>>724780021didn't they put romance in that pillars game no one bought either. gay fish or whatever
>>724781771Romancing virtual woman is the gayest shit imaginable what are you on about
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>>724780021This is why you can't trust user reviews. Bunch of boring faggots like this slop.
>>724780021they gave you romance in the first game and you didn't buy that easier? why didn't you like playing matchmaker for a lesbian romance, huh, chuddy?
>>724780653Good stories address multiple aspects of existence. Romantic relationships are fundamental to the existence of life.Ignoring them is like making a game about cars, and not giving the cars wheels. It doesnt matter if you want/engage with them in detail, but the absence of them is illogical.
>>724781795Their best game has romance.
>>724780747TODD HAS DONE IT AGAIN
>>724781838>HELLO SAR, I AM NOT BROWN. I JUST DON'T LIKE WHITE MEN BLOODYBITCH BASTARD
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>>724781983and no one really bought that one
Or just have pretty characters but that's too much to ask from obsneedian.
>>724782142Unfortunately. It was a great game if flawed.
>>724782003>Hello sar I do needful for white cock I very straight white man sar
>>724780021>be obsidian>see the success of bg3 that has romance and explicit sex scenes>announce your rpgs won't have romance/sex and market it as feature>flophow could this happen?
>>724780048I would also accept lesbian, if both are sexy female woman and not looking like dykes.
>>724782440Josh actively hates BG3 and everything it stands for.
>>724780021there is something in common across these games that don't get bought, that is in common, and it's not the romance.
>>724780021lol @ Obsidian sequels
>>724781001>>724781236cute>>724781669>>724781084disgusting shitskin
>>724783325>SAR I AM WHITE MAN WHO LOVE WHITE COCK YOU THE SHIT SKIN SAR
>>724782440Romance marketing is as easy as getting an appealing face (I say easy, 9/10 RPGs fail this simple step) and VA to show off a scene.If you want to market it as a serious game for serious gamers, you actually have to do the legwork to an audience that is increasingly apathetic to marketing lies.Honestly, stealing Larian's EA model would work wonders for them in this regard.They could show off their potential, and Obsidian's usual crippling weakness of bugs would be waved off as something to be fixed later.
>>724780021unbelievable that theyre trying to charge premium pricing for an outer worlds sequel
>>724782849Dude's been seething at Larian's success for nigh on a decade now. BG3 just completed the mindbreaking.
>>724782440Those aren't the reason BG3 was a success, touch grass
Why are all steamcharts threads made my mobile posters from europe
>>724782205pretty sad that most NPCs are more attractive than the companionsand modding is fucked in this game so no hope
>>724783640Ik he's a lib fagbut he should form his own studio and make more games like pentiment instead of competing with the likes of bethesda, larian or owlcat.
>>724783902Damn she looks pretty good rest of em should also look like that
>>724780682Because I can’t go around shooting people in real life without consequences. It’s a fantasy, romance isn’t.
>>724780021>No romance?>No buy!Your choice, but that's pretty dumb.
>>724781948>Good stories address multiple aspects of existence. Romantic relationships are fundamental to the existence of life.You could say that about a lot of things in life. The fact that we shit daily doesn't mean we need to include it in games.
>>724782440>>see the success of bg3 that has romance and explicit sex scenesThese made BG3 a million times worse as a game
Deus ex would have flopped today because incel zoomers addicted to porn would screech at no romance
>>724784764Deus EX is not a game where you have companions
Don't all these companies have massive marketing research crap they used to micromanage these projects? How could a company like Microsoft not know exactly what to expect from this games performance? This is probably around what they expected? Are they just throwing out hail marys trying to get a BG3?
>>724784764Rightly so
I'll be honest, I never end up liking romance in games. Not only is it often a waste of resources and manpower that could be spent on better or more important aspects of the game, but its often half-baked too, really lame and also they lock by necessity you to only a few lame options instead of being able to go for characters you actually like.
>>724784913They do and ignore the result, we know this from Amazon.
>>724784913>Don't all these companies have massive marketing research crapYes, but the marketing research is indeed often crap.
>>724780021NIGGERS STINK LIKE SHIT
>>724780682you simulate killing bad guys and monsters because the real world equivalent sucks ass and is nothing like you'd expectit's the exact opposite with romance
>>724780021>dude le late stage capitalism am I right girl power insert rick and porky funny quoteI mean the first game was alright but the writing was pure cringe and pretty bad too, Halcyon came across as more of a commie government and I doubt it was even intentional lmao
>>724780021This was exactly my complaint about the first one.The writers even mocked the player if they tried to get with Parvati.Definitely not buying or playing any of their shit after that.
>>724780653Play Dragon Age: Origins.
>>724784847You have people that you can do favors for that help you with certain things down the line like divulging kill codes to you.
>>724785084I only ever liked Leliana's romance because her voice is cute af and even then the writing itself sucked and iirc she was a literal bordello whore lmao
I tried for 2 days to get into the game. its not worth it. just boring badly made slop. open world is terrible most f2p games do it better, look better and have better characters and writing
>>724781236you're brown
How devoid of meaningful real social relations does a zoomer gotta be to turn out like this?
>>724780021g-g-gamepass... the game is not even out yet... console players are the audience... #proudally
>>724780603>why do you want fake romance?Same reason you want fake adventures and fights, you braindead subhuman.
>>724780021It's fucking hilarious how they went from New Vegas to this shit. I dropped outer worlds 1in a single hour such boring slop literally Avowed tier shit game. Outer Worlds 2? Didnt even waste my time watching its trailers. Look how well my tastes reflect reality. I am the only one awake on this site.
>>724780653>Want romance? Read a fic or go to AIDo you want a good story? Go read a book.Do you want sexy characters? Go watch porn.Do you want combat? Go watch MMA.Etc etc.No fag, games are the ultimate art form. They can have good romance. Not every game needs it though, and this piece of shit game that op posted is just that, shit, shat out by microsoft. It probably had gay romance, along with a lot more DEI but they had to gut it out or it would have flopped even harder.
>>724780048thislet's not pretend veilguard was a success because it technically had romances.
>>724781189I don't get this joke
>>724781489a ton of people did, only the most dedicated xtards continue to use it
>>724783818kill yourself normalnigger
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