I don't know when I started thinking like this, but now an RPG having romance is a plus to me. No romance isn't really a con, but having NPCs forming relationships while you can't is.
>>730882403Really when you think about it romance and adventure were always tied together. Even the cliché of the epic dragon slaying adventure ends up with rescuing a princess. It's kinda lazy when it's just a fade to black sex scene with no effort, but autists like Sawyer think the solution is removing romance altogether when the solution is just writing better romances.
>>730882403>but having NPCs forming relationships while you can't isI don't know of a single RPG that does this besides The Outer Worlds
>>730883140That's one game too many. It's an entire fucking quest line that takes forever to complete too.
>>730882403>>730882792It just doesn't make sense to have the power and freedom to do anything yet somehow you can't find romance or even a fling on your journey. Such a game is detached from human nature.
>>730882792I really don't understand this dude's post, he's the writer so if he feels romances are masturbatory fantasies then just don't write a masturbatory fantasy? Yes romancing someone means "winning" them over, doesn't mean all characters have to be romanceable or that the romance path shouldn't have its ups and down. Lae'zel romance in BG3 because you get pushback from her on some things during the story.
