Game News Baldur's Gate 3 Community Update #7: Romance & Companionship, Early Access delayed to October 6th

[Decado]

Who cares

 

[jac8awol]

The more I think about this, the more it makes me suspect the game will suck. Sex consideration means inclusivity, means developers won't want to offend modern world sexual minorities, means pussyfooting around the pussies, means injecting leftist bullshit into another fantasy setting, means failure a la Pillars of Inclusivity.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Yeah, it'll suck alright.

 

[Darkzone]

Putting romance in RPGs is like putting lipstick on a pig. The worse the RPG is the more pigs with painted lips are running around.
Examples: The Witcher series, Mass Effect series or Dragon Age series. (I have only played The Witcher I, because the other games were shit.)

 

[Iluvcheezcake]

Putting romance in RPGs is like putting lipstick on a pig. The worse the RPG is the more pigs with painted lips are running around.
Examples: The Witcher series, Mass Effect series or Dragon Age series. (I have only played The Witcher I, because the other games were shit.)

So, basically, you didnt play them, but you know they are shit. I know this is the Codex but c'mon man ...

 

[Darkzone]

Putting romance in RPGs is like putting lipstick on a pig. The worse the RPG is the more pigs with painted lips are running around.
Examples: The Witcher series, Mass Effect series or Dragon Age series. (I have only played The Witcher I, because the other games were shit.)

So, basically, you didnt play them, but you know they are shit. I know this is the Codex but c'mon man ...

I played them for an hour or so, but they were so shit that i deinstalled them after this short time.

 

[Silly Germans]

Putting romance in RPGs is like putting lipstick on a pig. The worse the RPG is the more pigs with painted lips are running around.
Examples: The Witcher series, Mass Effect series or Dragon Age series. (I have only played The Witcher I, because the other games were shit.)

Witcher 1 ?

Spoiler

Witcher 3 ?

Spoiler

Both are tasty, even with lipstick on.

 

[Gordian Nutt]

Romance in RPGs is like being tantalized by a description of eating a tasty pig

Then told you have to collect X lipstick to eat the pig

and say the right things to pig X times

and do X quest to show you care about the emotions of eating pig even if you don't you just want to eat the fucking pig

By end of it all eating the pig will not taste nearly as satisfying and lipstick is caught in teeth

Watch Bioware RPG sex videos on internet and see if 'eating other pigs' in game is worth it

Now add "by Swen" to all of these steps for BG3 and pig does not seem like it could possibly be appetizing

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

Romances in RPGs are mostly inconsequential and only raging autistic forum dwellers lose their shit about it (in one sense or the other).

 

[Gordian Nutt]

There are players, especially women, who are not "forum dwellers" who love romances in RPGs

Dragon Age is one example of this - the amount of discussions about the romances in Dragon Age seems significant

 

[Tuco Benedicto Pacifico]

There are players, especially women, who are not "forum dwellers" who love romances in RPGs

Yeah, well they can fuck off too.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

There are players, especially women, who are not "forum dwellers" who love romances in RPGs

Dragon Age is one example of this - the amount of discussions about the romances in Dragon Age seems significant

So they see RPGs as modern day interactive romance novels?

Do some ever complaint that all that "boring political stuff" or "fighting" gets in the way of what they consider to be important?

(not saying all female gamers are like this)

 

[Gordian Nutt]

So they see RPGs as modern day interactive romance novels?

Do some ever complaint that all that "boring political stuff" or "fighting" gets in the way of what they consider to be important?

(not saying all female gamers are like this)

I don't know.

I do not have data, but I think there are a number of male and female gamers for which Story Mode was made which does remove challenge and downplay "fighting" like you are saying but they would likely want more politics/interactions/dramatic non-violent conflict as part of the story.

I do not know if that is what you mean by "boring political stuff." I am not saying that to be insulting I am only quoting.

I also think the same would view romance as a part of an RPG story, I would.

Just my opinion, I don't have the data.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

I do not know if that is what you mean by "boring political stuff." I am not saying that to be insulting I am only quoting.

I mean more like if some female gamers feel that everything plotline/setting related like interacting with factions and organizations, carrying out missions or quests, gets in the way of the romance stuff; the player seeking out and interacting with potential partners.

 

[luj1]

Putting romance in RPGs is like putting lipstick on a pig. The worse the RPG is the more pigs with painted lips are running around.

Examples: The Witcher series, Mass Effect series or Dragon Age series.

Yup, the 3 heralds of the Dark Age

 

[NJClaw]

There are players, especially women, who are not "forum dwellers" who love romances in RPGs

Big doubt on that "especially women".