How would you want to see in-game "romance" handled?
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:00 am
Mass effect romance & friendship was 100% a side thing. When at the ship between missions you had the chance to talk to the myriad of followers, who may or may not comment on the last mission (depending on the importance of said mission), or may go off with generic dialogue, or go with a special dialogue of sorts that revealed a little more deep about the character. With two of them this could end in romance, if you played nice with both, you'd also get a special cutscene/dialogue where both of them (now rather jealous), would come to you and ask you to choose.
The whole point of the thing was simply giving more deep to the followers.
Almost exact same thing for KOTOR btw. And in NWN it traded ship for an inn in neverwinter (basically the place where you left the leftover followers).
As for the people going EWWW! with the straight/gay/les thing. Please grow up. Any half decent romance mod won't push you with a 'have six' line with same gender characters. That's what prostitution mods made by 12yearolds are for. In fact, any half-decent romance/friendship mod will bury such option (and the romance one for straight too) deep enough that you'd have to dedicate a few hours of gameplay for it.
[censored] is a whole other issue, it's non-consensual, it's not 'hot' no matter how much it says so in cheap jap porm, it's a terribly disturbing thing and it's a trigger for many. Specially females. If you do wish to include it, for the sake of sensible persons please don't advertise it grandly or put it straight as a first option. Bury it a little so the player isn't faced with the direct choice on first page.
The whole point of the thing was simply giving more deep to the followers.
Almost exact same thing for KOTOR btw. And in NWN it traded ship for an inn in neverwinter (basically the place where you left the leftover followers).
As for the people going EWWW! with the straight/gay/les thing. Please grow up. Any half decent romance mod won't push you with a 'have six' line with same gender characters. That's what prostitution mods made by 12yearolds are for. In fact, any half-decent romance/friendship mod will bury such option (and the romance one for straight too) deep enough that you'd have to dedicate a few hours of gameplay for it.
[censored] is a whole other issue, it's non-consensual, it's not 'hot' no matter how much it says so in cheap jap porm, it's a terribly disturbing thing and it's a trigger for many. Specially females. If you do wish to include it, for the sake of sensible persons please don't advertise it grandly or put it straight as a first option. Bury it a little so the player isn't faced with the direct choice on first page.