You can't connect with anyone with just 100 words of dialogue.

I connected with your mom with only 3 words last night. "Oh, Mrs Anon!", DTPN!

>>715590580 (OP)
I look like this

>>715590580 (OP)
2FA be wildin'

>>715590580 (OP)
>Why do so many gamers obese over romance?
>You can't connect with anyone with just 100 pounds of fat.

>>715590580 (OP)
>WHERE IS THE DINNER?!

>>715590580 (OP)
Gamers are incels that have never felt the touch of a woman.

>>715591248
>Gamers are incels that have never felt the touch of a woman.
im like that, but i despise romance in games, what's the point? that's some production time wasted, they could had added more dungeons and actually fun shit to do instead.
nowadays is even worse because all the faggot and tranny romance options.

>>715590580 (OP)
No idea, it's all very shallow and stupid.

>>715590580 (OP)
YOU BROUGHT VEGGIES HERE?!

>>715590580 (OP)
>lonely faggots who just want to touch a boobie and be told they're loved
Gee, its really a mystery.

>>715591248
The most profitable game on earth at the moment is a romance gacha full of men and developed for women.

>>715590580 (OP)
>PROVOKE THE DIABETES
>AND RECEIVE THE INSULIN STING

>>715590580 (OP)
>YOU BROUGHT DRUSSY HERE?!

>>715590580 (OP)
with BG2 and onwards it became expected that CRPGs must have "romance" content. With later bioware games this became a more and more prominent "feature" that overshadowed the actual story despite never being any deeper or more romantic than the average meet and fuck game (and without putting out in the end!)

>THE FED THREE

>shitty clipping animation of two dumpy mid women eating eachothers pussy
>OMGGG THIS GAME IS SO. HORNY. AND ISN'T AFRAID TO SHOW IT!

>>715590580 (OP)
because it's the basest human desire. ironically, josh sawyer was absolutely spot on with his reasoning why he hates romances in rpgs. they're just different forms of grind.

Agreed, romance in a videogame is usually half baked and boring but it's important for role playing games and defining an important part of your characters character.

Planescape torment really did romance the best with your girlfriend from another life, depending on your dialogue choices it completely changes the context of the story and is very satisfying to play out

>>715590580 (OP)
>gamers
its just women who are likely into ERP, the Sims and all that kind of garbage

>>715594067
>hates romances
>fills the game with lesbians and cuckoldry instead
Both you and Josh Sawyer should promptly get a room and make sweet, anal-loving sex together like the massive, flaming faggots you are, you pretentious twat.

>>715597220
Probably not his decision thoughbeit. PoE which is probably the game besides Pentiment where he had the most creative control has no romance at all. Well, besides the brothel.

>>715594067
He doesn't hate romance as a concept. He doesn't like how it's usually implemented and he said he doesn't do it because he can't think of a better way.

>>715593750
oh, this image isn't about coyote randomly leaning his head on his shoulder. he's puking
took me like 15 years.

>>715590580 (OP)
unironically now with chatbots being prevalent is the only time this shit isnt a complete embarrassing waste of time. Well i mean it is, its just actually "viable". Shocked its not really decently implemented in games yet.

>>715590580 (OP)
I've only ever romanced in BG3 with my wife Shadowheart. Romance in vidya is pretty dumb though.

>>715590580 (OP)
>You can't connect with anyone with just 100 words of dialogue.
espada from maken-ki could. though it's mostly girls

>>715590580 (OP)
You brought an entire mc Donald's shop here?

>>715593418
It’s romances are a lot longer than 100 words, to be fair.

>>715598512
It would feel very artificial

>>715598093
Why does he implement them in a bad way then?

>>715590580 (OP)
>YOU BROUGHT OZEMPIC HERE!?

>>715590580 (OP)
they don't, actually. romances are shoved in for mass audience appeal. especially women. if blad and gay 3 didn't have romances, 80% of the sales wouldn't be there. it gets people to keep talking about the game long after it has been picked apart because people will argue to death about who the best romance option is, which in turn gets people to keep thinking about it, and keeps buyers interested. a fantasy plot with elves and dwarves and shit is a whole lot less palatable to the normie audience if there aren't romance sidequests. so many better games with similar settings or tactical CRPG gameplay, yet the one with romances is the one that sells. it is for normies, plain and simple.
>>715591248
incels don't want romances in games. they want all the women to be porn icons. they could care less if there actually is romance in the game because they are going to find or commission porn of it regardless, which is far more sexually gratifying to them than wasting time trying to woo one teammate and get a fade to black sequence. why do that when you can get some twitter artist to draw them as a harem in an orgy?

>>715594067
Josh was sort of wrong, the problem with romance is the harem or "pick you girl" type romance. these are naturally limited and cringe 99% of the time.
But game were romance is a plot point like FFX are fine and can even be great.

>>715590580 (OP)
Looks like Jimmy from GTA 5.

>>715601859
i think that is what josh was talking about, though. it is too difficult to write a good romance plot in a game like fallout (or many other RPGs with branching story paths) that doesn't amount to just "grind the conversation dialogue until the waifu i like the most likes me back". it ends up cringey, harem fantasy esque, and doesn't actually feel like a romance. it feels like wish fulfillment. the romance in FFX has no choices attached to it, it is just something that plays out before you as you progress through the battles. you, the player, are taken out of any of the act of making sure the characters like each other and there is no decision making in trying to try to have tidus end up with lulu or rikku instead. it is a romance story in a game done right because there is no game to be had surrounding it. the romance is auxiliary to the gameplay, not part of the gameplay itself.

>>715598693
Yeah, but most of those extra words are just filler fluff or shallow "teehee I'm quirky" banter. Quantity doesn't mean quality, anon. You can write a whole damn novel and still fail to make anyone give a shit about your OC elf waifu. Real depth doesn’t come from word count, it comes from actual character development and meaningful interaction, which 99% of these games treat like an afterthought.

>>715590580 (OP)
I started dating a girl within less than 100 words of meeting her just last year. It happens.

>>715602854
Sounds like a shallow start (I don't mean it negatively), but I hope you two are doing well.

You outed yourself as a glowie mod so many times

normies bandwagon loser gamers?

>>715598549
Only if Grimace is one of the romance options. Can’t have a satisfying character arc without seducing the milkshake mascot in a tearful post-boss battle confession scene under a flickering neon arch.

>>715604019
Me? I'm not the same guy

>>715590580 (OP)
psychopaths wanting to have power over the virtual simulacrum

>>715604019
It is bestiality and paedophillia, but not animal and child abuse, respectively. Still, someone who has the warped sexual drive to want to fuck kids and animals should probably be eliminated from existence.

>>715590580 (OP)
YOU BROUGHT SALAD HERE!?

>>715593750
https://youtu.be/_koGRoIkvqk?si=K9cKa7Wzb2WLfAUh&t=1221

Romance in games only works if it is well written and I feel romance to be one of the hardest to write not to mention most video game writers aren't very good

>>715598512
I know there's a Minecraft mod that replaces villagers with NPCs you can talk to and marry and shit and I'm pretty sure it has support for plugging in a LLM
Beyond that, not sure. Skyrim has a mod where you can speak to NPCs but I'm not sure it includes anything else