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ninjewtsu
Oct 9, 2012

my biggest romance complaint is that i couldn't romance legion

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Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Ainsley McTree posted:

Yeah but you ought to be able to choose your best friend instead of the writers picking one for you. Give me a literal bromance option

gently caress you if Garrus wasnt your besty!

widespread
Aug 5, 2013

I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.


Cythereal posted:

Not everyone. Keith David is married, and the Boss just wants Ben King's autograph.

gently caress, that's right. Guess SR4 really DID romance better.

orange juche
Mar 14, 2012



Ainsley McTree posted:

Yeah but you ought to be able to choose your best friend instead of the writers picking one for you. Give me a literal bromance option

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzslynRhwg

I want to be able to do this with my bro garrus

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

TEENAGE WITCH posted:

romance design challenges the medium

what does this mean?

Clawtopsy
Dec 17, 2009

What a fascinatingly unusual cock. Now, allow me to show you my collection...
i cannot think of a single good romance in bideo games

wait i take it back

tae takemi

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Clawtopsy posted:

i cannot think of a single good romance in bideo games

wait i take it back

tae takemi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwkBnW85CEw

im cute
Sep 21, 2009

Clawtopsy posted:

i cannot think of a single good romance in bideo games

wait i take it back

tae takemi

GameCenter CX 13 - Tokimeki Memorial

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Moola posted:

gently caress you if Garrus wasnt your besty!

i wasn't saying i wouldn't pick garrus

TEENAGE WITCH
Jul 20, 2008

NAH LAD

fridge corn posted:

what does this mean?

smh if u dont recognise biowares dragon age 2s radical playersexuality is critical design af

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

TEENAGE WITCH posted:

smh if u dont recognise biowares dragon age 2s radical playersexuality is critical design af

not really no. nothing about video game design could be considered radical in a wider social context because as an entertainment industry it is inherently reactionary

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

orange juche posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzslynRhwg

I want to be able to do this with my bro garrus

:yeah:

Now I want a game where I start with the bromance option, but I can only use it once, but from that point on, whoever I just bromanced gets completely different dialog options.

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Bromance would have been a good option in Mass Effect 2 since lots of expository dialogue was gated behind the romance paths, even if it wasn't strictly flirty.

Zelder
Jan 4, 2012

Romance options should be removed from games because people who get horny for pixels shouldn't be catered to. DON'T @ME


Jk do whatever you want but do it well

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

Zelder posted:

Romance options should be removed from games because people who get horny for pixels shouldn't be catered to. DON'T @ME


Jk do whatever you want but do it well

Good news! Anthem has no romance options!

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Zelder posted:

Romance options should be removed from games because people who get horny for pixels shouldn't be catered to. DON'T @ME


Jk do whatever you want but do it well

So, you're saying they shouldn't do anything, basically.

Toxic Fart Syndrome
Jul 2, 2006

*hits A-THREAD-5*

Only 3.6 Roentgoons per hour ... not great, not terrible.




...the meter only goes to 3.6...

Pork Pro
Romance is fine in a game, Witcher 3 did it really well, as has been pointed out. It should be noted that it took two games of doing it really badly for CDPR to get to that point, however.

My problem with Bioware is that every single named character in every game after ME3 is bangable on some level and boy do they let you know. Within the first dialogue tree, every party-character will flirt with you and make it ~super obvious~ that they are a romantic option. Given the nature of their games (important-decidey-person makes decisions to save the world/universe/kingdom) this seems hugely unprofessional of the characters: we've got a huge blue/green/red laser MacGuffin to stop! Why are you throwin' dat rear end out there???

At least with ME1 they made you work for it and brought up that it was a ~bad idea~ to bang your teammate. Honestly, I don't know how any of you didn't kill the racist and keep your buddy (who's also a loving officer, y'all need to dust up on fraternization regulations), because the story makes much more sense with Kaidan as the second human Specter. The correct solution to the ME romance puzzle is to bang the shadow broker in 1 (because she isn't in your CoC), then be celibate for the rest of the series because you have to save the loving galaxy and don't have time for Shep to go horizontal!

Anywho, Bioware sucks now and they haven't made a game up to their par in about a decade. Maybe some fresh-faced kids will resurrect the brand in a decade. :shrug:

chiasaur11 posted:

So, you're saying they shouldn't do anything, basically.

p much yup

Zelder
Jan 4, 2012

chiasaur11 posted:

So, you're saying they shouldn't do anything, basically.

Yes, bioware shouldn't do anything

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit
I remember all the pearl clutching over blue side boob in ME1

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Iron Crowned posted:

I remember all the pearl clutching over blue side boob in ME1

Don't forget the fainting bouts over YOU CAN DATE A blue WOMAN AS A WOMAN :stonk:.

mehall
Aug 27, 2010


Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:

Romance is fine in a game, Witcher 3 did it really well, as has been pointed out. It should be noted that it took two games of doing it really badly for CDPR to get to that point, however.

My problem with Bioware is that every single named character in every game after ME3 is bangable on some level and boy do they let you know. Within the first dialogue tree, every party-character will flirt with you and make it ~super obvious~ that they are a romantic option. Given the nature of their games (important-decidey-person makes decisions to save the world/universe/kingdom) this seems hugely unprofessional of the characters: we've got a huge blue/green/red laser MacGuffin to stop! Why are you throwin' dat rear end out there???

At least with ME1 they made you work for it and brought up that it was a ~bad idea~ to bang your teammate. Honestly, I don't know how any of you didn't kill the racist and keep your buddy (who's also a loving officer, y'all need to dust up on fraternization regulations), because the story makes much more sense with Kaidan as the second human Specter. The correct solution to the ME romance puzzle is to bang the shadow broker in 1 (because she isn't in your CoC), then be celibate for the rest of the series because you have to save the loving galaxy and don't have time for Shep to go horizontal!

Anywho, Bioware sucks now and they haven't made a game up to their par in about a decade. Maybe some fresh-faced kids will resurrect the brand in a decade. :shrug:


p much yup

Kaidan is not interesting.
At all.
In any way.

Yes, Ashley was racist, but she seemed to be getting over it a bit by the end of ME1 and she was at least interesting to have around.

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen

mehall posted:

Kaidan is not interesting.
At all.
In any way.

Yes, Ashley was racist, but she seemed to be getting over it a bit by the end of ME1 and she was at least interesting to have around.

she got over it in my game too, in a smoldering crater on Virmire

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Iron Crowned posted:

I remember all the pearl clutching over blue side boob in ME1

The best part was the Fox News lady who wrote a book about how it was a sign of moral degradation or whatever but didn’t actually look at the scene in question, and when she finally did (after publishing the book) she was like “oh that’s not so bad”

I think you could see a butt too

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


Only female butt though.

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


I was honestly a little taken aback by the soft core pornography that was Cora’s scene in andromeda

Not in a “I’m offended” way but more of a “did I accidentally download a mod?” way

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Ainsley McTree posted:

The best part was the Fox News lady who wrote a book about how it was a sign of moral degradation or whatever but didn’t actually look at the scene in question, and when she finally did (after publishing the book) she was like “oh that’s not so bad”

I think you could see a butt too

They showed the entire scene on the fox segment too.

I’m guessing she didn’t realize the cuts were what were in the game?

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Ainsley McTree posted:

I was honestly a little taken aback by the soft core pornography that was Cora’s scene in andromeda

Not in a “I’m offended” way but more of a “did I accidentally download a mod?” way

I think I stopped playing before that happened. I also never used Cora

exquisite tea
Apr 21, 2007

Carly shook her glass, willing the ice to melt. "You still haven't told me what the mission is."

She leaned forward. "We are going to assassinate the bad men of Hollywood."


The most hilarious thing is that Cora’s sex scene was one of two cinematics in the game with actual performance capture and not that horrible dead eyed speech algorithm so you know it was somebody’s top organizational priority to lovingly render dat rear end.

Professor Beetus
Apr 12, 2007

They can fight us
But they'll never Beetus
I liked how Cora had the same body model as every other female character in the game but then the clothes are gone and she's thicc.

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.

exquisite tea posted:

The most hilarious thing is that Cora’s sex scene was one of two cinematics in the game with actual performance capture and not that horrible dead eyed speech algorithm so you know it was somebody’s top organizational priority to lovingly render dat rear end.

And the lesbian romance option didn't have a sex scene, at all.


Liara in ME3 was also the only female character with a unique body design and texture under her armor. Shepard, Traynor, and Ashley aren't just wearing the same apparently Alliance issue lingerie, they have exactly the same body. MShep, Kaidan, and Cortez likewise have the exact same body.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

exquisite tea posted:

The most hilarious thing is that Cora’s sex scene was one of two cinematics in the game with actual performance capture and not that horrible dead eyed speech algorithm so you know it was somebody’s top organizational priority to lovingly render dat rear end.

Now I kinda want to see how lovingly rendered dat rear end was, but my will to play another minute of Andromeda is preventing that, so I guess I'll just wait a week to forget all about that and remain blissfully ignorant.

Ainsley McTree
Feb 19, 2004


Iron Crowned posted:

Now I kinda want to see how lovingly rendered dat rear end was, but my will to play another minute of Andromeda is preventing that, so I guess I'll just wait a week to forget all about that and remain blissfully ignorant.

It’s probably on pornhub or something

Cythereal posted:

And the lesbian romance option didn't have a sex scene, at all.


Liara in ME3 was also the only female character with a unique body design and texture under her armor. Shepard, Traynor, and Ashley aren't just wearing the same apparently Alliance issue lingerie, they have exactly the same body. MShep, Kaidan, and Cortez likewise have the exact same body.

Alliance training is very disciplined

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Ainsley McTree posted:

Alliance training is very disciplined

Cora's body is unique because she was an Asari Commando :v:.

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Ainsley McTree posted:

It’s probably on pornhub or something

Eh, there are better things to watch on pornhub

Arglebargle III
Feb 21, 2006

Witcher 3 has just as many casual sex scenes as the first game, they're just harder to find.

fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

Iron Crowned posted:

Now I kinda want to see how lovingly rendered dat rear end was, but my will to play another minute of Andromeda is preventing that, so I guess I'll just wait a week to forget all about that and remain blissfully ignorant.

youtube surely

Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Iron Crowned posted:

Eh, there are better things to watch on pornhub

There is a LOT of mass effect content on pornhub it turns out

TEENAGE WITCH
Jul 20, 2008

NAH LAD

fridge corn posted:

not really no. nothing about video game design could be considered radical in a wider social context because as an entertainment industry it is inherently reactionary

imo bioware dragon age 2s playersexuality is the critical endpoint of romnce design where even ur companions sexuality bend to the power fantasy,

its critical design that explores the culture of the bioware story, breaks it down and attempts at something new

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Moola posted:

There is a LOT of mass effect content on pornhub it turns out

Well who doesn't want to do it with women who have unnatural skin colors? I mean James Kirk has a fetish for green ladies

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fridge corn
Apr 2, 2003

NO MERCY, ONLY PAIN :black101:

TEENAGE WITCH posted:

the culture of the bioware story

lmao

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