The Sharmat
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Their next RPG will be set in the Prince of Nothing Universe.
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if they decide to put some alien looking things in game i just hope they will provide decent in game explanation for their presence
Evolution isn't enough?
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The poll wasn't for "Should there be romances or not?" The poll was asking "Those in favor of romances: under what conditions, if any, would you be willing to lose them as a feature?"
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What about having your own persistent and creepy stalker?
Also done in KOTOR 2.
With Visas, again, in fact.
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All for weird monsters (Love Morrowind's) as long as they mesh together ecologically. At least on a shallow level.
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They specifically ask for a non gender race in the OP you know, like the Asari?
Why is everyone ignoring that and having a massive knee jerk reaction.
A nongender race, done well, could be interesting if it fit the setting. Including a nongendered race simply to have a nongendered race doesn't sound promising though.
And the Asari are not a nongendered race. The in universe sophistry aside, they're an all female race created specifically for titillation. A blue version of Star Trek's green Orion women. The developers even admitted as much. I really don't think that's what the OP is looking for.
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Could you imagine a game not including different skin colour options for a character, and the developers saying "sorry we didn't have time to cater to EVERY possible character option...just imagine you're black."
If it's within a geographic area in the setting that makes it very unlikely that you're black...then yes, why not?
Differing gender identities and sexual preferences shouldn't be excluded from a game just because they're not yours, or part of your understanding of the world.
Even accepting the above, there are far more people of various races in the world than transgendered individuals. When you go to lengths to support such a vanishingly small percentage of the population it starts getting hard to justify choosing that one over many myriad other underrepresented rare demographics.
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If they drained that many resources they would have to be overblown and would get in the way so no.
If you voted 'no' you said you wouldn't sacrifice romances even if they drained that many resources. You misread the poll.
EDIT: In fact I'm seeing people that said they're against romances being in the game voting in the poll, despite the fact that the question was only polling people that were pro romance. I guess I suck at wording things.
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No means that you'd like romances to occur even if for some reason they drained that many resources.
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You can romance Visas and then make her kill herself in KOTOR 2. Does that count?
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I don't like your options.
Why can't we have magical STDs?
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Representation should be a big deal, especially in gaming which is predominatly white/male/heterosexual/cisgendered.
The world is predominantly heterosexual/"cisgendered".
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I'm still waiting for Morrigan's God Baby to murder everything, Bioware. Get on this. I didn't spawn the Dunwich Horror for nothing.
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If it actually had something to do with the plot (like sleeping with Benny and killing him in FO:NV) sure, but not tacked-on embarrassing nonsense.
So you're not against it on principle, just against the largely lackluster attempts so far?
EDIT: Nikolo summed up absolutely everything I don't want in an in-game romance. (Well, except the unrequited/doomed part. I agree that would be cool.)
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I wasn't asking for "We'll bang, ok?" I was suggesting something on par with the romances I cited. Only under player control. Although something more trivial is fine to as long as a more trivial amount of resources is assigned to it.
Edit: Tale, yeah that would be a nice spin too. Think Visas was supposed to be creepy in that way, though. Lady has issues.
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From what I remember of the BG1-2 and IWD paper-dolls, I'm not that worried about the in-game representation of women being too sexualized. IWD also had some amazing portraits and of them it was really only a few human female wizards and a bard who were obviously drawn to look sexy.
Torment's renders were ridiculous for absolutely every female character though. Well, except maybe Ravel.
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Swing and a miss.
How so? Even in a game where you play a 'predefined' character, like Torment's Nameless One, you're choosing all his responses and thus deciding what kind of role he plays in the plot and what sort of personality he has.
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Cute. That is *not* what we're talking about here.
My point is that there's no reason a romance couldn't deeply affect the plot. What does it matter if it involves the PC instead of some NPCs or being purely in the background? Just because it hasn't been done that way doesn't mean it can't be.
Of course having everyone romanceable and trying to force in some critical plot turn based on a potential romance with all of them would be a disaster.
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No, they are not. In any way. Take the "romance" out of PS:T and what do you have? The same game minus something completely innocuous, minor and unimportant.
Deionarra. Ravel.
take away the romance from MotB and you have the very same, great game
Absolutely vital to the crux of the entire plot. Only love could be so cruel.
Why the segregation between character interaction beyond the player's control and character interaction within it?
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A role playing game *telling* anyone to play a role kind of defeats the purpose. You're supposed to choose your own. Otherwise it's not roleplaying.
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This just isn't worth it. Nothing is.
Internet discussions are pretty horrifying, yeah. If it's souring you on things that much I'd just stop looking at these threads.
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as the physicallity of transgender is self induced where physicality of asexual is state of being.
This is not supported by science. As I recall there is evidence supporting epigenetic influence on each during natal development.
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This brings up an interesting point for me. Are role-playing games for projecting your own persona, essentially playing yourself in a game, or are they for assuming other roles, basically play acting? I know the answer is personal and there is no right or wrong way to satisfy it,
All of the above. And they aren't mutually exclusive. I do multiple playthroughs of good RPGs, and while I like to RP as different characters, usually one of them amounts to "what would I do if I was in this position."
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Perhaps the OP could just add an option to his poll along the lines of: I don't believe romances would divert significant resources from other content. That would give folks an opportunity to express that opinion while still asking about priorities.
I'd do this, but I can only have three questions in the poll at a time.
Number of available companions
in Pillars of Eternity: General Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
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They also mentioned something about the 6 man party not precluding "temporary companions". Guest party members for certain quests? That could add some diversity.