SeekDWay

I finally got my activation email, after 3 weeks of trying... hell I even got 2. I added my admition fee before the KS ended (I can provide some screenshots if need be) but as I said I was never able to activate my forum account. Would it be too late to add me to the list as "Derpdragon of the Obsidian Order" ?

I totally agree with you. The brick-in-your-face-romances are just bad writing and we all know where that came from. There is a lot you can do with romances other than what is now considered "standard". As I said before I'd rather have romance in the meaning that a succubus would touch me with her finger, than a party of aliens who all want to dryhump me to death.

You clearly haven't played DND with me. Quite frankly I almost always manage to pick the most underpowered option. I just hate the word epic. (Goes back to dieing in NetHack, "Crash! A rock falls on your head! It explodes!")

I'm all in for Romance options, I don't see how this will hurt the game experience for anyone. HOWEVER, I don't support simplified get-go unrealistic romance (read harem) options. Just because I have a NPC of the opposite gender in my party it doesn't mean that this character's sole reason for existense should be defined by my ego stroking urges. I totally want there to be romance options in the game and while I did like some of the romance options in BG2, I think that if there is such an option in PE it should be closer to what Planescape had. When you are nearing the end of the game or a party member's personal story arc, when you have invested a lot of time into understanding this chracter and have formed a bound with him/her only then should that option be possible. I don't want a Date Tycoon game, I want a mature and intelligently writen story where forming a relationship with a certain character feels like reading a good book rather than getting to the next checkpoint in Super Mario. Romances should be the ending branch of a NPCs character, the optional finishing touch to the relationship between the PC and the character in question.

This is very odd, because you seem to go on to restate peoples concerns with romances right after you said that you did not understand those concerns. I'll make this less odd for you. I'd rather have a succubus touch me with a finger at the end of the game then a party of aliens who want to dry hump me to death. I hope I made myself clear now. (Even though the correct meaning the word romance still eludes me)

I'm all in for Romance options, I don't see how this will hurt the game experience for anyone. HOWEVER, I don't support simplified get-go unrealistic romance (read harem) options. Just because I have a NPC of the opposite gender in my party it doesn't mean that this character's sole reason for existense should be defined by my ego stroking urges. I totally want there to be romance options in the game and while I did like some of the romance options in BG2, I think that if there is such an option in PE it should be closer to what Planescape had. When you are nearing the end of the game or a party member's personal story arc, when you have invested a lot of time into understanding this chracter and have formed a bound with him/her only then should that option be possible. I don't want a Date Tycoon game, I want a mature and intelligently writen story where forming a relationship with a certain character feels like reading a good book rather than getting to the next checkpoint in Super Mario.