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IIRC this was the first thread on the subject (the one where Gaider gave the response of "This is not going to happen, and the fact that it's even being requested makes me wonder") so you can check it out yourself to see if you think it was serious or not: Bethany as a Love Interest

10 months was the final tally, IIRC (although I've read that there may have been preliminary IWD2 work done earlier). It was - again IIRC - supposed to be done a couple of months earlier but that extra time was put in to make some additional changes including fully implementing a version of the 3e rules (rather than the AD&D 2e kit system with some 3e influences originally planned).

Sorry Sarex but I reject this type of comment as nothing but Bioware bashing propaganda. The thought that you are suggesting that there are people on BSN who think incest could be considered normal or realistic is ludicrous. If people did say this they were trolling or joking but this does not reflect what people on BSN think is a normal Romance option in any respect. This is just taking the whole " BSN people are weird " too far and I have to dispute this insinuation While I don't think everyone in those threads were serious about it, I think some were very, very serious about it. As mentioned, its why I quit Bio's boards (not that anyone cared, I was by that point mainly a lurker).

You are King Cailan and I claim my £5. Who? Tch, and in a dragon age thread, no less...

I don't know if it was outrage or people going "Hell yeah! You tell 'em!" in agreement or what.

Weird, I had never heard that was possible.

That was when I left the Bio boards. There was a poster demanding he be able to romance his sister because he wanted to play a "Jamie Lannister" character and I'm not sure how serious he was, but then a bunch of others took it up and that was it for me.

Sadly, not the kind of committed they deserve. They're romance fans. They're in to commitment. Can't be too surprised, really.

The link and its rebuttal linked in the article are exercises in narcissism. Neither writer appears to actually be interested in the theoretical other person in any way except how that person connects to them.

Last time my computer was working I was using a keyboard from the late 1980s. It is, in many ways, the tank of keyboards. I think it'd stop a bullet and still work.

You are King Cailan and I claim my £5.

At least they were consistent - cf Nalia and complaining about not helping the less fortunate when doing the quest she asks you to do in BGII.

Based on the current evidence, I deduce it is from a man named Brucesam.

as much as I appreciate the effort, my questions are actually serious. The examples I mentioned are sadly missing from RPGs nowadays... Sorry, I assumed your use of "Path of Exile" instead of "Pillars of Eternity" indicated a lack of seriousness about your post. Mea Culpa.

I haven't been keeping up with the progress with it, but then I'm not strongly aligned to the game. Pledged for InExile to make the game, I'll judge it when I play the finished product. That said, what I've seen looked okay to enjoyable from a cursory view.

That reminds me of my mod days on BIS when half of all links posted to the forums (and bout 90% in IRC) were some form of tubgirl or goatse... That said I shall endeavor to answer the question - I am led to believe in PATH OF EXXXILE that you can get Viconia to click your rocks and get a ring of protection in the form of a virulent STD guaranteed to protect you from all but the most desperate for money nightwalkers; however the "first map" you allude to - used to rescue Dynaheir - is found somewhat differently than in dialogue with Viconia and fade-to-black screening. To get the "first map", you must instead extricate it from where Minsc hid Boo that one time, and after taking the trouble of getting that map out, yeah Minsc is a bit touchy if you decide not to follow up on the lead he's so thoughtfully provided you. Dynaheir isn't terribly happy about it either, but then by the time you find out (in this scenario) its a little late for that information to be terribly relevant. Hope this helps.

dude where is that from Katawa Shoujo visual novel, the internets tells me.

I suspect he didn't know what he meant and wasn't sure how he could describe it so left it kind of hanging out there.

It is better if Obsidian petitions Square Enix. Surely a petition from potential customers would carry more weight with Square Enix than a request to fund a game from Obs?

Well a bit more embarrassing to me since I was the volunteer mod for the PST forum on the BIS board and I'm pretty sure it came up when the soundtrack got brought up...

I can't wait to develop more meaningful and complex relationships in an RPG this makes one wonder why you have interest in the bioware romances... is a virtual oxymoron-- meaningful bioware romance. by definition, an optional game romance that is both insular and discreet has rather harsh limits on how meaningful it may be. HA! Good Fun! Gromnir surly you realize that Romance adds to a deeper connection with party members in a RPG , this has been irrefutably proven. You do know this right? "The romance is 'deeper', wink, wink, nudge, nudge - say no more!" Well the if they're going for "realistic" I hope it would include - PC can pursue characters romantically that will never work out (romance can fail for reason other than PC choosing to fail it) Romance "approval" rating that includes considering how the NPC is treated in combat (if your love interest keeps getting knocked out in every fight, s/he might think less of you), how you treat her/him, how they perceive you treating others, etc. rather than just what you say to them in camp (or worse, what gifts you give them).

You know, I knew that at one point and forgot. Oops! I can remember **** that happened on Black Isle's forum a decade ago, but I can't remember something about one of their actual games...kinda sad, actually.

But there can be only one! Or is that immortals and not Bruces? Maybe we can lop some heads off until we're sure? Not yours of course, other Bruces.

For BG2 and ToB, there was Gromnir, Mencar Pebblecrusher, Del, and Lanfear. I may be forgetting a few. But there were definitely a lot of crybabies. Including Lanfear herself, who couldn't quite get a joke. ...Typical humorless German not understanding American/Kanedan making funny. Lanfear is a name of a fairly major character in The Wheel of Time books, which were extremely popular books in the 90s (and 00s) if you're somehow unaware. It would be a very safe wager that the forum user took her/his name from these books, and that bioware did as well. And on that note, I'd wager that most of the names you guys are thinking were taken from forum posters that made it into games were really not, and the game creators were just taking the name from the same place the forum poster got their name from, wherever that was. In the case of Lanfear, it was about the poster, who was a fan of Coran in the first game and lobbied hard for his inclusion in BG2. When the game comes out, lo and behold Coran is in it. For about two seconds before he and the PC confront Lanfear who promptly kills Safana (and IIRC if the player is a female PC she kills Coran too) and then leaves (if not killed) after Lanfear is killed by the party. My memory is the original poster was outraged about this and made a big fuss before leaving the boards. Gromnir was about him as well (is there another Gromnir?). I don't even remember Mencar Pebblecrusher at this point. But do remember Del and Draconis. Still hard to believe these things that happened on the boards are now being lost to time...