NO Romance AGAIN for The Outer Worlds 2? NO SALE!

[erik malkavian]

This is ridiculous Obsidian.  This time your excuse for no romance in The Outer Worlds 2 is not that you don't have enough money but that it somehow detracts from the RPG??? (and I own POE 1 & 2 Complete Editions and The Spacer Choice Edition of the Outer Worlds)

RPG's are about RELATIONSHIP's. That's why you develop a Role-Playing Character to relate to the game world in certain ways and not being able to romance  NPC's you come across is just plain ridiculous and inorganic.

You walk into a bar and see this pretty young lass across the bar and say "Let me buy you a drink" and one things leads to another and your in the sack.  What the heck is wrong with THAT?  

That's the essense of RPG's. You walk around and interact with the world and the characters you meet including romancing some of them.  I just don't get this AVERSION to Romance with Obsidian Now?

Larian Studios is able to do it.  Rockstar is able to do in MULTIPLE Games (The scenario I painted is straight out of Red Dead Redemption 2). You have the largest publisher in the World backing your work and placing a $80 price tag on The Outer Worlds 2 and you weren't able to any romance to it for that price??

You may not want to hear what I'm saying but I am a Customer and the "Customer is always right" because if we don't buy your games, your out of business, Period! 

[kanisatha]

Right, well, I'm a customer too, and this customer says "Great job Obsidian for ditching stupid, useless romances in your RPGs." Their developer resources are much better spent on pretty much anything else.

[Lara Denton]

I agree with the OP. There are other games to spend my time on. Disappointing, really. 

[UrbaNebula]

As somebody who enjoyed Baldur's Gate 3, I would argue that even that game handled romance poorly. Characters that I had given little to no focus where suddenly looking to jump my bones by the end of the first act. What started as a polite conversations with Gale and Wyll turned into these weird moments of sexual tension. I'd spoken to each of them an entire three times, including the time I met them.

Then again, I can't say that I personally understand the fascination with romance in games like this. Were I in any way interested I'd just play one of those dating sims.

[DarkZephyr]

Obsidian did romance in a game I think once ever, all the way back when they worked on Neverwinter Nights 2.  I can't remember any other game where they added romance.  I guess they did a little in KOTOR2.  Some people cite Fallout New Vegas, but while you can flirt a little there are no full blown romances for the player character without mods.  Anyway, I get the impression that they hated working on romance with Never Winter Nights 2 and have decided never to add it to a game they do ever again, which is a shame.  I also suspect that they're afraid of offending people.  If they don't add LGBT options or if they DO add them, someone is gonna gripe and I suspect this is their way to avoid that.  I could be wrong though.  All I know is that with every game, there is always some article about some reason that "lead to the decision to exclude romances" as if every game they develop they at one point seriously considered adding romance.  No they didn't. lol  Its also been said that they don't think they can deliver the kind of romance that players would expect.  In my world, that's where you hire talented people that can. At any rate, I do prefer games that have it so if I ever play this game, it will be when I am super super bored.  And I certainly won't be paying 70 or 80 bucks for it.  I will NEVER pay that much for any video game ever.  Dear Lord.  

Edited September 17 by DarkZephyr