RPGs in the past
>Thanks for solving my problem kind stranger! here's my heirloom sword, it's yours now!
RPGs now
>Thanks for solving my problem kind stranger! shall we have sex now?
RPGs in the past. >Thanks for solving my problem kind stranger! here's my heirloom sword, it's yours now!
It's all Madonna's fault, she's the reason women feel sexually liberated and are like this
That reference was like carbon dating, start taking multivitamins if you haven't yet grandpa
Bruh no cap frfr
>get shit done, have sex and keep material possessions too
Sounds like npcs got smarter.
blame bg2 for popularizing rpg romance as we know it today.
>but aerie was heckin cute and pure
doesn't matter, you opened the door.
This is the truth, BG2 is in many ways best crpg of all time no doubt, but it also caused all this romance shit. And unlike Aerie, Viconia romance was pretty graphic at times. And auntie stick up her arse was just... weird borderline incest.
>all this romance shit
Romance has always been pretty important in fantasy fiction though. Just sayin'.
It's kind of important in life and the continuation of it. To a degree, it's in a lot of fiction. Sometimes getting deep into character requires getting deep into other characters. It's a tether for your character that you can determine, if the writers don't just give you prewritten family or connections.
>Romance has always been pretty important in fantasy fiction though.
I don't disagree. The problem is what we get isn't really romance. What we get is dating sim bullshit. A hero and heroine falling in love over the course of the adventure is a great way to give them a sense of humanity as well as endear them to the audience while raising the stakes were we not only care if they survive but survive together. You picking the right choices and doing a bunch of disconnected side quests before getting an ugly modeled sex scene is NOT romance. I would love to see more games give single established and well focused romances with no ambiguity. Just two dedicated people who fall in love genuinely because that's part of their actual character arc. The Bioware trash is bad enough but JRPGs have gotten it especially bad too because they're all trying to pull that Persona shit. Fricking Tales of Arise was my favorite game in a long time just because it actually committed to the schmaltzy love story in ways I haven't seen since like fricking Lunar. Game got problems but it gave me a full committed love story.
These kind of romances are made for the people who want to create themselves in the game and then romance who they want to romance instead of playing a character.
BG2 is actually good though...
BG3 is dogwater
It's shocking how good the music in BG2 is. I just listened to BG3's combat score and it was like a wet fart, but the zoomies in the youtube comments naturally had nothing but praise.
I wish the Mass Effect 1 era BioWare was still around to direct this game.
>"Thanks for saving my life commander, I'm gay now. Let's frick."
the number one reason to never play ME3.
lmao
This is where gaming peaked. I want to go back.
you go back to some point on a slide, you simply end up at the same place, anon.
>leftists are fetish obsessed coomers
>pronouns and the one people aren't even mentioning yet: "masc and femme" terminology in place of men and women or even male and female as left center zookeepers like to use
>sven is a coomer from belgium
Surprising absolutely no one.
Unlike DA2 this game is good enough to carry wokeshit baggage, similar to pf.
Astute again, have another (you)
>Unlike DA2 this game is good enough to carry wokeshit baggage, similar to pf.
that just makes it all the more pernicious. You won't realize whats happening, but your subconscious will.
You could play as a "third gender" in Ultima 3. How much do you want to RETVRN?
exactly, it's not about going back.
It's not actually a slippery slope, though. That's lazy reasoning.
declination is not slippery, it's an inevitable trajectory comprised of numerous factors. the slide analogy is just for demonstrating that.
Needs another slide after the pride parade
wish we could turn back time
what games is this even supposed to be based on?
>mass effect
literally 2 male/male romances and the game is much longer than 6 hours. sexless morons really are just so fricking insanely bitter at everyone else for having sex
>implying there's no gay shit in jarpigs
Epic Quest III was a great game. Everything after it was cringe garbage.
It's not even good gay sex, there's no cute twinks to bully.
Man /misc/acks really going for gold in oppression olympics
What possesses you to make nonsense posts like this for free?
wrpg females now don't look that good. checkmate atheists
it's obviously modded.
Custer's Revenge and Leisure Suit Larry are old as frick
ah yes, my favorite two rpgs
it's not like Viconia and Aerie in Baldur's Gate 2 (which the game OP is whining about is a direct sequel to....) didn't have Viconia and Aerie as one of its lasting legacies.
Or Planescape Torment 24 years ago being even more character-focused and essentially being a western VN complete with redeemed succubus waifu straight out of a nip harem light novel
It's a matter of taste. You will never understand.
You eat shit, I understand very well that you're a shit eater.
seethe more
I've discussed this enough over time that I'm quite comfortable with my understanding vs your obtuse and rather silly equivalences.
People are undersexed physically but oversexed virtually.
acute observation. have a (you).
Ive been playing this game for hours and havent had any sex, just sucked a bit by a tentacle demon and a vampire. Bunch of liars.
Wtf are you playing this on?
A fricking 550ti? lmao
Is this more or less of a thing than Witcher 1 sex cards? Are you guys poltards/pol false flaggers blowing this out of proportion or is this something every normalgay moron will notice immediately
less because i cant find any god damn sex and I found sex almost instantly in W1
Damn, that's an Avellone drunk-text level line there.
You could get your dick wet as a reward for quest in fallout, arcanum, vtm, witcher...
>Thanks for solving my problem kind stranger! shall we have sex now?
Based Witcher 1 player
>implying women haven't used their wiener-pockets to get what they want since the dawn of time
VTMB let you frick people as a quest reward
Arcanum let you frick a goat as a quest reward
Baldur's Gate II let you impregnate your waifu in hell and carry around your baby in your inventory while traveling through hell
Jade Empire let you have a harem ending
Yeah, games were pozed israeli crap for a ling time, your point?
(You)
Underdark is not avernus, you dimwit.
It's full of black women who need no man, it might as well be.
as if OP every played "rpgs in the past".
It's funny because they backtracked every fem companion being and c**t because of nerd baklash, and now by lv 3 the frog lady interrupted a mission to tell me that she wants to frick me, I said nope, and everytime I speak to her in the camp she reminds me that we could be having sex, and the elf woman is pretty much telling me she wants me too.
And every single interaction by my side has been "4. Cut the chatter/ we'll talk in other ocassion/ I don't care"
Complete dogshit narrative, makes no fricking sense.
It's kind of funny, it's like the horny player constantly pestering the DM to let him frick girls in a brothel, only in reverse.
Playersexual instead of the incel ball stompers cariacatures that leftists usually want is one of the only redeeming factors vs. the general wokeshit stench. I can take or leave the cooming but not the repellent political messaging.
>Playersexual instead of the incel ball stompers cariacatures that leftists usually want is one of the only redeeming factors vs. the general wokeshit stench.
I can smell the cheetos
Just like in my animes
>Complete dogshit narrative, makes no fricking sense.
I mean adventurers on the road would probably take almost any chance to frick they could knowing they could die tomorrow
Why? I wouldn't be in a mood.
I generally don't care for Bards & Druids from a PR perspective and tend to not let them into my Party. However, while Astarion's skill as a rogue make him pretty invaluable, I'm seriously considering letting replacing him with an NPC to the party to fill the gap. Astarion's endless homosexualry grates on my fricking nerves.
What did you expect from the only Chaotic Evil companion in the game?
You could respec someone else and have them work as your party rogue?
Drow urban ranger is also great for not needing that baggage since dex for bow and also sleight of hand included. I can actually tolerate all the other companions for once.
This
I respecced Gale.
You just need someone you can give a decent Dexterity and pick up Sleight of Hand.
RPGs in the past:
> Now that I've cleared this bandit hideout, I shall inherit four of the bandit leader's sex slaves, which are all named after the protagonists of old Brazilian soap operas. I can rape them at will or let them go. I'll decide later: for now, they shall stay here.
RPGs now:
> I was evil before, but now... I've found a kindred soul, you know, I, uhhhh... can't see myself doing the things i did before, now that you're around me, and you understand me... I will change my entire life if it means we could be together.
What the FRICK happened?
>> Now that I've cleared this bandit hideout, I shall inherit four of the bandit leader's sex slaves, which are all named after the protagonists of old Brazilian soap operas. I can rape them at will or let them go. I'll decide later: for now, they shall stay here.
name three games like this
Planet Alcatraz, 7.62 High Caliber, Fallout 2 if you're into being raped instead, Fallout: Nevada as an honorable mention.
late reply but thanks for the recommendation anon .
Incline.
RPGs today
>Ah, that chick is scantily clad, there is probably some romance option involving lots of bad dialogue.
RPGs in the 1990s
>Damn, those b***hes breasts are just out. Shit, they're just walking away, that's weird. Guess I will follow. Aw frick, they just seductively lured me into a pack of balrogs and death knights, I'm going to bash their brains out with my mace for this.
Funny enough, Diablo I also did more clever shit with level design and monster AI actually adding to the difficulty as the game goes on and friendly fire making team play interesting than any arpg since.
No spiritual successor to Diablo has actually ever been made unfortunately.
adult people have sex on a regular basis, its just realistic
>RPGs in the past
>Count Corvallis
lol
The Dynamix guys were all University of Oregon grads in Eugene. Of course the pedo count is from Corvallis: home of their instate rival OSU.
That's actually funny. 13 is a marriageable age though, politically speaking. Nothing to do with pedophilia.
Theres always been romance crap in RPGs, some anons will try to be over-corrective and borderline deny this fact when the problem isn't the existence of romance crap its that this shit in BG3 isn't romance it's pure smut, these characters aren't interesting nor good, even just as platonic companions they're all insufferable the dialogue is so fricking bad and the constant horniness sprinkled in doesn't help its case, I'm not a puritan nor do I in a sense really care for romance stuff either it's just nauseating how bad this shit is and shoved in your face. You would hope for an RPG that has so much work put in it would atleast nail down a fundamental aspect such as engaging writing but no its just going to peddle extra horniness and shitty storylines till they run RPGs into the ground and blame gamers or their dads like usual.
There shouldn't be romance in games.
a) Games are meant for kids and adults getting in touch with their inner child
b) Games are meant as a means of escaping
c) Romancing pixels is about the cringiest thing a human being can do
If you start adding a bit of romance and say its ok, it's a slippery slope
It all started with dykes and gays getting into wrpgs cuz of the romances you see in bioware games like dragon age. Then came stuff like critical role. Most of the normie buyers of BG3 are these sexual deviants.
Maybe the best way to do romances would have been between party members. Something that builds up in the background of your group, developing two characters. You don't see all of it, you just know it's going on.
Christ, that would have been a thousand times worse. The cuck posting would never end.
Good point.
What's the point if you don't see it? A romance is interesting through observation, not in and of itself. Really though, it's a non-solution, because romances are only good if the characters involved are likable, and if there is a likable party member, people would want to romance them themselves, since video games are an interactive medium.
Just the opposite anon, no romance with party members.
You can use some very specific NPCs and side quests for that.
They should not mingle with the main quest
Slippery slope was never a fallacy.
It's an inevitability.
It gets even worse when characters can't really even so much have dedicated story arcs because their whole character now has to exist to orbit the MC and wait for them to solve all their problems with a saccharine speech were the spout he obvious. Female characters get it even worse because they can't even so much as say hello to another male character without the audience going absolutely mental. I'm not really arguing that every single character needs to be paired up and shipped off together, there's potential for arcs that are just as easily not romantic but Christ's teeth.
Is this real? It looks like really bad smut.
Yes and yes.
I don't remember this being an "iconic" BG thing. Even in BGII which had romances, it was dealt with in a very different way.
It's not. It's more of a Mass Effect thing.
wasn't it dragon age that started this shit?
Morrigan was a bit in your face but who did you actually romance in DA:O?
No, Mass Effect has Kaidan transforming into a homosexual as well as Liara being one of the first LLs to be available for males and females, which started the slippery slope to bestiality we see in BG3
You could frick a sheep in Arcanum.
you could frick that demon lady in DA:O as well. mark my words, pedo normalization and bestality is next for us irl. canucks already let you frick dogs.
Ohohohoy gevalt!
BG2 romances were less about the flirting and sex, and more about two characters getting closer to each other. Most of the "romance" was talking about life. 90% of Aerie's romance was talking about wings and gnomes. Barely any sex at all. Like the one time you bone her, she gets pregnant.
Right. I think the BG2 romances were frequently cringe in their own way, but they were honest attempts at character-driven romantic subplots. There was no pornhub-tier banter like that pic in OP.
Millenials and leftoids destroyed the medium the same reason why there's unironically 'bipoc' rooms at convention centers. It's a mindless mess of woke moronation that's only going to lead to trouble.
>noooo you can’t segregate yourselves from us
>we are entitled to access to you, but also we can segregate ourselves from you
>Understands why holding yourself to one standard and others is a bad
>Tries to double down
Go be a racist c**t elsewhere
meh i just turned everyone down and stood incel. like real life but the roleplaying comes from the fact that I turned them down.
Why this bad thing?
I thought this is what incel want?a girl simping over them? Being honest and want sex with them?
real men want to chase, lee. a prostitute throwing herself at you so clumsily is boring as frick.
>real men want to chase
That's what feminism does to a man.
>t. prostitute-fricker
A key that opens many locks is a master key. A lock that opens to any key is a useless lock.
that's so sexist
How can nature be sexist? It is what it is.
You gotta give 'em what they want.
Yeah the witcher did it better
It was kino actually getting cards without knowing I was gonna get them
Why are you afraid of sex in your games? It's a regular part of everyday life for people.
Performative eroticism isn't erotic.
>It's a regular part of everyday life for people.
lol
Is this where we've wound up? If you don't like poorly-written, out-of-place, immersion-breaking smut then you're just a creepy virgin teehee?
m8 I've played countless H-games and your companions come on to you faster than the majority of them. You're flirting and making bashful smiles at eachother on the third conversation and fricking by the fourth. There's virtually no build up to it and can go through it all in the first act.
Am I against cheap casual sex in my games? Yes, I am.