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[Gojiira]

It just looks and sounds worse and worse…Them comparing it ‘more to New Vegas’ doesnt inspire much confidence either given all the talent who actually made NV is long gone…

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

All this because they won’t have romance options?


That’s like claiming laser weaponry and space flight are ‘missing features’ from a WW2 shooter.

Asking for classes in an RPG is like asking for lasers in WW2? Bruh why you gotta L yourself like that

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

For me, this is a good thing.

 

[LeftThumbstick]

Seems like i'm in the minority, but who cares? Romancing NPCs had always been cringe unless the writing is decent enough or it figures into their characters ark, which is barely the case ever.

The last and only time I pursued this in a game was the Mass Effect games, Witcher games and Cyberpunk, and even then it was embarrassing hahaha.

Nah i'm completely with you, who even actually cares? The most i've ever done when it comes to romance in games is employing hookers in GTA. That's the only romance i care about.

 

[adamsapple]

Another Xbox half baked game coming to Gamepass

 

[sendit]

"An echo chamber is "an environment where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce his or her own.""

 

[adamsapple]

"An echo chamber is "an environment where a person only encounters information or opinions that reflect and reinforce his or her own.""

You don't have to do Pop dirty like that.

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

Good, "romance" as recently developed for a game concept ruins RPGs and makes what should be adult characters sound like extremely-online teenagers.

Particularly when the obsession with politicized diversity means you have some weirdly asexual-sexualized world, because you blur all lines between the behavior of sexes which clashes irreconcilably with the clan/tribe/allegiance kind of world they're trying to convey.

Androgynous mechanics always lead to permanent children as characters, who don't seem to grasp higher orders of loyalty / allegiance / honor etc and how those are fundamentally orthogonal to affective relationships or flirting. No thanks.

 

[Astray]

That’s like claiming laser weaponry and space flight are ‘missing features’ from a WW2 shooter.

My problem is not really about 'missing features' (don't care about romances for example), it's the weird thing where they spend nearly their entire marketing to tell us what the game won't have.

Like, tell me why I should pick up your game in what's gonna be another busy gaming year. Like the only thing I've seen them talk specifically about is the combat and that fell really flat for me in the showcase.

It's like they are trying so hard to not be the victims of YouTube essays about broken promises or whatever, but like, who gives a shit what YouTube thinks? Market your game and actually tell me why you think I should buy it.

 

[Ozriel]

My problem is not really about 'missing features' (don't care about romances for example), it's the weird thing where they spend nearly their entire marketing to tell us what the game won't have.

Like, tell me why I should pick up your game in what's gonna be another busy gaming year. Like the only thing I've seen them talk specifically about is the combat and that fell really flat for me in the showcase.

It's like they are trying so hard to not be the victims of YouTube essays about broken promises or whatever, but like, who gives a shit what YouTube thinks? Market your game and actually tell me why you think I should buy it.

Then perhaps you shouldn’t be getting your news from a fellow user, especially one who historically isn’t exactly unbiased?

All these are from a 23mins video stream where they talked about their game, what’s in it, what they intend to achieve and other stuff. They used that to tell you what the game would have, and not to go over a litany of things not in the game.

Heck, you can already tell from the video description which certainly isn’t all about combat

 

[Pop]

You don't have to do Pop dirty like that.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Never realised Gaffers were so keen on in game romances. I thought all the waifu stuff was just a joke …

 

[devilNprada]

Never realised Gaffers were so keen on in game romances. I thought all the waifu stuff was just a joke …

Makes us married guys feel like we actually still have some game!

 

[Astray]

Then perhaps you shouldn’t be getting your news from a fellow user, especially one who historically isn’t exactly unbiased?

All these are from a 23mins video stream where they talked about their game, what’s in it, what they intend to achieve and other stuff. They used that to tell you what the game would have, and not to go over a litany of things not in the game.

Heck, you can already tell from the video description which certainly isn’t all about combat

I saw this exact clip way before i read his post, nothing looked really unique about the game, they spent a lot of time on combat (almost 1/6th of their show time) and it looked honestly non-engaging.

This was actually the game I looked most forward to when they 1st revealed it. And honestly from the moment they revealed the new artstyle I've been losing my enthusiasm for it.

 

[diffusionx]

Not saying that this game needs romances (if it is from the people who made Outer Worlds, it definitely does not), but I just don't see how anyone could be excited about this based on what we saw. Unless you are for some reason a huge fan of Pillars of Eternity lore.

 

[amigastar]

Not saying that this game needs romances (if it is from the people who made Outer Worlds, it definitely does not), but I just don't see how anyone could be excited about this based on what we saw. Unless you are for some reason a huge fan of Pillars of Eternity lore.

Not the biggest fan, but i've enjoyed Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2 very much. I don't know if they can pull off this atmosphere sucessfully.

 

[Kacho]

Never realised Gaffers were so keen on in game romances. I thought all the waifu stuff was just a joke …

Never underestimate gamers degeneracy brah. There are long discussions about how Tali smells in Mass Effect 2.

 

[diffusionx]

Never underestimate gamers degeneracy brah. There are long discussions about how Tali smells in Mass Effect 2.

 

[DaciaJC]

Eh, it's not that big of a deal. You can't exactly romance anyone in Fromsoft's games but they're still excellent RPGs.

Not having classes, though? That's a much bigger "um, what?" moment.

 

[bender]

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

 

[Varnish La PS]

Wrong thread.