As someone who has never liked the "romances" in any of Bioware's games, I'd like the game to offer some reward to player characters who don't romance anyone throughout the game. It can be purely cosmetic, like a trophy/achievement, or it can affect the actual game. For example, at one point the Big Bad kidnaps your LI, but if you don't have one, then no kidnapping occurs. Or some third party gives you a useful item for not hooking up with anyone. Just some way the game acknowledges that you didn't romance anyone and rewards you for it.
(Oh, and don't even think about making sarcastic "Forever Alone" responses. Not only is that meme getting old, but it's hypocrisy of the highest order if you lust after fictional characters so much.)
Provide some benefit for players who don't romance anyone
Débuté par
someguy1231
, déc. 12 2012 07:17
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Posté 12 décembre 2012 - 07:49
Allan Schumacher
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someguy1231 wrote...
TinuHawke wrote...
If you don't want to do romance, fine by me. I don't get why you should need a reward for it though.
Because some people find them cheesy and shallow, or just want to roleplay a chaste hero for whatever reason.
Wouldn't the reward be denying yourself the cheesy and shallow content?
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Posté 12 décembre 2012 - 08:19
David Gaider
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Allan Schumacher wrote...
Wouldn't the reward be denying yourself the cheesy and shallow content?
I'm afraid I'm with Allan on this one. Romances are already optional content, which you're under no obligation to use. The idea that we'd make extra content to reward people who don't want to use other content seems a little self-defeating. The non-romance content is the rest of the game.
You're welcome.
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Posté 13 décembre 2012 - 04:17
David Gaider
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iOnlySignIn wrote...
That is the lack of punishment which is different from reward. The presence of reward and the absense of punishment have been observed to stimulate different neurons in mammalian brains.
I don't really care what they stimulate. The idea that one should be enticed to avoid optional content, with achievements or otherwise, verges on the absurd. I don't decide what ahievements are created, but if someone proposed that in a meeting ("hey, let's create achievements for people who deliberately avoid parts of the game!") I would stare at them as if they'd gone mad.
