Azaron Nightblade wrote...
BlueMagitek wrote...
Heck, even when the information on DA:I was minimum there were topics like "We need a Female Qunari -- KOSSITH -- LI!" and "Cullen for LI!" and "Ideal S/S romances?!". And so on.
It's totally cool to like the feature, I can dig that, but when you let it overshadow everything else - the only thing that possibly came close in terms of game features were the class specializations. And then thanks to the usual suspects, most of the plot based topics turn into endless Mage/Templar or Chantry/Dalish/Qunari topics. It's rather tiring.
To be honest that isn't limited to the BSN, nor to Bioware games.
For every major franchise out there you're going to find entire forums full of talk about what romances should happen and similar stuff.
Twilight's whole "Team Edward and Team Jacob" would be one example of it, the anime series "Naruto" also has fan fictions about fans' favorite couples* beyond counting - and that's not even mentioning the obscene amounts of AMV's that people have posted on Youtube about their favorite couples.
And by "couples" I mean characters that the fans feel should end up together, just like on the BSN they're also not limited to M/F romances.
It is one thing to celebrate a given character in a fictional series, or to go to great lengths to imagine two of these characters involved in a non-canonical romance. Definitely not my cup of tea, but I can at least see the merit in that.
But the BSN says "strangers we haven't even seen? Races that are exotic? I want to "romance" them! Bioware, make it happen." It would be like being on the Twilight forums and sayin "We've seen vampire-human sex... but I want to see more vampire-werewolf pairings! That would be hot! Make it happen, author!"
That, to me, isn't celebrating characters the fans love, but has the vibe of being in a singles bar and picking out strangers to take home with you. Except... in pixelated, video game form. "I don't know you, but I want to 'love' you, baby."
Also, to address an earlier comment... it doesn't boggle my mind that someone would play a Bioware/DA cameo my for the romances. I can understand the reasons why and the mindset that would appeal to. I can grasp the concept... it just scares me a little. A game where the player spends hours and hours in gameag elements that don't even involve Dialgoue just to obtain short dialogue scenes that involve flirting and fade to black scenes seems... well, I don't want to say unhealthy, but at least a little worrying.
I would say that if this is the only reason you are playing, it might be more productive to play another type of game. And I'm not referring to romance sim games. There are plenty of games out there that deal with human relationships and offer optional romances (for M/F and S/S options) that feature the interaction between characters as the primary point of the game, not as a side feature. For instance, the Persona games have combat, but the mechanic is much further relegated back than your average DA game, instead the player spends a vast majority of the time talking to other NPCs. If that's what you really like in a game, there could be other games out there that could be much more in line with the experience you are looking for... and yes, the series has S/S romance options in spades.
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