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[wolfhowwl]

After playing through the Dragon Age and Mass Effect games and reading romance threads on this forum, I wondered the different qualities people here look for in a romanceable character.

I couldn't help but notice concerns that a character was more "experienced" than the PC in relationships. Simply, the PC was not their first time while conversely, dialogue options could express that it was the PC's first.

This isn't a bad thing per se, but it is a matter of comfort.

Some might find the idea of the characters partner having been in multiple relationships, before the PC to be somewhat scary, to put it lightly, especially since it could be the protagonist first relationship. There could be comparisons to past lovers and expectations of...performance that have to be met.

It could also add depth to the romance if both are shy and inexperienced. They could be learning and growing together as equals. The player could rest easy in knowing that only they have had this character.

What level of experience do you want a character you romance to have?

Modifié par wolfhowwl, 10 octobre 2013 - 05:00 .

[Plaintiff]

I thought this was going to be about the levelling mechanic. Disappoint.

I don't care in the least. I don't think characters being virginal adds 'depth' to a romance at all. Being a virgin doesn't make a person more interesting, if anything it makes them less so because it means less backstory overall.

I think being squicked out by a person's sexual history is silly in the extreme. Especially if that person is fictional.

Modifié par Plaintiff, 09 octobre 2013 - 10:18 .

[JCAP]

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[Br3admax]

And here I thought we were going to discuss leveling.

IDC. Never thought to play a thirty year old virgin anyway.

[Knight of Dane]

Plaintiff wrote...

I thought this was going to be about the levelling mechanic. Disappoint.

I came here fully expecting the same thing.

But then again this is bioware.social............

What a fool I am.

Anyway, I don't have any specification for any LI's, I'll go with what I think is the better option for my 'Quistor.

Though I like innocent blonde elves, but I think that's more of a fetish. I like princesses and damsels in distress'esque charatcers.

Anyway, any kind of experience is fine with me as long as it suits the character I suppose.

Modifié par Knight of Dane, 09 octobre 2013 - 10:25 .

[Heimdall]

I can't say I give a damn. The only Bioware RPG that's lacked the "Inexperienced Good Girl" archetype that I can think of is DAO, which had Leliana as a deceptive stand in and Alistair as the male version.

[Gwydden]

Br3ad wrote...
And here I thought we were going to discuss leveling.

Sten would say life is full of disappointments. Had the exact same "experience" here.

[Wulfram]

Thread name is kind of misleading.

I don't really mind, generally. I think female LIs are a bit too often virginal (whether or not they're specified to be actually virgins), and if they're not virginal then their sexuality seems to be a big part of the character. You don't seem to get many who are just fairly confident and mature about things but aren't former seducer-assassins or wear skin tight catsuits or whatever. Exceptions would be Jaheira and Ashley.

Male LIs on the other hand seem to too often be widowers. Of course Alistair is a big exception.

[FINE HERE]

Wulfram wrote...
Male LIs on the other hand seem to too often be widowers. Of course Alistair is a big exception.

This.

Can we not have another widowed or 'My last girlfriend died' male LI?
Carth, Sky, Valen, Zervan(Possibly more.) Yeah, even though I didn't mind their characters or writing, less of those, please.

Can't we have a guy with a cheating ex-lover? Or just didn't care about love and sex at all? Or a divorced man? Or a loner type who was too afraid to talk to girls and tries to shyly avoid them? Or an average but still how interesting guy?

[Blackrising]

Modifié par Blackrising, 09 octobre 2013 - 11:09 .

[happy_daiz]

Uhh, this is a weird topic.

I don't really care, and feel creepy inside, thinking about it. Thanks, OP.

Modifié par happy_daiz, 09 octobre 2013 - 11:20 .

[Hainkpe]

This did not go where I thought it was going...

[Orian Tabris]

Hainkpe wrote...



This did not go where I thought it was going...

It never does.

I am the same as most everyone else here... next time OP, be more specific... but try to avoid doing like some people, and having walls of text as their title.

[Maria Caliban]

I've noticed that in a fair number of games/books/movies, female love interests tend to be less experienced while male ones tend to be more experienced.

I haven't seen this pattern in Dragon Age. It's nice.

[DooomCookie]

Blackrising wrote...

Amen.  Of all the possible thread titles...

[Swoopdogg]

 Well it should be different for each potential LI, like it's always been. It's part of their characterization IMO

[Swoopdogg]

Maria Caliban wrote...

I've noticed that in a fair number of games/books/movies, female love interests tend to be less experienced while male ones tend to be more experienced.

I haven't seen this pattern in Dragon Age. It's nice.

Lelianna, Isabela

I guess 2 characters doesn't necessarily make a pattern, but I digress

[Maria Caliban]

I'm not even sure what you're trying to say.

[thats1evildude]

Morrigan certainly wasn't a virgin. And Merrill was an elf, so ...

[Nefla]

Either way, whatever works with the character.

[wolfhowwl]

FINE HERE wrote...

Wulfram wrote...
Male LIs on the other hand seem to too often be widowers. Of course Alistair is a big exception.

This.

Can we not have another widowed or 'My last girlfriend died' male LI?
Carth, Sky, Valen, Zervan(Possibly more.) Yeah, even though I didn't mind their characters or writing, less of those, please.

Sorry, Carth Syndrome is a Bioware standard.

[DatOneFanboy]

>goes to forums
>Oh heres a good romance thread.
>Reads it
>An hero cause this thread is like every other cancerous romance thread on this forum,

back in to the topic, DOES MORIGEN an dIsebele anders join too? triplesome 4

[Dabrikishaw]

Plaintiff wrote...

I thought this was going to be about the levelling mechanic. Disappoint.

I don't care in the least. I don't think characters being virginal adds 'depth' to a romance at all. Being a virgin doesn't make a person more interesting, if anything it makes them less so because it means less backstory overall.

I think being squicked out by a person's sexual history is silly in the extreme. Especially if that person is fictional.

[Laughing_Man]

I don't care.
I think that you should first make a character, and decide according to his or her story the amount of his \\ her "experience", not the other way around.

[Conquerthecity]

I always thought Dawn Star was the most natural seeming of Bioware romances. She was your childhood friend, there from the beginning and through everything the Spirit Monk experienced. But with how backgrounds are working, I don't think we'll have any childhood friend companions.

Couldn't care less about how experienced LIs are. Isabela--who obviously had a lot of experience, to put it lightly--is my canon for DA2 and that's because she seems the most normal out of all the options, including all of her experience. 

Modifié par Mungolian_, 10 octobre 2013 - 05:54 .