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[Killdren88]

While having the option to romance your companions is a fine thing, I have to ask if anyone else thinks that there may be too much focus on a specific part of the game.

Would someone who doesn't want to romance for a play through suffer for not doing so? Do people see the combat and adventure..the main focus of the game to begin simply see it as annoying filler between your romance scenes?

So to reiterated. Is romance a little too focused on as appose to the larger picture of the game the adventuring the combat and such?

[AkiKishi]

I think it started to get that way and Bioware played to the crowd which brought more people who liked it and so on and so on. I get the feeling that at some point the whole thing is going to collapse on itself by trying to please too many people with very different ideas about what is good and what is bad.

 

Now you have to do so many different types of romance to be inclusive and on top of that give multiple choices, it gets kind of ridiculous and becomes fan service.

[SerCambria358]

What information implied that this was occurring?

[ManOfSteel]

BioWare have hardly mentioned it. It's the community that goes crazy whenever the words "romance" or "love interest" are brought up in conversation.

[MarchWaltz]

In my opinion, yes.

 

One of the devs said at the gaymer convention that everything they do has money behind it, so I thought to myself:

 

"I'm pretty sure the money they use for romances can be better spent on much more quests", or other stuff.

 

But again, it's my opinion, I really do not care for romances.

[Lucy Glitter]

Think of it this way, most of us are secretly hopeless romantics, really. Every big blockbuster has a romance in it to some degree because IT SELLS. Rom coms sell, action movies with sexy romantic sidekicks sell... romance is a big part of everyones lives... like, ever. 

 

In a genre of gaming where story and connection to characters is one of the most VITAL elements, romance seems to be a given. In fact, you'd think it'd be there in a big way. In an epic story, it brings the heart. 

 

So, yeah, romance should have a big focus in a game that has it's focus in sweeping, epic plots. 

[Gannayev of Dreams]

From the community on these forums?  Perhaps

 

From Bioware themselves?  No, it will end up being relatively insignificant next to the scope of the larger game.

[Giubba]

BioWare have hardly mentioned it. It's the community that goes crazy whenever the words "romance" or "love interest" are brought up in conversation.

 

 Yeah this. Considering that at the present time we have at least 3 pagan cult centered around Cullen i think the problem is not on bioware side...

[Ailith Tycane]

The only people who focus too much on romance in Bioware games is the BSN. It gets brought up in interviews and such but most other people see it for what it is; just a nice, optional addition to the main game. 

[Kaidan Fan]

If you mean in the game, I would say no, since Dragon Age games are story/character/relationship driven.  I think this is fine.  If you mean here on the forums, people are going to discuss what they like and that is also fine.  Both are optional which makes it even better.  If you like it, dive in.  If you don't, party on without it

[AkiKishi]

This is from the Sera thread which gives a more practical interpretation.

 

Allan Schumacher, on 11 Jun 2014 - 10:34 AM, said:

The bottleneck for creating characters is less writing, and more cin design.

 

DA2 had 2 player models and 4 love interests, meaning custom cinematic scenes (required if you have intimate touching) required 8 scenes (assuming you only need one).

 

DAI has 8 player models.  If we have at least 4 love interests (I suspect our minimum), that takes 32 scenes (assuming we only need one).

 

Alternatively, if we were to have no bisexual characters, we could use 4 (one gender, 4 races) per pairing, and we could have 8 love interests in the game with not tooooooo much extra work required by cinematics (writing would need more, but if it is determined that they have the capacity and cin design does not, then it's not a net drain on the overall timeline).

 

 

Now lets say we have those 8 love interests, and we mandate that in order to be fair they must be bisexual.  Now we have 64 scenes to make.  Lets assume a scene takes a cindesigner one day to make.  We just added a full man month of work to the cindesigners.  John Epler would be very, very sad 

[archav3n]

Why would you suffer when you do not want romance? It makes 0 sense.

[Kantr]

The only people who focus too much on romance in Bioware games is the BSN. It gets brought up in interviews and such but most other people see it for what it is; just a nice, optional addition to the main game. 

Aye, thats my view too

[Torayuri]

No, I don't think there is. I think that it's just the fact that the BSN focusses on it A LOT which might make you think so.

[ntrisley]

Yes.

 

Romance is certainly a part of life and what have you, but I kind of feel like it's silly how much the playerbase and developers have spent focusing on the different romance options and being so PC about making sure there are heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual relationships.

[thats1evildude]

In this forum? Yes.

 

In the game proper? No.

[Uhh.. Jonah]

are you kidding me? not at all. it's mostly the forumites that emphasize it so much. bioware has mentioned only about TWO THINGS (if I can remember) in relation to romance in the game: Cullen and Cassandra being confirmed, and Aaron's tweet regarding Sera's exclusiveness to a Female PC, which wasn't really anything at all besides a confirmation. For me, it seems Bioware places the importance of romance behind other game mechanics.

[Killdren88]

Why would you suffer when you do not want romance? It makes 0 sense.

When I say that I mean that would I miss anything significant in regards to the game.

[thebigbad1013]

I think that, while some people tend to take the whole romance issue a bit too far, I have always found them to be a great addition to BioWare's games and something I very much enjoy. I don't think there is too much emphasis on the romances, I just think that they are a great addition and I am glad that BioWare continues to have romances in their games as optional content.

[andar91]

I don't think Bioware focuses on it, I think fans focus on it. Some people love them, some hate it...whatever, it's optional. I'm sure only a fraction of Bioware's resources go to it, but it's something that a lot of people enjoy, so what's the harm? 

 

To reiterate: no, I don't think there is too much of a focus on it by Bioware. By fans? Unfair question, since people like games for different reasons.

[Fallstar]

No idea?

 

Probably not. I played DA2 mostly without romances, and didn't feel like I was missing out on anything significant.