>I don't hate love in game stories; I just hate reducing love to shallow, masturbatory fantasy indulgence. Maybe that's all love is to some people, but I think that's a pretty narrow view. Ego-stroking is very popular in CRPGs, which is one reason I don't feel comfortable doing CRPG writing anymore.
>I appreciate that people wanted more romance options in NWN2, but sometimes I think that people want there to be romance "victory" conditions for all companions. I think that can diminish some characters. For instance, if Shandra and Qara had their own romance plots, I think some people would still want Neeshka to be "romance-able", regardless of how Neeshka's author felt about the character's place in the story.
>That bugs me. I don't like the idea that you can "win" everything or get everyone on your side. I'm also not fond of the idea that romance always has to resolve with a "fade out" to implied coitus, but that's another issue.
>I'll re-state what I wrote before: I want romance to receive either less or more attention in games. Anything worth doing is worth doing well, especially when it's something with so much emotional potential. But I certainly don't want to go the route of harem anime, which is total fantasy indulgence and gross pandering.
This guy is a bigger cu-ck than Anthony Burch simply because at least Burch enjoys writing for video games. SJeWyer is literally complaining about doing his fucking job like he's some kind of Bernie Sanders supporter that posts #refugeelivesmatter on Twitter
He's right though. The comparison to harem anime is especially apt.
Michael Peterson
>HE's still posting this Kys op, no one cares
Julian Price
No, I agree with what he says.
CRPG romance is cringey is fuck. It's always stilted and uncomfortable, the characters are never more appealing or attractive for it. I remember Aerie in BG2 - half way through ToB there is a fade to black and later she ends up with 'Aerie's baby' stuck in her inventory for the rest of the game. Pretty bad.
Like he says - I'd rather games had either less romance, or more - romance done well with real attention on the building relationship between characters (and I think this requires a voiced protagonist) or no romance. Box-ticking romance, where the target female gets '+2 reputation' when you say things she likes, and once you hit +50 you fuck, are just embarrassing.
Nicholas Murphy
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Levi Richardson
Maybe the only way to do good romance is with a visual novel. Even though it's rape porn, Sengoku Rance has amazing characters who you care about because the game focuses heavily on character interactions.
Jason Rogers
>muh SJW >meanwhile it's just Sawyer doing whatever Sawyer wants
Charles Bailey
But he's right, romance in video games are absolute ass.
Isaac Hughes
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William Lopez
It's possible elsewhere, it's just that a VN has literally no redeeming aspects except attention to detail. Other game devs are more focused on trying to make a good game.
Dylan Thomas
He makes good games
You don't
Therefore your opinion doesn't matter
Adrian Parker
Sengoku Rance has good gameplay and good porn. They complement each other, in that doing well at the gameplay unlocks more porn, and unlocking more porn levels up your character to give you more abilities in gameplay. Also you can rest in between masturbating by grinding some dungeons to level you characters up, and by the time you've finished the dungeon your dick has recharged.
Jose Jackson
I don't see what he does wrong exactly.
If you are this political about it, then maybe you should just stop buying his games?
I agree to this so much and even most of the left realises how stupid Trigger Warnings are. I mean, what are you gonna do? Put trigger warnings on news papers as well? And everyone on Facebook who shares news etc?
Jacob Brown
>Sengoku Rance has good gameplay and good porn. great
now post more examples
Brayden Martin
Well he isn't wrong.
Chase Ross
>Hating Ayn Rand and comparing her to fucking Hitler
Literally only retarded liberals do this
Caleb Parker
tl;dr: Because he sucks at getting women in real life, he wants his characters to be as big of losers as he is
>As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazism or Hitler approaches 1
Justin Jenkins
Doesn't look that way to me.
Carson Kelly
It's amazing how fast he succumbs to cancer. He has 0% integrity.
Lucas Gutierrez
I used to dislike Ayn Rand too -- until I realised that the only people that hated her worshiped Marx instead
Colton Rogers
>3. We want land and territory (colonies) to feed our people and to settle our surplus population.
>4. Only Germans may be citizens of the Germany. Only those of the German races may be members of the nation, their religion does not matter. No Jew may be a citizen
Wow didn't know Sawyer was for ethno nationalism and colonialism.
Angel Butler
He says that because he cant write romance for his sjw audience
Elijah Cooper
That's not true user, I dislike Ayn Rand and Karl Marx.
Carter Hernandez
Based as fuck.
Nolan Thomas
I do too, but always think twice about the cucks that hate Rand and why they do
Lincoln Rogers
r u dum
Christian Parker
Because he's a cuckold that's never made out with a chick, let alone fallen in love with one
The problems with writers is always two fold: 1. They've never been in a fight 2. They've never had sex
Jason Lopez
Marx's criticisms of capitalism were accurate.
Nothing about Rand is accurate.
Jason Taylor
He has a gf, though...
Samuel Perry
Anthony Burch did too
Aiden Torres
Huh, means even Burch had more sex than you ever did.
Oliver Phillips
Sup Ropekid. Didn't know you were friends with Anthony
Easton Reyes
Do you have some kind of bot dedicated to reposting this every day?
Thomas Hughes
What exactly is transphobic about this? I'd probably be freaked out if too if I slept with a penis I thought was a vagina. Isn't that my prerogative? At any rate, it's just a silly poem.
Levi Hughes
Watching your gf get fucked by other people doesn't count as sex user, no matter what your mother told you
Nathaniel Allen
Why do you hate sawyer so much? Is it because NV is better than 4? How much is todd paying you to post these threads every day?
Oliver Cook
He's the guy who shitposts about Obsidian and Witcher. That is his thing.
Gavin Hernandez
but we already found out that Randy Pitchford was the biggest bitch this year user
He got so offended by a tweet that he had to show how upset and weak bigots are by playing a song about during PAX
There's nothing wrong with what he's saying here. What the fuck is your point? Are you just spouting meme words because you can't formulate a thought without them?
Thomas Miller
What did those Japanese RPGs do to you Cred Forums?
Mason Howard
>At any rate, it's just a silly poem.
Oh, it's not just a silly poem
To cuckolds like Sawyer, he thinks his shitty fantasy game PoE will somehow shape culture and needs to be altered to reflect what he considers proper social norms
Carson Kelly
A cuckold romance sounds interesting. Besides, people like him they can write freely those since is part of their lives and dreams.
Carson Stewart
>A cuckold romance sounds interesting
As it would allow Burch or Sawyer to self insert as the NPC as my PC fucks their virtual wife (No doubt an elf)