Beef and kidney bean chili con carne for di— oh god how did this get here I am not good with computers
The other issue was that you talk to Jacob ONCE and suddenly Shepard is sexually harassing him every fucking conversation. You couldn’t even ask him how his day was without her suddenly going OH YEAH I BET YOU HAVE A BIG DICK YO, BLACK DUDES RIGHT? You got to learn absolutely nothing about him, enhance the storyline or world, fuck, it didn’t even make me want to do his loyalty mission. Every single option I would try to pick in their conversations would be either “fuck off” or “Bioware staff wrote this with one hand.” It’s even more obvious in DA2 when you suddenly reach a point where it’s just 2 hearts or 1 broken heart option.
I really have no hope or support for Bioware at this point when they hire people like Hepler who is a sexist manchild WHO DOESN’T EVEN LIKE PLAYING GAMES.
Urgh, dialogue trees are a whole other thing. In my restless dreams I see those fucked eyebrows and hear those pathetically lame attempts at witticisms. What was so wrong with the DA:O (and almost every RPG prior) system of just having a laundry list of stuff you could say and ask about?
this just appeared on my twitter feed xD
#arewethatcruel is a good tag. i am rubbing my invisible but very curly beard in thought.
Part of me goes “I WANT TO SEE THIS”, the other part of me goes “Oh god please no the character wank in fandom would go from tolerable to jesus-fuck-meltdown-every-other-day levels”.
This could be interesting if handled well
also please give the player a chance to respond in different ways that aren’t all i am so betrayed zomg cuckold!!11
no i am not still mad i couldn’t be in a poly relationship w/ isabela and merrill we all loved each other you know…CAN YOU IMAGINE IF ALISTAIR HAD JJGJNHJFNHJNFJ
Most hated character alive or most hated character alive?
…oh my god, there would be SO MUCH WANK. I LOVE IT. Now I sort of want Alistair to cheat, or maybe have the audacity to love again if the Warden dies.
I want this. If the main character can do it to others, why can’t others do it to you? POWER TO SECONDARY CHARACTERS! DOWN WITH PROTAGONIST EXCEPTIONALISM!
It would make more sense with theway I played my warden. It seemed inappropriate that Zevran had more fidelity than he did. I mean, realistically the two probably would have had a contest to see who could bag more party tail that would hit a stalemate when the warden wouldn’t give up on the impossible goal of trying to facilitate a threesome with Sten and Shale and Zevran accidentally fell into Leliana’s WE ARE TOGETHER FOREVERRRRRR trap.
I miss when Bioware used to make actual games instead of this dating sim, railroaded bullshit where every character is a hideous anime stereotype out to fuck you. I dare every single person to try to read through Hepler and Gaider’s books that are out and then tell me that they’re capable of treating ingame romances as anything other than wank material that eats up dev time (like all of DA2 and how they handled Jacob’s romance in ME2). Here’s an excerpt from Gaider’s book since I’m in a bitchy mood:
It was an unpleasant thought, one Cole had turned over and over again in his mind. They said ghosts didn’t exist, that the dead didn’t really walk amongst the living, but some people believed in them even so. They believed a dead man could become lost on his way to the Maker’s side, forever adrift in a land of shadow.
Cole wasn’t dead. Yet at the same time, he didn’t exist, and he walked amongst the living.hrrnghhhh face to keyboard time.
I would like an option to turn the romances off entirely. Even between NPCs. Save it for dating sims. Also cut away the banter about sex and replace it with some fluff text about histories or to develop a character better.
Hell, Mass Effect shouldn’t even have fraternization in the first place, being a military ship that’s supposedly full of highly trained professionals and all.
Registering a solid 8.2 on the Rasputin Dessert Decadence scale, these triple-choc brownies would probably kill you. Do not eat them.
