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I was kind of more disturbed by amount of unironical love fanart about this fucker.

Girl like bad boys. It seems a logical conclusion that girls will love boys who will shoot them in the head, bury them in a shallow grave and leave them for dead in the middle of the desert.

I wonder if these ladies would interpret gangraping their mothers as a marriage proposal.
 

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Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic ... ex/6255795

His conclusions cannot be incorrect in this discussion, merely different from yours. Having said that, the only way to argue against or around the OP's line of reason is to debate with him/her the qualities of an 'old school RPG' and the intellectual or emotional investment he/she has to those qualities, and then why those qualities still exist in Dragon Age 2 - if in somewhat of an evolved and cultured form.

:what:
 

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I didn't want to start a new thread for it, and this one seems fitting enough. It's declining anyway. In a very old bioboards thread I randomly stumbled upon, I found this:

Q:
Is there any person in kotOR 2 that can be like Bastila?? I mean is there someone you can love??

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Not really like KotOR...not even close. One of the lead designers over there thinks that love plots have no real place in RPG's. I beg to differ with him, but that's another argument, another day.

The romances in K2 are nearly non-existant, male or female. They basically boil down to innuendo and vague references, but nothing even half as satisfying as K1. The Female Exile romance options are badly done. So vague. So very vague.

Nothing new under the sun there, if it wasn't that the thread is from 2005. I had the impression all the romances shit was something kinda recent, started by DAO and continued by ME2 (and DA2, and every future biowhore game, now). Evidently, I was wrong: this shit was abound and advocated 6 years ago, before even ME1 was released. Meh.
 

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Jools said:
I didn't want to start a new thread for it, and this one seems fitting enough. It's declining anyway. In a very old bioboards thread I randomly stumbled upon, I found this:

Q:
Is there any person in kotOR 2 that can be like Bastila?? I mean is there someone you can love??

A:
Not really like KotOR...not even close. One of the lead designers over there thinks that love plots have no real place in RPG's. I beg to differ with him, but that's another argument, another day.

The romances in K2 are nearly non-existant, male or female. They basically boil down to innuendo and vague references, but nothing even half as satisfying as K1. The Female Exile romance options are badly done. So vague. So very vague.

It's an AI issue, really.
 

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It's an AI issue, really.

Anal Incident issue?

Also, David Gaider is definitely the go to man for knowing how to write a satisfying romance, and his female characters have only gotten more emotionally and physically attractive to rpg veterans.
 

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David Gaider writes soap operas for old women trapped in fat man bodies. Blech.
 

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David Gaider writes soap operas for old women trapped in fat man bodies. Blech.

Are you salying that Bioware fans do not know what realistic relationships are like? How can you generalise and label people like that?
 

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"Are you salying that Bioware fans do not know what realistic relationships are like?"

Very likely something they have in common with Codexers.

R00fles!
 

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Volourn said:
"Are you salying that Bioware fans do not know what realistic relationships are like?"

Very likely something they have in common with Codexers.

Maybe the codex and bioware social can hook up

have a slumber party or something
 

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sgc_meltdown said:
Nael said:
David Gaider writes soap operas for old women trapped in fat man bodies. Blech.

Are you salying that Bioware fans do not know what realistic relationships are like? How can you generalise and label people like that?

Mine eyes have seen the glory. They are horrible, horrible people.

:rpgcodex:
 

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Jools said:
Nothing new under the sun there, if it wasn't that the thread is from 2005. I had the impression all the romances shit was something kinda recent, started by DAO and continued by ME2 (and DA2, and every future biowhore game, now). Evidently, I was wrong: this shit was abound and advocated 6 years ago, before even ME1 was released. Meh.

BG2 had romances. Good ones too, not like the shit bioware makes now. I hear Arcanum had one too, but I never played it long enough to find out.
 

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