This discourse was going around twitter today apparently and im curious takes from here.

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Which is it for you?

For me i prefer playersexuality. I want to be able to romance any romance option regardless of my charachters gender. I dont want to be stuck with only Arcade Gannon if i want to do m/m

I agree that sexuality can be important to a charachter. But if you wanna do that, seems like the charachter can just not be a romance option.

That said. In RPGs devs can do what they want. You want a charachter to be monosexual and a romance option, have at it. (Unless theyre all straight, then fuck you).

I do kinda hate what The Sims did by adding monosexuality. Felt like such a virtue signal that made the game less fun. All Sims being pansexual was always more fun for me. Especially since i usually play that game as a pansexual slut. Unless i decide my player Sim is mono, but thats on the player's end.

Monosexual townies in the Sims should at least be optional (is it? Idk havent played Sims 4 since this update).

  • Bassword
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    9 months ago

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    • TraumaDumpling
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      9 months ago

      agree, i'm horny af and i've never liked romance in games. i can just look at porn or use my imagination or something instead of playing through poorly written stiffly animated 'romantic' dialogue scenes to unlock a poorly animated cgi softcore sequence, or i could even read an actually good book instead of some rushed consumer product with the barest hint of a plot that mostly exists to justify gameplay systems and tick trope boxes.

      • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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        9 months ago

        I think this mindset is based on the fact that Bioware romances are kindy hacky (idk, i dont mind them, but i get it). The mention of softcore scenes, which dont exist in what i said in reply to Bassword, kinda gives that away because those dont exist in SDV for example.

        • TraumaDumpling
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          9 months ago

          i was thinking of baldurs gate 3 actually but yea

          • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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            9 months ago

            I get why some people would not enjoy what BG3 does. It needs a safe for asexuals mode where the charachters dont hit on you lol.

            Romance in games def isnt abour titilation for me, and i could do without the softcore scenes.

            But personally, i havent played the game but i like what it does mostly.

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      Idk i think "its been bad so far, so that means we should just not do it" isnt necissarily fair. I dont even agree that its been bad so far. The events with the romance options in SDV are very cute. The support skits in Fire Emblem Awakening are to me too.