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).

  • TraumaDumpling
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    11 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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      11 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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        11 months ago

        i was thinking of baldurs gate 3 actually but yea

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
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          11 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.