{"id":421310,"date":"2025-11-11T16:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=421310"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:26:07","slug":"obsidian-is-right-i-want-less-romance-in-my-rpgs-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=421310","title":{"rendered":"Obsidian is true: I would like much less romance in my RPGs, truly"},"content":{"rendered":"


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As soon as upon a time, in a recreation known as Baldur’s Gate 2, there was a woman named Aerie. Aerie was a formerly-winged elf who labored in a circus and had quite a lot of private trauma, which she labored out over the course of an prolonged courtship with you, the male participant character. Sooner or later, she would get pregnant, and the ensuing youngster\u2014named, within the blunt language of early CRPGs, “Aerie’s Child”\u2014would maintain everlasting tenure in your already-limited stock, in an area you would possibly in any other case put a bundle of arrows or a longsword.<\/p>\n

This can be a sequence of occasions which I now regard as having ruined all of videogames.<\/p>\n

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To be honest to poor, pinioned Aerie, she was not the one possibility within the recreation’s ragbag of sweethearts, however she is the one which sticks in my reminiscence, largely due to the storage child. However the form of BG2’s romances is the form of so many RPG romances since. Swap out Aerie for Liara, Viconia for Lae’zel, Anomen for Alistair\u2014many years later and we’re nonetheless wooing the identical hotties by completely different names. It doesn’t work for me.<\/p>\n