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i spent a good 10 minutes running around kreuzbasar with him, best dog ever

Well, I believe Josh Sawyer when he says “I have the same general opinion toward romances in our games that I have toward mounts in our games: I think both can certainly be great if you have the time and other resources to invest in them. If you try to take short cuts with them, they will be very bad and whatever time you spent implementing them will be wasted.”  Totally reasonable, and I’m not cancelling my preorder (since I already got charged for my Kickstarter pledge) over that. 

I do hope, however, that beyond this classy and mature quote, they’re not going to make a joke of it or mock fans who asked for it, since it became a “thing” with reporters and fans bugging them about it.  I’ve already seen gloating about this article, from people who are strongly opposed to video game romances, and think that they ruin games, or that fans of video game romances are greasy virgin nerds (when, lets be real, ALL video game fans are thought of that way by non gamers).  If for no other reason than to bother those people, I wish they hadn’t announced it already.

I also remember Chris Avellone saying that although he enjoys playing games with romances (like Dragon Age), he doesn’t feel comfortable writing them, (and I think if he did, they wouldn’t have a happy ending).  That’s totally legit too, and while I’d be really interested in reading his version of a doomed romance, I don’t know if I would want to play it, if that makes any sense.  If the writers are more comfortable with creating companion relationships that aren’t romances, and that means better and more satisfying writing, then that can be a good thing.

I hope I’m not expecting too much from Pillars of Eternity, but Fallout: New Vegas is one of my favorite RPGs ever, and while Mask of the Betrayer was kind of a kick in the gut (and the non-canon aspects offended the Forgotten Realms geek in me), I think it’s one of the best video game stories ever.  So, even without declarations of love from the party members, I’m pretty sure I’ll enjoy it.

I just wish they had all the time and money in the world, and there weren’t a bunch of smug haters patting them on the back for omitting a story element that has been a part of fiction since forever.  But there is always fanfiction, fan art, and imagination.

I hope you get to relax and recharge, sounds like you deserve it

finally someone said it