Ah yes the unconsciously gay (or paedo) feature of Dragon's Dogma. (Or straight for bi/gay players who didn't want an opposite sex partner, take your pick)
For those of you unaware. Dragon's Dogma featured a forced romance system. Thing is the game never tells you this. You can end up romancing ANYONE and by ANYONE I really mean ANYONE including children.
Going into the game knowing this, I avoided romancing the wrong NPC and effectively chose the one I wanted but I read some threads of people who ended up with same-sex romances as they were unaware of the romance feature. That isn't the problem here though: I later heard that Capcom didn't apply restrictions on children. This meant you could romance the child characters Pip and Symone. Now that is sick.
In any case I hated the fact that the game forced romance upon you. Characters with a high affinity for you (thanks to you being kind to them or whatever) were in love with you. I knew Larian would avoid a stupid system like this and not force it upon you.
I generally hate romances in video games. I think only Baldur's Gate and DA: Origins did them well as they added to the story. While Dragon's Dogma's romance system was part of the story, the fact that it was forced upon you, unexplained and chose the last person to have high affinity for you to be your romance meant that it was a horrible system.
I blame Bioware for popularizing the romance thing.
Last edited by Demonic; 09/04/13 01:51 AM.
