Romances are an overrated feature and almost always awkward.
Baldurs gates romances were remembered quite fondly, i think this is also due to them beeing one of the first games that did them and had a lot of writing dedicated to them.
I personally dont care either way.
"Hire good writers" is.... a bit of an issue.
I tend to find that "Writers" tend to vary greatly in quality and ofthen take a game as some canvas to paint their personal biases. Kind of like architects.
Not saying to have the writing done by the coding team. Just saying that someone beeing a "Writer" who has written for a lot of games is exactly an endorment.
Especialy when it comes to writers who ... to be honest worked in the modern games industry. I cant remember a lot of good writing outside of indie games, and even then its mostly indie games that dotn come from the "indie game" bubble.
I also wish RPGs would stop trying to be Planescape.
Not every game needs to be overly wordy, its not that bad with OS2 compared to PoE but its still an issue.
as far as modern games with good writing, id say witcher certainly stands out.
Not so much modern bioware titles.
Bioshock has some nice writing but a lot of it, especialy in Infinite is very on the nose and full of plot holes, Deus Ex Human Revolution was pretty good besides the ending (the mass effect 3 problem), the sequal much less so.
Pathologic is basically cheating since thats the entire draw of the game.
Then again theres plenty of game wehre "The writing" was the draw and the writing ended up beeing sitlted and boring.
Last edited by Sordak; 05/07/19 04:05 PM.
