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why are rpg lovers obsessed with romantic options and nudity ?

Because I can't get laid in real life.


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Because you enjoy romance in games you're a loner? I enjoy driving cars so I enjoy driving cars in games, I love medieval history especially so I love that setting in games. I enjoy getting to know characters and developing relationships (romance or not) IRL too but if that element is in an RPG it's just for virgin losers? I don't get it

Enjoy romancing characters do ye? This will be right up your street then... ;-p

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It's always been a thing, but the recent influx over the last decade of theater kid-like people, the crossover with romantasy readership, gaming tourists, and the weird fetishes in some modern tabletop communities....has definitely made it more cringe.

Personally blame Tumblr banning porn the most, as it spread these people like a virus to other places where they're loud. Probably other stuff too, but tumblr has always had the worst people with this stuff.
 
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I think this was never a big thing until seventh gen BioWare games (Mass Effect and Dragon Age). Yeah, The Witcher 1 was released on 2007, but I think most of this fixation began within modern BioWare fans.
 
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Agree with the OP. It's… odd to be fixated on something like that.
No1 is fixated on that, just its simply pretty realistic, if u are white wolf geralt, aka perfect combo of supernatural physical specimen of a man with powers that could bring down kingdoms.
On top u are only witcher in existence who can actually feel deeply( aka dream of basically every woman, combo of that masculine brute and delicate gigolo) u gonna slay mad bitches of highest quality, hell he cant even have children which means no need to wrap shit up- even more reason to fuck around coz it will be way more pleasure for the bloke, and on top of all that he barely ages, for example in w3 he is close to 100yo and still look perfectly acceptable to pull young tight chicks in their early 20s(vesemir is old af around 200-300yo and only then u could see actual proper signs of witcher aging) :D
 
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No1 is fixated on that, just its simply pretty realistic, if u are white wolf geralt, aka perfect combo of supernatural physical specimen of a man with powers that could bring down kingdoms.
On top u are only witcher in existence who can actually feel deeply( aka dream of basically every woman, combo of that masculine brute and delicate gigolo) u gonna slay mad bitches of highest quality, hell he cant even have children which means no need to wrap shit up- even more reason to fuck around coz it will be way more pleasure for the bloke, and on top of all that he barely ages, for example in w3 he is close to 100yo and still look perfectly acceptable to pull young tight chicks in their early 20s(vesemir is old af around 200-300yo and only then u could see actual proper signs of witcher aging) :D
There are people seemingly fixated on that. It IS odd.
 
"if i want to fuck and cant find anyone i just hire an escort or jerk off"
then go ahead and do that, no one's stopping you

WAHHHH WAHHHH, why don't people think and want the same thing as I did??? 😭😭😭
 
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THIS
Since the original Baldur's Gate games came out there's a subset of crpg gamers thag are creepily obsessed with romance and they are extremely loud. Worst part is they think they are deep, while nearly every crpg romance so far is little more than Witcher 1 sex cards without the cards. That's partly why think they hate those so much. Exposed what those romances really are.
It's crazy the people who like this the most are usually also the types to support uglifyimg the chicks and censoring things like the sex cards from the Witcher. You would think these types would be for it and would want attractive people but no. Weird.
 
It's crazy the people who like this the most are usually also the types to support uglifyimg the chicks and censoring things like the sex cards from the Witcher. You would think these types would be for it and would want attractive people but no. Weird.
Convincing themselves they are righteous and forcing their beliefs on others is more important to them than having fun.
 
I like romance if it is like FFX with Tidus and Yuna, but in general, if it is like a Bioware game then I feel the game would be better without it. This is even if Bioware did not suck ass at it. No options, just one story.
Also, if I really want to see some video game nudity, I know about rule34 and other places.

Tidus and Yuna really made the ending of FFX great. edit - And the music, so very good.
 
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I think it's as simple as your character being sexually appealing and getting the girl/dude that they want is just another part of the power fantasy for some.

Personally I've never really cared much about it, I saw it as fun bonus feature in games like Mass Effect but if some new RPG has no romance options it's pretty much irrelevant to me.
Also, I kinda liked it better when there were a few pre defined options instead of the modern approach which seems to be "everyone in your party is bisexual and they all want to fuck you"
 
I don't think this obsession is unique to RPGs or even gaming in general. I've often wonder (rhetorically) why so many shows and films needed to have sex scenes and nudity that felt shoehorned in and added nothing to the actual story.
 
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