Avowed game director say romance is more romantic when it isn't a system

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Zippy Bot · 2 days ago

Avowed game director say romance is more romantic when it isn't a system

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 days ago

I really enjoyed being Parvati’s wingman in The Outer Worlds, which was also made by Avowed’s devs (Obsidian).

Go-On-A-Steam-Train@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

I did too! It was fresh and fun :)

You may be interested in one of the designers talking about their “why” for the choice :) it added some context to it, and also made me not expect to see romanceable companions in every game.

https://youtu.be/-qX1pJLDMEI - I’m struggling to get youtube revanced to timestamp, but the relevant talking is 8:21 :)