Romance options are pretty popular in RPGs these days, and even though Avowed doesn’t have any, its director thinks it’s better off without one.
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But one of next year’s biggest RPGs, Avowed, won’t have any romance options, despite it being a pretty common thing to find in the genre these days.
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And so we felt that we could best tell our companions’ stories and our players’ relationships with them without the romance option.”
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For reasons that will probably be pretty obvious, video game players love to digitally smooch other video game characters, with romance options being quite popular in a lot of RPGs, no doubt due to the influence of games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.