Is The Only Reward Pornography?

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WilliamDeLaPole

WilliamDeLaPole

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Looking at all the recent drama with gay shit in video games like Baldur Gate 3, Veilguard, and Kingdom Come made me wonder if there's any genuine gameplay purpose, or if it's just in-game porn. The popular narrative is that it "adds options" for the player, but does it really? Do you get anything for it besides a short porn cutscene? Does the romance partner give you items or unique sync attacks? Are there added buffs that give you bonus stats when you choose to include them in your party? What special gameplay is added after the porn is over? In other words, is the reward for doing romance quest lines just porn?

My only experience with romance options in a video game was the first Fable. For the most part it's worthless, but at least your spouse occasionally gives you random gifts that you can sell. There's also a quest that rewards you with a pimp hat if you have sex 10 times. The hat stats aren't anything special, so it's just a roleplay item, but you at least receive something for doing romance that affects gameplay. Same for Skyrim, and that game doesn't even have sex or gay options like Fable does. All these game studios saying that adding sex to their game "adds options" are just making excuses to add porn in video games without including unique gameplay to accompany it. Hans should at least buy you a nice armor set after you cross swords with his butthole.

Are there any modern games with romance options and sex scenes that actually add unique gameplay related to those things, or is it all just choosing arbitrary dialogue options to receive porn?

Edit: Fable and Skyrim have you get married, but that doesn't happen in modern games does it? It's just sex right?
 
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I mean I'm kind of okay with there being no gameplay benefits. I find romance in games mostly annoying, and I'm much happier if it's completely optional rather than feeling necessary for full mechanical benefits. Or at least, there should be identical or sidegrade level benefits for close friendship.

What Skyrim did was fine though. Marriage gave a few small bonuses but was far from mandatory.
 
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It's not a modern game but in Dragon Quest V you follow the story of a dude's life from childhood and at some point you have to choose a wife. You get two choices in the snes and ps2 versions and 3 in the DS version. Though, the third choice is pretty much some femdom fetish shit. As far as gameplay effects. Your choice of wife determines the hair colour of your kids and they each have different stats, learn different spells, have different equipment options and their party chats are totally different. It is kind of cool at the end having a party made up of your wife and two kids though

Your wife choices are blonde haired childhood friend peasant girl that constantly reminds you about the time you went ghost huntin' together, blue haired rich girl that calls you darling and reassures you about what a good wife she is and how grateful she gets to go adventuring with you and black haired rich girl that calls you servant, insults you and wants to step on you.

The wife choice has a fairly minimal impact on gameplay really. You don't get to use the wife much during the game and you will have to grind the shit out of at least two of them when you do get them, both times, because they're pretty underleveled. Two of the choices will give you a bit of extra gold. That being said, the party chats were nice and I really did enjoy going around hearing the wife's opinion on everything. It did add more depth to the game and helped sell the 'adventuring around with your family' thing.
 
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Fat Gollum said:
I want nintendo to show Mario railing princess peach after saving her from bowser in the next Mario game. After getting blueballed for 40 years, the little nigga deserves it.
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Might actually be a good idea, if only to cement Mario as a heterosexual before he's inevitably turned gay by libtards.
 
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Porn is the battle than each must fight and win or become a depressed degenerate. It's cheap heroin that globohomo uses to attract horny, stupid teens and depressed degenerates with to use their product.
Romance options in a video game are only good if they promote virtue and/or tell a good story. Any gameplay benefit will depend on the game.
Fable has some neat gameplay elements to it, but that's it.
Skyrim marriages are stupid and meaningless.
Off the top of my head, the only good romances in games are in old Bioware games like BG1-2. Kotor games had some interesting plot centered romances too. Bar RPGs with option to them, there are other games that can tell a good romance story. Uncharted had a good romance in its plot.
 
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All sex scenes, gay or straight, are cringe as fuck and I don't know why they have to be in video games other than people now can't turn off their coomer brains for 3 seconds to enjoy other hobbies. My question to the people bitching for gay shit so they can have "representation"; Why can't any of them include gay shit without it just being butt fucking or blowjobs from a bear druid?
 
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it's not even porn, it's just softcore obscured humping at best. it's more the idea of the fucking that those scenes operate on. that's why they're so fucking cringe. I guess it's roleplaying, like, you're writing the story you want to write through the dialogue options given to you, or to some degree living through your character. but personally, I couldn't force myself to care about fucking the Mass Effect blue alien or whatever.
 
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Fat Gollum said:
I want nintendo to show Mario railing princess peach after saving her from bowser in the next Mario game. After getting blueballed for 40 years, the little nigga deserves it.
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Already been done.

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