RPG Devs Can't Add Dating System Because Team Lacks 'Real Life Experience' - Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children isn't going to get a complex relationship system anytime soon

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RPG Devs Can't Add Dating System Because Team Lacks 'Real Life Experience'​

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children isn't going to get a complex relationship system anytime soon​

By Zack Zwiezen Published Tuesday 4:35PM

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Image: Dandylion

“Write what you know” is a popular piece of advice for authors and other creators. But what happens when your audience wants something that you don’t know much about? Well, you have to tell your fans on Steam that, no, you can’t add dating to your anime-themed tactical RPG because you and your team don’t have the real-life “experience” needed to create such a system.

Troubleshooter: Abandoned Children is a tactical RPG that was released in 2020 and has remained fairly popular since then. It currently has over 8,000 positive reviews on Steam and a fairly active community. And while the game might look like a JRPG, it lacks one important feature seen in many of those games: A robust dating system. And according to the developers behind Troubleshooter, it’s unlikely to get one in a future update.

As first reported by Gamesradar on June 11, a review for Troubleshooter on Steam praised the game for being more complex than X-COM and called it a “really good game.” However, the short review did include one negative note. “Only complaint is no waifu dating system,” said the reviewer. In response to this short review, Troubleshooter developer Dandylion replied and explained why this was the case:

“Dating system...It’s a feature that a lot of people wanted, but my team members...have no experience with it, even in real life,” replied the developer, “Thanks for this review.”

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Screenshot: Steam / Dandylion / Kotaku

Comments have been turned off for the review, but about 90 people have labeled the review and its reply as “Funny.” That’s a bit rude, but maybe they are just laughing at the silly review and not the honest answer from the developers behind the game.

While I know some might immediately laugh at the situation, I do appreciate the honesty and transparency from Korean developer Dandylion. Dating is hard, it’s maybe harder today than ever thanks to everyone being overworked, filled with anxiety, and terrified that your next minor mistake or blunder will end up on TikTok or Twitter.

So I don’t laugh at Dandylion and its single devs. Instead, I hope they find happiness in the future. Oh, and maybe a modder who has been on a few dates can help add a dating system to Troubleshooter in the future. Then everyone wins.
 
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I kind of have to applaud the devs for not adding in anything they don't understand. EA and Ubisoft should take note.
 
FierceBrosnan said:
I kind of have to applaud the devs for not adding in anything they don't understand. EA and Ubisoft should take note.
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Like whoever designed Skyrim, those niggers have never seen a village in their lives.

Now compare that to the Witcher III that got villages right, you can tell their developers still use outhouses to this day.
 
FierceBrosnan said:
I kind of have to applaud the devs for not adding in anything they don't understand. EA and Ubisoft should take note.
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It's a level of autistic dedication to principles that I find a bit endearing. No normal person would admit to that.
Badungus Kabungus said:
Like whoever designed Skyrim, those niggers have never seen a village in their lives.

Now compare that to the Witcher III that got villages right, you can tell their developers still use outhouses to this day.
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Its developers live in a hellish urban expanse that covers basically the entire eastern US seaboard, if they wanted to write what they know the next Elder Scrolls game would take place in an business park.
 
Ya know what. Good on them for staying in their lane.

Go grab someone that smashes OKC/Bumble/Tinder box and toss them a few hundo a day for a consult.
 
I was under the impression that video game "dating" was just another a stat-grinding exercise that has basically jack and shit to do with real dating?
 
XYZpdq Jr. said:
I was under the impression that video game "dating" was just another a stat-grinding exercise that has basically jack and shit to do with real dating?
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not even that, usually it's just optional conversation lines that have some NPC "fall in love" with the players blank slate self insert character and it all just comes out feeling very cringe and surreal
 
Absolutego said:
Its developers live in a hellish urban expanse that covers basically the entire eastern US seaboard, if they wanted to write what they know the next Elder Scrolls game would take place in an business park.
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An urban fantasy TES AU would actually be pretty cool.
DumbDude43 said:
not even that, usually it's just optional conversation lines that have some NPC "fall in love" with the players blank slate self insert character and it all just comes out feeling very cringe and surreal
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It's barely even falling in love most of the time. It's just copying Persona's social links where you play therapist. This gets weird in the Trails of Cold Steel games because the protagonist is a guy that's suicidally depressed. Why am I helping a former assassin figure out emotions while playing as a guy that needs Prozac?
 
Surely there is a man and a woman on this project that can take one for the dev team and do a little research.

It is the easiest pick up ever but they are all too retarded to see it.
 
TheDarknessGrows said:
Surely there is a man and a woman on this project that can take one for the dev team and do a little research.
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"they're about to learn there's more to love than ones and zeros...
GET WITH THE PROGRAM
compiling this summer to a theater near you!"
 
DumbDude43 said:
not even that, usually it's just optional conversation lines that have some NPC "fall in love" with the players blank slate self insert character and it all just comes out feeling very cringe and surreal
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I was gonna come in and ask do some of these games really even need it? Like I guess I get its a kind of nuanced/relevant thing nowadays or whatever and being the bachelor or single or whatever past a certain age has always been seen as a dunk but I remember being in middle school even and a friend commenting on thinking it was cringe and patronizing and stupid when games forced or put in that 'theyre your girlfriend' element.

Then I went back and saw it was even a tactics RPGso its gonna be Fire Emblem dating--with all the kinda stupid shit that was. "Hey thanks for helping me kill all those guys!""No problem, lets talk about your parents, the duke" "Oh yeah I remember he died in that war, just like those other guys, thanks for helping me kill bandits by the way" "No problem, hey lets go polish some spears" S rank achieved.
 
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