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Bethesda and CDPR's developers must have very different love lives (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Not pictured: Sarah and your character being the most obnoxiously affectionate couple

Has anyone here ever walked up to their partner and just blurted out "can I tell you something? Waking up with you every day is like a dream come true" completely out of the blue? Cause that ain't me

This is of course after "flirting" with her for a while. Is outright saying "I love you" even flirting? And why did it take three separate instances of outright saying "I love you" for Sarah to get the hint that maybe my character has feelings for her?

And while I'm ranting, why couldn't I invite my parents to our wedding? We brought in her mom who she hasn't seen in 20 years, but my parents literally live 5 minutes away from the lodge and I couldn't invite them? "They don't have a ship" I HAVE A SHIP

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The answer to your questions, and so many more, is: because it's Starfield.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fr, I should have waited for starfield before playing bg3. I’ve become spoiled.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to good writing. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I did the same as you. It's a shame that we've had our standards lowered to the point where we feel like we're being spoiled, if the game is presented without plot-gape.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed. The amount of reactivity is truly stunning as well. Even if the broad strokes don’t change much, it really helps the immersion when you get a voice line acknowledging the way you did or didn’t do something.

Oh well, on the plus side update 3 is soon so I can do a durge + Minthara run.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has anyone here ever walked up to their partner and just blurted out "can I tell you something? Waking up with you every day is like a dream come true" completely out of the blue?

Yes actually, and quite often. I want my wife to know how much she means to me and how glad I am to share our lives together.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You got lucky and found someone perfect for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Absolutely! I'm completely blessed, and she feels the same way. I've read before that the best relationships are those where each person thinks they got the better end of the deal, and I would say that's true for us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Has anyone here ever walked up to their partner and just blurted out "can I tell you something? Waking up with you every day is like a dream come true" completely out of the blue?

Yes, that's actually a really cute and sweet thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

can I tell you something? Waking up with you every day is like a dream come true

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Has anyone here ever walked up to their partner and just blurted out "can I tell you something? Waking up with you every day is like a dream come true" completely out of the blue?

Yes, Every day.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I mean, this meme is accurate, because that's about how expressive the faces are in Starfield...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

It’s also how the NPCs pose regularly in Cyberpunk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Wdym? They also smile weirdly at the least appropriate times. They got that serial killer grin.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don’t get sex cutscenes but your charter definitely fucks in starfield. When you sleep when your romantic companion is following you they will have dialogue that you slept together.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give it a few months, there will definitely be a mod. Pretty sure there has been for every Bethesda game since Morrowind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I can’t find it rn, but some dude was getting an unhinged amount of upset about the way they handled the character models or something. Claimed it would make horny mods much more difficult to make than Skyrim.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

I’m gonna have to say Mass Effect has them both beat. Judy was awesome in Cyberpunk 2077, but romancing aliens in Mass Effect was just too good.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Witcher 3 also has a similar thing to cyberpunk. It really is a dev rizz diff.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, Baldur’s Gate 3 be like “any% sex speedrun WR 2:18”

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

*Sex%

The current record is 2:04

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nope.

Current record, according to speedrun.com, is 2:02.950.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Why am I even surprised to find out about this?