Why do WRPG players dislike seeing the other party members get together?

[Oyster Sauce]

A normal man will typically be up for a roll in the hay with almost any hot chick, but he doesn't have scarcity mentality and will still recognize that some of them would be pretty bad girlfriends/wives and not worth the trouble.

@Val the Moofia Boss

[Reichspepe]

Garrus deserved better

I always install the mod for ME3 to make Garrus and Tali just be friends. No DISGUSTING quarian/turian speciesmixing on my ship

[Oyster Sauce]

Garrus deserved better

I always install the mod for ME3 to make Garrus and Tali just be friends. No DISGUSTING quarian/turian speciesmixing on my ship

Interfuckedupdna relationships in ME are pretty dumb. It's like using a condom to bang someone with gigasuperniggerAIDS who's also an elephant's foot and on fire.

[Lich]

I thought about this more, and besides the **** aspect that I'm sure Japanese developers think about before pairing off characters with someone other than the main character, given the prevalence of cuckoldry in otaku media discussions, this lowers the potential power and discipline of the party by making party members care a lot more about their girlfriends and boyfriends than the rest of the party. They could end up having children, which would ruin the party composition and shift party member priorities. Parties should be same-sex or all female except the main character, where the main character can control who he starts a relationship with.

[methoxetamine]

In all of the examples listed in the OP, none of the romances take away said girl as an option since the MC's all have canon romances (mostly, at least in the arc Olivier and Schera were introduced in, and Schera's games have a girl mc anyway), so in games like that I also enjoy party members getting together. Tales of Arise is similar iirc, the MC has a canon love interest in the party and 2 of the party members like eachother too (though I didn't finish the game so I don't know how it turns out)

In a game where you can choose any girl then it makes sense why there would be no romance between other party members

[DrSneed]

Garrus deserved better

Can't let a ***** end his bloodline like that and for some space gypsy

[J1M]

Another reason: when players get to make a WRPG party, you end up with a lot of all-male parties.

[logincrash]

Garrus deserved better

I always install the mod for ME3 to make Garrus and Tali just be friends. No DISGUSTING quarian/turian speciesmixing on my ship

Interfuckedupdna relationships in ME are pretty dumb. It's like using a condom to bang someone with gigasuperniggerAIDS who's also an elephant's foot and on fire.

Turians and Quarians share the same "dextro-protein" "dextro-amino acid" biobabble thing. They're the only known species who can eat each other's food and not have a negative (up to death) reaction.
Shepard trying to bang Tali/Garrus would need to use a full body condom a la Naked Gun. Garrus and Tali wouldn't have that particular problem with each other. The bloodline ending is the biggest con for either pairing.
Frankly, I found Miranda to be a worse romance option even back when I first played ME2 on release because she couldn't have kids.

[asf]

solution is get rid of ******* and women in game dev

[Stack of Turtles]

Garrus deserved better

Can't let a ***** end his bloodline like that and for some space gypsy

Life, uh, finds a way.

[rusty_shackleford]

Frankly, I found Miranda to be a worse romance option even back when I first played ME2 on release because she couldn't have kids.

she's also UGLY

[J1M]

Frankly, I found Miranda to be a worse romance option even back when I first played ME2 on release because she couldn't have kids.

she's also UGLY

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

[Oyster Sauce]

Frankly, I found Miranda to be a worse romance option even back when I first played ME2 on release because she couldn't have kids.

she's also UGLY

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But, given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

they did a good job actually

[rusty_shackleford]

Frankly, I found Miranda to be a worse romance option even back when I first played ME2 on release because she couldn't have kids.

she's also UGLY

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

I've always had the theory that we just can't tell the guys look uncannily weird too and the facescan tech sucked. Never asked a foid to confirm tho

[J1M]

she's also UGLY

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

I've always had the theory that we just can't tell the guys look uncannily weird too and the facescan tech sucked. Never asked a foid to confirm tho

Is this trolling? You can see on the female Ryder face where they used 3D tools in Maya to adjust the mesh after it was scanned.

[rusty_shackleford]

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

I've always had the theory that we just can't tell the guys look uncannily weird too and the facescan tech sucked. Never asked a foid to confirm tho

Is this trolling? You can see on the female Ryder face where they used 3D tools in Maya to adjust the mesh after it was scanned.

I meant the ones in the original ME trilogy. Vega is scanned, right?

[Tangerine]

[Oyster Sauce]

gamers once again shocked to learn that professional headshots cherrypicked from a photoshoot with 1000+ pictures taken with lighting and makeup set up for one specific angle may not perfectly represent what the 35 year old model actually looks like

[rusty_shackleford]

It's true, this has happened basically every single time I've tried doing a romance plotline in a WRPG. Even the foid knight in kingmaker that was supposed to be chaste or something ended up spending an entire subplot talking about how you aren't her first

[Oyster Sauce]

Even the foid knight in kingmaker that was supposed to be chaste or something ended up spending an entire subplot talking about how you aren't her first

it was actually tucked away at the very end of the romance immediately before you can bone her yourself

[Tangerine]

gamers once again shocked to learn that professional headshots cherrypicked from a photoshoot with 1000+ pictures taken with lighting and makeup set up for one specific angle may not perfectly represent what the 35 year old model actually looks like

It's weird how the face scans of people who wear lots of makeup look nothing like them.

[Oyster Sauce]

Once devs start facescanning McDonald's drive-thru employees instead of middle-aged C-listers, faces will look good again

[Lhynn]

It's true, this has happened basically every single time I've tried doing a romance plotline in a WRPG. Even the foid knight in kingmaker that was supposed to be chaste or something ended up spending an entire subplot talking about how you aren't her first

Again, thats why the chinese romances are superior. At least Chang Xia whatever the **** is a virgin, even if she happens to be 35 and a widow, because the husband died on their wedding night or some other nonsense. Purity, a thing all males value, is impossible to find in western rpgs these days.

The ching chong also has bigger tits, and they are all ultra white. Words cannot describe how much I hate the western gaming industry of the last 20 something years.

[Acrux]

gamers once again shocked to learn that professional headshots cherrypicked from a photoshoot with 1000+ pictures taken with lighting and makeup set up for one specific angle may not perfectly represent what the 35 year old model actually looks like

It's weird how the face scans of people who wear lots of makeup look nothing like them.

Always remember: makeup = witchcraft. (Literally.)

[logincrash]

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

That's the ME3 model with ****** up eyeliner texture and ****** ME3 hair. She looks much better in the original ME2. Her face scan is surprisingly accurate.
ME1 and ME2 have very good face scans for both male and female faces. ME3 has a ****** up Diana Allers but she's based on some mediocre looking game journo prostitute, not on a actress/fashion model.
The original ME trilogy was pre-2014 so any wonkiness was because of incompetence/tech not being good enough and from not deliberate imperative to uglify women as is the case in any game released in CY+N.

As previously documented, Bioware fawned over scanning the male models, and well, we don't really know what happened when scanning the ladies. But, given some Andromeda alpha screenshots we know it happened after the faces were scanned.

they did a good job actually

Yes, but not in an ironic "She looks ugly IRL, huehue" way.

It's true, this has happened basically every single time I've tried doing a romance plotline in a WRPG. Even the foid knight in kingmaker that was supposed to be chaste or something ended up spending an entire subplot talking about how you aren't her first

Merrill in Dragon Age 2 is an autistic virgin and never mentions any other partners.
Alistair in Dragon Age Origins is a virgin and it's a big deal to him. But he's a guy so that might not count for the purpose of the argument.

[Kalarion]

Ashley was chaste prior to Shepard, wasn't she?

[logincrash]

Ashley was chaste prior to Shepard, wasn't she?

She never mentions any exes, but neither does she explicitly say that she's a virgin.

[Tangerine]

Ashley was chaste prior to Shepard, wasn't she?

She never mentions any exes, but neither does she explicitly say that she's a virgin.

She's a foid in the military. Assume what you will.

[logincrash]

Ashley was chaste prior to Shepard, wasn't she?

She never mentions any exes, but neither does she explicitly say that she's a virgin.

She's a foid in the military. Assume what you will.

Considering how she did indeed go for Shepard despite him being her CO, that's a fair point.

[logincrash]

Also, since we're talking Mass Effect, Liara is literally a kissless virgin.
And that's a huge deal, considering how whorish her entire species is.