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Post by zarrokhai on Jul 13, 2018 2:29:48 GMT
What the title says. Would you like to have the option of having a polygamy relationship in DA4?
Maybe certain companions (not all) could be open to the idea of being in a relationship with more than one person. I was talking to a friend who is in a polyamorous relationship with another guy and girl and his explanation of the relationship(s?) got me wondering on whether it could work in the DA universe.
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jul 13, 2018 3:19:48 GMT
I mean, if they can make it work, sure, but it seems like a lot of variables to consider and I think the current allocation of resources to romances vs other content is quite high. I'd rather scale it back to DA2 style. Four options, open to everyone.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jul 13, 2018 3:54:33 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 3:55:36 GMT
no thank chu.
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Post by Nightscrawl on Jul 13, 2018 6:32:44 GMT
Nope. Not interested.
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Post by phoray on Jul 13, 2018 6:38:36 GMT
Only polygamy? (Multiple wives) What about polyandry? (Multiple husband's) or the less specfic polyamory ? (Multiple loves?)
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Post by Nightscrawl on Jul 13, 2018 6:45:25 GMT
whether it could work in the DA universe. It's not about it working in the universe, which means story reasons. It's more about how it would be for game mechanics. Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. It seems more likely that they would do a truly asexual (that is, the person states how they are, not just leaving it up to player headcanon) person before a poly romance.
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Post by river82 on Jul 13, 2018 7:00:48 GMT
Only polygamy? (Multiple wives) What about polyandry? (Multiple husband's) or the less specfic polyamory ? (Multiple loves?) The word for two or more wives is polygyny. The definition of polygamy (from Merriam Webster) is marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time.
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Post by cribbian on Jul 13, 2018 7:09:17 GMT
Meh, might test that out in one playthrough or other but most likely not in my "canon".
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Post by pessimistpanda on Jul 13, 2018 7:13:16 GMT
Only polygamy? (Multiple wives) What about polyandry? (Multiple husband's) or the less specfic polyamory ? (Multiple loves?) The word for two or more wives is polygynyIs it pronounced like poly-ginny or poly-jai-knee?
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Post by river82 on Jul 13, 2018 7:20:00 GMT
The word for two or more wives is polygynyIs it pronounced like poly-ginny or poly-jai-knee? I'm no good at writing how things sound like, but sorta like: per-lidge-a-knee
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Post by Gileadan on Jul 13, 2018 7:20:45 GMT
No thank you. I already feel bad enough about love triangles. I hurt enough people with gun and blade in video games, no need to hurt anyone through relationships on top of that.
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Post by zarrokhai on Jul 13, 2018 7:23:56 GMT
Only polygamy? (Multiple wives) What about polyandry? (Multiple husband's) or the less specfic polyamory ? (Multiple loves?) I meant it all the different ways lol. But resource wise I could see it only happening as 1 male and 1 female companion being interested in the idea.
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Post by zarrokhai on Jul 13, 2018 7:26:23 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. Oh they did? I didn't know about that. Hm, their suggestion makes it sound like we would be butting in another relationship. Not quite how I would want to get in on it.
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Post by witchcocktor on Jul 13, 2018 7:41:00 GMT
No thank you, I'd rather they concentrate on giving everyone an equally quality romance before they start adding new variables.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jul 13, 2018 8:03:35 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. Oh they did? I didn't know about that. Hm, their suggestion makes it sound like we would be butting in another relationship. Not quite how I would want to get in on it. Well, I may be misremembering. It may have been the two characters are in an established relationship and/or will get into one whether you romance them or not. Either way that cuts down on the flags to something closer to other romances.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Jul 13, 2018 8:06:35 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. It seems more likely that they would do a truly asexual (that is, the person states how they are, not just leaving it up to player headcanon) person before a poly romance. Here’s hoping that kind of romance is coming soon. Having someone be explicitly part of the Ace Spectrum like Asexual or Demisexual would be great.
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Post by Sanunes on Jul 13, 2018 8:11:43 GMT
I guess I am in the minority with relationships in the game and rather see less in the game and spend more time making them better. Since they started to add more and more relationships into their games to satisfy the requirements of the internet without going back to the outrage of "playersexual" nonsense of Dragon Age 2 it just seems to be "hold upper right and press X for relationship".
To the subject at hand I think it would just be a coding nightmare to get it to work properly within the game unless you want even less depth to them and they are more like Fallout which seem to be just another NPC, but you can have sexual relations with them.
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Post by Walter Black on Jul 13, 2018 12:50:23 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. Such an existing couple would have to be MF; aside from the "All Gays Are Promiscuous" trope, FMM potentially leads into the "Yaoi Fangirl who fetishizes gay men" trope. Not to mention how MFF could be the "epic stud who fixes lesbians" fantasy .
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 13:00:22 GMT
If it were a game purely about romancing ppl and living your life then sure, I'll bang all the options. I'd want them to acknowledge it tho and not just act as if the others don't exist. However DA is about so much more than romance, allocating any more time than is already put towards romance will just harm the main story in the long run. Just think, if they'd cut 1 or 2 romances from DAI they might actually have had the time to make a good ending.
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Post by SofaJockey on Jul 13, 2018 13:15:11 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. This. 3x the work for not 3x the outcome. Any romances are already hard enough.
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Post by gervaise21 on Jul 13, 2018 14:46:34 GMT
Even if they didn't apply it to our romance options, it does raise an interesting point that among all the cultures that feature in Thedas, not one has polygamy as the norm. They have monogamous marriage and mistresses, much as was found in western Europe right up until the present, or no marriage at all and just an ordered breeding programme that I can't recall featuring anywhere but religious cults IRL, but none of the marriage arrangements that have featured as normal culture throughout history around the rest of the globe. May be we shall discover it is something that was common in ancient times among the human tribes but was conveniently "forgotten" by Chantry historians.
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Post by phoray on Jul 13, 2018 15:14:29 GMT
Only polygamy? (Multiple wives) What about polyandry? (Multiple husband's) or the less specfic polyamory ? (Multiple loves?) The word for two or more wives is polygyny. The definition of polygamy (from Merriam Webster) is marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time.Sigh. River.
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Post by phoray on Jul 13, 2018 15:17:35 GMT
I guess I am in the minority with relationships in the game and rather see less in the game and spend more time making them better. Since they started to add more and more relationships into their games to satisfy the requirements of the internet without going back to the outrage of "playersexual" nonsense of Dragon Age 2 it just seems to be "hold upper right and press X for relationship". To the subject at hand I think it would just be a coding nightmare to get it to work properly within the game unless you want even less depth to them and they are more like Fallout which seem to be just another NPC, but you can have sexual relations with them. Every game, there is at least one romance that will break up with you based on their own beliefs. Alistair, Anders, and Sera. So not always that easy
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Post by phoray on Jul 13, 2018 15:21:37 GMT
Bioware has said creating a polyamorous relationship is a nightmare. They have said they have considered it, but if they do it would be the two NPCs are already together and the PC can become involved. This. 3x the work for not 3x the outcome. Any romances are already hard enough. I do know why it would be more work, it seems people keep assuming you would date BOTH members of the established couple and that's simply not true. I have two husbands. They don't date each other. I'm going on a date with a married man this Saturday- I am not dating his wife. It could/would still be a one on one relationship with a person that is happily dating/married to the other person and that other person is completely aware and happy their partner has found a 2nd person to love.
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