But what if: a videogame where the romance options are actually non-deterministic. No matter how many friendship coins you put in, she's maybe just not actually into you. And it's random and baked into each save file.
So many romance quests in games feel like picking out what car you want to take home from the dealership, and it's super gross and not actually very fun.
But what if: a game where if you were too aggressively trying to put Friendship Coins into someone they'd get uncomfortable and try to get you to stop because that's actually super creepy.
@starkatt I don't play that kind of game much, but I'd love to see it with a setup that gave you some kind of "don't be creepy" meter that pegged when you were doing something icky.
You know. So the people playing it get to the subconscious awareness that they shouldn't do stuff like that.
@starkatt @Soreth The audience who could most benefit from such a game would of course refuse on the grounds that folks are getting politics in their dating Sims. Notch would fund an explicit creeper-plus alternative as an exercise in free speech. The media treat the whole thing as an argument between two equal positions. Meanwhile the circular firing squad decries the perceived stereotypes and proclaims it insufficiently doctrinaire.
In the silent corners, new OTPs bloom.
@literorrery @starkatt Welp, so much for the nice things.
@Soreth @starkatt Also, apologies. I didn't mean for it to be such a downer. I wanted to end on a pretty note, but that doesn't excuse dragging it through the yuck on the way there.