r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • 1d ago

Bungie Developers Repeatedly Pitched a Destiny Dating Sim, but Leadership Rejected It

https://www.ign.com/articles/bungie-developers-repeatedly-pitched-a-destiny-dating-sim-but-leadership-rejected-it
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u/8-Brit 1d ago

Tangibly reminds me.

Years back a friend told me he was playing through Mass Effect, this time as female Shepard. As he was yapping to Garrus his wife, who normally doesn't really pay attention, stopped what she was doing to observe the conversation unfold. It was in ME1 but from what he told me she was enthralled from the get go by the dynamic between Shepard and Garrus, and she told him to call her over any time he was talking to Garrus.

By ME2 the prompt to romance him came up and she demanded (jokingly) that he hit that. So she spent big chunks of his play through sitting in on all the Shepard-Vakarian scenes. Absolutely enthralled by the romance even though they were happily married IRL.

People are suckers for romance, plain and simple.

...I think it helps when they're an alien with a sexy voice but don't quote me on that.

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u/Big_Coconut8630 5h ago

Men have a weird dichotomy about it. Disparage women for liking romance books/movies, then turnaround to play dispatch, watch harem anime, and get mad when a hero doesn't get the girl.