Who thought date nights were a good idea?

[skatche]

So I romanced Panam (because Judy wasn't an option for male V). Soon enough, "I really wanna stay at your house" came up, and I thought sure, why not. But already, there were signs. Seemed like the relationship had skipped a few steps, from "Let's ♥♥♥♥ in a cybertank 'cause it'll be cool" to "Oh bb I can't stop thinkin bout u xo".

I get back to the apartment, Panam's there, great. I try to chat her up. Two brief dialogue options. TWO. Okay, done with that, let's cuddle. Okay, done with that, let's kiss. Okay uh... you've exhausted all available dialogue options, chief, move on. Move on to what?

Okay, stand up, there's now a "dance" option in the middle of the room. We dance badly for fifteen seconds to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ loudspeaker music I haven't figured out how to change. Gee, that was fun. Now I guess I can uh, change my clothes, and she makes some generic remark about my outfit? Can't I at least show you my weapon stash? (answer: no.) It never even occurred to me to try the bed because the date was so hilariously awkward. All the while Panam is saying like "What do you wanna talk about?" (Everything m8, but I've already exhausted both dialogue options!) Instead I just abruptly walk out like "Later babe."

I'm not really complaining, because this was never a feature I would have asked for in the first place. A romance subplot can always use more story, if it's compelling and decently written, but it has to run out eventually; this generic repeatable "quest" nonsense feels more like I'm playing the Sims. The only thing that annoys me is two seconds later Panam wants to do it again, and so now I've got a permanently unread message on my phone.

[ingus76]

Originally posted by light-dan:

''and so now I've got a permanently unread message on my phone.''

this annoys me too :(

aha for sure, would be nice if will be possible so simply - not read this message, but few ingame days later, text message box opens forced and you must answer anything, but possible anwers are only dating places.

OMG need mod wich allow brake relationships, on my next walkth.I never anymore make any romance.

[Ez Duzit]

Date night should NEVER have been added to the game. It is just bad. The time, effort and manpower put into making date night could have been put to better use elsewhere.

[Phynrae]

Originally posted by ingus76:

Most annoying for me are that this dating quest forced repeat over and over again, and you cant skip it or brake ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ relationships.

Yeah that really is a problem.

Once you've romanced someone it will repeat every 2 days, and this is not content that should be repeated.

There's just so little to it. Two new dialog options, and then the rest are all the same dialog options that always existed when you visit your partner at their home, and then there's two or three things you can do like the dancing.

And that's it. Every two days you have to pretend to care about these handful of canned interactions, and it's the same ones each and every time.

Had this been a one-off quest, then it would have been fine, but repeating it every two days? That just doesen't work.


If you were to make a quest like this repeatable (and have it not suck), then it'd have to do something more, like you could decide to meet at one of the game's bars, clubs, food joints, maybe some other interesting locations, and then keep it short and sweet, don't make us awkwardly go through the whole thing, just play a little animation showing the two of you starting the date, cut to black, and wake up next to your partner in whichever appartment is closest to the date location.

Oh, and don't have it happen every two days, space it out some more. We're trying to play a game here.

[Bjørn]

Once you've selected an apartment to meet up in, the message is gone, and you have a mission in your log to meet her instead of the unread message notification, so a bit less distracting, at least.

She doesn't seem to mind waiting for you 'forever' (still sends pictures and such), but I agree there could be another mechanic to starting the dates, like calling her when you were ready for a date, or something.