I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist

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JMMSK Aug 29, 2022 @ 7:01pm
Tangent Romance Ending (Spoiler)
Ok is there any way to prevent Dys from leaving and Tangent from breaking up w me in the ending LMAO. I just tried to go through it twice and becoming really good friends with Dys to try to prevent that. I just want to live happily with my girlfriend
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Llama Aug 29, 2022 @ 7:38pm 
The problem is Tangent isn't happy to begin with. Both her and Dys have clinical depression and it's bad, as evident from their mother's suicide.

I've gotten 3 different endings with Tangent and they all end with her leaving. The best you can do is have it so you part on good terms. The fact that she stayed in a relationship as long as she did with you is a strong testament to how much you mattered to her.
lnomsim Aug 29, 2022 @ 7:47pm 
Yeah, but relationships look pretty broken in my opinion.
I wanted to start a new thread to discuss it, but since you bring the subject here.

I had tried to improve my relationship with her since day one, one the way, I ended up courting Marz, mostly because I had almost maxed out my relationship with Tangent and it seemed to lead nowhere. So of course, when I realized it was actually possible to go out with her, I certainly didn't want all my efforts to go to waste.

And for all the SJW/woke content this game has, and how much they talk about open or polygamic relationships, apparently, when it comes to our character, we are screwed. Marz broke up but in a peculiar way.

She wasn't asking if we were breaking up, she was asking if we were on the market, and no other choice than to say no.

Yet, they both continue to hint they are both in a friendship with benefits relationship -Marz and Tangent) And it goes as far as altogether cucking the MC during the 7th gloom, where Marz tells Tangent to come with her to her bedroom to relieve her from boredom, and leaving the MC behind...

So learning she leaves us, in the end, seems more like another weird stone added to the weird relationship system.
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Llama Aug 29, 2022 @ 9:53pm 
I mean I don't mind the "not every ending is a happy ending" thing. I just feel like some of the things that happen ring a bit hollow. Like I don't think things got pushed hard enough in some arcs while others just had some weird literary choices.
cirino Aug 29, 2022 @ 10:13pm 
No, seriously, I feel the same way. I think the community does too. Practically EVERY romance you go through doesn't matter if it's the dog boy or the alien - they will always end up breaking up with you after the game. Your relationship could be maxed out and it wouldn't matter. After 3 playthroughs it was the #1 source of my frustration. If anyone actually knows how to end up with their chosen character at the end, let me know. Because damn, I'm not spending another 10+ for this :(
Llama Aug 29, 2022 @ 10:17pm 
Golden Ending for Nem y'all grow old and krinkly together... Sym makes it weird because he can't not, but you don't break up break up with Nem, you just live in separate houses for a few years while she deals with the trauma of conflict and eventually becomes friends with Sym.

All I'm asking is that if you're going to give us a sad or bittersweet ending, make it at least have substance. If I'm remembering it correctly Tangent just leaves because she doesn't have the attention span? I mean, cool, but really? How about make it so that Tangent falls out of it because she feels trapped because of the way people were using her and left before it made her hate you. Then she does the sleep around thing, trying not to get tied down while trying to figure out herself. In the end, you two don't get back together, but she comes back to explain herself because you're still important to her even if it's not in the way you want it to be, and y'all stay close friends. It's still bittersweet and melancholic, it still hurts a bit, but it leaves you with something.

I ain't saying I have the best ideas for how to write these stories neither, just like I feel that the writers are trying to portray certain archetypes and social scenarios rather than writing actual characters. Like, they all feel real until you look on the back of their box, suddenly realizing that something that could have been a great character got shoe horned in to a thin attempt to tug on a heart string or two. Maybe that's a little harsh, but I liked this game. I liked it a lot, so it's got me all emotional that, while it's not quite "That Season of GoT That Doesn't Exist", it's a bit unsatisfying.
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Ellixer Aug 30, 2022 @ 7:07am 
Originally posted by cirino:
No, seriously, I feel the same way. I think the community does too. Practically EVERY romance you go through doesn't matter if it's the dog boy or the alien - they will always end up breaking up with you after the game. Your relationship could be maxed out and it wouldn't matter. After 3 playthroughs it was the #1 source of my frustration. If anyone actually knows how to end up with their chosen character at the end, let me know. Because damn, I'm not spending another 10+ for this :(
I thought this too but I asked a friend who romanced Dys and he got an unambiguously happy ending, so I don't even know.

I'm doing a second run and shooting for the good ending (just generally) so I can't judge, but in Marz's ending it says we had a good thing but eventually drifted apart and she's not one to settle. Which I'd be fine with, but the fact that it specified that we drifted apart made me think I messed up in the game somehow, and I'm not sure if that's the case or not because as far as Marz is concerned I think I did everything right (far as I can tell) but as far as the colony is concerned it could have gone a lot better, so I'm trying to fix the latter to see if that's the problem. At the very least it should make her time as governor go a lot better.

As for the ending I got, I thought it wasn't the worst thing in the world (kind of a bummer but not too out of character), but it'd be nice to see a culmination in the game itself rather than, like, just an ending block of text.
lupin Aug 30, 2022 @ 1:36pm 
It feels really hard to get happy endings with women in particular. I did eventually get one with Nem after a lot of work, but my happiest endings were dating Rex and Sym at the same time without really even trying.
Texus Aug 30, 2022 @ 1:56pm 
When they or at least someone told me there would be romance and enough of it, I imaged something else. Kinda makes me wish I would have avoided it.
The card part turned from awesome to okay and I'm more okay than amazed with the game currently.
cirino Aug 30, 2022 @ 11:27pm 
Originally posted by lupin:
It feels really hard to get happy endings with women in particular. I did eventually get one with Nem after a lot of work, but my happiest endings were dating Rex and Sym at the same time without really even trying.

Did you end up with them at the end of the playthrough? Or even one of them? Or did you get the typical - after a certain number of years you guys drifted apart/broke up for whatever vague reason even though your relationship was going particularly well? That irked me the most.
Ellixer Aug 31, 2022 @ 5:10am 
Originally posted by cirino:
Originally posted by lupin:
It feels really hard to get happy endings with women in particular. I did eventually get one with Nem after a lot of work, but my happiest endings were dating Rex and Sym at the same time without really even trying.

Did you end up with them at the end of the playthrough? Or even one of them? Or did you get the typical - after a certain number of years you guys drifted apart/broke up for whatever vague reason even though your relationship was going particularly well? That irked me the most.
Apparently Marz and Tang will break up in the ending no matter what, while everyone else can conditionally stay together in the ending.
lnomsim Aug 31, 2022 @ 7:07am 
Wel, Marz and Tang aren't really dedicated relationship persons anyway.
lupin Aug 31, 2022 @ 7:08am 
Originally posted by cirino:
Originally posted by lupin:
It feels really hard to get happy endings with women in particular. I did eventually get one with Nem after a lot of work, but my happiest endings were dating Rex and Sym at the same time without really even trying.

Did you end up with them at the end of the playthrough? Or even one of them? Or did you get the typical - after a certain number of years you guys drifted apart/broke up for whatever vague reason even though your relationship was going particularly well? That irked me the most.

With Tangent and Marz, we drifted apart. :/

With Nem (and the two guys I dated), we stayed together. It was honestly just surprising how easy it was to date Sym and Rex! i guess it's realistic that not everyone's going to stay together, but I wish there had been at least female romance that was as easy to get a happy ending with as Rex. He just confessed to liking me when I hadn't really been trying.
Ellixer Aug 31, 2022 @ 7:18am 
I don't mind the drifting apart part (it's in-character) but I'd have really liked if there was a piece of text that says at least we remain on good terms at least (I mean I guess I can assume as much since there's no reason to think otherwise), or if there was a chat where the characters lay out where they're at and what they're expecting from the relationship. Sometimes it's monogamous and sometimes it's polyamorous and I really don't know what I'm working with until some way into it.

I haven't done Rex or Sym but considering how late they appear compared to the others I can understand not wanting to make it too difficult since you have less time with them.
cirino Aug 31, 2022 @ 7:55am 
Originally posted by lupin:
Originally posted by cirino:

Did you end up with them at the end of the playthrough? Or even one of them? Or did you get the typical - after a certain number of years you guys drifted apart/broke up for whatever vague reason even though your relationship was going particularly well? That irked me the most.

With Tangent and Marz, we drifted apart. :/

With Nem (and the two guys I dated), we stayed together. It was honestly just surprising how easy it was to date Sym and Rex! i guess it's realistic that not everyone's going to stay together, but I wish there had been at least female romance that was as easy to get a happy ending with as Rex. He just confessed to liking me when I hadn't really been trying.

You ended up with Rex in the end? How? He was the first one I romanced and since he'd into other people, he decided to break up with me and got with somebody else after I finished the game. :'(
WinterSachi Aug 31, 2022 @ 7:59am 
Originally posted by lupin:
It feels really hard to get happy endings with women in particular. I did eventually get one with Nem after a lot of work, but my happiest endings were dating Rex and Sym at the same time without really even trying.
How did you manage to not break up with Sym in the epilogue? Does it happen only if you succeed with a pact between humans and Gardeners?
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