Romance options are poor.

[CPS]

In KCD1 you could have a pretty decent romance chain with Theresa. In this second one, the options are poor.

You literally get the chance to romance a handful of people once only. There's no dating, and no follow-up after with the characters, other than "would you like to speak about this" or "what will happen with us now".

I was looking forwards to the idea of being able to build some kind of life with people after finishing the game, but after I completed the main quest, I couldn't even talk to Kathrine again.

Bah.

[᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

Originally posted by Johnny_B_80:

Maybe they didn't spend as much time on the other romances because they wanted/expected everyone to play Brokeback Kingdom with Hans. :P

well, there are a lot of forests and mountains in Bohemia...

[makbthemf]

Originally posted by ODINMASTER:

I mean henry is supposed to be canonically with theresa so hes already in a relationship. All he's doing in this game is cheating lmao

Because it was a completely optional quest - it's optional, not canonical. Also, you could romance Tereza in KCD1 and say later that it was nothing serious, just casual sex, and she will dump Jindro for good. So, it was not optional only - there were options for how all romance would end.

Also, that reasoning is not quite straight - there's space to good romance setups in KCD2 - Roza - it's quite organic, they are at the same age, their relationships have time for setup, they both have many things in common, e.t.c. but it's as poor as other romances. So for me, it's more like a poor game design.

I completely agree with you - Tereza was obviously in the minds of screenwriters when they worked on romance options in KCD2. But we shouldn't justify bad game desighn.

[CPS]

Originally posted by ODINMASTER:

Originally posted by CPS:

I will not spoil this for you too, but that won't happen either. You can converse with some people in this region to confirm why.

I absolutely agree with you with regards to potential, I really did think she was great too.

Already had that convo but nothing was confirmed about what happened to her

The conversation that I had was that no-one made it out of there alive other than the band of people you're with.

Admittedly there wasn't confirmation about her specifically, it was just that everyone was grouped into "they didn't make it out alive".

[ODINMASTER]

Originally posted by CPS:

Originally posted by ODINMASTER:

Already had that convo but nothing was confirmed about what happened to her

The conversation that I had was that no-one made it out of there alive other than the band of people you're with.

Admittedly there wasn't confirmation about her specifically, it was just that everyone was grouped into "they didn't make it out alive".

different to what I had lmao, said she probably made it out

[CPS]

Originally posted by makbthemf:

Originally posted by ODINMASTER:

I mean henry is supposed to be canonically with theresa so hes already in a relationship. All he's doing in this game is cheating lmao

Because it was a completely optional quest - it's optional, not canonical. Also, you could romance Tereza in KCD1 and say later that it was nothing serious, just casual sex, and she will dump Jindro for good. So, it was not optional only - there were options for how all romance would end.

Also, that reasoning is not quite straight - there's space to good romance setups in KCD2 - Roza - it's quite organic, they are at the same age, their relationships have time for setup, they both have many things in common, e.t.c. but it's as poor as other romances. So for me, it's more like a poor game design.

I completely agree with you - Tereza was obviously in the minds of screenwriters when they worked on romance options in KCD2. But we shouldn't justify bad game desighn.

This is what gets me most.

The games romance options are so close to being great. Everything is there except the getting to know them, and carrying a relationship on after your first and only romantic encounter.

It pains me to see all of the groundwork in place, then at the end - nothing.

It's like setting off a firework, only for it to go bang with no flash.

[makbthemf]

Originally posted by CPS:

This is what gets me most.

The games romance options are so close to being great. Everything is there except the getting to know them, and carrying a relationship on after your first and only romantic encounter.

It pains me to see all of the groundwork in place, then at the end - nothing.

It's like setting off a firework, only for it to go bang with no flash.

Yup, but if we look at every romance option most of them are mental, not organic - Clara's sweetheart died in battle, a girl from the wedding just has an inferiority complex, a widow from the castle just missed a young man's flesh. I don't even want to discuss Lousy Mary. Margaret's romance isn't covered in the guide much, so I do have not enough data. Only two romances look organic - Caterina and Roza, but Katy is almost twice as old as Jindro, so it couldn't be serious, so only sweet Rozalia is left. Basically, if there was no option to romance her, and stay friends - all romance options with no continuation would be quite logical, but all that Roza stuff is crying "It's just a bad game design".