Begging for older romance candidates.

[THE BATTER]

As much as I adore the character designs we currently have available for romancing, I can't help noticing that all the older characters, with more unique and recognisable designs--Teritha, Elsie, Josephine--aren't available, and it's a little disappointing. Sure, we have one option for an older romance, Hayden, but every other romance candidate looks like a college student. It's a shame to have such variety in character designs for all of the older characters when you can't romance them, especially if you as the player (or even just your character) aren't like... 20.

Don't get me wrong, I like the current romance candidates for what they are. So much more variety in design than, say, Stardew Valley - but it falls right into the same pitfall that Stardew did, where every romance candidate is like 20 at most and looks fairly generic/conventionally attractive, while the older and less "attractive" characters are off-limits.

(I just want to romance Elsie and Terithia, okay--)

I wonder how other people feel about this? Are you satisfied with the romance options, or would you like more variety - either through being able to romance existing characters, or through adding new ones?

[Symmetrical]

I get what you mean but Josephine is literally married :D

[maru_ru]

you're not the only one..there are a lot of threads requesting for matured options as well..it's just not as popular as the Olric petition..lol..whether the devs will do it or not, we just hv to see in the nxt update but i won't get my hopes up..

[cairo8stone]

I actually would sell my kidney if we could marry Terithia <3

[THE BATTER]

Originally posted by Symmetrical:

I get what you mean but Josephine is literally married :D

Hey, that's never stopped me before. She's got two hands and so do I!
(In all seriousness, while I'd love polyamory, you're right about Josephine - I respect her marriage haha! I just included her as an example of someone whose design/character I'd love to romance!)

[THE BATTER]

Originally posted by maru_ru:

you're not the only one..there are a lot of threads requesting for matured options as well..it's just not as popular as the Olric petition..lol..whether the devs will do it or not, we just hv to see in the nxt update but i won't get my hopes up..:bearstress:

Weirdly enough, what inspired me to finally buy the game was actually someone saying that there WERE mature options... I guess maybe they were talking about the one (1) rugged guy haha but it's a shame to have been misled.

It's so interesting to me that Olric isn't romanceable - I have no interest in him so I don't mind either way, but I'm curious as to why he's unavailable. He seems like a perfect candidate otherwise, in line with all the other romanceable NPCs!

[THE BATTER]

Originally posted by cairo8stone:

I actually would sell my kidney if we could marry Terithia <3

SO TRUE. I really thought I'd be able to at first. When I met her I was like "oh my god, she's the one" and then I realised... Alas.

[TamanduaGirl]

I understand people wanting more options but that does come at a cost. When a small team makes tons of options then there are cuts to the content, the romanceable NPCs will be shallower with less interesting and less detailed stories and romance lines. It would be nice for a farming sim to lean into more mature characters from the start but for most in the genre it's best to accept the fantasy that your character is also a young adult.

[THE BATTER]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

I understand people wanting more options but that does come at a cost. When a small team makes tons of options then there are cuts to the content, the romanceable NPCs will be shallower with less interesting and less detailed stories and romance lines. It would be nice for a farming sim to lean into more mature characters from the start but for most in the genre it's best to accept the fantasy that your character is also a young adult.

A very fair point re: the costs of implementing them once the game is already in development/the romanceable candidates have already been decided on. I know programming new characters at all, let alone intricate interactions and relationship systems, is difficult, costly (both financially and time-wise), etc.

Hopefully other games in the genre will eventually push back against the standard of characters only ever being 20-somethings. Ty for the insight!

[Symmetrical]

Originally posted by THE BATTER:

Originally posted by maru_ru:

you're not the only one..there are a lot of threads requesting for matured options as well..it's just not as popular as the Olric petition..lol..whether the devs will do it or not, we just hv to see in the nxt update but i won't get my hopes up..:bearstress:

Weirdly enough, what inspired me to finally buy the game was actually someone saying that there WERE mature options... I guess maybe they were talking about the one (1) rugged guy haha but it's a shame to have been misled.

It's so interesting to me that Olric isn't romanceable - I have no interest in him so I don't mind either way, but I'm curious as to why he's unavailable. He seems like a perfect candidate otherwise, in line with all the other romanceable NPCs!

POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW



I actually remembered that Terithia and Errol may have a thing for each other and Olric might be interested in Merri (The furniture woman on saturday market) because whenever i go to the saturday market Olric is at her stand and always talks about how strong she is, he always helps her move the furniture around or he wants to work out with her. Maybe that is why they made some characters unromanceable because those characters also have their own love interests. These are just my speculations though.

[THE BATTER]

Originally posted by Symmetrical:

I actually remembered that Terithia and Errol may have a thing for each other and Olric might be interested in Merri (The furniture woman on saturday market) because whenever i go to the saturday market Olric is at her stand and always says something about she is so strong, he always helps her move the furniture around or he wants to work out with her. Maybe that is why they made some characters unromanceable because those characters also have their own love interests. They are just my speculations though.

Oh interesting, that makes perfect sense. That's such a nice touch too, really adds depth to the world+characters for them to have their own dynamics and set arcs.

[maru_ru]

Originally posted by Symmetrical:

Originally posted by THE BATTER:

Weirdly enough, what inspired me to finally buy the game was actually someone saying that there WERE mature options... I guess maybe they were talking about the one (1) rugged guy haha but it's a shame to have been misled.

It's so interesting to me that Olric isn't romanceable - I have no interest in him so I don't mind either way, but I'm curious as to why he's unavailable. He seems like a perfect candidate otherwise, in line with all the other romanceable NPCs!

POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW



I actually remembered that Terithia and Errol may have a thing for each other and Olric might be interested in Merri (The furniture woman on saturday market) because whenever i go to the saturday market Olric is at her stand and always talks about how strong she is, he always helps her move the furniture around or he wants to work out with her. Maybe that is why they made some characters unromanceable because those characters also have their own love interests. These are just my speculations though.

I think it's elsie and errol cause he always have dinner with her and the twins at the mansion on some days...and terithia is like buddies with errol and landen... that's how i see it anyway from the characters' schedule and dialogues....but the olric one i agree..i come to the same conclusion..i got a dialogue abt how olric and merri is getting closer or something like that...which is nice.. they're kinda cute together...

[maru_ru]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

I understand people wanting more options but that does come at a cost. When a small team makes tons of options then there are cuts to the content, the romanceable NPCs will be shallower with less interesting and less detailed stories and romance lines. It would be nice for a farming sim to lean into more mature characters from the start but for most in the genre it's best to accept the fantasy that your character is also a young adult.

This genre of game has always appeal to people from variety of age range..the fact the devs didn't take that into consideration is honestly upsetting... it's their game, sure and i can respect their vision...but sure feel there's something against us older folks here...lol..hayden and valen really feel like just tokens older candidates..here a little something for the older gamers..😂 kind of hilarious...i just wish there's a platonic option like krobus in sdv..at least i still hv a roommate if i don't feel like romancing anyone..some of us are not that great in roleplaying and pretend we're younger in games...

[Felixir]

Hayden, Valen and Juniper seems to be older, but I really agree with OP's point of view : Reina and March look like literal children, and the more I get older the more I get uncomfortable with dating options in game.
Terithia is SO COOL, Elsie is so camp and very eager to share stories about her past lovers... and why not the museum guy after all ? Bald older dudes deserve love too.

[Fallout3Jason]

Originally posted by THE BATTER:

Originally posted by maru_ru:

you're not the only one..there are a lot of threads requesting for matured options as well..it's just not as popular as the Olric petition..lol..whether the devs will do it or not, we just hv to see in the nxt update but i won't get my hopes up..:bearstress:

Weirdly enough, what inspired me to finally buy the game was actually someone saying that there WERE mature options... I guess maybe they were talking about the one (1) rugged guy haha but it's a shame to have been misled.

It's so interesting to me that Olric isn't romanceable - I have no interest in him so I don't mind either way, but I'm curious as to why he's unavailable. He seems like a perfect candidate otherwise, in line with all the other romanceable NPCs!

Valen is an older romancable too. No solid age on her, but people think she's in her mid 30's

[Foxador]

At least it's better than stardew where most of the romance candidates were like 16 year olds