Additional Romancable NPC's

[Andromeda]

Many people want the other single adults to be romancable!!!

Olric, Errol,Landen,Elsie,Terithia and all the Saterday Market Vendors.

More choices Devs!

[Luna]

Having more choices is a mixed bag.

Having ten (twelve, actually, since there are two "secret" ones) is a large number as it stands. If these ones get really nicely done plotlines and are fleshed out well? That's a lot of choice. If adding more candidates means that there will be less focus, attention, and effort put into the current roster, it's not a good thing.

[Amberbaum]

Originally posted by Luna:

Having more choices is a mixed bag.

Having ten (twelve, actually, since there are two "secret" ones) is a large number as it stands. If these ones get really nicely done plotlines and are fleshed out well? That's a lot of choice. If adding more candidates means that there will be less focus, attention, and effort put into the current roster, it's not a good thing.

I agree. Sunhaven has currently this problem.

[Andromeda]

Of course I would hope it's well done.
I posted this topic base on many others I have read.
Thank you for your input.

[Amberbaum]

Originally posted by Andromeda:

Of course I would hope it's well done.
I posted this topic base on many others I have read.
Thank you for your input.

I understand. I would love to have more options(Olric), but then I Look at My Time at Sandrock and Sunhaven and I see the struggle. Although MTAS has problems because they play favouritism with their love interests and some LIs just get discarded(why even bother picking them as romance roster to begin with).

[Luna]

The My Time series is a great example of where more options hurt it. I haven’t played Sun Haven much, but I fully believe it.

I’d rather have solidly built love interests with interesting dynamics over a plethora of ones that aren’t highlighted as much. From what I’ve seen, I love the platonic relationships with various villagers too, and feel that if they aren’t romanceable, that is an active choice by the devs.

Some more might get added later. Overall it feels like a well-rounded cast. Normally I have a love interest in mind and this game is making it too difficult to pick in advance, haha!

[maru_ru]

I really want Errol, it hurts everytime i talked to him..

[tenorei]

It kind of sucks if someone is playing as an older character that most of the available ones are very young. Only Hayden and Valen are a bit older but that really narrows down the options

[SimuLord]

Originally posted by Luna:

The My Time series is a great example of where more options hurt it.

But...but...Venti tries to win your heart with the power of garbage! Best waifu ever!

(supposedly she's finally getting proper romance options in the upcoming 1.4 update, but otherwise your point is absolutely spot on.)

I've said it before in regards to this game, but I'd love for there to be a scene with Olric where the player asks why he's always playing wingman for March and he reveals that he's asexual and aromantic. It'd be a nice bit of representation in a genre where every NPC is hot for the player who isn't married or older than the hills (and sometimes not even restricted by that latter case.)

[SpaceLion]

The possible drawbacks (it pulling time away from the current roster's development/the team spreading themselves too thin leading to poorer written characters) is really only a problem if a.) they haven't already made sizable progress with the original options and - imo more importantly - b.) if the demand from the playerbase is that more options are available at launch. I see no reason why especially the older characters being done as a future update, and even as a DLC to subsidize the costs of development, should negatively affect the quality of the work being done first or the work done after the other updates are finished. I do think it's a worthwhile mention that there are a LOT of older people who play games, and who may want to romance characters within their own age groups.

The upper age range of gamers is only going to go up. The gamers who were in their 30s when I was a kid are in their 50s now, and they were hardly the oldest gamers at the time too. Just a thought.

[TamanduaGirl]

Originally posted by SimuLord:

I've said it before in regards to this game, but I'd love for there to be a scene with Olric where the player asks why he's always playing wingman for March and he reveals that he's asexual and aromantic. It'd be a nice bit of representation in a genre where every NPC is hot for the player who isn't married or older than the hills (and sometimes not even restricted by that latter case.)

That would be great. A cool in addition would be if some could be non-romantic roommates, like krobus in Stardew. I'd love some non-romantic options where you could still partner up.

But just giving the explanation that Olric is aromatic would be great. I'm asexual bi-romantic myself but the representation would be

On topic I don't mind most games not having older people to date. Most present a story that pushes you as a young adult yourself and I don't mind mentally putting that as my role in games. But if they wanted to make older romance-ables I'm not against it either.

[SimuLord]

Originally posted by SpaceLion:

The upper age range of gamers is only going to go up. The gamers who were in their 30s when I was a kid are in their 50s now, and they were hardly the oldest gamers at the time too. Just a thought.

I got an NES for Christmas '88. I was 11. I'm...a lot older than 11 now.

I would love to be able to set my character's age during character creation so that I'd be too old for the younger romanceables but able to carry on a relationship with the older folks (or the younger but not TOO much younger women to be a dad later in life.)

One reason I never really got into the Persona games is that I feel like I should be put on a registry if I'm playing a game that's partially about lusting over high school girls. I'm too old for that series.

[Rogvirr]

I love Hayden, but MAN I could totally romance Errol. I love me a classy dresser and...*ahem*...a smegsy dad bod.