absurd burning shores love story

[hunteliar92]

spent like over 100hrs in base game, really like it. just started burning shores not long ago.
wtf is the new character seyka? narrative just cringe like hell and all dialogue between aloy and her are so bad and poor written.

[Quibz]

Originally posted by hunteliar92:

just finished burning shores. the ending just got even worse.
i dont get it why they rushed it so hard. the burning shores are relatively short and they try to write a full story about aloy's romantic relationship with a new character.
they could have just warm up a little it in dlc and see how players feel about it. then they can decide do it or not in next game, that will be a lot better.

That does sound like it would've been a better alternative. Give some sort of spark at the end of burning shores without confirming they are in a relationship quite yet, then have it blossom in the next game.

The ending of burning shores implies we probably won't be seeing her in the introduction section of the next game anyways, as she stated she wants to stay with her people for a while longer, so having their relationship take longer to blossom wouldn't have been a bad idea at all

[hunteliar92]

Originally posted by Quibz:

That does sound like it would've been a better alternative. Give some sort of spark at the end of burning shores without confirming they are in a relationship quite yet, then have it blossom in the next game.

exactly! if they spare most of romantic plot, they would have tons of room to make seyka a convincing and loving character, isnt that better? just leave some hint right before the end, that would be really natural.
if they do that, they would also get a good character for third game too.

[stopbus]

i agree that the length of the dlc made the romance part feels alil sudden (as compared to the 40-50+hrs completing the main game), but actually in between the quests u could somehow pick up some clues of Aloy's crush? here n there (when aloy is (anxiously) talking to herself abt seyka etc)

how i wish the dlc was longer,,, for now i shall assume its a love at first sight kinda thing? and see how horizon 3 goes

[Alcator]

Originally posted by Quibz:

Give some sort of spark at the end of burning shores without confirming they are in a relationship quite yet

But isn't that pretty much what they did?

Aloy essentially says "I feel something towards you but I'm not entirely sure what it is, and I can't commit to it anyway, not yet."

Isn't THAT a *spark*?

In video games, we've gotten used to "Relationship = Sex" -- even games like Mass Effect will not give you a "Romance X" achievement until you manage to sleep with X; Getting the Paramour achievement requires you to sleep with someone in every game of the three.

So by that logic, a hug or a kiss is barely a spark :-)

[Quasinerdo]

Love is about meeting people's needs not trying to make them happy or just having common childhood.

I get Aloy and Seyka could feel commonality and true understanding BUT Aloy is also WORLDS apart in terms of intellect and understanding of the world while Seyka is a marine indoctrrinated in the Quen way.

I think the rush described is the problem because closing that gap is essential.

Seyka is frequently shown making untenable leaps of capability for someone who has no training in technology and yet flips out at the end of world remarks.

She is like an emo teen who gets angry and that is the catalyst for Aloy repeatedly helping her. This also does not gel with her being a superior Marine.

It's shallow and realistically I think sets up the 3rd game for Aloy being single with some footnotes about a fling with Seyka that ended because she was too much like Aloy yet lacked the self control to deal with the "real world".

[Avalanche]

Originally posted by hunteliar92:

Originally posted by Megatron:

I dont feel they developed that character enough to have a sudden love interest.

Should have been continued in next game at some point instead of rather rushed.

agree

I have yet to experience it in my playthrough, i saw it via a youtube video, it put all dialog about this new character and Aloy wondering why she is concerned about her actions that it is affecting this new character, while she never had a concern for anyone else, i can see how it built up over time, but it felt rushed, i do not have a problem with a same gender romance, i always play female characters in swtor and i always romance Lana Beniko, i just hate it when it is rushed and put in there in a DLC at the very end of the game where no one can really truly complain about it.

The thing is, you can choose to kiss her or not, how is this going impact the third game? Are they going ask ingame if we kissed or not, like a 'previously in Horizon Forbidden West' type of thing and we could get to choose and the game's dialog and story will go that route, or will they force it on us, i mean i don't have a problem, as long as its a choice, i hate forced romances of any kind, i prefer one way or the other.

[hunteliar92]

Originally posted by Avalanche:

we could get to choose and the game's dialog and story will go that route, or will they force it on us, i mean i don't have a problem, as long as its a choice, i hate forced romances of any kind, i prefer one way or the other.

they made the kiss or not a choice, that did make player feel not that being forced. but that doesn't change the problem through out most of the dlc story. along to way the romance part was always rushed and lots of dialogue are like out of nowhere.