When it comes to affinity...

[Celcord]

I'd just like to make people aware that if you're not careful, Caxton will be your chosen beloved 85% of the time.
If you're new to Dragon's Dogma and have no idea what I mean by this or why that's the most likely outcome...
Eventually, you'll understand. In the end that might not be a good thing.

*Chants "They're masterworks all."*



no but seriously dragons dogma pc is good. here's hoping the port is too. can't wait to get rid of those black bars.

[A Horrible Goose]

Publicado originalmente por The Nookster(Terran):

Publicado originalmente por Celcord:

I'd just like to make people aware that if you're not careful, Caxton will be your chosen beloved 85% of the time.
If you're new to Dragon's Dogma and have no idea what I mean by this or why that's the most likely outcome...
Eventually, you'll understand. In the end that might not be a good thing.

*Chants "They're masterworks all."*



no but seriously dragons dogma pc is good. here's hoping the port is too. can't wait to get rid of those black bars.

Can someone explain this without spoilers? I dont understand what you mean by affinity at all

Affinity just means how much a given NPC likes you. There are a couple of things late/endgame that involve the NPC that comes to like you most. It's almost entirely inconsequential except for if you have a merchant or innkeeper as that NPC.

[Shin]

Publicado originalmente por The Nookster(Terran):

Publicado originalmente por Celcord:

I'd just like to make people aware that if you're not careful, Caxton will be your chosen beloved 85% of the time.
If you're new to Dragon's Dogma and have no idea what I mean by this or why that's the most likely outcome...
Eventually, you'll understand. In the end that might not be a good thing.

*Chants "They're masterworks all."*



no but seriously dragons dogma pc is good. here's hoping the port is too. can't wait to get rid of those black bars.

Can someone explain this without spoilers? I dont understand what you mean by affinity at all

Oh its quite simple. In one point of the game it selects another npc (male or female, your gender doesn't matter) to be your beloved one. Theres a meter in the game for every npc that raises or falls depending on what you do. Gifting stuff, talking to him or using his inventory (Caxton is a shopkeeper) raises that affinity. So in DD without the DLC he would be selected by the game as beloved because you basicly talk to him everytime you want to sell or buy gear. They fixed this however in the Dark Arison DLC so don't worry, you won't have that problem on pc.

[Cecyl]

Well, you can basically romance any npc that you can talk to.
Affinity is.. affinity ? Idk, there's no better word really.
Attraction, maybe ?

Basically, every NPC has an "affinity" lvl, that you can increase with gifts, completing quests for them and just talking to them, the higher it is, the higher the chances of a particular NPC to be your love interest.

[Umiine]

Publicado originalmente por The Nookster(Terran):

Can someone explain this without spoilers? I dont understand what you mean by affinity at all

You can romance basically any NPC in this game (yes, including children). To make them like you you can give them gifts, but their affinity for you also increases when you just talk to them. Since you will be talking to the blacksmith and inn-keeper a lot, their affinity for you will increase a lot. Seem that Dark Arisen fixed that problem though. You don't want to romance them because it will teleport them away from their store/inn after a certain part of the game.

You'll know when an NPC like you due to a special kind of noise they'll be making when you speak to them. Once they REALLY like you, they will have a pink halo around their head.

[Cecyl]

You guys are too fkin fast.

[Celcord]

It ends up being a cool idea that wasn't done correctly. On paper, the idea of romancing any npc in the game is amazing, but most end up being boring because there's no unique dialogue and the few that do have unique diologue are limited anyway. Plus, adding on top that to get the person you want as your beloved, you're going to have to push that person's affinity up while forcing other people with high affinity down.

And it's not a choice either, you have to work on getting certain people because you know deep down there's a chance,(if you leave it to chance that is.) no matter how small, that you're going to get the court jester.

[Jemolk]

Here's something a lot of people don't seem to realize on their first runthrough: if you don't want someone being your love interest *cough*Fournival*cough* you can pull out your weapon in front of them, sheathe it, and repeat until they're no longer smitten with you. If you want to lower it really fast, you can attack them, but if you do this in the capital, you'll get thrown in jail.

[Jemolk]

Publicado originalmente por Celcord:

It ends up being a cool idea that wasn't done correctly. On paper, the idea of romancing any npc in the game is amazing, but most end up being boring because there's no unique dialogue and the few that do have unique diologue are limited anyway. Plus, adding on top that to get the person you want as your beloved, you're going to have to push that person's affinity up while forcing other people with high affinity down.

And it's not a choice either, you have to work on getting certain people because you know deep down there's a chance,(if you leave it to chance that is.) no matter how small, that you're going to get the court jester.

Oh God, I saw a video of someone with Feste as their love interest. It was funny, in a morbid sort of way.

[Pyrit]

Publicado originalmente por Celcord:

Publicado originalmente por Pyrit:

He has plenty. You can pretty much have your pick, any you like

I feel like he says that out of necessity, like he's trying to be friendly so that you stay at his inn. Caxton on the other hand? No, he doesn't have to say his nonsense line, it's stupid and he does it anyway. I can respect that. People sigh, People hate, but in the end, it's Caxton that has the will to exagerate a very simple line and make it his.
Rather than saying it to bring in customers, he says it because he knows it's stupid and that it's too late to stop. He is the masterwork, and in the end he knows he is wrong for saying what he says.
This fear dwells within him causing him to become disillusioned with reality. All he knows is that greeting. That greeting is now his reality. He can hear people, and they can hear him, but can they really hear what he means to portray? This fear deep inside him? The desire to let it be known that he can't push forward with anything else, that it's too late to save himself?
He continues, knowing nothing else. Only knowing that they're masterworks all, you can't go wrong.

Now this is masterworking.

[A Horrible Goose]

Publicado originalmente por Celcord:

And it's not a choice either, you have to work on getting certain people because you know deep down there's a chance,(if you leave it to chance that is.) no matter how small, that you're going to get the court jester.

Feste just wants to be loved, don't you take that away from him.

[Nathan Marsupial]

Cloudwine + Mercedes = no Caxton

[SirthOsiris]

Course, then you do the trial quest and end up with Fournival or his daughter at max affinity. The former is a scary thought, and the latter is 'wat.'

And then I found a video with the jester.

Didn't they do something with the Arisen's Bond to fix this mess?

[Jemolk]

Publicado originalmente por SirthOsiris:

Course, then you do the trial quest and end up with Fournival or his daughter at max affinity. The former is a scary thought, and the latter is 'wat.'

And then I found a video with the jester.

Didn't they do something with the Arisen's Bond to fix this mess?

That'd be nice. Then I wouldn't have to worry about lowering affinity with Asalam, Symone, Selene and Fournival

[SirthOsiris]

I got lucky and tried for Quina the first time and got her. Think I did intimidate the Asalam a bit. Second try with DA I didn't do too much different (did not guilty for the trial), but made sure to max Selene last and threw the ring at her; got her, too.

[Jemolk]

Publicado originalmente por SirthOsiris:

I got lucky and tried for Quina the first time and got her. Think I did intimidate the Asalam a bit. Second try with DA I didn't do too much different (did not guilty for the trial), but made sure to max Selene last and threw the ring at her; got her, too.

Yeah, on my first few playthroughs, I went for Aelinore, who is probably the easiest to get in the entire game. Later I went for Quina and got her, no problem. Asalam got weapons shoved in his face repeatedly over this time, but it was worth it.