Game seems to be pushing same sex romances.

[Viper]

Not that I have an issue with this. I however am playing as Kassandra and every time I talk to Odessa there are romance comment options in every reply.

[hyperion]

The cursing sailor chick told me she wasnted to eat up some other lady, lol, while uttering the F world every 2 seconds. Outside of that, have not seen much romance to speak of.

[Ariko]

You know both Alexia and Alexios have the exact same dialogue options right? ..Is pushing Alexios and Odessa somehow pushing same sex romance too?

[Viper]

Are you playing Kassandra and have you met the Chick who want s to be a hero like Odysseus . Seems to be a pretty major story game thread.

[incredibilis]

Originally posted by Ariko:

You know both Alexia and Alexios have the exact same dialogue options right? ..Is pushing Alexios and Odessa somehow pushing same sex romance too?

This. Both characters get the same dialogues, and afaik same cutscene animations. Anything you do as Kassandra can also be done with Alexios and vice versa.

[ScruffyBamboo]

My Kassandra is a total horndog. She sleeps with everyone she can - male, female, whatever. There was a donkey, once.

[Viper]

That seems like an easy but lazy way to make the game to me. Perspective should be different expeiencing the story as a woman than a man.

[hyperion]

Originally posted by Viper:

Are you playing Kassandra and have you met the Chick who want s to be a hero like Odysseus . Seems to be a pretty major story game thread.

I've met her 2 times now while playing as Alexios. I had the option to flirt with her, telling her how beautiful she is. I can't remember now what I said to her, but she joined my crew after that.

[Spritetoggle]

Originally posted by Viper:

Not that I have an issue with this. I however am playing as Kassandra and every time I talk to Odessa there are romance comment options in every reply.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

(I might be a liiiittle bit biased.)

[Kashra Fall]

Welcome to ancient Greece. Wasn't uncommon and was sometimes preferred. It wasn't like it is now adays where it is a bad thing in all regards ~shrugs~.

[hyperion]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Welcome to ancient Greece. Wasn't uncommon and was sometimes preferred. It wasn't like it is now adays where it is a bad thing in all regards ~shrugs~.

If you study history, everyone were total pervs until first world problems arrived. I mean, there was the Puritans, but they all died out because they didn't have sex.

[Gughunter]

I had decided in advance that Kassandra would not go clam diving but she ran into one case where both conversation options had hearts by them. She still got a final chance to back out, though.

[jack_of_tears]

Originally posted by Viper:

That seems like an easy but lazy way to make the game to me. Perspective should be different expeiencing the story as a woman than a man.

The romances could have been a little more involved, I'm sure most people would have liked that, but I fully support the idea of letting either character romance any gender because it prevents game material from being locked being "sexuality walls" where you never get to experience a romance because you're the wrong gender. This happened in Mass Effect, where they changed their mind about making Tali a same sex romance option and (since I've tried to play ManShep and it never feels right) that means I never get to experience that game content and pursue the relationship I really wanted in the game.

Dragon Age 2 had the right idea, make all the characters romanceable by the PC so they aren't punished for playing a gay or straight character.

Also, as they mention in the loading texts, sex was a lot more casual in ancient Greece and same sex relationships were common.

[Spritetoggle]

Originally posted by jack_of_tears:

Originally posted by Viper:

That seems like an easy but lazy way to make the game to me. Perspective should be different expeiencing the story as a woman than a man.

The romances could have been a little more involved, I'm sure most people would have liked that, but I fully support the idea of letting either character romance any gender because it prevents game material from being locked being "sexuality walls" where you never get to experience a romance because you're the wrong gender. This happened in Mass Effect, where they changed their mind about making Tali a same sex romance option and (since I've tried to play ManShep and it never feels right) that means I never get to experience that game content and pursue the relationship I really wanted in the game.

Dragon Age 2 had the right idea, make all the characters romanceable by the PC so they aren't punished for playing a gay or straight character.

Also, as they mention in the loading texts, sex was a lot more casual in ancient Greece and same sex relationships were common.

Thank you! I've felt exactly the same way about access to such content in games, but have never been able to word it as well as this.

[Lord Gonzo]

Frankly, I think they should have left it out completely unless it has some actual effect in the game.

Say you're playing as Alexios... Romance some chick, later you have her hounding you for child support, maybe a divorce attorney hunting you down looking to serve you with papers, maybe a ticked off husband to deal with, ticked off father, brother, etc...

Play as Kasandra, you may get knocked up... you might wind up with some freak stalking you... ticked off pack of lesbians chasing you down because you put the moves on someone elses b**ch... etc.

But the way "romance" was done in this game? What a friggin joke! And frankly, the word "Romance" should not even be used in relation to the AC Odyssey attempt at it... It's "romance" written by some pre-pubescent 12 year old... how is this "Romance": ?

Random town cooze: Oh Mistheos, please, will you run to this bandit camp and get my earrings back?

Alexios: (In a horribly poor fake Greek accent that sounds more southern California Mexican than Greek) "Sure... I will kill them all"

[Alexios returns 20 minutes later with the earrings]

Random town cooze: "Mistheos, did you kill the bandits and get my earrings?"

Alexios: (In prementioned pathetic attempt at accent) "Every last one of them! Can I see your boobs?"

[Cut to black screen where you can hear them both fake laughing like morons on prozac]

Wow... pretty romantic Ubisoft.... glad you put that in there.

I can't believe they actually PAYED someone to come up with that drivel. Proof Positive you don't need to be overly talented to get a writing job at Ubisoft.

My nephiew could write it better, and he's 7 years old and still thinks girls are "yucky".

[LordRedStone]

Much of that has been said already, they are not pushing for same-sex relationships, but the first options are women (Odessa being on the very first island) so if you are playing as Kassandra, (which the majority seems to do) you'll get the lesbian options early on.