LIs having romances with other characters

[Pizizi]

How do you feel when the LIs have romances with other characters?

For example; in Andromeda Six, if you're in a romance with one character, the other characters will also start romances with each other or with other characters.
And when a character has a relationship with another? Something like a friend with benefits or a clear romantic/sexual tension between them, how do you feel?

Personally, I don't like it at all, in the case of Andromeda Six. It makes me only want to do my favorite character's route because if I don't, I'll have to keep seeing them with other people. It really discouraged me from the game.

 

[ruruchan2u]

Omg, that and the Speakeasy game (promiscuity levels High) aghhh, I hate it. Neither do I wanna be a wingwoman: getting option to hook other LIs up. I don't want POLY where they make bedroom eyes at eachother and flirt every chance. I need personal harem! the jealousy and possessiveness! unwillingness to share MC! I mean I like seeing bromance here and there but I get to be selfish self-insert so need that special romantic attention aimed solely on my chara.

 

[Pizizi]

Omg, that and the Speakeasy game (promiscuity levels High) aghhh, I hate it. Neither do I wanna be a wingwoman: getting option to hook other LIs up. I don't want POLY where they make bedroom eyes at eachother and flirt every chance. I need personal harem! the jealousy and possessiveness! unwillingness to share MC! I mean I like seeing bromance here and there but I get to be selfish self-insert so need that special romantic attention aimed solely on my chara.

I feel the same way! If I'm not the focus, then no thanks!

There are very few polyamorous games I've liked; normally when I want more than one Li, I prefer a harem, but that's very rare in Amare games, and it's usually polyamorous instead of a harem.

 

[ruruchan2u]

I feel the same way! If I'm not the focus, then no thanks!

There are very few polyamorous games I've liked; normally when I want more than one Li, I prefer a harem, but that's very rare in Amare games, and it's usually polyamorous instead of a harem.

It's crazy! Another member asked for harem games and no one could really find any targeted at women that didn't include polyamorous. Bad ending group-session doesn't count; need happy ending. I'm still hoping there's a proper indie out there that isn't 3P option romances. It's strictly sticking to 2LI guys route at a time or 'harem' where you can only romance one-at-a-time collectible LI routes with group CG in end.

 

[nyao]

Hate, hate, hate it!

I played this game titled I Was a Teenage Exocolonist years ago without looking too into it and boy, I should've because almost everyone had set pairs that were either serious or explicitly said to be FWB… If you don't get on someone's romance path fast enough, they will be partnered up—there's a chance that you can break them up, but it's not in a satisfying way IMO. It had me feeling like I was fighting for my life to get an LI's attention. Hell, sometimes getting an end for an LI showed them leaving you or including someone else.

It was very unfortunate for me because the only characters I had interest in were ones who have some poly or FWB stuff going on with other characters (＠_＠;) I already dislike seeing LIs with others if I'm not on their route, but seeing it while actively pursuing them is something else entirely …

 

[satory]

This is the reason I romance only Garrus in Mass Effect :)

But I'm not against LIs having relationship "before" the start of the story, if they will eventually be with MC.

 

[Kaorin_]

Not my cup of tea, when it happens in the middle of the game. If it's something mentioned in afterstory - then I'm all for it. All(or mostly >_>) of them definitely deserve to be happy, even if not with our mc.

 

[totallyamanda]

no, they were created for me to love and enjoy, no one else. ψ( ` ∇ ´ )ψ /s
but, really, I am definitely on the side of not enjoying those details at all.

mainly due to being a self-inserter, but i'm like, I'M the main character when i play otome. ٩(•͈ ꇴ •͈)و ̑̑❀

I also have the issue of those details stay really prevelant in my future playthroughs so everything will now be second-guessed or read into too deeply to try and see where THEIR romance is hinted at.

if the game was not an otome, i think i'd be more okay with it (such as fire emblem games, pairing off other characters was cute and fun). otherwise, an otome should have the love interests solely interested in the main character only. don't expend time and details that could have been allotted to MC's routes.
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and yes, it has ruined routes for me as well. there's been games i just quit entirely because it played out as such. ˚‧º·(˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )‧º·˚

 

[xaioblack]

Personally I won't mind, I would treated like mult-verse when play different LIs route. Reading all the "what if" is pretty fun