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And a major disappointment you couldn't romance in Cyberpunk and the romance in Outer Worlds felt so half assed. Romance can be a great part of a game.
I thought you said Outer Wilds.
You can romance in Cyberpunk, but the romances have gender preferences. Judi and River will only romance women, Kerry and the other one I've never actually met will only romance men.
Really? Fair enough, I don't recall there being any options to romance anyone when I played, but I must have just missed it. I remember the forced gay scene, which, like, fine, but I'm not gay, so it would have been cool to get at least one chance with a girl, lol, but it never seemed to come up no matter what I did with female companions in tow.
Panam is the other romancable character. If you do her entire side story (which is quite good) and choose the right options throughout, you'll have the option to romance her near the end of the game. She's only attracted to characters with a masculine body.
The romances in general are very easy to screw up. You lock yourself out of several right at character creation unfortunately. Here's what you need for character creation to get each romance:
Judy: Feminine voice and body Kerry: Masculine voice and body River: Feminine body Panam: Masculine body
As long as you meet the requirements, you can romance 2 people in vanilla, though there's something at the end of the game that requires you to pick one of them
You also need to do their side missions, but you meet each of them in the course of the main story. There's also 4 romantic encounters that sadly don't go anywhere serious.
You can get it on with Meredith Stout, the militech lady who threatens you near the start of the game. If you don't insult her, you can get another mission from her in act 2. There's also 3 encounters that can happen, but those are potential story spoilers
I really hate when game devs don't make all characters opportunistically bisexual.
Remember when all those internet duds were mad that Dragon Age 2 was "sHoVinG tHe gAy aGeNdA dOwN oUr tHroAts!!!!!" because the NPCs would romance the PC regardless of gender? And they absolutely lost their shit that Anders might express interest and, if you're not interested, you'd have to politely turn him down once?
Those are the worst sort of people and I frankly wish them ill.
Agreed. Give me my Judy, Panam, and River harem damn it!