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99: Charting the Future with Sarah Northway (I Was a Teenage Exocolonist)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

CHAPTER

I'm Dating Alister, You're an Elf.

Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is out now. Players can play as any of the main characters from dragon age to alister. One reviewer suggested players not take these characters if they want romance. Hr says he prefers more adult characters that you just get once in a while.

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Speaker 1
Like, everyone has dfferent dating triggers. There's a couple that are very flirty and very easy to date. But
Speaker 2
i was going to say, i was looking up a question on line about the game, i forget what, and i saw someone in ther reviewer right up mentioned, like, a don'tike, if you want to date these characters, like, or don't take these characters if you like, want to have romance, cause it's difficut announce thng. Others are all the characters up currentcy, try to fa but that,
Speaker 4
i feel like that does map. And not to go back to mass fe for too long, but like that, that evolution into a preference for characters that have autonomy and aren't just sort of there to be obsessed with, you, feels like an evolution in preference for, you know, some one who enjoys that part of that feature in games, like me. No, by mass vic thoree, they are dating each other, if you don't pay attention to them, and they're like, gool, i'm going to live my life. Yes, yosha, i'm going to get s by wewere now supery tired.
Speaker 1
Mass if fact. And also, dragon age was another man, were my favourite moment im in, like any narrative game, maybe it's from dragon age to where i was dating the guy who's going to become king. I think it's dragon age, too, and a alister. Alistery. I'm dating alister. We're a thing, and i get him up there to the end, and he's going to become king, and then he's just like, well, i can't marry you. Bcause you're an elf. Yes, i was lively throug and i was just, it's justat the most heartbreak, the most absolute heartbreak, and all like, feesinto the hold, you know, races and things. He's just like, well, i mean, i love you, but, you know, king's got standards or whatever.
Speaker 4
You made me king.
Speaker 1
This is my job. Helike, thatis your faull s. I didn't even want to be king, ye
Speaker 4
e. I did. I think success would become his consort. But it was still, ye
Speaker 1
i think i, i might have killed myselfomush oh alic dramatically in a, you know, in a heroic sense. But it was because of my broken heart. Memorable in a mmorable fashion. Branch of these stories. Yes, that's the kind of stuff that, i don't think we get quite that dramatic in ex a colonist, but that, those are the kind of moments at am that we were kind of flowing with, with the romance, not the, not that i got to tend hearts, here's a smooch, but this like, you know, dying for each other kind of, you know, that sort of stuff. I'm,
Speaker 4
i'm glad you mentioned allister too, because there is that speaking to the like, characters being hard to date, or just like, what that means mechanically, like how, you know, the idea that there's a sweet spot and it's not a simple thing. As i remember that epiphany with alister, where you can tease him, but he's very sensitive, and if you tease him too hard, you know, wat. I mean, ant i was like stunned when i first played that, ecause i was like, that so real. Like, you can, you think you were having fun, and then you pushed something, and some things off. And u's like, that's so human. Like, that's so welcome. Um, so i think that's always, think that's a good thing. Instead, i'v just like, just hit on them forever and they'll love you. What youmean? Totally. I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 2
the minor light lights polers. But the character i ended up with at the end, i guess, was not even a main character. It was one of the peripheral, kind of more adult characters that you just get, you get the option to flirt with once in a while. And it was like, oh, i did not expect it to work out that way, but that's cool. It seemedpretty cool. Yes, yes, that was entirely lindsay's invention. That was ther their favorite charactera that they wanted added
Speaker 4
into the pool. Appreciate. I got the thumbs up on that. Matmoisel was iti. Was it by chance, like, a a replacement politician, person, leader? No, then, no, ok, ok. Curious. I was commanded to flirth with an old and elder by my o y co play playbody that was like, gnea, aha. Hr'sa lot of opinions aboutand there's such a variety of tastes to cater to in this game. Ye, ye. I
Speaker 2
was going to ask kind of what ye are their favorite, whether it's the dating or other parts of the game, like favid, little story lines or moments that that most players won't see, that you're particularly happy with.
Speaker 1
All people won't seey, i need to take a look and actually see how far they're getting in the explore area. Aas there is, there's kind of a hidden character that's out there that you might have encountered. Am, but, am, but that character has a lot of stuff that i'm a an worried. I like, i think maybe people aren't seeing. A, it was kind of designed that perhaps you're not going to get on your first run, and that perhaps you'd have to use a wicky, get a character list and be like, who's this gy wer? How do i see this character? A, but some of their am little like day in h life kind of moments. Are some of my favourite things in the game? A, ye, i nont. I don't want to spoil it too much. But ye, go explore.

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