Kingdom Come; Deliverance

[Mikeaveli]

As someone who thinks Fallout: New Vegas is the greatest video game of all time, the whole "controversy" surrounding this game is hilarious to me.

Game looks great and I will be playing it once I finish the first one.

 

[thebestnic]

As someone who thinks Fallout: New Vegas is the greatest video game of all time, the whole "controversy" surrounding this game is hilarious to me.

Game looks great and I will be playing it once I finish the first one.

What's the link with New Vegas. Played it for the first time last year and have been looking for a similar game ever since :p

 

[Mikeaveli]

What's the link with New Vegas. Played it for the first time last year and have been looking for a similar game ever since :p

Basically online grifters are attempting to convince people this game is bad because there is an option to have your character engage in a gay romance. Meanwhile New Vegas had the same options 15 years ago and not a single person thought it was a bad thing . Thankfully they seem to have failed miserably.

If you like New Vegas you will probably like this series, lots of choice in how you play which is rare these days.

 

[Romang67]

Might get it as a relaxation game. Never did get much past the part of the first game where I made a fairly lucrative business out of leaving early in the morning to go hunting and then sell the skins. I hear you can do blacksmithing and alchemy in this game too.

 

[PeteWorrell]

Basically online grifters are attempting to convince people this game is bad because there is an option to have your character engage in a gay romance. Meanwhile New Vegas had the same options 15 years ago and not a single person thought it was a bad thing . Thankfully they seem to have failed miserably.

If you like New Vegas you will probably like this series, lots of choice in how you play which is rare these days.

The internet was a very different place when they released New Vegas. There is too much brain rot now from too many people looking for reasons to be angry and outraged.

 

[Osprey]

Basically online grifters are attempting to convince people this game is bad because there is an option to have your character engage in a gay romance. Meanwhile New Vegas had the same options 15 years ago and not a single person thought it was a bad thing . Thankfully they seem to have failed miserably.

I just read through the negative reviews on Steam and it sounds like the complaints aren't as simple as that. They don't like that Henry and Hans seem to have sexual tension and can have a gay romance even though both were straight in the first game (and, in fact, one of the DLCs was all about Henry helping Hans pursue a girl). Changing the sexual preference of existing characters that players have spent of lot of time with is a little different than making all new characters that can swing either way, like in New Vegas. They also feel that all of the references to homosexuality in just the first 10 hours don't really fit the historical time period, in which it wasn't talked about openly because it was strongly stigmatized and punished. Again, that's a little different than when the setting is futuristic, like in New Vegas. Anyways, less than 10% of the negative reviews bring those things up, and less than 10% of all of the reviews are negative, meaning less than 1% of reviewers care about them, so it doesn't seem like a big issue.

Speaking of the game doing well...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sells 1 million copies in its first 24 hours, and Metacritic clocks it as the highest-rated game of 2025 so far

A strong start for Warhorse Studios' RPG sequel

www.gamesradar.com

 

[PeteWorrell]

I just read through the negative reviews on Steam and it sounds like the complaints aren't as simple as that. They don't like that Henry and Hans seem to have sexual tension and can have a gay romance even though both were straight in the first game (and, in fact, one of the DLCs was all about Henry helping Hans pursue a girl). Changing the sexual preference of existing characters that players have spent of lot of time with is a little different than making all new characters that can swing either way, like in New Vegas. They also feel that all of the references to homosexuality in just the first 10 hours don't really fit the historical time period, in which it wasn't talked about openly because it was strongly stigmatized and punished. Again, that's a little different than when the setting is futuristic, like in New Vegas. Anyways, less than 10% of the negative reviews bring those things up, and less than 10% of all of the reviews are negative, meaning less than 1% of reviewers care about them, so it doesn't seem like a big issue.

Speaking of the game doing well...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 sells 1 million copies in its first 24 hours, and Metacritic clocks it as the highest-rated game of 2025 so far

A strong start for Warhorse Studios' RPG sequel

www.gamesradar.com

Hans Capon is sleeping around in the first game. There is no implied homosexuality but i don't think it's out of character to find out that he is sexually adventurous to the point where he would like to try sleeping with a man.

The first game also has plenty of moments that would be considered heretical and it's up to your Henry to decide how he deals with it. I mean, the local parish priest has a concubine living with him and he gets drunk at the local tavern without it being a secret. But i guess that wasn't a problem because there was no optional homosexuality.