After see Dominic rework well, I'm going to be VERY honest, I understand the need to remake Dominic more than any other, I'm a long-time fan who's been looking forward to this game since my friend introduced me to, unfortunately the first negative aspect in general would be the fact that I won't be able to have my romantic ending with everyone I'm interested in, so the game having so many options and half of them being just One Night Stands is quite "lame" in itself, even because the patreon content gallery already exists outside the game and have a good amount of action, but back to my point, Dominic and the feelings we've both always had for him, He's not a "digestible" kind of character and don't get me wrong, the feeling has always been exclusively "why are you there?" on him with the likely possibility of him being one of the romantic ones since his 'label/tag' is literally being the straightest guy in the cast, and I must say his construction in this part is simply "hetero beyond measure", while other games that have this same premise do something calmer and less 'problematic', this character (and the little I explored of him because I didn't feel the slightest desire compared to the rest), didn't please, besides the main point in a game like this, while the entire cast was already exceptionally handsome and well made for something made in daz3d (considering your experience now vs before) Dominic only seemed like those bad and poorly rendered secondary characters with very little appeal because not even his personality saved him, the feeling of thinking that he could "take the place" of Will, Tomas or even Owen as a romance option terrifies me (even though I don't have only them as likeable options) which makes me want to not pay/wait to see until the big reveal of who will be or not (because who knows how long it will take to get at a romance point) he's still not my favorite, but I think he will be better for being on the same level as the other characters and new players would prob like him more after the update
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Hey there. Yeah, part of the reason I redesigned Dominic was to make him more visually appealing, but I also did it to give him a look more like I was originally trying to achieve as well as use a different generation of figure that would give me access to more assets I can use with him.
You don't need to worry about Owen - he is romanceable.
Dominic isn't taking up anyone's spot because every character was designed from the ground up to play a specific role. If he wasn't there, it doesn't mean Will would get a romance, it just means either there'd be one less romance or there would be an entirely different character who was created specifically to cover the archetype.
It seems you're not sure which guys have a romance, so I'll clear that up for you. The 10 romanceable guys are: Alex, Asher, Dominic, Evan, Griffin, Isaiah, Marco, Matt, Owen, and Riley. Only 6 main characters have a story that won't lead to a romance: Julian, Leo, Mafia, NC17, Tomas, and Will.
But just because those last 6 won't lead to a romance, it doesn't mean they will just be one-night stands with no story. The only guys who are purely hookup characters are the ones with a Grind'm scenario.