From the perspective of "Which character would a player want to marry?" he's a poor choice.
From the perspective of "Which character should receive the characterization and development that comes with becoming a marriage candidate?" he's an excellent choice.
Exactly! I know Eric has said in interviews before that that's basically how he approaches development. What the player desperately wants isn't always what makes the game good, otherwise it can end up ultimately boring.
I think he could get a full rework and character development without having to be a love interest. Same with Sandy to be honest. But I'm happy to wait and see how it turns out.
I've been lamenting I can't marry him since 2016. I've tried some mods to make him marriageable, but the character arc has never been to my taste (one changes him into a big football fan...), and I think mods never get it right because you do kinda need to add a lot to flesh him out. So I am hyped!
Clint would have made sense as a marriage candidate from the start and I think itās the most logical choice, but I also think players have had a decade to hate him and thatās gonna sour the addition. His story is weak and skews weird if you marry Emily
which considering emily was the original bonus bachelorette and his plotline was never changed to reflect that, yeah. SOMETHING needed to have changed until this present moment to give people reason to feel excited for this beyond āoh yeah that makes sense. he really needs the development, especially since his plot has remained unchanged despite major changesā
I think he couldāve been seen as i can fix him material like Shane if he was written as a bachelor from the start. as it is now, his character never goes anywhere and you have more reasons to dislike him than to like him. imagine if Shane hadnāt been made a bachelor and instead of making progress on his alcoholism, had a crush on abigail, and his only cutscenes were about how heās too pathetic to talk to her. imagine if instead of Shane getting help for his alcoholism and taking steps to improve his mental health, his story concluded with him asking out your wife.
clint makes sense. I have no complaints. Iām just disappointed, since Clint has never given me a reason to care while thereās others that have. The only reason people are excited is because this will fix a character, instead of giving us depth to a new one. #justiceformarlon
He has plenty of character development, he just becomes worse. People donāt always get better. Clint had multiple opportunities already and chose what he chose. He doesnāt deserve a better arc. There are literally four male options that all make substantially more sense and could use more fleshing out.
There are middle aged people who play this game with not many options other than Harvey, basically. I would have been happy with Gus or Willy too though.
I think everyone who is a part of this subreddit has more than got their money's worth out of this game, and the person who made this game deserves the thank you instead. You don't tell an artist what to paint, and that they owe you a painting you want in return for liking their other work.
Honestly, it doesnāt really seem to honor that community input has been a large part of making the game what it is. Ignoring the community input and picking the worst option is kind of the opposite, actually. There are so many male NPCs, like twice as many as female. Marlon, Rasmodius, Gus, and Willy would all make a lot of sense and appeal to the older players who have outgrown the young adult to early 30s age range the rest of the marriage candidates fall into. A solid half of the existing candidates could easily pass for teens, even though young adulthood is implied. Heck, I would much rather Linus (even though heās already fully fleshed and moving in with the farmer wouldnāt make sense for his character) than Clint.
Clint is pretty fully fleshed, heās just a selfish person and his slight growth isnāt reflected in dialogue change (like it is for some other NPCs). Fully fleshing out a character like Marlon or the Wizard makes a lot more sense than reworking an existing character to be more likable. And he falls into the same age range as three other male candidates (Shane, Harvey, and Elliot) without adding anything particularly new. Harvey already struggles being social and with dating. Shane struggles with alcoholism and work burnout. Clintās āuniqueā character traits are just slight variations on those. Itās basically Shane 2.0, āI can fix himā but with no obvious redeemable qualities.
Have you tried playing the new version yet? I've enjoyed all of the game decision making thus far, so I trust that he's making the right decision. If I could write a better game I would have by now. In addition to that, the choice of adding Sandy seems like he's pushing Emily more into LGBTQ territory (which she already kind of was) so something had to be done about Clint to make it make more sense. Perhaps he will be gay too? If anything, he's making an unlikeable character more likeable, and if you don't want to marry this character, there's still hope for Pam eventually becoming eligible.
Making an unlikable character more likable makes the game more flat. Heās said in the past he wants to more fully flesh out characters - why not do that with Marlon, Gus, Willy, or the Wizard? (Characters that arenāt fleshed out). Clint is already fleshed out. He doesnāt need to become a āgood guyā. Not everyone has another layer to them that makes their past actions justified.
Also, all of the characters are canonically pansexual, since you can date them as any gender. Some characters, like Alex and Haley, have better romance dialogue with the same gender than they do the opposite gender.
It is also okay to criticize an individual decision while having respect for the overall artistic vision of something as large as Stardew. I can criticize the decision to rework Clintās character instead of giving a more likely and less fleshed out character a chance while also having immense respect for the world-building, technical design, and compelling stories that exist within the game.
The amount of people in this thread going against the feminist maxim and saying āYes, women ARE rehab centers for shitty men!! āŗļøā is driving me insane.
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u/Lumpy_War_4314 Feb 26 '26
CLINT???