Do you feel silly romancing digital characters?

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Since when has not being real EVER stopped Joker from acting like a dick?
Seems to me like you're more in need of a REAL man Jessica

And there in lies the problem. I'm attracted to men who act like dicks Oh well. *Adjusts SR2 hat* It's like catch 22...

btw Red Dwarf...<3

 

[Double A]

No, I am role-playing after all. How is sillier to pretend to romance digital ones than to care about fictional ones in TV or books?

Also, capatcha's being real bitchy today. I keep getting the illegible ones where one word is written down twice in almost the same spot.

 

[Vault101]

Most bioware romances make me feel creepy and innapropriate. With the exception of maybe Alastair and Kaiden.

Mass Effect 2 is so wierd as Femshep. Your LI is just going on about something and then you have the option 'I want you' completely out of nowhere. It's really uncomfortable at least Kaiden tried to chat you up a bit.

Most of the time they don't allow you to romance the most likable character anyway :< Gimme Joker alreadies <3 and Varric. Bioware are mean.

well at least she doesnt say "I want you thane!!!" right there and then...she says somthing else but I took my earphones out for that one

also they cut out the romance with Ashley and femshep in ME1...but I always got a vibe of...somthing when she said goodby

"dissmissed.......cheif"

"........ma'm"

anyway I dont really feel silly or anything I just see it as an opinional part of the story oyu you can help along...not acutally ME romancing thease charachters

 

[Mastercylinder]

No.

To tell you the truth, I have an easier time becoming more attached to fictional characters than I have actually people. (I even wrote Kevin Flynn a ulogy after seing T:L, pretty sure he died.) I guess you know more about them, and it's easier to get attached to something that can only really judge you based on your in-game actions.

. . . WHAT?

C'mon, you all feel this way, admit it.

Oh I admit that sometimes I feel a greater attatchment to fictional characters than I do actual people. Few of my heroes are living. Just not a romantic one.

The Heroes I have that are real, people wouldn't recognize their names anyway, why? They aren't characters, they're real Heroes that's why.

By the way, it's sweet, but why did you write a Eulogy for the User?? You can't derez a User!!

Well . . . see that's kinda been a bit of a debate amongst the fellow video warriors (Tron nuts). The whole recombining with Clu thing, it sounded like it involved derezzing.

Who knows. Alot of hope is up for his return however.

 

[Souplex]

Hope i can continue my romance with Garrus in ME3 btw >.<

He's calibrating, sorry. Pixel men are strange. I have a fangirl thing for Joker even though I have never liked rl celebs. Part of me thinks becuase he's not real he can't act like a dick and let me down. I find that comforting. Not that I'm bitter...okay maybe I'm bitter.

...I'm not sure certain physical activities with the guy with the bird skeleton area good idea.
If you really care about Joker, do you really want to crush him between your thighs?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

...I'm not sure certain physical activities with the guy with the bird skeleton area good idea.
If you really care about Joker, do you really want to crush him between your thighs?

Well you know he does kind of get thrown on the floor during the collectors cut scene and he's fine. Also there's such a thing as being gentle lol. I know someone who has a similar disability irl and they are complete womaniser. Not to mention that sex isn't exactly mandatory in a relationship.

I don't understand why people are like that you do realise you could KILL Garrus and Tali with your bodily fluids right? Meh now I just sound like a rampant fangirl. But it's pretty wierd that people are okay with shagging aliens but can't work around a disability...kind of shallow and worrying in fact.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

Only when the game makes it blatantly apparent that they are digital.

 

[LetalisK]

I always feel really silly. They already seem to be either of poor quality or just awkwardly unrealistic.

 

[trooper6]

1) At least in Bioware games, the romances are option.
2) I don't feel silly. The romances (and the freindships), for me, add great depth to the game--and raise it to the next level.

-My relationship with Anders in DA2 was pretty epic.
-My relationship with Morrigan in DA:O had me feeling like the protagonist in a film noir. She had femme fatale written all over her...yet I couldn't quit her.
-I built this great relationship with Ashley in MA1...but then I started regretting it as some of her bigotry started showing...but I felt like I should see the relationship through...which a really cool experience that I rarely see in games.
-In MA2 I resisted Miranda because of Ashley...until Ashley said what she said to me at Horizon. After Horizon it seemed to me that Ashley and I were through...so after some time, Miranda and I ended up getting together...and right afterwards I get a letter of apology from Ashley...now what's going to happen in MA3? I'm a tad nervous.
-KotoR2...I think I romanced Visas...but in that game I was mostly obsessed with Kreia...I wanted to get her approval so badly...yet I was also a big boyscout...so that was fraught.
-KotOR1...in both my playthroughs, my romance with Bastila and my romance with Carth were both epic and really led to some great emotional moments.
-I always had fun romances in Fable.

The romances are great! So too the friendships!

I have to say, having just finished Fallout 3 previous to playing Dragon Age 2, what was really missing for me was the ability to forge friendships/romances with anyone in the game. It was a cool game...but it all felt a bit impersonal.

I want my deep friendships and/or romances.

 

[Souplex]

...I'm not sure certain physical activities with the guy with the bird skeleton area good idea.
If you really care about Joker, do you really want to crush him between your thighs?

Well you know he does kind of get thrown on the floor during the collectors cut scene and he's fine. Also there's such a thing as being gentle lol. I know someone who has a similar disability irl and they are complete womaniser. Not to mention that sex isn't exactly mandatory in a relationship.

I don't understand why people are like that you do realise you could KILL Garrus and Tali with your bodily fluids right? Meh now I just sound like a rampant fangirl. But it's pretty wierd that people are okay with shagging aliens but can't work around a disability...kind of shallow and worrying in fact.

Well I didn't go for either of them.
Besides, I think he broke some stuff when he got knocked to the floor, but just patched it up with medi-gel. He said he thought he broke a rib or two when it happened.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I think he broke some stuff when he got knocked to the floor, but just patched it up with medi-gel. He said he thought he broke a rib or two when it happened.

He gets straight up I mean the one after the collectors take the crew from the ship.

You like hollow boned, sarcastic space pilots: I like naive, blue, alien scientists. It all comes down to taste. BTW If you seriously think your "bodily fluids" could kill Garrus, You might want to get yourself checked

I don't have a problem with the alien love, to each there own. I just wonder about the fact that the first thing people come up with is 'you can't romance him, he is a cripple.' doesn't say alot for people really does it :/. I'm pretty sure Mordin says that humans and turians are toxic to each other when he gives his little talk...

 

[Souplex]

I think he broke some stuff when he got knocked to the floor, but just patched it up with medi-gel. He said he thought he broke a rib or two when it happened.

He gets straight up I mean the one after the collectors take the crew from the ship.

You like hollow boned, sarcastic space pilots: I like naive, blue, alien scientists. It all comes down to taste. BTW If you seriously think your "bodily fluids" could kill Garrus, You might want to get yourself checked

I don't have a problem with the alien love to each there own I just wonder about the fact that the first thing people come up with is 'you can't romance him, he is a cripple.' doesn't say alot for people really does it :/. I'm pretty sure Mordin says that humans and turians are toxic to each other when he gives his little talk...

He says not to ingest, but doesn't say anything else.
I was referring to the collector scene too. You can get up with a broken rib, it's just really unpleasant.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I was referring to the collector scene too. You can get up with a broken rib, it's just really unpleasant.

Well, I'm pretty sure people who have disabilities can have relationships. Jus sayin.

 

[Vault101]

No part of me feels silly, it's the biggest reason (indirectly) I play Dragon Age.

I think the purpose of Role playing is entirely lost once you enter that line of thinking.
I completely shut myself out.
Once I load up that file I am Fey. I'm a well meaning, carefree, idealistic, freedom before justice, Rogue with a sense of humor and a knack for messing up relationships due to an overly romantic and selfish view of love.
Some would sooner describe me as evil, merciless, and cruel. I can't deny blood in the right color (my enemy's usually) makes my day that much better.
For that play through of Dragon Age the first:
I never took off my wedding band, it may have been an arranged marriage but I know he was a lovely man. Maybe I'm to sentimental but I felt it was more powerful than any of the other enchanted rings.

Morrigan was my best friend, like a sister I never had, we disagree on some things, she doesn't understand the way I cling to friendship and love, I know she values it though.

Alistair was my newly found compass for what I should consider right but couldn't bring myself to follow, the love I wanted but couldn't have because every choice I made pushed him farther away.
We're still good friends, being with him is great... But I can't shake the feeling that he sees a dark terrible evil embodied by the power and willfulness I command, always keeping him an arms length away.
That perhaps inside, he's afraid of me. Maybe more so because of how well I get along with him, like I don't carry a weight of guilt, or my face is free to lie straight even to those I'm closest.

yeah I also held onto my wedding ring! I cant remember if I sold it later, mabye because I was letting go and wanted to get with alistair.... perhaps I was holding onto it more out of guilt than loyaty or love...no probably because I wanted money

but yeah I liked it how somthing as simple as having your wedding ring in your inventory could create such an emotional reaction

also with morrigan...she was a ***** and all but for some reason I was always nice to her..and respected her in a way, even Miranda from ME2 I guess bitchy charachters dont bother me much..

or mabye its that I want to "fix" them and make them nice

 

[Strixvaliano]

I don't feel silly but I don't see much of a point to it for myself. I'm not going to say it shouldn't be there since it can help with immersion if done right. I usually don't get attached to most video game characters to care enough to try and romance their pixels and generally tend to avoid romance in games anyway.

 

[pspman45]

it seems silly how quickly it can start up, and how quickly it is regarded as nothing
The Relationships in Dragon Age 2 were pretty good i liked how they "hooked up" half way through the game, then have to either keep them going, or crush the person.
it seemed silly in Mass Effect, as the relationships started at fixed points.
I think it should start not by your choice, but by if they like you