Do you feel silly romancing digital characters?

[Vault101]

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...

well you never know, I wouldnt be so surprised if they made him a romance option in ME3

then again I doubt it...he just doesnt seem into shepard, plus it would be a little weird...first kaiden....then thane or Garrus....then Joker....would be hard to make it not feel like a casual hook up

then again Thane could die....break it off with Jacob as that was "casual"...Garrus...mabye as well and with Kaiden there was a valid reason there

 

[Meggiepants]

Who said this was Lady Hawke? >_>

I certainly didn't. Di you think I meant lady boobs? No sir. I did not.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

well you never know, I wouldnt be so surprised if they made him a romance option in ME3

I doubt they will tbh, I think he's meant to be more of a sidekick unfortunately. Plus Seth Green is probably expensive. All of the ME2 relationships seem casual tbh My Shep stayed faithful to Kaiden. The LI's just didn't interest me at all.

 

[greenitedaze]

I didn't feel silly when i started my crush on Betty Rubble, and i refuse to see it as silly now, apart from that one time in god of war 3 when i cheated on her, but she doesn't know that.

 

[AbstractStream]

Yeah...I kinda do. Having to play relationships in games makes me feel silly. Even more so when I realize I'm enjoying it. Of course, I only realize until after I turn it off.

 

[RJ Dalton]

I romanced Viconia in Baldur's Gate 2 and found it satisfying as a narrative thread.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Oh god I just remembered about Anomen...ugh.

 

[Vault101]

well you never know, I wouldnt be so surprised if they made him a romance option in ME3

I doubt they will tbh, I think he's meant to be more of a sidekick unfortunately. Plus Seth Green is probably expensive. All of the ME2 relationships seem casual tbh My Shep stayed faithful to Kaiden. The LI's just didn't interest me at all.

Yeah true, and as I said even if they did it would be difficult to pull it off without stepping into rediculous territory

as for femshep romances (cant speak for Male shep) Jacob and mabye Garrus seem casual I supose, Thane however not so much..but then again he could die...so that would leave femshep free for kaiden

I mean kaiden was nice....if not a little bland

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I mean kaiden was nice....if not a little bland

Kaiden was bland...not like Joker *cries*

hehe

 

[Vault101]

I mean kaiden was nice....if not a little bland

Kaiden was bland...not like Joker *cries*

hehe

awww dont worry

theres always Fanfic or Deviant-art

 

[mikev7.0]

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.

I have faith. The User is fine. Clu? Not so much....

 

[Souplex]

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.

I didn't say they couldn't, but physical limitations make certain activities problematic.

 

[Amondren]

For me it depends on the RPG. Dragon Age origins I was fine because I actually liked the character and in a game like Dragon Age I become immersed and I play as I was him.

In other games such as Fable where I am romancing a random NPC simply to kill them with my sword to upgrade it I do in fact feel quite silly.

 

[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.

I didn't say they couldn't, but physical limitations make certain activities problematic.

*shrug* so you work around it, same as you do with the aliens.

 

[Belluavir]

Well it depends. I'll always go for a gay relationship, but unfortunately there's not so much of that. Breeder on breeder stuff... well it just depends, at the moment I can't think of any that I like and only things that I don't. I disliked dating in Grand Theft Auto San Andreas and I dislike managing relationships in GTAIV. I know that the vast majority of the relationships are not technically dating, but their pretty much the same thing, except I don't get to fuck a morbidly obese, drug addicted Jamacian man.

It's just dull and their all so demanding. What about my needs?

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

I haven't felt silly doing it yet, but I don't play Dragon Age with people sat around me so I have no reason to be. I've discussed it like I've discussed all other aspects of a game with friends who have played it too, and didn't feel silly. I was interested to discover I was the only one of my friends whom Morrigan made the first move with (well, first suggestion we should be having sex, which would be one hell of a first move in real life), which opened avenues of discussion about other relationship aspects in that game and our individual experiences. Nah, don't feel silly at all, it's all part of the game. No more uncomfortable than when I read first person sex sequences in books.

In Fable it never felt much like romance. It was always very game orientated. I was very much aware it was a side quest slash mini-game type thing. In GTA games I never had any patience for it.

 

[Katana314]

I played through some unusual independently-made games that dealt with romance in an interesting way. Both times, the only admission of romance comes from another character, and doesn't really rely on your response as other events in the game catch up on you; in fact, the default assumption is that you, and your character, are made to feel somewhat awkward and unsure about it, much the same way most would feel about romancing a virtual person.

Anytime your avatar and yourself feel the same way, I feel some immersion has been accomplished.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Not at all. If the character is extremely well-written, I'll enjoy it more than any relationship with a real person.
Although, that may just be because I get infinitely more attached to objects and well-written characters than real people.