Give Me Romance, or Give Me Death!

[Nouw]

Dante's Inferno and Star Craft

 

[Melon Hunter]

Dragon age? Mass effect?

Probably every Bioware game that I haven't played?

I don't think saying "What do you know about the Geth?" qualifies as romantic conversation. It seems to pass in Mass Effect that if you're asking them "what they thought of the last mission?" you're courting them in some way. Believe me when I say it doesn't work in practice. I went to a party one time and decided to take the Commander Shepard way of flirting. Most of the women I talked to got very confused and left... I guess they didn't think too much of our last mission.

Then again, the last mission line is usually just an icebreaker. You do go on to talk about more personal topics, like family history.

 

[SimuLord]

The only love story that genuinely touched me was the developing love between Locke and Celes in Final Fantasy VI. One was finally coming to grips with the loss of his beloved from his past, the other was learning to embrace emotions she'd never allowed herself to feel...my gods, it was beautiful.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Although an internet video game forum would be the only place I would ever admit this, I'm a romantic at heart. But only with my video games.

Tell me some games that you think have a decent love story. I'm thinking along the lines of:
Uncharted series

That guy in Uncharted is so damned unlucky when it comes to basic movement! I laughed all the way through the beginning of Uncharted 2 at the never-ending chain of events damaging him constantly.

OT: Dragon Age: You and Zevran. Awwwwwww yeaaaaah.

 

[hazabaza1]

Dragon age? Mass effect?

Probably every Bioware game that I haven't played?

I don't think saying "What do you know about the Geth?" qualifies as romantic conversation. It seems to pass in Mass Effect that if you're asking them "what they thought of the last mission?" you're courting them in some way. Believe me when I say it doesn't work in practice. I went to a party one time and decided to take the Commander Shepard way of flirting. Most of the women I talked to got very confused and left... I guess they didn't think too much of our last mission.

Hmm, true.
Mind you, the Dragon Age stuff feels more personal, and takes longer to really get to know someone in the game.

 

[FirsstormGojkilp]

The only game that springs to mind is Dragon Age: Origins, don't think any other game I've played has proper romance. Though it is quite funny to pretend that two characters in a game have somethign going ^^

If only real romance was like it is in books and games...

 

[Orange_Clockwork]

Neverwinter Nights, the first, had lovely stories and little nips of romance in it, that made you care about the characters, even if they were just npc's. Oh, Aribeth, I love thee.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Baldur's Gate 2.
Mass Effect was ok, but not great.
Dragon Age was slightly better, but not great either.

Really, Baldur's Gate was the best I've seen so far, just because it took so long. It never felt like a rushed romance thing. It was over a long period of dungeon crawling and chapter after chapter. THEN you got romantic. Awesome.

Unless you were going after Viconia, in which case she gets physical relatively quickly only to then heap abuse on you and do her level best to verbally emasculate your character at every turn for quite some time, before she finally gives up trying to make you hate her (which sounds weird of course, but she had fairly compelling reasons to do that). Then it's back to being physical, heh.

And the ending in ToB's epilogue... well I'm a sucker for tragedy and unhappy endings, so I loved being devastated by it.

Neverwinter Nights, the first, had lovely stories and little nips of romance in it, that made you care about the characters, even if they were just npc's. Oh, Aribeth, I love thee.

Yeah, I was immensely disappointed that they never did anything with the Linu La'Neral romance options (you did know about those, right?), and what happened to Aribeth was tragic.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

Umm probably Army of Two (im implying that the two main characters are gay if you dont get it)

to be serious probably kingdom hearts (still not sure whether sora is in love with Riku or Kairi though)