With in depth games like RPGs i say yeah bring on the romance sub-plots. It give characters an extra level of emotional depth.
Poll: Sex/Relationships in RPGs - how does it affect your enjoyment?
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The weirdest part of it for me is the fact that a player character, meant to portray ME, is involved. I don't think Mass Effect made nearly as much of a splash as a game like Indigo Prophecy, which has a sex scene between the main character and a woman late in the game before closure. The key difference is, in that one it wasn't "you", it was "the main character". You didn't decide to do it, and you had no part in really shaping the character; heck, thanks to specialized QTE's you didn't really determine so many of his actions during the game.
Trying to include the player himself in a sex scene, even for the people who enjoy that sort of thing, is gonna feel weird. I think maybe if sex aspects of games were to focus on OTHER characters and their relations it would be more fitting. Then again it'd be hard to include a sequence in Mass Effect where Shepard for some reason needs to fit a webcam to someone's room in order to watch them get it on.
Trying to include the player himself in a sex scene, even for the people who enjoy that sort of thing, is gonna feel weird. I think maybe if sex aspects of games were to focus on OTHER characters and their relations it would be more fitting. Then again it'd be hard to include a sequence in Mass Effect where Shepard for some reason needs to fit a webcam to someone's room in order to watch them get it on.
I've had issues with that as well - trying to keep everyone happy in Dragon Age meant that I was consistently having to say "No, I'm NOT interested in you! I'm interested in them!" and taking the -14 or so each time. Then I'd give them a gift to offset it and be right back where we started. "I swear, I'm not interested! I just thought you'd like the shoes!"Erana said:I don't mind it as long as I don't have to be actively involved in the... intimate moments.
Still, it bothers me when being nice keeps being percieved as my trying to romance someone, both with NPCs and real people online, for that matter.
That's a good point. Being nice (for a lot of us, that means being NORMAL) shouldn't automatically translate into romance in these games. That's dumb and unrealistic (IRL nice = just friends, teasing and flirty = sex). If you choose flirty things to say - actual compliments and such - then that's one thing but usually it's just you going thru the game and you never did anything special, but you can "fall in love".wench said:I've had issues with that as well - trying to keep everyone happy in Dragon Age meant that I was consistently having to say "No, I'm NOT interested in you! I'm interested in them!" and taking the -14 or so each time. Then I'd give them a gift to offset it and be right back where we started. "I swear, I'm not interested! I just thought you'd like the shoes!"Erana said:I don't mind it as long as I don't have to be actively involved in the... intimate moments.
Still, it bothers me when being nice keeps being percieved as my trying to romance someone, both with NPCs and real people online, for that matter.
In DA:O, I did find the sex thing with the rogue trainer to be totally fine. I've heard you can get a 3 some going there, but I was just 1 on 1. Anyway the point is, I purposely tried to get that result and it worked, because I choose sexy and nauty chat options. On the other hand, Alistair somehow got the wrong impression... I really just thought I'd give him those amulets and stuff because we're good friends ><
Meh, I don't find it entertaining in a videogame (except for laughs DA was soooo bad in this regard) the dev's censer everything so they don't get slapped with an AO rateing. So whats the point of it?
If you want it to be a meaningfull turning point in the relationship of two characters then why not just cut out the cutsceen and tell the player that they got laid and let them move on.
In short if you are going to show a cutsceen that has characters "getting intimate" either make it a full blown (pun intended hur hur hur) sex sceen or get rid of it so I can go back to killing things for lootz.
If you want it to be a meaningfull turning point in the relationship of two characters then why not just cut out the cutsceen and tell the player that they got laid and let them move on.
In short if you are going to show a cutsceen that has characters "getting intimate" either make it a full blown (pun intended hur hur hur) sex sceen or get rid of it so I can go back to killing things for lootz.
I don't believe in love (well at least love for me) and my parents were the overprotective type to a very meek and obedient child. As a result, even as an adult, I feel awkward watching movies and games with anything more intense than short kisses on the lips. I feel like I'm intruding on something private. I'd still play the game; I'd just look away every time they have one of those types of scenes.
unless it means smth to the game, it's just a gimmick to attract sex-obsessed teens to buy the game,therefore using artificial methods to increase their sales because they knwo their game sucks too much to actually try.
therefore, i'd rather they just leave it out
therefore, i'd rather they just leave it out
Meh, I'll persue them if the option comes up, but it's not really an active pursuit. I could care less if they stopped them outright or made them more involved into the story. I have yet to reall genuinely care about a possible videogame romance...... so yeah whatever.
Although I did think the "love" scenes in Dragon Age were rather entertaining. Merely because they were so cheesy and hilarious.
Although I did think the "love" scenes in Dragon Age were rather entertaining. Merely because they were so cheesy and hilarious.
To me the older Final Fantasies did the best job of romance, whereas X and X-2, well, it felt forced, and X-2 was just fan service. As for other RPGs, i don't care really. I think Square Enix did the right thing in XII not including a love-based story. It made the characters feel more mature.
I've heard this a lot - but since there weren't a lot of these games out when I was a teen, I find myself wondering whether it actually works that way. Did Mass Effect or Dragon Age get a larger share of the teenage market by adding in sex? Or would this only work for something like Grand Theft Auto?faceless chick said:
i think just adding 1 brief sex scene doesn't help sales with teens, at least not today, when the media is over-saturated with scantily clad big breasted women..teens need to see it all the time to actually be impressed anymore. what it does is cause controversy with parents, politicians and religious groups and it gets to news headlines, attracting attention and making ppl buy out of curiosity of "how bad it could be"wench said:
it's pretty much free publicity.