Why do every American game has to have a love relationship?
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The verb tense mistake in the title is killing be but I'll work around it.
I don't know why. I can think of a few that don't. But that's just a few, so they don't really count because I can think of way more games with love stories.
I don't know why. I can think of a few that don't. But that's just a few, so they don't really count because I can think of way more games with love stories.
They would probably say that it makes the game more cinematic as that seems to be their reason for doing everything these days.
I don't participate in a discussion such as this when you don't supply some evidence.Emerus said:
Also what is wrong with such a thing?
As long as the game is fun it doesn't matter.
I see your Left 4 Bed and raise you Left 4 Head.Johnnyallstar said:
And it's to make most games closer to movies. Gaming is currently going through the early-mid 80's action movie phase, where you have a main character that runs in, beats shit up and gets the girl. It should get more varied in the next few years, but for a while, I wouldn't count on it.
Let's see now...
Duke Nukem was in love with himself and his overcompensatingly awesome firearms
Gordon Freeman was in love with his crowbar
Master Chief was in love with his armour
Louis was in love with his pills
Sam Fisher was in love with the shadows
Jack Carver was in love with his Hawaiian shirt
The elite crew guy from the terrorist force in counter-strike...source, was in love with his...sweet goatee
And that's about as much cleverness as I can come up with right now...HARRY WAS IN LOVE WITH HIS PITS!
I see your point and I think it's cliched and just fucking stupid whenever there is EVER a trace of romance in a game (Aside from mario and princess peach, I feel like I should give them a free ride). But to be fair it's not just Americans who do it, look up a Japanese eroge game and you'll see that games the Japanese make have more have love in them than any other video games.
Duke Nukem was in love with himself and his overcompensatingly awesome firearms
Gordon Freeman was in love with his crowbar
Master Chief was in love with his armour
Louis was in love with his pills
Sam Fisher was in love with the shadows
Jack Carver was in love with his Hawaiian shirt
The elite crew guy from the terrorist force in counter-strike...source, was in love with his...sweet goatee
And that's about as much cleverness as I can come up with right now...HARRY WAS IN LOVE WITH HIS PITS!
I see your point and I think it's cliched and just fucking stupid whenever there is EVER a trace of romance in a game (Aside from mario and princess peach, I feel like I should give them a free ride). But to be fair it's not just Americans who do it, look up a Japanese eroge game and you'll see that games the Japanese make have more have love in them than any other video games.
Maybe because US games are more connected with the formulaic Hollywood way of doing things than with other nations? I should think many writers on games used to work in Hollywood, or at least in writing TV dramas. Perhaps US devs are more conscious of the whole games/movies intersection. But I must add I haven't really noticed this with US games, with the exception of Uncharted, which is, after all, very much like a Hollywood screwball comedy + Indiana Jones.
Love in games and movies is often used as a lazy way to force character development and a quick, cheap way to evoke emotion in the audience/player.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes they work naturally like this but usually romantic interests are a product of cheap and lazy writing.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes they work naturally like this but usually romantic interests are a product of cheap and lazy writing.
Well, most games don't really have "love" in them, some have sexual tension, but not love.
Most American Action Movies have shoehorned "romantic" sub-plots, but they seem to be relatively absent from games. In fact, the only one I can think of that fits the Action Movie prototype is Metal Gear Solid 3, a Japanese game, based on James Bond (British).
Most American Action Movies have shoehorned "romantic" sub-plots, but they seem to be relatively absent from games. In fact, the only one I can think of that fits the Action Movie prototype is Metal Gear Solid 3, a Japanese game, based on James Bond (British).
I can think of a game without a love relationship. Metroid. Although I do think there was some kind of attraction between Samus and Gandrayda....
I know, that isn't my opinion. Its just America (and other places) if you hate the movie about the guy who has 20 girlfriends and has to choose one then you never had a girlfriend and are some shut in loser or gay.Del-Toro said:
I would say the relationship between Samus' weapons and Ridley were explosive. Electrifying even.thebobmaster said:
Half-life 1 didnt have one, and Half-life 2 doesnt really either... Alex is like more of a sister tbh.
Well.. maybe there was a love story between the scientists and the headcrabs...
Well.. maybe there was a love story between the scientists and the headcrabs...
There are plenty of American games that don't have a LoveRelationship between characters in them. Besides, Americans aren't the only ones doing that. Most Developers do it to give the Protagonist a reason to keep going.
I send you my lovehistorybuff said:
Well, I don't know alot of relationships as games in a whole, but I guess in movies this is true, but most the movies I watch are American but I couldn't care for the lovey dovey bits unless it's the only thing that drives the story, then I end up not liking the film.
Because relationships are one of the biggest instinctual driving factors of our species.
I liked the love relationship in F.E.A.R. 2. That was definately a first.
I liked the love relationship in F.E.A.R. 2. That was definately a first.
I think it's for an easy storyline, and motivation, I suppose, for the character. Also, it sells. Maybe the developers are going after the stereotyped gamer demographic, where the gamers are sexually repressed and they need to see pixels make out with each other.
