Interview ToEE interview at Sorcerer's Place

[Rosh]

The problem with romances in a game is then you get a whole flood of people...

Actually, I use that term loosely. Very loosely. More apropos, it's either juvenile boys or the 30 year-old virgin in their mother's basement that are primarily interested in that.

And then you'll have them coming onto the forums, sometimes in a female guise, wanting various things from arguments on how gay options should be in there to be politically correct or whatever, and then you'll have someone want some incestuous relationship or worse. From many of the threads I've seen, incest and hamster felching jokes are some of the more minor.

So then you have to generally weed that bullshit out from the forums or just tell them to go download a shitty hentai game.

I can understand some interest and feelings go back and forth, especially if you save the life of the person in question, but not to the deep and corny levels those social rejects want.

 

[Ausir]

In another example, let's remove the whole homosexuality thing from Magic's Pawn (from Mercedes Lackey) because it's icky and sappy, never mind that it is *completely central* to the story.

I wouldn't use Mercedes Lackey's books as a good example, though.

 

[Astromarine]

hehe well, I'm not too versed in Fantasy and stuff. Living all of your life in Portugal does that to you. I happened to know that book, and the fact is that the main character's sexual tendencies and him falling in love with one of his colleagues is absolutely vital to the book. That doesn't mean I liked it especially (I enjoyed it, but nothing earth-shattering) and I know little else by the author, so if it was a loaded example then I have to ask for forgiveness and claim that I was ignorant of any possible undercurrents.

 

[evilmonkey]

More apropos, it's either juvenile boys or the 30 year-old virgin in their mother's basement that are primarily interested in that.

Oh I dunno - it seems that the girl gamers I know here on campus all seems to enjoy games that includes romance besides CS and supermario.

while only some of the guys do it - as for them being juvenile and/or virgin - well they might be both all of them.

as for

The problem with romances in a game...

well I'm finding that problem is one to tree of...

A. if the game forces the romance on you - and even more so in a RPG.
B. the one that thought it up is a juvenile and/or virgin thats been watching too much porn for his own good - or if a girl - well then I would give here the same stamp.
C. it lacks polish, and they threw it in just to sell some more boxes.

now A is not a problem if you want romance, nor is B if you prefer porn, or ladies softporn romance books, over quality, but C I guess is a problem for all, unless you as the gamer would claim porn to be quality stuff in the romance apartment.

personally I have no problem with a game that lacks A - and I can choose - as I hardly ever take the romance route. Now if I did then B and C would be a problem.

...and I'm really scared about games that kills off C and yet uses A and B.

//dan.

 

[Spazmo]

People keep saying that lame stuff like romances and lame games like The Sims are going to get the hypothetical girly-girl to play games, increasing the popularity of the hobby and other good stuff.

But if the girly-girl only wants to play these girly-girl games, do we really want them to play games? I don't want the games I know and love to take a hard left turn towards Barbieton. If good games as we know then don't appeal to the girly-girls, then the girly-girls shouldn't play them. Don't ruin it for the rest of us.

And by girly-girl, of course, I don't mean womanhood at large; I mean the parts of it that don't play games because they're too x and not enough y.