Fallout 3: Game Of The Year Edition
Creating The Fudge In Your Game Pack and Getting A Byte Of Video Game Relationships
Please, no menacing emails or comments, I used the title just to seize your attention. I am not an anti-gay activist. Recently I read a fantastic feature on GameSpy titled as “Putting the Gay in Games: The Industry’s Evolving Attitudes Toward Sexuality” by Lara Crigger and it set me thinking about relationships in current game software.
Recently my real life babe was actively playing with Dragon Age: Origins (for the 5th time through) and I noticed her female toon was romantically attracted to Leliana. Now in reality she is straight as a board. For the record, in this incarnation she was only a big tease to excited Leliana who never was allowed to have sex with her love interest. My partner was offended when I played Dragon Age and my guy persona was having sex with both Leliana and Morrigan (I was taking advantage of game customizations that facilitate explicit sex scenes and this surely had something to do with her repulsion). Those mods are only made for the PC version and can be found at Dragons Age Nexus (grown ups only please). I was expected to explain in in no uncertain terms, when I was pressured to choose why did I pick Leliana over Morrigan. So what on earth was my answer to her inquisition? I declared, “Because Leliana appears to be way more like you”. She was content with my answer. I am happy I did not choose Morrigan, as it was a coin flip between the two and I indeed could have chose her instead.
The challenge is not really do we need gay love affairs in games, but to we need romances in games at all. From the considerable segment of gamers I meet with, the majority response was: “depends on the genre and essence of the game.” I discovered it to be a cheerful break from slicing and dicing in Dragon Age and slogging through targets. I didn’t ever choose the male on male option and I rarely fool around with playing a girl hero, unless that is the only option available. Having said that, added possible choices help to make the games even more inviting to a broader range of people.
There is significant shortage of relationship options in nearly all the games, even in RPGs (Role Playing Games). There certainly is a greater demand for this than what makers are giving us. For example, it could have easily been a much bigger part of Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. In their predecessor Fallout 2, this was in fact a fresh function of that game, that was regrettably ignored by the sequels. There is a great mod for Fallout 3 known as “Gurlz 187″, which can be uncovered for absolutely free at Fallout 3 Nexus. Users can team up with a NPC known as Sasha Ashe (who starred in my Cops in the Wasteland Fallout animations if you want to observe her). The more Sasha has feelings for your persona, the more stuff she will present and the more advantages she will give you, which includes sleeping with you. My hypothesis is that game companies do want to give us love in our virtual lives, but the point is the extra computer programming required takes an extended period of time which makes it far more costly to fully complete. Obviously, if time was the one and only concern we would have come across a lot more romantic options for Duke in Duke Nukem Forever, although we adored the pair of girls snogging. “Shake it baby”.
I find the shortfall of digital paramours surprising. With all the advancements in AI (artificial intelligence), why haven’t we experienced much more? The only piece of software I am aware of that demonstrates any real AI relationship fostering is a virtually unknown project named Kari Virtual Girlfriend. Kari appears to have been around for a minimum of 6 years and has advanced minimally, which is too bad as the particular concept is fantastic. I completely believe that if a significant studio makes a superior game, with a terrific romantic options for you, it would disappear off the shelves (or off their Internet download stores) and have monumental sales. Clearly there is a call for love and relationship making in games. There are a bunch of folks out there who often have no authentic love relationship in their daily lives or It’s possible they just prefer to role play. Of course in many games sexual orientation is utterly insignificant. When you’re looking straight down the sights of M16 what big difference does it make? On the flip side in a adventure game it certainly adds detail to the game universe.
So what do you think regarding relationships in games? Would you buy a game that has a complex relationship simulator and would you want same sex choices? And should the industry confine these to M and A/O rated games or do we see Gay and lesbian associations in E rated games? Only time will tell. And whatever happened to the virtual reality sex simulators we were promised? I believe I will write about that subject for yet another day. As I am close to finish off this editorial I come across a game article on a recent title for PS3 known as “Catherine”. The game’s story centers around a dude character’s romantic relationship with his girlfriend Katherine (note spelling is with a “K”) and an affair with a gorgeous chick named Catherine (spelled with a “C”). So I suspect these companies are on the right path. We fully understand sex sells, but I believe that relationships would too. Imagine future titles like ZeniMax’s “Deliverance: Raft & Rape Edition” or Sega Presents “Brokeback Mountain: No Man Left Behymen”. Enjoy the fun. Thanks for reading.
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