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Best romances in gaming (spoilers)
- Thread starter viciouskillersquirrel
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Its either a long rainy afternoon or a two session game.
Its a great story (though at times amaturishly written), great soundtrack, but if you go into it with an open mind and not "demand" it move you, then you will enjoy it quite a bit.
Your own history and the people that touch you will have more mystery to them by the end.
Eh, the water ripples obscure it enough to show on US day time television, but I'll censor it anyway.
Bonnie MacFarlane and John Marston
maybe... in some other life...
Underrated.
when he leaves her at the end of the game and she puts her toe in the dirt...man you can feel it
Great because it was sudblte and never forced.
The Darkness
So good, I must have spent about 15 minutes or so just seeing if anything happened and just ended up watching more of it with them, there was a bond that you form even if you didn't mean to; it was
gut wrenching to watch when she got killed and I remember just going to town on the controls to see if I could try and bust into that room to save her to just watch her die and not be able to do anything about it.
Afterwards I was just like "woah, that was intense", which is great when a game can bring that sort of feeling out
Afterwards I was just like "woah, that was intense", which is great when a game can bring that sort of feeling out
A Sentient Keyboard
Member
Katawa Shoujo managed to punch through my cold hard shell. Heartwarming stuff.
I only played through once and went with Emi, but I had a magnificent experience.
shinobi602
Member
You're a crueler monster than I thought.
The thread just shows how underused good romance is in a game, as I have problems with several of the best ones. Let's see:
- The Darkness:
- To the Moon:
- Red Dead Redemption:
- Shadow of the Colossus:
Would it kill devs to actually make a slow organically built romance. Even though I liked Shep/Liara thing, it felt too gamey. BioWare was stronger in Baldur's Gate where you had to feel your way through lots of randomly appearing dialogue not knowing if you were doing the right thing.
One very promising one was The Walking Dead
In Witcher 2 I preferred Geralt and that anti-elf commando. That was such an unpretentious thing.
- The Darkness:
A telegraphed death after a single amazingly well done romantic moment.
- To the Moon:
I'm not sure if it's even a romance or rather an extended tragedy. Would they have been happier apart?
- Red Dead Redemption:
Such an awesome potential but that's it. The part on Bonnie's farm was the best thing the game had. They had vibe as strong as Mulder and Scully.
- Shadow of the Colossus:
You just see an aftermath of a thing that might've been a romance maybe, really.
Would it kill devs to actually make a slow organically built romance. Even though I liked Shep/Liara thing, it felt too gamey. BioWare was stronger in Baldur's Gate where you had to feel your way through lots of randomly appearing dialogue not knowing if you were doing the right thing.
One very promising one was The Walking Dead
(Lee/Carly... the bastards).
In Witcher 2 I preferred Geralt and that anti-elf commando. That was such an unpretentious thing.
idlethreats
Member
OP nails it, Fang and Vanille all the way! But what was wrong w/Vanille's accent? Her VA is Australian.
This was my favorite thing about the SotC narrative,
that it's so ambiguous. We never really know what their relationship was to each other and why he wanted to save her. Maybe romance, maybe family ties, maybe something else.
Yep, this and Ico are my picks.
As for To the Moon
that's the whole point of the story, but still, they ended up together...ya know..love
Red Dead
It was a bit more subtle than that I thought...There were flirtations going on throughout most of the time on her ranch, though nothing outright was ever said. That last part kind of confirmed your suspicions all along...IMO I thought Bonnie was a very well written character
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
I second this. I haven't seen a better one so far.The Darkness
Maybe I'm a pessimist but I got the impression of 'well, it's almost like real love, not quite... I mean did he ever love the real person or just his fantasy version of that person.... It's was a complex thing so everyone probably made their own interpretations. I guess a 'bad' romance is still a romance though.
Acquiescence
Member
Actually, this is the best one...
Still sour about how her character has been treated since.
Doug Heffernan
Member
Joker & Harley; so surreal and twisted.
statham
Member
my pick.
Jonny and River, by a mother effing mile.
(Though the rest of yalls pics are good too).
AHA-Lambda
Member
I have to second The Darkness, To The Moon and Deadly Premonition.
viciouskillersquirrel
Member
It's not something you can hear if you're not Aussie yourself, but both voice actresses have clearly spent a lot of time stateside. It starts to bleed into your accent after a while.
Relaxed Muscle
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Pop-O-Matic
Banned
This. It's amazing how much more focus and emotion is thrown into their relationship when compared with the intended romantic plotline. Either they really wanted to write a Boys Love story, but were vetoed by Disney, or the writers just really suck.
It's the latter.
Assuming that will be a romance...
Little is currently known about Stella, except that she meets Noctis at a party, and they share some sort of connection. Although the two do not wish to fight each other, they are forced to do battle as a result of unknown circumstances.
Little is currently known about Stella, except that she meets Noctis at a party, and they share some sort of connection. Although the two do not wish to fight each other, they are forced to do battle as a result of unknown circumstances.
Lasthope106
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Triss and Geralt from the Witcher series.
Mister_Bubbles
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grosvenor_92
Member
I second everyone who said the darkness, it's easily one of the best examples of a game letting you get to know/care about for the characters.
Some part of me is scared to click on a link with scatmania in it. It's not anything weird is it?
LeadenStride
Member
Gets my vote too. The first and only time I really cared for a relationship in a video game.
Best romance between side characters goes to Anju and Kafei. Like the game itself, it's different and also depressing in a certain way.
Oh, good one!
Mister_Bubbles
Member
Hah, no, it's just some dude's blog whose nickname is 'scatman', with a link to the downloadables to play the game.
Edit: I just found you can play it online - score! Everyone do yourselves a favour and give it a shot:
http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Violet.zblorb
It's won a load of Interactive Fiction awards and is really worth a play.
Dave1988
Member
Ya, the only disappointment was getting to that scene in Gears 2.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
Carroll and Fabianski
No way, Elliot Salem and Tyson Rios easily out bromance those two.