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[meanieweenie]

berelinde wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...

Danny Boy 7 wrote...

Lets be clear you LOVE jealousy in your fictional relationships...because it can get old....fast.

And yes to Cullen

Yeah I was gonna say something about that lol

As for me, I don't like it in real life or fictional... although the few times Hawke's LI pipes up in DA2 are kind of cute, like with Zevran and Tallis. But in my mind, Hawke was just messing around. I would NEVER play a character who cheats or dumps a LI for someone else because I'm too much of a romantic. Like I can never sleep with Fenris and move on to someone else. But also I'm a Fenris fangirl, so yeah lol

I adore jealousy in games. I confess it.

It's the strangest thing. On the one hand, one of the reasons I can enjoy it in fiction when I don't in real life is because I know that it's fiction and that nobody is really crying all night because the person they are in love with (or the next best thing) is interested in somebody else. On the other hand, I get this guilty little thrill because it means that the character I'm steering is *worth* being in love with (or the next best thing) and staying up all night crying over.

Ultimately, though, I'm glad it isn't real life. I'm grown up enough to know that it's better to deal with momentary heartache and let a wanderer go than it is to prolong the misery and be disappointed again and again. And to know that breaking up with somebody is kinder than hurting them with infidelity. But that isn't very satisfying in a video game. 

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

[Dreamlover2012]

berelinde wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...

Danny Boy 7 wrote...

Lets be clear you LOVE jealousy in your fictional relationships...because it can get old....fast.

And yes to Cullen

Yeah I was gonna say something about that lol

As for me, I don't like it in real life or fictional... although the few times Hawke's LI pipes up in DA2 are kind of cute, like with Zevran and Tallis. But in my mind, Hawke was just messing around. I would NEVER play a character who cheats or dumps a LI for someone else because I'm too much of a romantic. Like I can never sleep with Fenris and move on to someone else. But also I'm a Fenris fangirl, so yeah lol

I adore jealousy in games. I confess it.

It's the strangest thing. On the one hand, one of the reasons I can enjoy it in fiction when I don't in real life is because I know that it's fiction and that nobody is really crying all night because the person they are in love with (or the next best thing) is interested in somebody else. On the other hand, I get this guilty little thrill because it means that the character I'm steering is *worth* being in love with (or the next best thing) and staying up all night crying over.

Ultimately, though, I'm glad it isn't real life. I'm grown up enough to know that it's better to deal with momentary heartache and let a wanderer go than it is to prolong the misery and be disappointed again and again. And to know that breaking up with somebody is kinder than hurting them with infidelity. But that isn't very satisfying in a video game. 

There's a lot of things I accept in fiction but wouldn't in reality.

Garrus, for example. My FemShep loves Garrus. Madly. Would not have been able to do the things that needed done if he hadn't been by her side, ect.

Reality: If I had been FemShep in real life, I probably would have ended up with Kaidan because he was human. I may have warmed up to Garrus as a friend, but I don't think I'd ever had been romantically interested.

[thejellnuggz]

R2s Muse wrote...

thejellnuggz wrote...

Dreamlover2012 wrote...

R2s Muse wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...
Cullen: The guy you want to jointly file taxes with <3

D'oh! I feel a new banner coming on...

**EVERYBODY TAKE A DRINK**

lmvao

If you make one, may I use it? 

I'd use it if I knew how to put banner-signature-things on my.. bottom... post line? I don't even. 

Ah, I meant to send you this How to link, in case it's helpful: http://social.biowar...9/index/994591

To put a banner in your sig, go to left handmenu, go to profile, then forum settings. In the window, type
[ img ] URL to the image you want to use [ / img ]   But without the spaces.  Sometimes cutting and pasting an image right into that window works, too. 

Thanks a lot!  

[R2s Muse]

meanieweenie wrote...

berelinde wrote...

I adore jealousy in games. I confess it.

It's the strangest thing. On the one hand, one of the reasons I can enjoy it in fiction when I don't in real life is because I know that it's fiction and that nobody is really crying all night because the person they are in love with (or the next best thing) is interested in somebody else. On the other hand, I get this guilty little thrill because it means that the character I'm steering is *worth* being in love with (or the next best thing) and staying up all night crying over.

Ultimately, though, I'm glad it isn't real life. I'm grown up enough to know that it's better to deal with momentary heartache and let a wanderer go than it is to prolong the misery and be disappointed again and again. And to know that breaking up with somebody is kinder than hurting them with infidelity. But that isn't very satisfying in a video game. 

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

Good point. I both love and hate it when I get genuinely upset or flustered at a game. I can still remember agonizing over this Jowan person locked up in the basement of Redcliffe Castle on my first PT. I was a city elf, so I had no idea what was the "right" thing to do since I didn't know his story. I sat there forever trying to figure out which option to pick, pulling my hair out!

[R2s Muse]

thejellnuggz wrote...

Thanks a lot!  

My pleasure!

[meanieweenie]

Jowan! You little bastard..... I pondered that one for a while too. I remember thinking "If I kill him will it screw up something else later on?" . I suppose in retrospect that I should've been more concerned whether or not he was guilty. I ended up just leaving him there. lol

[CuriousArtemis]

meanieweenie wrote...

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

Okay, I do like being emotionally moved by a game. ME3 ending had me bawling. Can't say any other game has ever done that, so it was something I'll always remember. 

Since I was spoiled on DA2, I knew Fenris would come back after leaving. So I wonder how I would have reacted had I not known. (LI leaving the PC is similar I think to discovering the LI with someone else).

I think if the LI cheats on the PC in DA3 it will shock me and, if done right, will have great (as in HUGE, not WONDERFUL) emotinal impact. I'll need to walk away for a bit and just let it digest. Can't say what would happen afterward because that would depend on the writers and my character!

[R2s Muse]

meanieweenie wrote...

Jowan! You little bastard..... I pondered that one for a while too. I remember thinking "If I kill him will it screw up something else later on?" . I suppose in retrospect that I should've been more concerned whether or not he was guilty. I ended up just leaving him there. lol

LOL and I was thinking... "how mad will this cutey patootey Alistair be if I let him go...?" LMAO

[littlenikki]

motomotogirl wrote...

meanieweenie wrote...

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

Okay, I do like being emotionally moved by a game. ME3 ending had me bawling. Can't say any other game has ever done that, so it was something I'll always remember. 

Since I was spoiled on DA2, I knew Fenris would come back after leaving. So I wonder how I would have reacted had I not known. (LI leaving the PC is similar I think to discovering the LI with someone else).

I think if the LI cheats on the PC in DA3 it will shock me and, if done right, will have great (as in HUGE, not WONDERFUL) emotinal impact. I'll need to walk away for a bit and just let it digest. Can't say what would happen afterward because that would depend on the writers and my character!

I don't know if I was just in denial, but I never actually thought that scene meant that Fenris was leaving Hawke. I'm just running around with him in her group thinking "La de da, everything is flowers!" Then Act III rolled around, and he starts apologizing and I get my "Ohhh" moment of realization. 

[Dreamlover2012]

motomotogirl wrote...

meanieweenie wrote...

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

Okay, I do like being emotionally moved by a game. ME3 ending had me bawling. Can't say any other game has ever done that, so it was something I'll always remember. 

Since I was spoiled on DA2, I knew Fenris would come back after leaving. So I wonder how I would have reacted had I not known. (LI leaving the PC is similar I think to discovering the LI with someone else).

I think if the LI cheats on the PC in DA3 it will shock me and, if done right, will have great (as in HUGE, not WONDERFUL) emotinal impact. I'll need to walk away for a bit and just let it digest. Can't say what would happen afterward because that would depend on the writers and my character!

No game has ever affected me emotional the way Mass Effect (especially the 3rd one) did.

[meanieweenie]

Ha! 'Cutey patootey'!

MMG - I hear ya. I was livid when Alistair dumped my first warden. I was ticked when Fenris bolted. I think I'd personally feel the ultimate betrayal if I busted my LI with another character. It's like not only did I get dumped, but they gave me the finger and kicked my dog on the way out. lol Ack! And if I discovered they'd been double dealing with the enemy.... that'd be the cherry on top. Someone would die.

[Danny Boy 7]

meanieweenie wrote...

berelinde wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...

Danny Boy 7 wrote...

Lets be clear you LOVE jealousy in your fictional relationships...because it can get old....fast.

And yes to Cullen

Yeah I was gonna say something about that lol

As for me, I don't like it in real life or fictional... although the few times Hawke's LI pipes up in DA2 are kind of cute, like with Zevran and Tallis. But in my mind, Hawke was just messing around. I would NEVER play a character who cheats or dumps a LI for someone else because I'm too much of a romantic. Like I can never sleep with Fenris and move on to someone else. But also I'm a Fenris fangirl, so yeah lol

I adore jealousy in games. I confess it.

It's the strangest thing. On the one hand, one of the reasons I can enjoy it in fiction when I don't in real life is because I know that it's fiction and that nobody is really crying all night because the person they are in love with (or the next best thing) is interested in somebody else. On the other hand, I get this guilty little thrill because it means that the character I'm steering is *worth* being in love with (or the next best thing) and staying up all night crying over.

Ultimately, though, I'm glad it isn't real life. I'm grown up enough to know that it's better to deal with momentary heartache and let a wanderer go than it is to prolong the misery and be disappointed again and again. And to know that breaking up with somebody is kinder than hurting them with infidelity. But that isn't very satisfying in a video game. 

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

Hey, hey! Both of my LI in both Origins AND DAII have hit on people....while I was in a relationship...when I was in FRONT of them. Morrigan and Isabela <_<. Part of me wishes it was a sort of hidden very very subtle thing where even the most astute player doesn't catch that something is going on and then BAM betrayal...

Character: You ****/b!tch!!!!
Me: See above

*I proceed to kick the crap out of the my LI's lover unless I'm a male character and the lover is a woman...I don't hit girls*

Character: Several dozens epletives...
Me: This is kind of awesome.

[Danny Boy 7]

meanieweenie wrote...

Ha! 'Cutey patootey'!

MMG - I hear ya. I was livid when Alistair dumped my first warden. I was ticked when Fenris bolted. I think I'd personally feel the ultimate betrayal if I busted my LI with another character. It's like not only did I get dumped, but they gave me the finger and kicked my dog on the way out. lol Ack! And if I discovered they'd been double dealing with the enemy.... that'd be the cherry on top. Someone would die.

Lol I know if that happened minus the double dealing bit and I had the chance to point the finger at the person I thought was betraying us this is what would play out.

Cullen: Who among us do you think is betraying the party?

Me: Her that loose legged, dog kicking, scruffy pig humping HARLOT!!!!!!!

LI: Who you callin' scruffy?

Cullen: Erh umm, maybe you are a bit biased? Perhaps you should think this through more ratio-

Me: KILL HER!!!!!!!!!!

[meanieweenie]

*douses Danny's LI in lamp oil and hands Danny a torch*
"I'm a helper!"

[Danny Boy 7]

I'd do it to.

Random NPC: Oh btw Cullen was the betrayer...

Me: Whoops

[meanieweenie]

Barnacles! Meh. Let's go get a drink.

[Dreamlover2012]

I would say Cullen would NEVER....but I bet that WOULD happen just because the Devs like to make us cry

[meanieweenie]

Cullen would have to set himself on fire cuz I couldn't do it. lol Well, maybe I could.... but he'd have to do something truly horrifying like eat a baby. Something there's no way of justifying.

[Dreamlover2012]

meanieweenie wrote...

Cullen would have to set himself on fire cuz I couldn't do it. lol Well, maybe I could.... but he'd have to do something truly horrifying like eat a baby. Something there's no way of justifying.

Bahahaha! I don't think I could either. Last night I finished my 3rd playthrough of DA2 and cried a little cuz I had to kill Anders. I usually side with the Mages, but this playthrough I decided to do something crazy and side with mages all through the game (and romance Anders) until the very last part and randomly pick the Templars. I let him go after he blew up the chantry but of course he came back to try to kill me. So sad.

But then I got to fight along side of Cullen so everything was all good!

Anywhoodles, I don't think I'd be able to kill Cullen. (Thankfully, I don't picture him eating any babies)

[berelinde]

motomotogirl wrote...

meanieweenie wrote...

So how do you think you'd react if you're in the middle of your game and you've got your happy little thing going on with your chosen LI. All is well until you walk in on them in a lip lock with another NPC? I'd be PO'd and thrilled at the same time. If a game can get a real-ish emotion out of me then it's worth it in my book.

Okay, I do like being emotionally moved by a game. ME3 ending had me bawling. Can't say any other game has ever done that, so it was something I'll always remember. 

Since I was spoiled on DA2, I knew Fenris would come back after leaving. So I wonder how I would have reacted had I not known. (LI leaving the PC is similar I think to discovering the LI with someone else).

I think if the LI cheats on the PC in DA3 it will shock me and, if done right, will have great (as in HUGE, not WONDERFUL) emotinal impact. I'll need to walk away for a bit and just let it digest. Can't say what would happen afterward because that would depend on the writers and my character!

I wasn't spoiled that Fenris would come back, but at that point, it didn't matter. He left. That was the end of it, as far as my Hawkes are concerned. All but one of them moved on to somebody else after that, and Fenris did, too. That one who didn't move on was one I created specifically for Fenris... the only one of 30 made for Fenris that I was actually able to finish the game with. He was aggressive/direct and a bit of a jerk. He tried to be empathetic, but emotional displays annoyed the hell out of him. When Fenris walked, he took him at his word, and he might have moved on, had another unsentimental male been around, but there wasn't. So, when Fenris came back, pragmatic and practical... (I forgot his name!) Hawke... was still single and was willing to take him back.

If the protagonist in the next game were to walk in and find the LI in a liplock with another character, it would depend on the characters involved. Most would probably cut the cheater loose. One or two might threaten (or actually inflict) bodily harm. One or two might forgive and forget as if nothing had happened. A few might be upset, but ultimately get over it. As you can see from the Fenris example, I'll eventually find a protagonist personality that can deal with anything. I really, really love difficult situations like that because it allows a *lot* of replay value. Especially if other LIs become available after the cheating is discovered.

[CuriousArtemis]

Oh berelinde lol you've got no love for my poor Fenbear 

[Newschmoo]

Dreamlover2012 wrote...

meanieweenie wrote...

Cullen would have to set himself on fire cuz I couldn't do it. lol Well, maybe I could.... but he'd have to do something truly horrifying like eat a baby. Something there's no way of justifying.

Bahahaha! I don't think I could either. Last night I finished my 3rd playthrough of DA2 and cried a little cuz I had to kill Anders. I usually side with the Mages, but this playthrough I decided to do something crazy and side with mages all through the game (and romance Anders) until the very last part and randomly pick the Templars. I let him go after he blew up the chantry but of course he came back to try to kill me. So sad.

But then I got to fight along side of Cullen so everything was all good!

Anywhoodles, I don't think I'd be able to kill Cullen. (Thankfully, I don't picture him eating any babies)

I wouldn't be able to kill Cullen either.  I also think that if he became a LI he would be faithful, being a chantry boy and all.  If he was unfaithful, I think my PC would be devastated!

Re Anders, I couldn't kill him at the end.  One, my Hawke was very pro-mage.  Two, I couldn't bear Hawke being on his own after all he'd been through and Anders did love him.  And three, I cannot do combat without him as he is an amazing healer (always has been).

I am on my second playthrough and even now I don't think I would still be able to do it.  My second Hawke is trying to avoid romance with Anders and going pro-templar, but you know there is something about him the more I play ....

[CuriousArtemis]

Yeah, I could never kill Anders, either. Then again, I could never be completely pro-Templar. The Hawke who is oddly enough starting to feel like my canon Hawke was very iffy about mages and was definitely pro-Circle, especially after Bethany joined up. But even he couldn't murder innocent people, and even he couldn't kill a friend in cold blood.

And yeah unless you're cheating playing without Anders is really hard lol

[berelinde]

motomotogirl wrote...

Oh berelinde lol you've got no love for my poor Fenbear 

I created 30 characters specifically to romance Fenris. If that isn't love, what is?

Seriously, though, the big problem I had with Fenris was Anders. I couldn't just not recruit Anders because that isn't an option. And if he's in the party, I'm going to flirt with him. I had to create a character who would find Fenris attractive but not Anders, and it took a lot of attempts.

Hawke's background is also a bit of a handicap. Hawke has lost everything. He had better be good at letting go. Sure, it is possible for Hawke to cling to "that one thing," but I couldn't justify that kind of devotion after a one-night stand. Had there been more audible regret on Fenris's part or some indication that he just needed more time, it would have taken a lot less than 30 tries.

[CuriousArtemis]

berelinde wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...

Oh berelinde lol you've got no love for my poor Fenbear 

I created 30 characters specifically to romance Fenris. If that isn't love, what is?

Seriously, though, the big problem I had with Fenris was Anders. I couldn't just not recruit Anders because that isn't an option. And if he's in the party, I'm going to flirt with him. I had to create a character who would find Fenris attractive but not Anders, and it took a lot of attempts.

Hawke's background is also a bit of a handicap. Hawke has lost everything. He had better be good at letting go. Sure, it is possible for Hawke to cling to "that one thing," but I couldn't justify that kind of devotion after a one-night stand. Had there been more audible regret on Fenris's part or some indication that he just needed more time, it would have taken a lot less than 30 tries.

Hahahaha Touche  Ahh seriously I had to laugh with my mouth closed because I'm giving a final LOL

Yeah that is the thing with Anders; you can't skip him. Whereas I can easily not recruit Fenris in order to enjoy the passionate love affair that is an Anders relationship lol  And I do love me some Anders, mmmhmmm!

I've had both the devoted serious older brother type + the snarky devil-may-care type fall in love with Fenris, but for some reason only the silly snarky types can fall for Anders. 

I've wondered what sort of PC of mine will fall in love with Cullen. I have to think it's a playful and snarky type since Cullen is so serious.