Though a great many games include a romantic interest, few, if any, have managed to create a convincing, powerful romance. OnlySP asks whether it is even possible for it to be done and some of the possible ramifications if it were to be so.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
The inFamous games are an important part of PlayStation history, but the series is in limbo and playing older entries isn't exactly easy.
Would like remasters of 1 and 2. I enjoyed them much more than Second Son.
1 & 2 had more of an emphasis on climbing and the traversal requires a bit more effort in a good way. It was rewarding. Second Son made climbing mostly obsolete so they put little effort into it. The traversal was just great in inFamous 1 & 2. There's a reason Sunset Overdrive copied and improved upon the induction grind mechanic.
Reminds me of how I felt about the decline of parkour and the well designed tombs (basically Prince Of Persia levels) that we saw in the Assassin's Creed games.
The story and atmosphere were also much better in 1 & 2.
Electricity is just a brilliant superpower for an open world city. It perfectly fits just like webslinging does in New York and it has many applications.
Wouldn't the onus be on the consumers? If they bought the Infamous games, then we'd have more games from that series.
I would love to see a new game but a feel that would get a response similar to Saints Row.
Loved all 3 of them. I couldn't get on with the vampire spin off though. Wish they didn't move away from cole but I didn't mind the other character.
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Sora + Kairi
Tidus + Yuna
Squall + Rinoa
Aya Brea + Kyle Madigan
Cloud + Aerith/Tifa (o.o who knows what's truly going on there)
and possibly Dom + Maria
I would say no, but that isn't as negative as perhaps some would have you think.
We'll continue to get decent romances, but I think the difference between interacting with something and reading about it makes it difficult to rival how other media might handle it.
Instead, I think what's important is to build upon that interactivity so that we can have something unique to us, just as good artistically, but in a different vein.
david jaffe will come up with one
Y'know, keep the foundation of the story there, but make it more gamey. Have some gunplay, explosions, an interactive sex scene or two involving Mr Darcy and some crack whores, and throw in the occasional slide puzzle every now and then. BAM! You've got yourself the highwater mark of video game storytelling. Ebert will hang himself in shame.
Do we really need it, though?
For one, romance doesn't really translate to gameplay. Unless you like dating sims. Two, it's naturally more convincing when you have flesh and blood actors and the presentation is 1000000% story (you don't have to worry about gameplay in movies, if you weren't aware).
And last of all, they exist. If you're examining beat em ups, GTA, infamous, etc....you're not exactly looking in the right places. Those games by no means are TRYING to get top notch romance in them.