Romance Month was a success! Here's a breakdown of everything we wrote about in April.
Posts Tagged With: Romance Month
1 We have the opportunity to look at implicit romances in games, a way of reading romance generally and gay romance specifically into existing narratives.
Love By Any Other Name — Implicit Gay Romances in Gaming
This time, I’m going to take a look at BioWare, who tend to come closer to depicting queer characters with actual dignity. Yet, there remain tremendous problems.
Queer Lovin’ Blues Part 2: “Character Matters, Not Race or Gender”
5 Despite their supposedly exalted role in Mass Effect's galactic hierarchy, the asari do double duty as the universe’s preferred sex objects.
The Sex Class in BioWare Worlds
6 Comparing Baldur’s Gate II’s romances to Mass Effect’s is not only an interesting way to look at how BioWare as a company has changed over the past twelve years, but also the way that gamer culture and video games in general have changed.
From Jaheira to Liara: A Brief Survey of BioWare Romances
2 In theory, I am the perfect candidate for Everlove: Rose, but the developers forgot to make it fun.
Everlove: But I Wanted to Shag Them All!
13 I wasn’t far into the story when it became clear that The Witcher was going to be a guilty pleasure. This realization came when I had my first romantic encounter.
Ladies’ Man: Womanizing in the Witcher
1 Final Fantasy VIII's divisive depiction of an awkward, sometimes unhealthy, but deeply sincere teenage romance has always resonated with me.
Eyes On Me
It’s hard for me, as a queer woman, to enjoy romances in AAA games. Games are starting to allow more queer romances, but they're usually hollow tokens.
Queer Lovin’ Blues — Part 1: Insert Hollow Token Here
For the month of April, 2014, the Ontological Geek will only be running articles that deal in some way with romance or relationships and games!