So: your video game crushes?

The Game Room
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(Yes, I’m aware that a) this thread has probably been done and b) this is really not a new game. Deal with it. :wink: )

I just finished replaying Portal for the millionth time–no, it’s not what you’re thinking, don’t leave–and finally decided to give Half-Life 2 a proper shot.

In between the crowbar and the goddamn squishy bug things, I started thinking: hmm. Gordon Freeman. Good with a crowbar. Hopelessly nerdy. Good-looking in a scruffy bearded spectacled way. Fights off rampaging alien civilization to save his (potential) love interest… Dammit!

So, make me feel better about clinging to the Orange Box and share. :slight_smile: What’re your video game crushes?

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Lara, mostly.

Though there’s a certain squishy fondness for the TF2 Heavy as well. That’s weird. I don’t know what that’s about.

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Oh, I’m hopeless on these. Carth Onasi in Knights of the Old Republic, Atton Rand in Knights of the Old Republic 2, Aarin Gend in Neverwinter Nights, Valen Shadowbreath in Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark. Sky in Jade Empire. And I don’t even want to get into the Baldur’s Gate series and the addon characters… sigh

I’m sure I’d have added someone from Mass Effect if I had bought it - my laptop is a tad underpowered for it or I’d be drooling over someone in that game by now, I’m sure.

Just stamp ‘Sucker’ on my forehead for a little computer character romancing, a guy whispering through my headphones into my ear…

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The male lead in Mass Effect has a great voice. My most recent crush is Tali from that game, in fact. I’m a huge sucker for impish grease monkeys/wrench wenches.

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From the same game. Alyx. But only mildly, and only when I was drunk.

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I know that one of the characters (Kaiden, I think the name is) is voiced by the same guy who did Carth Onasi’s voice in KotOR, and I loooooooved that voice.

Regarding grease monkeys/wrench wenches - I assume you’ve seen Firefly? :smiley:

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Mildly? When you were drunk? The fuck? ALyx is hot! She’s a genius, she’s sexy as all get out, she’s very fit, and she can take care of herself! What more do you want?!

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Yep, Kaiden. Decent guy, although the personality is a little bland. But then, I played a guy, so he wanted nothing to do with me. :stuck_out_tongue:

“I seen the problem clear as day when I was down there on my back!” Yes, yes I have. :smiley:

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I’m gay for Bridget.

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Right now? Zoey from Left 4 Dead. Ask me again in a couple of months when I’m playing a different and my answer will change. I’m fickle like that.

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No NPC springs to my mind, but whenever I play a game with a character generator, I somehow always end up with a PC I could do naughty, naughty things to.

Ah ! Got one ! Final Fantasy X’s Lulu. Gaaaaah - smart, sexy, sarcastic dry wit and gothy look ? Let’s you and me do the baby thing.

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Another one from Mass Effect is Liara, who I think is positively adorable.

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MAX! From Sam & Max Hit the Road.

And Carla Valenti and Lady Aribeth too.

See the connection? Max would. That’s why I love him.

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I had a thing for various wimmins in those old gold box D&D games. Nothing like some EGA cheesecake for a young geek in the 90s. Let’s see, who else…

Ruby the genie from Dark Cloud
Bastila (although she was kind of a bitch) and Mission (wonder what she can do with those head-tails?) from KOTOR
Female Commander Shepard from Mass Effect (hmm, same voice as Bastila…)
Elise and Zoe from SSX

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Judy Nails from Guitar Hero 1 and 2. Neversoft ruined the character when they took over the series with GH3.

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I’ve never been one to get “crushes” on video game or anime characters… except Alyx. I actually was playing all of the Half-Life series (to Ep. 2) back to back (never played them before Orange Box) and had to stop after the very intro to Ep. 2 (played it last week) because I got a little um… TOO attached and completely freaked out when I thought Alyx died after the first transmission. I immediately went to Gamefaqs to make sure she got better… then I stopped playing to allow myself some healthy detachment from the character before I got all creepy and obsessed.

I have to admit, Valve did a GREAT job making me feel connected to the world though, no other game has ever immersed me to the degree that I ACTUALLY cared about the characters without forcing myself to RP (which draws me in a LITTLE, but not that much).

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All true. But there are far too few polygons and the texture resolution too low.
:smiley:

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Zoey rocks, no question.

But I’m agape at what Rare did to Humba Wumba from the Banjo-Kazooie series. In Banjo-Tooie, she looked like this. But in their new game, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, they turned her into a simmering cauldron of barely-legal sex. Yowza.

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Annah from Planescape: Torment - she has a tail, a scottish accent, and the smell of embalming fluid turns her on. Possibly not a girl after everyone’s heart.
Maya from Septerra Core - tough but tender. Her hair is huge and plastic-looking, but she looks good in nothing but tatoos.
Imoen from Baldur’s Gate (yikes!) - she gets really hot when she goes goth, but by that time you already know she’s your half-sister.
Jade from Beyond Good and Evil - turns out, with the right skintone, green lipstick is surprisingly sexy.
Fleece from Summoner - a bad girl from the mean streets who helps trick you into burning your hand off, only to rescue you afterwards. A real heartbreaker.
Rikku from Final Fantasy 10 - a cute mechanic like Led from Septerra Core, only it’s somewhat plausible Rikku’s of age. Where does she hide that wrench?
Stilletto from Anachronox - maybe I just have a thing for women who stab people?

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Viktoria from Thief & Thief 2. Even though she plucks your eye out. Terri Brosius’ voice - Damn. SHODAN too, even if she’s virtual.