So: your video game crushes?

(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?

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.

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…

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.

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

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:

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?!

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:

I’m gay for Bridget.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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).

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

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?

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