For a masochist pain is pleasure, right? Well… no. I’m sorry if I’m the one breaking this fantasy for you. It just does not work like that most of the time. Or, also quite likely, saying it like that is simplifying something that’s really hard to explain.
So, first, we talked about choices. And then we talked about how getting the player invested in characters sets you up to facilitate these choices. Now it’s time to bring that all together and talk about… well… motivating choice.
Imaginary friends, haha, get it? Because it’s an article about the way a player can form a relationship with a fictional character within a video game. And also a bit about the difference between the relationship the player has with a fictional character and the relationship the player’s character has with said fictional character.
What exactly makes a (computer) role-playing game a (computer) role-playing game?
If we go by genre conventions there will most likely be something about stats, and character creation, and inventories, and conversation trees, and similar elements that are considered to be staples of the RPG genre.
But are they actually?
Well, this had to happen, didn’t it? We’re going to talk about sex. Strap in for a ride, this is probably going to be the most rambly, incoherent thing you find on this blog. Because, more than anything else, it’s going to be very personal and filled with hard to explain things.
I want to talk not just about regular sex, no no no. We’re jumping head first into BDSM.
Esoteric Musings... 