[QUOTE="ZIMdoom"] Well, being an English literature major...I would say there is no romance in Romeo and Juliet either. But that's just coming from somehow who studied the text and not the romanticized hollywood adaptations.
However, you make a very good point. Perhaps if companies want to capture the female market, they need to worry less about only making crappy mini-game collections and focus more on making real games from a female perspective. Why NOT have an RPG, adventure or even an action gamewith a romantic storyline? Seems highly possible to me?
Then again, I've never been one to compliment developers for their originality so why start now.
minniepink
I've read Shakespeare...and studied every single word/phrase that they've used in the 1600s...and to analize them, the text already gave more than enough physical adpatation than mental feelings towards both of Romeo and Juliet, but that was teh only flaw in Romeo and Juliet. The story just describes of how beautiful Juliet is, and how "handsome" Romeo is, Shakespeare never did explain what the two characters thinks about each other...and Romeo died because of his foolishness...and this is the reason to include romance...
...but the main point is...when will a real game with romance be created?...(not that they are released)
I'm not saying Romeo and Juliet was flawed, just that it isn't actually about love...per se. Shakespeare wrote two types of stories, as did everyone at the time (think of the mask symbols of theatre). There was comedy and tragedy. There was no such genre as romance. Since the story ends with a death the story is clearly a tragedy.
The story opens with Romeo claimnig is pure, devoted and undying love for some girl he just met and then within a couple paged he is suddenly behaving the same way towards Juliet. Clearly Romeo is someone who falls in love too easily.
The story constantly shift backs and forth between the adults and the kids. Note that the adult characters are constantly worrying and overly cautious and therefore overly protective of their children. This is the exact opposite behaviour of every younger person in the story who is prone to act foolishly due to acting without thinking. Which of course also leads up to the death of many of the young characters.
Finally you have the deaths of the characters out of the very foolishness and overly dramatic thinking that has defined them the whole story. Deaths that would have been prevented if only the adults weren't so slow and stubborn in their own actions. There is nothing admirable or romantic about the rashness of Romeo and Juliet or their needless deaths...hence the tragedy. However, it is also interesting that Romeo dies from poisoning, a method of death typically reserved for Women in Shakespeare's world, while Juliet dies from a blade, the death of a man in Shakespeare's world. Sum it all up and you have a tragic story about the foolishness of youth contrasted against the stubborn cautiousness of adults and how both extremes cause their own set of problems.
Now, could a romantic game be made and work. I absolutely think it can. Why not an adventure game or RPG where you play as two characters from two different times, places, etc. trying to overcome various obstacles to get together and stay together. I don't even think it would be much different from other games other than someone has to have the guts to just do it instead of only focusing on FPSers and yearly rehashed sequals to other games.
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