Journal 1: Video Games and Real Love

A video game kiss

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"Other Princesses, Other Castles: The Problem with Playing Romantically in Video Games" by G. Christopher Williams (http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/149960-other-princesses-other-castles-the-problem-with-romance-in-video-gam/P1) is hard to understand when all these video games you know nothing about is being compared and contrasted with a love theme. There are love themes throughout all of literature with engaging plots different from another (i.e. Pride and Prejudice and Twilight). They all have different endings and all engage around different aspects of love, but one thing that video games capture is far too repetitive. I found this article very interesting but was a little intimidated because the author was a man writing this, and my ideas and thoughts taken from this kind of contradicts what I took from this article.


Like the story told in Super Mario Bros. Mario and/or Luigi must rescue the princess from the castle and the plot of the video game is centered around that...just that. This rescuing romance doesn't come across any different from video game to video game. My question to this matter is, is this teaching boys (who typically play video games) that getting women is just too much work and the work should only stick to a video game that you could easily cheat on?


I find it that this day in time a text message is worth more than a simple "hello" to someone. I feel that the term "parking" (used ever so often by my grandma) isn't really known or done anymore. The woman must pursue the man in real life and the man must only pursue the woman in the video game world. Is this not the sad truth ladies?


Video game romance may not be the exact cause for men not pursuing women anymore, but this idea could very well be a true studied-causing factor someday. So with this in mind, a message to men would be, "Video game romance isn't only a "goal" but something you might want to pursue in the real world".


Live long and prosper,

April