I’m personally fine with it in a game, and it can make for some interesting situations/encounters.
That said, it also needs to be stated clearly, especially if the game is going to force someone into such a situation/role. As others have stated, they can be against such a scenario, and that is certainly not wrong.
However, in a game where it is optional is fine as well…as long as it is player personal choice.
As an aside, if a game really did want to explore someone getting married, this could make for a very interesting encounter/situations to explore.
After all, there are many people who are good with hyphenating names. There are also marriages where each person kept their name since they didn’t want to see it as a diminution of each other.
In real life I know families where the woman is the breadwinner, and the man stayed home to take care of the kids (after the wife’s pregnancy of course)…and yes, that could also set up a unique encounter for the stay at home husband where more…rigid…people might call him ‘weak.’ (This would be to explore in game, and not reflective of anyone on the forum in real life)
Once again, such a game wouldn’t be to everyone’s tastes, but making it clear I think is fair. This is sort of like how even I chafed in a game like Psy High when I was told that “I really…really…liked NPC X.” It would be one thing to say “this person is considered attractive” and left it at that.
That’s just another thing beside periods what I think is a bitch move from life towards women. It seriously sucks, but that’s how it is we kinda have to deal with it… Or not at least we have more choice about this than periods. Anyway I would find it kinda weird to imagine a pregnant man.
Other than this I agree with you I just wouldn’t say it so harshly. Also I think there are games where all this bs could be fitting. Like a game set in mediavel ages. Or in Choice of Romance (tho it’s a big plus that at least it allowed me to romance a woman) while my personal opinion was that I hate the whole thing about how the MC had to give birth to a child to ensure her future at least it made sense. Tho Choice of Romance is definitely not a good example for a good family life so I wouldn’t recommend that game for anyone who is looking for what the OP is looking for.
I would recommend checking out Omegaverse , it’s essential taking the ‘mother’ role and giving it to the father, so instead of the woman carrying the child it’s the father if that’s what you mean. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s any games about it, just fanfiction and art.(it’s also unfortunately not really realistic most of the time.)
My problem is not against romance in modern free countries. My problem is with all games and media obsessed with the only desire woman has is marry and make babies. Virtual novels anime films … BABIES MARRIAGE… BABIES MARRIAGE BABIES MARRIAGE… except evil women that is single women that they portrait as bitch because no marriage and no babies.
I don’t want babies or marriage. Zero interest. However everything tries to present me that is the only way to be. Is bigotry in pure state.
When like most of cogs is one of many ways is okay. Sadly is not that way in most media.
Also if I am rude or something. It is media in general pissed me no end with the marry GOOD female ending.
That’s not against cog as they always let me choose not to.
You know what you need, Mara? A strong man who can take you in hand and help you learn the joys of supplication. Maybe a baby or two to give you something to focus all that energy. It’d be good for you!
You don’t want to know what happened to the boyfriend i had in college that rold me something like that. And later i find with other girl in my bed… It including a guy and a girl running nude for a campus. I can be very scary and have lungs to shout that heard in km… Now Remembering ten years before is super funny
Uh… I’m not Mara so obviously idk what she thinks, but I know for sure that if I were in her place I wouldn’t approve of this kinda joke after stating quite firmly what I think about the matter.
I was offered to be in politics in college as i had maximum grades in debates and in political science. I have no way as I have no patience for liars. And I am hell of direct so i am the contrary to any politician.Do you imagine me against Trump lol. I would end killed by cia. But i had some stuff to say him in face lol
I don’t mind marriage, so long as I’m not judged for not thinking it’s especially important (ROs can have opinions one way or the other, but… yeah the narration itself shouldn’t treat me as immature for thinking things are fine now, especially in games where religion isn’t really a thing my characters spend any time thinking about). It’d be nice for a relationship to progress past early stage, and give me deeper/later stage romantic fluff sometimes.
I’ve read enough romance and seen enough “Babies ever after” to be at least mildly incredibly super skeptical of the idea in IF. There is often an expectation that the relationship is only “mature” if the characters “settle down” and have kids and that’s just… not correct. NOPE. Never mind that a lot of babies end up being super perfect or super annoying.
Pregnancy I’m indifferent about–that’s 9 months in the middle of a plotline that have to be accounted for, and you’ve gotta entertain both the pregnant and non-pregnant characters in that time. If the plot is something other than romance/family life, then it seems like a pacing nightmare, but if you can, manage, that’s fine.
Adoption I’m 100% okay with; I’ll protect all the street urchins.
I only know unconventional scenarios, and one inactive WIP, alas. (I’m with you on both App Parent and Curious Cuisine by the by) You do have the option to look after your nephew in Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven (so way different setup, but an interesting guardianship).
I love nephew and Curious cocine. As they don’t really force anything as you have a kid from different ways and relationship is very natural and versatile. also my girl daughter, Adriana kick ass
I like giving that challange to MCs whom I imagine that there would be no other way that they would be interested in raising a kid, but since the totally unexpected zombie apocalypse happened and they kinda ended up with the choice of either look out for the kid or let him die, they choosed the former bc the kid is still family after all.
My favorite is a younger character who’s just very good at pretending she’s got it all together. So she’s just “I’m fine, I can lead these fools and raise this kid. I’m not too young for this responsibility, no freaking out here.” My poor girl, but the drama gets me.
I love all the different setups you can have. It’s nice that the game doesn’t just point at you “No, you were in an opposite-sex relationship at some point. Married. Don’t ask questions.”
Also I live for the moments where you sit back and just “No way my daughter’s gonna take that crap.”
I’ll admit that I saw the spoiler after writing my posts (the answer to you and where I tagged you), but I still stand by my opinion that there are appropriate jokes and not so appropriate ones.
Also in a way I get you: in the past I also tried to solve social awkwardness with joking, but I had to realize that that stategy doesn’t always work… It was especially eye opening when people politely told me to stop doing that.
Bruh, Alter Ego was one of the first IF games I played, but it always felt like it was lacking something.
I’d be down to play an IF game focused on family and marriage life, if its more in depth than Alter Ego. I don’t mind marriage or pregnancy subplots as I’m the type of person who’d want to marry and have kids some time in the future.
I’m a sucker for family fluff and angst, I can’t help it, sue me.
Alter Ego wasn’t very progressive, so that’s probably what it was lacking but I always used the fact the game is pretty old when I felt annoyed about something in it. I would love for someone to update the game now that it’s a public domain, I think.
