Romance in Video Games

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Kirk Hamilton, Society & Culture, Technology, Arts, Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, Video Games

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

And now for a subject near and dear to our hearts: Romance! Maddy, Kirk, and Jason talk about video game love stories and which games do them right (and wrong), from Mass Effect to Uncharted to Hatoful Boyfriend. Can a video game romance ever really work if it's based on dialogue options? Plus: impressions of the new Square Enix game Forspoken!

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0:00.0	Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I walk by again? No? Okay, yeah, I'm just gonna reload my save on that one.
0:12.0	Welcome to TripleClick, where we bring the games to you. This week we're talking about romance in video games.
0:19.0	The times it's swept us off our feet and the times it's left us cold. Love is no game, but games still do keep trying.
0:30.0	I'm Maddie Myers. I'm Jason Shire. And I'm Kirk Hamilton, and hello. Hello.
0:35.0	It's us again. Back to see you both. Azo. It's nice to see you both. I don't know. I was looking forward to this week's episode for whatever reason.
0:44.0	Yeah, for whatever reason. Cause there was a new vibe. I mean, I'm always looking forward to it, but it's just nice. It's extra nice.
0:50.0	It's because today we're talking about romance and the three of us have our own kind of romance. The podcast and romance.
0:56.0	Oh, I thought you meant our respective significant others. No, no, that's three of us. I mean, the TripleClick romance.
1:02.0	No, you mean the bond that we all share, that we power every time we record, we're earning little hearts.
1:08.0	Exactly. The triangle romance, the triangle strategy. You know, it's too bad that romance is gendered.
1:13.0	Because romance is a great term. What is it? Is there like a there's no platonic? No, platon man's news. Does it have the same thing to it?
1:21.0	Not good at all. Did you two know that we're a listener supported show? And that's the reason why we don't have any ads?
1:27.0	I didn't know. I didn't know if you two knew that. What? I thought I was adding ads to every episode.
1:32.0	I don't know if you guys know this, but we've recorded nearly more than 140 episodes of the show.
1:37.0	And if I didn't know that by now, I feel like my brain would probably be broken. More broken than it already is.
1:43.0	Right. Yeah. Well, we all have pretty bad memories. So maybe just we too.
1:47.0	It's pretty well established.
1:49.0	Well, that's why we repeat that. Yeah.
1:52.0	We think it's the first time we're telling you about it each time.
1:56.0	Yeah. And it's also the first time we're telling each other about it because every week is completely new for us.
2:01.0	The eternal sunshine of the TripleClick man.
2:04.0	Yeah. So anyway, if you if you want to support the show, you could become a member of the maximum fun network by going to maximum.
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