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Knocked Up: A Look At Pregnancy In Video Games.
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February 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Harvest Moon’s always been pretty weird about that, though, like Karen boozing her way through the first trimester in HM64, or Skye being a lazy dick and the mining guy making your pregnant character dig through a 100 floor mine for him, etc..
Sure, it’s not like HM is the kind of game you can suddenly skip a year of, but at the same time it then makes you skip a year so that your baby is a toddler and doesn’t actually need to be ‘raised’ in any way.
Then there’s that abomination of FFX-2, but the lack of effort in character models there is the LEAST of my concerns. The shitty everything else comes to mind, though.
February 10th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Well, pregnancy in video games has always been something interesting. In a way it’s sort of like pregnancy in comics. Usually they stylize it, or they don’t consider it all that much in plot. Either the woman ‘dissapears’ from the spot light for a while, then returns with child. Or They’re able to do things that could be incredibly dangerous to an expectant mother and her baby.
As pointed out in the article, part of the reason is that video games are made with guys in mind. I don’t know many men that like the idea of having to tend to an expectant woman to relax.
Another thing that I think alot of media in general falls back on is cliche’d issues with pregnancy. I have a relative that is pregnant now, and she has yet to have any sort of morning sickness, or any cliched problems. She used to get tired, but now she’s doing pretty well.
I appreciate the article keeping a more positive outlook on the whole idea. It’s nice to hear that other people also wish that pregnancy would be more realistic in video games. Pehaps we will ge tto see it one day, where we can play as a girl in Harvest Moon, and prepare for the birth of a virtual child. ^^