Wink at me, Lara Croft
An interesting article (with a truly inspired title!) over at the Escapist, talking about sexiness in video games. Not sex - sexiness. It’s a good read, even if it does start in a rather convoluted manner, and the related discussion in the forum features some more good thoughts. One good one (from the forum) that totally resonated with me is how Mass Effect, for all the controversy, was in fact totally sterile in its romantic undertakings.
For my part, I think it’s much more a matter of properly understanding the psychology of attraction than dealing with the fact that our technology is still not good enough to produce a realistic looking kiss in a game. And frankly, we are heavily suffering from the fact that game development is overrun by males, most of whom have no idea how to create even a semblance of that very thing they spend their entire lives chasing with their tongues hanging out. Oh crap, wait, I am a male. Well, even so 
