What video games get wrong about love and sex

As a medium, games are only really now getting to grips with romance and relationships, but they're still too goal-orientated

Let's say I want to know what love is ... and I want something to show me. I could listen to pop music. I would discover that love is the greatest thing. It's a drug. It's something you can't hurry. Apparently it's thicker than water, which doesn't really tell me much, other than love will be difficult to drink and may have a lower freezing point. By this point, I've already had enough of silly love songs.

Cinema, too, has explored it for many years - all those two-hour stories of forgiveness and redemption, and Julia Roberts just being a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. Books have been there for centuries, covering both ends of the sexy spectrum from the gently smouldering affection between Elizabeth and Darcy, to Morrissey's car crash of a sex scene.