Minus normally feelings are seriously dampened when speaking about fictional characters.
Feeling strong feelings like genuine love or hatred for a fictional character is unbelievable unless schizophrenic to me.
Obviously different media like movies and books, and even video games with storytelling like Dragon age / Mass effect / The witcher are supposed to draw various emotions from people. It's one of their points actually.. There is nothing more appreciated for a lot of writers than succeeding such thing, having a result with strong reactions from their audience, from hatred to love and everything else in between. They want people
to feel about the universe they created, the story, the characters, not just finding them " interesting " as well. You must live in a cave by the way, far away from humans. You don't have any friends ? You have never seen anyone of them being fond of a fictional character, reacting strongly to dramatic events like the death of their favourite character ? Haven't you heard of the " red wedding " that upset so many folks in the world ? A lot of tears. How many millions of young folks have fallen in love with Dysney characters or anime in their childhood.
You genuinely never felt strongly or never hated a fictional character when you read game of Thrones, in a video game or something else, when you followed a serie TV, or something else during all your life ? It's beyond common in any fandom. Hating/ fangirling on characters is basically something that most humans do or have already done once in their life about fictional characters. You just have to find them the universe that they will be passionate about. Vampire Diaries, Harry Potter, Twilight, Naruto, Berserk, Game of Thrones etc...So many universes.. How many guys I have seen literally hating on Danaerys while they were fanatics of Stannis Baratheon opposed to Danaerys defenders with who they were arguing. And yet they were all normal guys in real life, some even 40 years old, happy married and with children, just being passionate about GRR Martin 's universe and its characters.
How many gamers strongly felt about characters like Morrigan, Solas, Ashley Willams ? Miranda lawson ? Liara, Tali, Garrus, Triss, Yennefer ? You have never seen such thing that you find it so unbelievable ? Where were you all this time buddy, is it possible that you missed all the hatred / love for a fictional character on video game forums all these years... ? Haven't you seen fights between Triss lovers and Yennefer lovers to decide which one what the best romance ? That you find it unbelievable is unbelievable, welcome on Earth and among humans, great sensitive creatures lol.
All these strong reactions because of fictional characters, that don't exist in real life. Yes... People are aware of that lol. Anyway, basically most humans except maybe you, are schizophrenic then.
Visual informations stay the same for reality and video games.
Feelings aren't.
So eye candy stays eye candy while charming comes down to simply interesting.
But I'm beginning to understand why some peoples think video games are dangerous if as you say people normally experiences the same feelings when playing and IRL.
To me that would end in people acting like in "Misery", where Annie, genuinely loving Misery, torture the author of the book to save her loved fictional character.
You make it more extreme and unreasonable than it is for most folks. People are perfectly able to separate fiction from real life while being able to enjoy fictional contents in a strong but still reasonable and obviously passionate way...
You are also incoherent to me. On one hand you state that you can't be " charmed " by a fictional character, that it's schizophrenic, on the other hand you
demand " stunning " 3D polygones with a video game, things that are not...real, so that you can be actually charmed by fictional characters... Whether it is because of visual appearance, candy eyes or else, doesn't change that fact. It's the same... happening in a different way... Someone being excited or loving a fictional character because she is visually stunning, or because of her personality, does that factually change anything ? ... No.
Why would you require to be particularly attracted to "stunning" 3D polygones ( you can't even be bothered with normal looking pretty girls. ) if it isn't
to feel and to be very excited about them, as much as you would with very attractive real women... simulating the same natural feelings, attraction or emotions toward them... Obviously more than a simple interest and liking for a fictional character... That's way more than just visual information. If you were honest about that, the only thing that would matter would be your character being able to have deeper relationships with another fictional character among various options, appreciating simply the deeper story romances can offer and the new dynamic between them. None of the female romancable options for example in dragon age Inquisition really appealed to me, and yet I was able to enjoy one of them, finding the dynamic with my character simply interesting as a player. Following your logic you should be normally content with what is offered or it wouldn't really matter to you. But obviously
it is a big big issue to you and you have made that point very clear and many times in two topics. It is just proof that you want to feel about these characters as much as others, just not necessarily in the same way.