........WTF?????..........

Na... I am not interested in "somebody" I can not feel or touch.

It would have been a lot more scary if it didn't say "Japanese Men".

Japanese game/anime female characters just have unrealisticly huuuge tits.
While it's nice to have a woman looking like a real world copy of a game character (usually all sexistic feats are exaggerated), I think making love to a 2D, pale anime character is totally the weirdest, to say the least!
It is not even reality, just but a fantasy that tries to get what they can't get in real life.

Let them be! More (real) girls for us!

Solid Snake

"Japanese Men Want Date Game Characters"

Anyone else see the grammatical flaw with this headline?

Where to start? "Japanese men want date game characters"? Was this a joke about Japanese people speaking English poorly?
"especially those passive men who have trouble perusing the real thing"
Did you mean "pursuing"?
"reveals that 20-percent of the Japanese men polled actually want a relationship with a character in a game, while a fifth of the men surveyed have felt like falling in love with a game character"
For future reference 20% is 1/5th

You should stick to what you are good at; writing horribly biased articles about the Xbox 360.

"...enjoyed romances with female game characters."
WHAT? How do you date a game character?

"...found the virtual love worthwhile and satisfying."
Once again WHAT!? Worthwhile? seriously?

Are these guys admiting that they masterbate to posters of video game characters? .. and that it's.. worthwhile..
WOW.. I got laid 2 days ago. I think this survey should have asked how long it's beed since they got laid or even better if they are virgins. Cause I can't imagine a relation ship with a non-existant video game character would be full filling at all.

In retrospect I can think of a couple of video game hotties I'd like to rail.
Chun-Li
Cammy - Can you imagine holding the reins while doing her from behind?
Ivy
Ummm.. Can remember her name but she is in Killer Instinct 2
At least 2 girls from dead or alive
And I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them.

Remember in FF7 when the girl dies.... Man that was heart wrenching. Best game every BTW for non-online RPG

that last comment by jenoin was so full of "win"

Here in Canada we don't date game Characters LOL!

Does the cast of a game count, like C&C3?

If it does...
Tricia Helfer
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm142182912/nm1065454

Jennifer Morrison
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2137102080/nm0607185

Shannon Cook
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1117230592/nm1921968

Umm yah... but i guess they aren't pixels....

here is another nice one:
http://kotaku.com/5139951/cc-red-a [...] tain-flair

"You should stick to what you are good at; writing horribly biased articles about the Xbox 360."

In soviet Russia, Game dates you

I would pound my WoW toon lol... kidding

nothing like long elf ears and purple tattooed skin

This is why I can't watch anime, crazy Japanese

The question at the end of the article belongs to 4chan.

I think the point is that real women are the problem, not 'weird guys'.

Main problem is that men made those game characters that other men want to date =/
That is painting a mighty ugly picture - sorry.

There was an article about this in the NY Times Magazine recently
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/ [...] f=magazine

It's actually really creepy since most of the characters they talk about are around 12 years old...

Of course they'd want to date fictional characters. One, they're drawn to be beautiful (well, mostly, and I commend those artists who draw more realistic depictions of women); two, because of having played the game/watched the show, they've gotten to know the character intimately WAY faster than dating a real person; and three, many characters have excessive amounts of personality which attracts men, and is great for the screen, but wouldn't be as appealing in real life situations. Getting attached to characters is fine and well and it's part of what makes entertainment, well, entertaining, it just becomes problematic when some cannot accept both the fictional world and the real world the way they are, and become consumed by fantasy...

In any case, I think the real question is would the game characters want to date them?

Relationships with female characters is actually something I think that more games could benefit from. Some games that suck out for me on this were Shenmue from Dreamcast, Grandia II, and FFVI, but they used it more to help build atmosphere and drive an interesting story. I can't really recall the last time a non-dating sim oriented game attempted to take a good stab at the whole relationship building... Harvest Moon? Uhm... in The Witcher you can hit on girls to try to get the protagonist layed, and take actions that strengthen the relationship he as with specific key characters...

So, I guess the only game I can think of that really tried any sort of female relationship related gameplay that I can think of, from recent titles... is The Witcher?

I for one, think that hitting on girls is fun. Whether its in a game, or in real life. I'd like to see more RPGs where your actions effect the way female NPC interact with the character in a romantic way... It can lead to all kinds of amusing gameplay. Or maybe I'm just a perv, but whatever.

Japanese perversion never stops surprising me!

^
Who's up for a game of Sexy Beach 3? ROFL

I think "Date Game" as in "dating game" is confusing the headline.

not that i know about jap dating games. hmmhmm.

japanese are really ...erm... "hot".. erm in a way. just think about that 90% of their adult moives ending in a creampie. arguably this is the natural way but still i was in a strip bar few days ago with a couple fo friends and when i came back my japanese housemate (girl,29) curiously aked me about the girls and how i felt to be there and so on...