First off, your comment is not long and boring. It is thoughtful and open. I think you expressed very well how you felt.
I agree with you completely that it is more than a game, game seems totally inadequate to describe it. Many of us grow up feeling bad about ourselves. I didn't understand my sexuality growing up, I wasn't certain if I was gay, but I didn't feel straight either.
What you say about 2D Cove is not at all pathetic. But it amazed me too how a cartoonish image could come to represent someone so completely adorable and loving. I know what you mean about how it takes you to another place, away from your worries. Maybe it takes you to where the most important things in life are? Love, friendship, honesty, forgiveness, understanding, caring.
This game means a lot to me. I am an old guy (57). I have spent my life not knowing my sexuality. A friend took me to a brothel while on holiday, I felt nothing, no desire, no embarassment, I might just as well have been in a pub. I know it would have felt the same in a gay brothel. I only feel any attraction to people after knowing them well for a while, an then they would need to make the first move for any sexual intimacy. So you can imagine how getting to know Cove felt, and then when he revealed his orientation, that hit me hard. I'd never heard of it, but it seems to describe me completely. I cried uncontrollably after that revelation. I grew so attached to Cove, that I just keep going back and playing through again. I don't want to leave him. (can you belive it? a 2D cartoon image as you say).
So please don't hate yourself, or think that you are being pathetic. If your comment is any measure then you are a very nice person who should feel much better about yourself. If I can give you any advice at all, then do not waste your time trying too hard for too long with people who seem not to accept you for who you really are. Move on, get to know more people, there are lots of good people out there, and you will meet someone who you need and needs you, I have no doubt of that.
My very best wishes to you for happiness and contentment.