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[nilam01]

''Wrex''

 

[Primethius]

''Wrex''

"Shepard"

Aside from being white and having brownish hair, these characters look nothing like each other.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

I thought this was going to be another Nolan North thread. :lol

Ha me too... or is it...

 

[Cep]

"Shepard"


Aside from being white and having brownish hair, these characters look nothing like each other.

Actually, many of them do. They come in several brands, but they were molded from the same clay.

Just for the lulz, i'm going to instigate it.

abomination.jpg

I guess he'd rather have this instead.

You are not a very smart junior, are you?

 

[BolognaSoup]

That's why I always play as the female when given the choice. I also really don't understand why so many people, when playing a game like Mass Effect or Oblivion, choose the generic "soldier" type class. What, you don't play as rough and tumble warrior dude in enough games already? Now you have a chance to play as someone with a little more depth than your typical video game meat head and you turn it down? :lol

 

[Primethius]

Actually, many of them do. They come in several brands, but they were molded from the same clay.



You are not a very smart junior, are you?

Well sure I guess a couple of them are quite similar. I was referring to the more prominent ones like Shepard, Drake, Sam, Nico, Snake and Alan. I mean, aside from being white, I really don't see the similarity.

 

[Atreides]

Brown-haired 30-something white males? I wonder who started the trend. :lol

 

[jaundicejuice]

So this is why more Western studios use Max over Maya or XSI. Here and I thought it was because of biped.

 

[Kronotech]

Wow never realized how true this was. Western games go for the 30-40 year old bald male and the Japanese go for the 14-19 year old spiky or long blonde/brown/silver male.

We are a weird people.

 

[[Nintex]]

Just got in here to say that Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the most bad-ass of all the brown haired 20/30 something males this industry has created so far.

 

[Jive Turkey]

That's not David Bowie.

Stole my post!

Just more evidence for the case against modern game design.

You quoted all those pics for this? Come on man you know better than that! You're gonna teach the juniors some bad habits!

 

[MCD]

TIME TO SHUT YOU UP

 

[Blueblur1]

"Shepard"


Aside from being white and having brownish hair, these characters look nothing like each other.

Joke post?

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Just more evidence for the case against modern game design.

Bizarrely gelled, multi-colored hair isn't exactly a sure sign of good game design.

 

[Primethius]

Joke post?

I realize the picture was talking about brown haired, white males but I was pointing out that the more prominent characters don't look like each other aside from those traits.

Spoiler

Your avatar makes me afraid to go up against you.

 

[Haunted]

done and done

You could easily fill another row or two, btw.

 

[Nemo]

Just got in here to say that Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the most bad-ass of all the brown haired 20/30 something males this industry has created so far.

 

[Coin Return]

You could make the same argument for the plethora of interchangeable teenage JRPG characters.

 

[StoOgE]

Since I just finished up this game..

I guess he wears a scarf around his neck and on his arm. So he's different. Also, his pants are funny.

 

[John]

Just got in here to say that Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the most bad-ass of all the brown haired 20/30 something males this industry has created so far.

If by "most badass" you mean "goofiest." It's like if the guy at the local pizza shop lost some weight, picked out a cape at Party City and ran around on top of the mall.

 

[NeonZ]

You could make the same argument for the plethora of interchangeable teenage JRPG characters.

They mostly fall in similar archetypes too, but they're more visually diverse.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Whoever he is, he seems to do pretty much the same thing in each of those games.

 

[RockmanWhore]

All white men look the same? Isn't that topic a little racist?

 

[sublimit]

Seriously.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Neiteio/BuzzCut01.jpg[/IMG

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Neiteio/BuzzCut02.jpg[/IMG

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Neiteio/BuzzCut03.jpg[/IMG

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Neiteio/BuzzCut04.jpg[/IMG

[IMG]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y101/Neiteio/BuzzCut05.jpg[/IMG

Maybe I'm just cynical, but all these rugged buzz-cut white men are starting to blur together for me.

Feel free to add more examples, as I know the above aren't the only ones.[/QUOTE]


I'm curious who is most to blame for this lack of imagination when it comes to character design in western games...
The uninspired concept artists?
A marketing vision that tries to play it "safe"?
Or the players themselves who don't seem to care and keep buying the games with these characters portrayals like hot cakes?

 

[M3d10n]

The interesting thing is that this "trend" is much older than games. The stereotypical 30-40 while male was the de-facto protagonist for comics, saturday morning cartoons and pretty much anything targeted at boys and young males for decades until the 90s or something.