If we ran a contest asking each of you to design your own game hero, what would you come up with? GameCareerGuide did exactly that with its readers, asking them to create a completely original hero character. The top three entries have been featured today. They're all pretty interesting.
One of the freshest ideas, by Arkansas State University's James Crow, set out to appeal to women over 30, especially mothers. Character Akiuta's husband has been murdered and son has gone missing. She groups with other female warriors to save their missing children and village. Making a character with such a motherly mindset "deeply conflicts whether or how the player sees the character as a sexual being."
Other top heroes include Jurai, a Moses-like survivor raised in a foreign land by a stranger, destined to kill two evil forces that haunt him and Jaclyn “Jackie” Aylward, a teen lesbian trying to find her lost lover.
Check out all of these hero profiles at the GCG Web page.
What kind of hero would you make?
[Via Gamasutra]
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12:58 PM on 08.21.2008
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Am I supposed to take that seriously? Nah.
I'd make a lesbian superhero as well, but she goes around diddling women and making out with everyone.
That would be like me taking Bruce Wayne's story, slightly retooling it, and then calling the resulting rip-off...I dunno, Telezart.
Meh.
Meh.
Pfff, just a female Harry Mason.
Here's my original character:
Nameless, faceless person that's designed to represent "you", but rather than going the "Has no reactions, personality, or nteraction with the environment" route, the "Reactions, response, and acts as a normal average person in this situation would" route. All done in first person, you happen to be wearing gloves so you can't see your appearance. Gold!
But yeah, lack of originality for the most part. I bet that's why they had trouble naming a 3rd place actually.
Being a lesbian doesn't make a character interesting or original, it just makes her a dyke. Unless of course, the goal of the game is murder all heterosexuals. Now I'm intrigued.
The winner annoys me the most. The only motivation mothers have ever had in fiction is to defend or care for their family. God forbid they have desires of their own.
Here's my mother fucking idea. The main character's son is the leader of a just and good kingdom, and her husband is its adviser. The stability of the nation has halted technological advancement, resulting in its eventual decay and demise. The point of the game is to murder your family and divide the nation into warring factions to restart social progress. How about that shit?