A friend of mine shared this video with me and some other of my friends and I thought it made a lost of sense. It also made me think of Cole and why I and so many others feel the the need to protect him, care for him like a little brother or simply be his friend.
What fictional or video game character has affected you the most and why?
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Most influential video game character?
Hm..
All the characters I cared about in video games were enemies which you fought or killed.
I respect my enemies over needy commodities.
Why the HELL do so many Americans care so deeply about the British Royal Family?!?
I could give a squirt
The Boss. She feigns treason against her country, falsely assumes responsibility for a terrorist attack on Russian soil, and assists her reluctant adoptive son on his CIA sponsored mission to assassinate her and prove the U.S.A innocent. Not expecting wealth or a thank you in return she sacrificed her family, her dignity and her life in order to advert a nuclear war, and steal few hundred billion usd.
A true patriot.
Talk crap about my bro Zaeed Massani and face the ugly consequences.
Another Cole protector eh? Burn em at the stake!!!!!
I care about a lot of characters....
after I write fanfics about them.
Some characters have uh... let's say effected my personality.
Also there's 8 characters I'd want to hurt you if you talk bad about them.
Why the HELL do so many Americans care so deeply about the British Royal Family?!?
I could give a squirt
Mostly because we don't have one, so the concept of having royalty fascinates some of us.
Mostly because we don't have one, so the concept of having royalty fascinates some of us.
Edward VIII ftw.
Mostly because we don't have one, so the concept of having royalty fascinates some of us.
... we DO have American royalty
Most recently I'd say it was Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, and the brothers from Brothers: A tale of two sons. Those games drew some parallels to things going on IRL for me at the time, so I became heavily invested in them as characters. Journey is the game that had the most emotional impact on me though for many different reasons. It brought me sorrow. and sadness, but also joy, and hope. If a game can do that you know you've played something really special, and it'll always stay with you.
Guest_TrillClinton_*
Talk crap about my bro Zaeed Massani and face the ugly consequences.
There's a bunch of characters I cared about to varying degrees.
I really cared about Alistair for example. Also Carver.
Why the HELL do so many Americans care so deeply about the British Royal Family?!?
I could give a squirt
Disney and little girls growing up with a princess complex.
Modern constitutional monarchies aren't very interesting and "royalty" marrying commoners is the norm now.
I really cared about Clementine from the Walking Dead. Usually hate children, but she was very much likeable.
Also felt kinda bad after killing Queelag and Sif in Dark Souls. One was protecting her paralyzed sister, the other guarding his master's grave.
That's pretty much it.
Books, theater plays, dramas in general. Humans have been able to feel sorrow, anger, delight over fictional plays for thousands of years. All it takes is some weird combination of writing, narrative and possibly acting that we can connect with, or find to our liking. It would be weird if video games made slice of fiction somehow unable to achieve this.
I've cared about main/NPC characters of the Last of Us, Walking Dead and KOTOR.
Of course, we care greatly of our *own* characters with ease, and that doesn't necessarily require one slice of good fiction. They are of us and turn parts of us, or at least into our property in more meaningful way than NPC companions or suches. In single player games, even in RPGs of epic scale, this doesn't necessarily become a big deal. We play our ME or Skyrim for 50 or 100 hours and call it a day. Character gets retired, curtain gets called. If we return to the came, we prolly start a new character.
For multiplayer games, specially for MMOs, it is different; There are millions of people with over 10 year old WoW characters that are never retired. I'm sure most all take few year breaks from the game here and there. Yet, if/when they return, they often return to the character,too. Characters who have kinda lived inside the person for a decade. BLOODREAVER the orc warrior got rolled when uhh..Jim was 14. Thus the cheesy name. The orc lived inside Jim as he graduated from High School and College. BLOODREAVER has been faithfully dinged as Jim's first born was born, as marriage between Jim and Jil got made. It can be pretty huge, when you think of it. This is much, much bigger than some NPC companion saying sweet nothings about how awesome Shepard is.
..I realized there are Ultima Online players who prolly have older characters than many of the people reading this message are. Heh.
I admit I was pretty invested in this little guy...
I've cared about main/NPC characters of the Last of Us, Walking Dead and KOTOR.
I admit I was pretty invested in this little guy...
Guest_simfamUP_*
I'm a strange one.
I bottle up everything that occurs in real life.
My brother was lovesick once and he cried his guts out.
I didn't lol, I just facepalmed.
I've had my fair share of troubles. But I 'meh' at them all the time. What's my stuff even worth bothering about when there's children in some war-ravaged country who's seen their mothers shot in front of their eyes.
So real life stuff doesn't effect me. Even family deaths. The only 'family death' that really made me bawl was my dog's who was like a sister to me. Factor in the fact I love animals to bits and there you have it.
Well tell a lie. It does. But I've never made a scene over it. Like I said, I bottle. It's not healthy I know but it's automatic.
But then...
Then you have me and my fiction.
I can't even hear this without crying.
So yeah.
Fictional characters (the ones I like) and more importantly, stories, are very special to me. I grew up with them and I'll probably die with them too. Last thing to do before I hit the dead books?
WATCH ALL SIX MIDDLEEARTH FILMS! YEEAAAHHHH!
Because mai waifu.
Well, I wasn't going to go there first.
Thane & Morinth.What fictional or video game character has affected you the most and why?
Can't think of any fictional character that has affected me deeply. I've had genuine respect for some, hate for others, and I can usually appreciate a good reason to fight. Yet sooner or later the author is likely to kill them off in some manner, and the greater the death scene the more you remember them.
Guest_greengoron89_*
The ending of The Walking Dead Season 1... the feels, man. The feels. And anyone who played Final Fantasy VII back in the day surely remembers this tragic moment. I live for this stuff, man. A game - or movie, or TV show, or book - is weak if you don't care about the characters and lament their fates if the worst happens. That's a big part of why games like TWD, FFVII, DA:O, Last of Us, and Mass Effect are so acclaimed.
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