Gaming Stereotypes

[northeast rower]

So, what stereotypes in games can you think of? Try to go beyond the obvious "all Russians are villains", I think that's been voiced enough.

Mine:
All American politicians are corrupt (see Metal Gear Solid, Splinter Cell: Conviction)

All female researchers must be kidnapped, no exceptions

 

[Toriver]

Elves are hunters who use bows and arrows, live in the forest and build everything out of wood. They are also better than humans in every imaginable way.

Dwarves are short, drunken Scottish vikings with beards who live in the mountains and build everything out of stone or metal.

JRPG protagonists are effeminate 13-15 year old boys with strange magical powers deriving from some sort of spirit.

 

[Son of a Mitch]

Every woman in every game ever is required to have breasts the size of bowling balls. I'm a guy and I fucking hate that stereotype.

 

[Dominic Burchnall]

All professors must be either English or German,

Australians are easy going beer swillers who can survive on a patch of scrubland for about 3 weeks, and always carry machetes.

Villages, towns, and forts which seem safe are anything but.

In JRPGs, your chances of survival are either DIRECTLY proportional to the size of your main melee weapon, or INVERSELY proportional to the amount of armour the character is wearing.

Giant monsters which take up the entire screen have a great sense of fair play, as instead of simply crushing you like a beetle with a sweep of the closest thing they have to a hand, or destroying the building or platform you're fighting them from and toppling you into the abyss/burying you under debris, they will wait patiently whilst you attack their weakest (and presumably, most pain-inducing) body parts, and politely telegraph their attacks a month in advance to let you know what's coming.

Many major PMCs/security details have a great disabled employment scheme, and will often employ deaf, blind people as guards. Also, basic weapons training is not mandatory.

 

[Confidingtripod]

the players character in any fantasy setting needs to be in some kind of ritual of prophecy, why cant you just happen to be there?

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

If you try to use a shotgun at any range of more than 5 fucking yards you might as well be trying to kill your enemies with spit balls.

Pisses. Me. Off.

Edit: sorry, I'm aware that this is really more of a general cliche than a stereotype, as that tern really refers exclusively to characters, but I find that I am rarely annoyed by character stereotypes as much as I am by retarded physics and game design.

 

[cydvis]

"my team sucks" and "i'm teamed with noobs".


I heard that everytime i play


On another note: in RPG all big empires are evil.

 

[UnknownGunslinger]

Every woman in every game ever is required to have breasts the size of bowling balls. I'm a guy and I fucking hate that stereotype.

Hear, hear! The most recent example with me was while playing Dragon Age II where the protagonists mother had breast that would be the envy of any siilicon imbued porn star, which totally weirded me out.

 

[northeast rower]

All professors must be either English or German,

That's a good one. I played RDR, and I love the game (my personal favorite), but it never made sense to me how a certain professor from Connecticut could have an English accent.

 

[Overlord93]

Every woman in every game ever is required to have breasts the size of bowling balls. I'm a guy and I fucking hate that stereotype.

Hear, hear! The most recent example with me was while playing Dragon Age II where the protagonists mother had breast that would be the envy of any siilicon imbued porn star, which totally weirded me out.

I noticed that too, but thats some engine or bioware laziness thing, so every NPC has same body...

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

In older RPGs, that master swordsman in your village will either betray you or is your father.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

The vast majority of humans are all ignorant, bigoted, oppressive, murdering, cuntsticks to anyone who aren't they're own kind in Fantasy games. Not saying that's necessarily bad, I mean I can't fault the dev's for accuracy on that point.

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

The majority of the population in Western Medieval RPGs speak with a british accent ... and are racist assholes.

 

[sibrenfetter]

All professors must be either English or German

I agree, it makes no sense us Dutch people are also very smart and should be included in that list.

My own stereotypes:
Men wearing 500kg of armor, the women wear a g-string for the same level of protection.

Enemies knowing where you are, you just head-shot 20 of their friends and still they think it is a good idea to come out of cover headfirst. Or in relation, enemies "standing in cover"with half of their sides exposed conveniently for my bullets.

American soldiers are the heroes of the world, they are never the bad guys.

 

[sibrenfetter]

Oh 1 more: RPG cities actually consist 4 small buildings and have a total population of about 15 people who no matter what will not move from that spot.

 

[DonMartin]

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideogameTropes

TvTropes already got this covered.

Seriously, check these out. They're all completely true. They've got every cliché you can think of and then apply them to tv shows, movies and games. It's awesome.

EDIT: FOR AN EXAMPLE:

The Grand List of Console Roleplaying Game Clichés!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGrandListOfConsoleRolePlayingGameCliches

 

[BabySinclair]

Elves are hunters who use bows and arrows, live in the forest and build everything out of wood. They are also better than humans in every imaginable way.

One exception, humans are better by being remarkably stubborn. We might get our asses kicked but we keep going back for more and win through attrition because we can breed faster than them and we won't accept a truce.

 

[Kevlar Eater]

In sandbox action games (Saint's Row, GTA, etc.), pedestrians prefer to move out of the way of the player's speeding car by diving straight into its path.

Shotguns have an effective range of exactly point blank range. Any longer and the buckshot turns into peas.

Black people in JRPG's are walking stereotypes.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Every single store has one or two people working in it, and has no guard of any type.

 

[blipblop]

not so much a steriotype but almost every game including a motorbike gets the steering wrong.
you cant turn the handelbar to the left and turn left when driving!!