Poll: Would you play a game about non-Americans?

[ChupathingyX]

Well seeing as how the first game I ever played featured an anthropomorphic Australian bandicoot as the protagonist...yes.

Even the Call of Duty series has plenty of non-American characters.

 

[MrTub]

I play games with foreign protagonists all the time since I'm not an USA Citizen.

 

[endtherapture]

uhhhh....assasins creed anyone? the fact this question has to be asked is downright insulting..to everyone

oh and Mass effect..what edidence is there to suggest any of the charachters are american? hell the climax takes place in london, no reason why just london (I think thats cool though)

Anderson was born in London!

That's why the Reapers are there. Cos Anderson was born in London! Didn't he tell you?

 

[Rawne1980]

We should give out awards for silliest question of the day.

 

[00slash00]

dynasty warriors actually doesnt include america or americans and for whatever reason they usually seem to sell reasonably well. therefore id say the answer is yes

 

[Mikeyfell]

Yes.

I actively try to avoid games that are so dry creatively that they think the only way to make me relate to the character is to make them just as male, strait and white as I am.


Hey developers! If you are planing on making a game with a strait, white, male protagonist. STOP! and go back to the drawing board. You've already failed on the most basic creative level.
Lack of originality.

This problem is the worst in shooters that even fail to engage me on a mechanical level.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Uhhh...yes. I'd say 99% of all the protagonists I've played as in the course of gaming have been not been American. That seems like a silly question. Who exactly is refusing to play games based on the nationality of the hero? Hell, a lot of the time they are another species entirely, or from a mythology not even attached to the real world!

 

[MetalMagpie]

I'm not an American, so yes! But I mostly play games set in magical worlds (with more flexible laws of physics than ours) anyway.

If we're talking specifically about modern military shooters, I can't contribute much (I don't play them), but I guess my interest would be peaked a little more if I could play as a Royal Marine.

 

[Pegghead]

Of course. And while we're on the subject, I as an Australian deserve better characters than this:


Hell, give me an Aussie character voiced (and scripted) by MrDoodleBurger and I'm set:

I already do.

I don't see how you can avoid doing so, unless you just play Call of Duty, single-player.

Russians and Brits make up just as much (if not more) of the single-player protagonists as Americans. Hell, I'd go so far as to name Call Of Duty as one of the most ethnically diverse games on the market.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

[EDIT: Wow, did I get drowned in titles here. I was referring largely to military shooters in this context, and was thinking specifically of some of the hoo-rah of the Modern Warfare games.]

You mean the games who's main recurring protagonists are Soap McTavish, and Price? Both of which were British Nationals in the SAS? Or Roach in the second game, who had no nationality specified and was part of a multi-national (NON-US) Taskforce? The same game that had as the main villain a US General? Or are you referring to the third game where the main character is Yuri, a Russian Spetsnaz operative?

 

[zombieshark6666]

Why you I waste my time with a POS like that?

 

[Ix Rebound]

as long as they don't screw up or make the voices stereotypical.

 

[Ix Rebound]

CoD and Battlefield, two of the best selling FPS titles around, make it a point to devote sections of the game to Brits, subtitled Russians, or other forms of non-Americans.

yes, but they almost always make it out so that is always the Americans that save the day

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I would and I have. A lot of times actually.

Oh wait... No, I refuse to play a game about a character who isn't from my country. because it would be un-American.

 

[Tayh]

I would be delighted at the opportunity to play something else than a muscle-bulging, grunting american marine.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

CoD and Battlefield, two of the best selling FPS titles around, make it a point to devote sections of the game to Brits, subtitled Russians, or other forms of non-Americans.

yes, but they almost always make it out so that is always the Americans that save the day

In Call of Duty; MW3, the majority of the game is you playing as a Russian working with British Special forces.

For the past 3 CoD games (not counting Black Ops), it ends with the British guy saving the day.

So no, it's not even "almost always" they make it the Americans saving the day.