im not just talking about COD and battlefield, there are hundreds of other games that almost always have Americans saving the dayJoesshittyOs said:
Poll: Would you play a game about non-Americans?
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Just as there's hundreds of other games of Brits, Italians, elves, aliens, robots, Clone assassins, Space marines, yadada saving the day.Ix Rebound said:
You only notice Americans because it's become socially acceptable to hate the country in recent years.
im not hating on America, i just wished other countries besides the big 3 got the spotlight as the protagonists in more games.JoesshittyOs said:
Well Call of Duty had you switch between British dudes and American dudes. Battlefield because they got pretty much everyone that I can think of. Socom since it may or may not have allowed you to play as YOUR nationality. Deus Ex Protaganists because they don't have a nationality that you are ever told about. Lo Wang from Shadow Warrior for the PC-DOS, essentially Duke as a Japenese man. Blood's Protaganist, I think he is british, which is also for the DOS. Duke Nukem from Duke Nukem 1, 2 and 3D along with Forever, he wasn't born in the USA as far as I know, and is so far changed that it doesn't matter if he IS American he is so changed by drugs and what not that he doesn't have a nationality. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad classes are not American so they count.
Otherwise, there are more games such as every JRPG character made in Japan or China is always Asian unless specified otherwise. The Sims don't have a nationality, so every Sim game made by Maxis or EA with Sim in the title. Destroy All Humans, your a Alien, not a citizen of America.
But this doesn't matter at all so open your eyes to the fact that there are plenty of Genres where you do not play a White American man.
Otherwise, there are more games such as every JRPG character made in Japan or China is always Asian unless specified otherwise. The Sims don't have a nationality, so every Sim game made by Maxis or EA with Sim in the title. Destroy All Humans, your a Alien, not a citizen of America.
But this doesn't matter at all so open your eyes to the fact that there are plenty of Genres where you do not play a White American man.
They were good guys in COD: Modern Warfare 2.endtherapture said:
For games in general (games of all platform, genre, creed, flavor, etc) I like playing as non-humans in general. Elves, Blue Hedgehogs, Ninjas, Cyborg Ninjas, Cyborg Monkeys, bears...I love playing as non-human characters.
As for shooters (which I think is what you were referring to in a broader sense) then yes: I would be one of those people who would openly admit to wanting a WW2 FPS wherein you play (single player anyway) as a German. Not an undercover American or, Ally of any description but a game in which you play as Germany in WW2. With moral choices (I'll let that speak for itself and let your imaginations fill in the blank).
In less extreme terms yes. I want to play as other people. That was the whole appeal for Assassin's Creed when I very first heard about it. Sure Desmond is in it but he's a framing device more than a character...in the first two anyway, I haven't played the AC2 plot-branch games and don't plan to.
As for shooters (which I think is what you were referring to in a broader sense) then yes: I would be one of those people who would openly admit to wanting a WW2 FPS wherein you play (single player anyway) as a German. Not an undercover American or, Ally of any description but a game in which you play as Germany in WW2. With moral choices (I'll let that speak for itself and let your imaginations fill in the blank).
In less extreme terms yes. I want to play as other people. That was the whole appeal for Assassin's Creed when I very first heard about it. Sure Desmond is in it but he's a framing device more than a character...in the first two anyway, I haven't played the AC2 plot-branch games and don't plan to.
Americans in CoD universe:Ix Rebound said:
-Invade middle eastern country, die by nuclear explosion. Completely failing to catch the dictator they were after.
-Help the British(Who were the ones who reached the control room) stop a nuclear attack.
-Fail to stop Kamarov's escape(The British, and Russians got him.)
-Send an agent to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He is immediately caught and the US is implicated in a massacre of civilians.
-Get invaded by Russia, a country which has nowhere near the amount of important military hardware as the US(IE ships, planes, tanks.) Despite having been in a massive civil war with itself a few years prior.
-Fails so bad defending against the attack that they legitimately lose for a time and almost blow up the White House.
-Leading US military figure then betrays his allies, on some crazy ultra nationalist binge with delusions of an even more hyper militant US where he is a hero. (British kill him for being a lunatic)
-US Proceeds to attack the main protagonists of the game.
-Successfully hijack a Russian Nuclear sub and use its missiles against the Russian fleet in New York City. How the US Navy fucked up so hard that there was a Russian Navy in New York City in the first place is beyond me.
-Fails to prevent the invasion of Europe(Which is so bad that the Russians reach Paris) again occurring while the Russians are already fighting a war in the continental US. Because apparently the US sucks, so they have troops to throw around.
-Fails to save the Russian president being interrogated for missile codes. The US soldiers on the mission all die, and the British save him.
-Continue to have absolutely no idea where Mackarov is or what he is doing. The British are constantly on his heels. Yuri(Russian) and Price(British) track him down and kill him.
-Are able to negotiate peace.
How exactly do you get the picture that that is a good track record? Or that they are being made out as having saved the day at all? From what I can tell from the series, Russians are somehow super-men capable of fighting the entire world at once. Americans are like inspector clouseau the country; Constantly bumbling around the world failing to do anything right. While the British/Scottish run behind the scenes, fixing the US's constant parade of mistakes and failures.
Well I'm British, so I'd prefer a game with non-Americans, especially if the Americans were the bad guys.
My ideal game would feature a British protagonist with an American bad guy, especially if at first he looked like he was a good guy.
My ideal game would feature a British protagonist with an American bad guy, especially if at first he looked like he was a good guy.
It occurs to me that the most popular game series of all time is about an Italian. I didn't think the nationality of the main character had anything to do with whether or not someone would play a game unless they were a massive racist.
Non-American here, and I play games with American protagonists all the time. Doesn't bother me at all.
Erm... whaddaya mean, "Would I"? Between the Italian plumber, the mute Hylian swordsman, the pseudo-transvestite Japanese children that may as well be a walking advert for Brylcreem, the French-built and German-designed Bugatti (yes, I consider the Veyron a protagonist in ANY racing game it features in), the Serbian car-jacker who must spend every waking moment tending to his portly cousin, a certain regal character from a country now know as Iran (where they make some rather nice rugs), the Chozo-adopted bounty hunter, or Jason Statham's blatant rip-off for inclusion in Crysis: Warhead...
When HAVE I played as an American? ;-)
When HAVE I played as an American? ;-)
Fist of all, "America" is a lot bigger than the U.S., and secondly, if we keep talking about it, the U.S. won't be able to fit its head through any doors soon.
Also: way too assume white guy/girl = American.
Also: way too assume white guy/girl = American.
Because the U.S. likes to think they are the good guy underdogs, fighting for freedom around the world, and not, say, invading countries and murdering masses of people to rape their natural resources at a later date. Yeah, makes me sick, too.Mycroft Holmes said: