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

[Chrmike]

What about the Assassin's Creed series? All the protagonists, except Desmond, are non-Americans....

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

The reason most game protagonists are 24-35 yr old male white "american" (in the sense that they are english speaking) is that the majority demographic of video game players is thought to be composed of 24-35 yr old male white americans

as for op I would buy any game that featured Canadians. As I have yet to find one if anyone knows of one please let me know.

The average gamer is Asian and close to or over 40, statistically.

 

[ChupathingyX]

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.

That's exactly what Modern Warfare 2 had.

 

[xPixelatedx]

lol WAT

You do of course realize that in most games you play as non-Americans... in fact before this monotone generation, most game protagonists weren't even human!

 

[Daverson]

Yes, I would. In fact, I even have! Several times!

 

[bz316]

This question is crazy, some of the best selling video game franchises had non-American protagonists. Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, No One Lives Forever...hell technically any game set in interstellar space features non-American main characters, since being born on another planet would make you about as non-American as possible...

 

[Halceon]

I'd say the poll is perfectly conclusive.

 

[Total LOLige]

Gear of War's protagonists aren't American, they're not even from earth. I think it's just the modern FPS genre that likes American heroes.

First you demonstrate that modern FPS games don't use American heroes. Then you conclude that modern FPS games use American heroes.

Come... again?

I actually think this is a lot less of a trend than it seems. Gears isn't American (although you'd be forgiven for thinking it was), Resistance: Fall of Man is British, half of the MW2 campaign was spent with Brits, half of the MW3 campaign was Brits and the other half was Russians, a few of the Battlefield 3 missions are as a Brit and a Russkie, Red Faction isn't on Earth, where does that leave us? Bioshock, Uncharted, and Fallout?

Hardly hallmarks of the FPS genre.

Regardless, there are far more foreigners out there, in our FPSes and out of them, than it might seem.

Gears of War is a Sci Fi shooter. I meant games like Battlefield and CoD.

 

[OrpheusTelos]

Um, of course. :-/ Most of the games I play are Japanese, or fantasy oriented.

 

[Nimzabaat]

The reason most game protagonists are 24-35 yr old male white "american" (in the sense that they are english speaking) is that the majority demographic of video game players is thought to be composed of 24-35 yr old male white americans

as for op I would buy any game that featured Canadians. As I have yet to find one if anyone knows of one please let me know.

Yeah considering the monuments in Europe built to honour Canadian soldiers, you'd think there should be a few games featuring them. Well maybe not featuring but at least showing up somewhere.

 

[kasperbbs]

I don't really care all that much, but it would be nice to see more titles where americans aren't the only ones saving the whole world while other countries presumably pick their noses the whole time. Now that i think about it, most of the protagonists aren't really american in the games i play. Geralt is from Rivia, Nicko is Russian, Shephard isn't even from Earth and i don't even remember where from my poor abandoned Skyrim character is supposed to be.

 

[fatmrbunko]

as an englishman i hate that most games are about americans, i mean dont get me wrong theres nothing wrong with them but they're not the centre of the universe as many of them think

just like when i met some that had no idea what language people speak in ENGLAND the home of THEIR language...i mean its like a french-canadian not knowing the language of france but then again thats hopefully a minority

 

[drisky]

Is your average Massachusetts twenty-something committed to playing only Navy SEALS, or would he be willing to try something like a game about the French Foreign Legion or Joint Task Force 2 (the Canadian special forces)?

Your average Massachusetts 20 something is about as liberal as it gets in America. We aren't the blind patriotism, boners for the american military type. We're practically Canada. Not exactly the best state to ask if they have a problem identifying with non americans.

Do post-apocalypses like Fallout and Enslaved count? It's America, but only in terms of geography.

I just have to say that Fallout is super american, so much of the artistic choices are form 1930's and 40's americana style. The music is form that time, the Valut boy is styled by the advertising, the robots are styled like old american science fiction movies. Plus there is the American tradition of seeing there famous structures being destroyed.

as for op I would buy any game that featured Canadians. As I have yet to find one if anyone knows of one please let me know.

There is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, thats all I can think of though.

 

[Snowbell]

Yes! Give me Jade Empire 2

 

[DustyDrB]

Do post-apocalypses like Fallout and Enslaved count? It's America, but only in terms of geography.

I just have to say that Fallout is super american, so much of the artistic choices are form 1930's and 40's americana style. The music is form that time, the Valut boy is styled by the advertising, the robots are styled like old american science fiction movies. Plus there is the American tradition of seeing there famous structures being destroyed.

There's Americana and parody of America, but it's certainly not America as we know it. I wouldn't call any of my Couriers or Vault Dwellers American. It's ultra-violent, tribal, slaver-infested, and mostly lawless.

It does resemble America in the 1800s, but with better technology. You have tribals, small settlements, and a government trying to spread and take over the "frontier".

This is an interesting debate, and might would make a good thread of its own.

 

[Lunar Templar]

you didn't grow up in the .....

[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.]

oh .... you mean that tripe ....

assuming you could get me to play one(this would probably take some form of fire arm place to my head), yeah probably, player character race shouldn't matter in relation to enjoyment of game

but, even if they did make such i game, i still wouldn't play it. we have to many such shooters as is. -.-

 

[Guffe]

Of course, the latest games I've played were SkywardSword and Xenoblade Chronicles so that pretty much sums it up.

 

[Risingblade]

You're talking about military shooters...the genre most known for tossing story aside for the sake of explosions...who the fuck cares what you play as? You're still shooting things, the story is still going to suck.