I know this is probably going to strike people as a 'strange choice of thread' as to most people the existance of a human protagonist in a game of any genre is about as commonplace as games being made on disks. However I feel I must ask anyway because I'm bored and I want to ask this question so I'm going to.
In every game it's always some cool human guy with either a big gun or a big sword fighting hordes of ugly inhuman monsters. I already made a post about a possible reverse situation but now I'm going to go one step further and just ask why there is a need to make them all human?
Some would say that it's because humans can only relate to other humans and that really a human hero is someone they can support. But for some reason me personally always feel.. suspicious... not supporting whenever I watch these unquestionably good humans fighting and slaughtering various alien men, women and children who were fleeing for their safety while the patriotic music plays. Okay we never actually see this in games... though I'd like to.
My question is not so much why are there no alien heroes who take the main stage (or non human fantasy characters at that) though that is a good question. My question is really, why do you think we can't relate to them?
Honestly I would love to see a fantasy game where it's a lizard guy fighting humans or a sci fi shooter where it's an alien from planet Glarkgenver fighting space marines. Or even just one where there are human allies but one of the mains is a non human.
Well what you think, why so few non human badass action heroes?
(for the record I am NOT talking about 'cartoony characters' like Spiro, Sonic, Crash Bandicoot or any of them fella's. So overlook all the cartoony ones, instead I am talking about games with a 'serious' tone to them. Also certainly not one of those 'fake non humans' who still looks very, very human. That doesn't count either.)
In every game it's always some cool human guy with either a big gun or a big sword fighting hordes of ugly inhuman monsters. I already made a post about a possible reverse situation but now I'm going to go one step further and just ask why there is a need to make them all human?
Some would say that it's because humans can only relate to other humans and that really a human hero is someone they can support. But for some reason me personally always feel.. suspicious... not supporting whenever I watch these unquestionably good humans fighting and slaughtering various alien men, women and children who were fleeing for their safety while the patriotic music plays. Okay we never actually see this in games... though I'd like to.
My question is not so much why are there no alien heroes who take the main stage (or non human fantasy characters at that) though that is a good question. My question is really, why do you think we can't relate to them?
Honestly I would love to see a fantasy game where it's a lizard guy fighting humans or a sci fi shooter where it's an alien from planet Glarkgenver fighting space marines. Or even just one where there are human allies but one of the mains is a non human.
Well what you think, why so few non human badass action heroes?
(for the record I am NOT talking about 'cartoony characters' like Spiro, Sonic, Crash Bandicoot or any of them fella's. So overlook all the cartoony ones, instead I am talking about games with a 'serious' tone to them. Also certainly not one of those 'fake non humans' who still looks very, very human. That doesn't count either.)
