Racism
In video games, you can guess how a character would be like just by taking a glace at them. Even if it's just the way they talk, look, live etc, we can probably guess roughly about what kind of person they are. For example, race is something that people would take as a stereotypical subject as somebody is likely to assume how and who they are just by looking at the colour of their skin. For example, in GTA V, Franklin and Lamar go around causing crime, carjacking, bank robberies, drug dealing and more. This could lead to offending certain people because a race can not depend on whether somebody is a good or a bad person but we tend to see this in certain games for the same reason as other contents of media such as movies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cR_bC4VD90
Heroes/ Heroines
Heroes and Heroines are usually presented in a way that the audience will be most informed and convinced by, which is usually brave and courageous. They have a mindset that instantly makes them want to save people from evil and to stop evil plans from harming people.
Delsin - InFamous: Second Son
Delsin is a character who chooses to do what he wants to do. The player has multiple options whether they want to do, whether the option be good and heroic or bad and destructive which changes the way that Delsin acts within the game.
Red - Pokemon Red & Blue
Red is a character that seeks to become the very best Pokemon master, with goals such as catching all 151 Pokemon and to defeat all Pokemon trainers. Red is an inspirational character in my eyes since he seems courageous and determined to be the best using different strategies to come out with the victory. Even if he runs into trouble during his adventure such as encountering Team Rocket, then he would go out of his own way to defeat them and make everything right so the Pokemon World would be safe from Team Rocket and their cunning plans.
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http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Red_(game)
Grovyle - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/ Darkness/ Sky
Grovyle is one of my overall favourite video game characters of all time. Even though he is technically a Pokemon and not a character, the game gave him his own role and personality which I found really amusing and I was really pleased about. At first, the game portrays him as a complete criminal and a thug who stole time gears which basically stopped the time in the specific areas they were located at. Later in the game, we are told that he was actually doing this to fix time and to also stop the temporal tower from collapsing which would send Dialga into a primal rage and paralyzing the planet. The protagonists (the player and your partner) secretly work with grovyle to collect all of the time gears whilst traveling back into the past. After reaching the hidden land which leads to Temporal tower, Dusknoir appears and attacks Grovyle and the others where you will fight against Dusknoir and his army of Sableye minions. After you defeat Dusknoir, he confirms that if the time gears are put back in place, all the Pokemon from the future will disappear including Grovyle which Grovyle confirms. Dusknoir pleads one last attack to hit the player but Grovyle intercepts it and forces himself to send him and Dusknoir back to the future so the player and partner could finish restoring the time gears so that time would restore and temporal tower would not collapse. I think that this was extremely heroic because Grovyle actually sacrificed himself so that the world could be restored and time would flow normally again which I found extremely touching and sad at the time when I played this game as I found myself shedding tears over Grovyle.
http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-mystery-dungeon-explorers-of-sky/
Sidekick
Pikachu - Pokemon Yellow
Pikachu is the first Pokemon you obtain in the game, meaning that it should be your most precious Pokemon and looked after. The Pikachu in this game actually follows you around unlike the other games where you had no Pokemon following you, which I thought was a really cool and neat addition to the game as it allowed the player to interact with it more. You also had the option to talk to Pikachu where he shown you different expressions hinting how he is feeling which all depends on things such as: Friendship, Current health/ status and area that it is in. Every time I interacted with my Pikachu, I was delighted to know that he was happy and having a great time accompanying me on my Pokemon adventure.
Popo/ Nana - Ice Climbers
The Ice Climbers are always by each others side helping each other move along and get through. I mainly played using them on Super Smash Bros Brawl, as they demonstrated how hand in hand they were always with each other fighting together whilst Nana mimicked every move that Popo made which means that they always stayed together which I found fairly cute and helpful as they always were there for each other to back the other up and support.
http://lapis.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Eclipse/Alternate_Costumes
Villains/ Antagonists
Dusknoir - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/ Darkness/ Sky
Dusknoir is the character that I briefly mentioned about whilst explaining the heroism that Grovyle has shown to us and now, I would like to explain how Dusknoir is actually a selfish villain. So Dusknoir was first seen when Grovyle attacked the main character and Dusknoir protected the main chracter to try and show that he was a good guy trying to save the world from Grovyle who was stealing all of the time gears. However, Dusknoir was trying to stop Grovyle because he didn't want the world to go back to having a steady time flow as it would have meant that he would has disappeared from existence.
Team Rocket
Villian from the Pokemon franchise but Team Rocket aims to achieve world domination and they want to obtain all of the most powerful and rare Pokemon; even if it involves stealing them from a Pokemon trainer. Team Rocket would usually perform inhuman experiments on Pokemon so they become more powerful and have a better chance a world domination.
Collectibles
collectibles can enhance games in many ways. You can collect things that you like to collect whether it be your favourite Character, Pokemon, Item, Clothing etc. or you could even just collect it just for the sake of obtaining everything that the game has to offer.
Love gems - LLSIF
In Love Live: School Idol Festival, you can collect Love Gems by doing certain quests and completing certain songs which can allow you to purchase new Idols which is very nice because you could get your favourite character or an ultra rare character that has a very low chance of being rolled.
Pokemon - Pokemon
Pokemon as a whole are literally just collectibles. You don't have to catch them all if you don't want to but you have the option to catch them all to fill up the Pokedex completely. There are also other type of Pokemon which are known as "Shinies" and they are super rare as they only have a 1/8000 chance of being seen.
Genders
Male
Ryu is a good example of males in video games because he has absolutely huge muscles along with strength and he just looks extremely cool in my opinion.
Here is another image showing how the armor covers more of the male body but it is still not full armor as you can see all of his arms, which most likely means that the developers just wanted the character to look cool rather than full of armor.
Female
Lollipop Chainsaw
As you can see, the female in this video game is portrayed in a very sexual manner, wearing clothes that do not necessarily fit the theme of the game and standing in positions that are not very appropriate for the situation, since the theme is zombie apocalypse so the game should be taking more a of realistic approach like The Walking Dead or The Last of Us.
Here is another example of how females are extremely sexualised in many games as in MMO type of games, the armor that women wear is barely even armor and it gets adapted into more like a sexualised costume that wouldn't actual protect you at all in a real life situation.
Heroes and Heroines are usually presented in a way that the audience will be most informed and convinced by, which is usually brave and courageous. They have a mindset that instantly makes them want to save people from evil and to stop evil plans from harming people.
Delsin - InFamous: Second Son
Delsin is a character who chooses to do what he wants to do. The player has multiple options whether they want to do, whether the option be good and heroic or bad and destructive which changes the way that Delsin acts within the game.
Red - Pokemon Red & Blue
Red is a character that seeks to become the very best Pokemon master, with goals such as catching all 151 Pokemon and to defeat all Pokemon trainers. Red is an inspirational character in my eyes since he seems courageous and determined to be the best using different strategies to come out with the victory. Even if he runs into trouble during his adventure such as encountering Team Rocket, then he would go out of his own way to defeat them and make everything right so the Pokemon World would be safe from Team Rocket and their cunning plans.
http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Red_(game)
Grovyle - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/ Darkness/ Sky
Grovyle is one of my overall favourite video game characters of all time. Even though he is technically a Pokemon and not a character, the game gave him his own role and personality which I found really amusing and I was really pleased about. At first, the game portrays him as a complete criminal and a thug who stole time gears which basically stopped the time in the specific areas they were located at. Later in the game, we are told that he was actually doing this to fix time and to also stop the temporal tower from collapsing which would send Dialga into a primal rage and paralyzing the planet. The protagonists (the player and your partner) secretly work with grovyle to collect all of the time gears whilst traveling back into the past. After reaching the hidden land which leads to Temporal tower, Dusknoir appears and attacks Grovyle and the others where you will fight against Dusknoir and his army of Sableye minions. After you defeat Dusknoir, he confirms that if the time gears are put back in place, all the Pokemon from the future will disappear including Grovyle which Grovyle confirms. Dusknoir pleads one last attack to hit the player but Grovyle intercepts it and forces himself to send him and Dusknoir back to the future so the player and partner could finish restoring the time gears so that time would restore and temporal tower would not collapse. I think that this was extremely heroic because Grovyle actually sacrificed himself so that the world could be restored and time would flow normally again which I found extremely touching and sad at the time when I played this game as I found myself shedding tears over Grovyle.
http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-mystery-dungeon-explorers-of-sky/
Sidekick
Pikachu - Pokemon Yellow
Pikachu is the first Pokemon you obtain in the game, meaning that it should be your most precious Pokemon and looked after. The Pikachu in this game actually follows you around unlike the other games where you had no Pokemon following you, which I thought was a really cool and neat addition to the game as it allowed the player to interact with it more. You also had the option to talk to Pikachu where he shown you different expressions hinting how he is feeling which all depends on things such as: Friendship, Current health/ status and area that it is in. Every time I interacted with my Pikachu, I was delighted to know that he was happy and having a great time accompanying me on my Pokemon adventure.
Popo/ Nana - Ice Climbers
The Ice Climbers are always by each others side helping each other move along and get through. I mainly played using them on Super Smash Bros Brawl, as they demonstrated how hand in hand they were always with each other fighting together whilst Nana mimicked every move that Popo made which means that they always stayed together which I found fairly cute and helpful as they always were there for each other to back the other up and support.
http://lapis.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Smash_Bros._Eclipse/Alternate_Costumes
Villains/ Antagonists
Dusknoir - Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/ Darkness/ Sky
Dusknoir is the character that I briefly mentioned about whilst explaining the heroism that Grovyle has shown to us and now, I would like to explain how Dusknoir is actually a selfish villain. So Dusknoir was first seen when Grovyle attacked the main character and Dusknoir protected the main chracter to try and show that he was a good guy trying to save the world from Grovyle who was stealing all of the time gears. However, Dusknoir was trying to stop Grovyle because he didn't want the world to go back to having a steady time flow as it would have meant that he would has disappeared from existence.
Team Rocket
Villian from the Pokemon franchise but Team Rocket aims to achieve world domination and they want to obtain all of the most powerful and rare Pokemon; even if it involves stealing them from a Pokemon trainer. Team Rocket would usually perform inhuman experiments on Pokemon so they become more powerful and have a better chance a world domination.
Collectibles
collectibles can enhance games in many ways. You can collect things that you like to collect whether it be your favourite Character, Pokemon, Item, Clothing etc. or you could even just collect it just for the sake of obtaining everything that the game has to offer.
Love gems - LLSIF
In Love Live: School Idol Festival, you can collect Love Gems by doing certain quests and completing certain songs which can allow you to purchase new Idols which is very nice because you could get your favourite character or an ultra rare character that has a very low chance of being rolled.
Pokemon - Pokemon
Pokemon as a whole are literally just collectibles. You don't have to catch them all if you don't want to but you have the option to catch them all to fill up the Pokedex completely. There are also other type of Pokemon which are known as "Shinies" and they are super rare as they only have a 1/8000 chance of being seen.
Genders
Male
Ryu is a good example of males in video games because he has absolutely huge muscles along with strength and he just looks extremely cool in my opinion.
Here is another image showing how the armor covers more of the male body but it is still not full armor as you can see all of his arms, which most likely means that the developers just wanted the character to look cool rather than full of armor.
Female
Lollipop Chainsaw
As you can see, the female in this video game is portrayed in a very sexual manner, wearing clothes that do not necessarily fit the theme of the game and standing in positions that are not very appropriate for the situation, since the theme is zombie apocalypse so the game should be taking more a of realistic approach like The Walking Dead or The Last of Us.
Here is another example of how females are extremely sexualised in many games as in MMO type of games, the armor that women wear is barely even armor and it gets adapted into more like a sexualised costume that wouldn't actual protect you at all in a real life situation.
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