Why the fuck did gaming stop getting iconic, new protagonists? Like proper faces of franchises and companies?
Most of gaming's iconic faces are like a decade or older. Mario, Link, Sonic, Snake, Cloud, Lara Croft, Master Chief, Kratos, Dante etc;
literally too many to name, and most are still being seen frequently to this day. Kids are literally getting hand-me-downs with RE2 and FFVII
What iconic new protags did the 10's even have? 2B from Nier Automata?
Character need to be "relatable" nowadays.
The focus on realism has made iconic designs so boring, The Last of Us is considered one of the greatest games of the 10's and its protag is just a bearded middle-aged man with a flannel shirt.
Liberals really ruined character designs, their obsession with subverting attractive character designs made everything so fucking boring and ugly.
>What iconic new protags did the 10's even have?
Minecraft Steve
Angry Birds
Flappy Bird
Jonesy
Gen 5/6/7/8 Pokemons
Inkling
Lucina
Shulk
Joker
Ellie and Joel
Isabelle
Cuphead
Shovel Knight
Cuphead is the only good one on that list.
gaming is doomed
2B
OP mentioned her
Joel and Ellie are more iconic than half of these
Clementine
>those sources
Disgusting
>reads comic
GRRKKKKKKKK
To me icons are determined by franchising and strong cult followings. For better or worse most games don't have that anymore.
Ellie
>intrusive and pretentious movie game character
Samus
>uninterruptive and based game protagonist
It’s simple
who the fuck is this
John Wonder, can't you read?
"games need to grow up", which means boring realistic humans with no skills.
newfag
the best racer of all time ffs, you disappoint me
Oh no, not the liberals.
That’s because most of those set the standard for genres that new franchises are inspired by. That, and more protagonists are becoming self-inserts.
John C Reilly
*Progressivists
Because most characters today are more realistic-looking or have a generic anime-looking design compared to the more unique and cartoony characters we had in the past.
And the worst part is that it's not even a "voted with the wallet" situation.
They just do generic shit because of stupid retarded beliefs
progressivists are the core liberal demographic yes
Yes, but they're like PETA, that say that "they're friends of the animals" but kill more animals than anything else.
They don't do much "liberalism" for supposed "liberals" and will use a shitton of excuses for that.
fucking newfag
this, but unironically
>Ellie
Doesn’t appeal to coomer incels like you
>Samus
Appeals to coomer incels like you
FTFY