I am having such a hard time not laughing at this. The irony of the circular nature of this conversation.
"I was joking"
"So was I"
"Use emoticons"
"Eww"
Rinse and repeat.
Ahi muere is an expression that kinda says 'truce' or 'let it die there.' It was me saying 'just for the record blah and now let's move it along.'
Now can we please move back to the thread topic? :bored:
Well, thats just it. Game characters to me aren't relatable. Yes, they've evolved to the point where we can add character and depth to give them more human qualities but, be it film, game, or literature, I've never found any character relatable.Now, on the other hand, if you ask me if there are any characters in games I sympathize with that'd be a different story.
To relate is to find commonality and in some ways find a form of kinship with someone through similar circumstance, trait, or even belief. In that the closest I would come to relating to a character in a game is Vincent Brooks since he is around my age and he is facing a lot of the dilemmas that men our age deal with but I don't relate to him. I sympathize with him and many a'character.
Ya' know, It could be cultural, me been Mexican and most game characters been American or Japanese. I view the world differently with different ideas and even language. To relate, again, would be to find that you and them are similar. Will, that's just it, then, we're not. As long as I've spent in the US I still identify myself as Mexican and provably see things as such. Different cultures, different views, music, expressions, prerogatives, even different language means that there is always this underlying notion that I am
not the same as them, we wouldn't listen to the same music, read the same books, tell the same jokes, talk about the same movies, and so on.
Now, like I said, just because I don't relate doesn't mean I don't sympathize. It's not like I play a game and when something bad happens to the characters I go "Sorry, ese, them sound like white people problems to me." Nay. If somebody hurts, human or otherwise, I feel for them, and if I like the character then more so I want to see ill fortune fall on them. Ever seen
the Gray? At no point during that movie did I think to myself "Yeah, I can relate to that," but I did think, for most of the ending "oh, god, no, please no." Best way I can explain it.