Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20180128214516/@comment-25936766-20180128222906

Phantomlink959 wrote: 1) This month's theme is Video Game Characters. We're talking your Links, Marios, Master Chiefs; Samus Aran's..

2) ...whatever the current protagonist of Kingdom Hearts is.

3) I'd love to allow open-ended RPGs like Fallout or Skyrim, but given the variation in weapons and personality dependant on how you play it would be difficult or impossible to judge fairly.

4) The Deadline will be February 12 at 23:59:59 (UTC), or in other words, the moment Feb. 12 arrives, no more edits and entries.

1) The title made it too obvious. Honestly, it's kind of disappointing. PS: I assume Visual Novel characters are allowed? They are videogames, after all.

2) Sora. It's always been Sora, with only about 4 exceptions. Days, BBS, X and 0.2, the last of which is basically a demo for KH3.

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3) I really don't see the problem though. It's not like Little Red Riding Hood was a socially-awkward weapon-lover who wielded a giant sniper-scythe.

My point being, in terms of personality, the allusions matter little for the characters. So even if Bob alludes to a guy whose personality is defined by the player, the result wouldn't change. In fact, you outright say we can draw from the source for personality, you never say "must".

Thus the only problem would be "weapons and abilities"....with which I also don't see the problem. It's not like you can do absolutely everything in every game, even if you got multiple options you still have a limited number of options. You cannot use a shotgun in Skyrim, for example.

So as long as the weaponry and abilities are in line with what is possible for whatever videogame character is the allusion, it should be fine. If Bob alludes to Dragonborn and uses a bow it's fine because Dragonborn can use a bow, but if he uses a chainsaw it's not fine because Dragonborn can't use such a thing in Skyrim.

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4) What's with the incredibly-short deadline?