Getting the band together
Every hero needs a friend, and in this Editorial we take a look at the most common character types of today
This collection of loveable rogues not only applies to the good guys, and more often than not, it is quite prominent within the main antagonists of the game. There’s always a mad scientist or dumb man mountain who couldn’t find his junk without an instruction manual.
These tropes are not restricted to games, they can be applied to almost any form of media out there, and their earliest appearance in videogames would probably be Role Playing Games. By default, each of these personas slot nicely into specific character ability; white mage, barbarian etc.
The most important factor is that your characters have distinct personalities and by its inherent nature, the trope plays up to the different personalities we encounter in games. When used effectively it adds an important factor to the ‘experience’ and is played particularly strongly in the next generation of consoles.
So, ‘The Five Man Band’ is probably one of the most easily definable tropes pertaining to characterisation and it has good reason to be. Just imagine a whole game where everyone acted like Jar-Jar Binks, it would be enough incentive for you to take a drill to your temple and perform an overly violent act. Because video games made you do it, apparently.
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