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Game character - The most iconic?
ChadTower:
See pretty much any fighting game series for more examples.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 17, 2008, 10:52:58 am ---I maintain that it is Pac-Man's developers, and not his original lack of legs, that have kept him from evolving with gaming hardware.
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Really? I suppose you maintain that same stance on the rectangle in Pong? Sometimes you have to create an exaggerated example to get someone to see the point. Pong for example is a simplistic design that didn't have much design room, or do you contend that the developers of Pong are the reason why we don't see the Pong as a iconic video game character?
Pacman was a transition and revolution in the gaming industry. It's simplistic design is both it's detriment and success. The fact it had as many iterations as it did, despite it's simplistic nature only further illustrates what an icon it is.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 17, 2008, 11:26:57 am ---Really? I suppose you maintain that same stance on the rectangle in Pong? Sometimes you have to create an exaggerated example to get someone to see the point. Pong for example is a simplistic design that didn't have much design room, or do you contend that the developers of Pong are the reason why we don't see the Pong as a iconic video game character?
Pacman was a transition and revolution in the gaming industry. It's simplistic design is both it's detriment and success. The fact it had as many iterations as it did, despite it's simplistic nature only further illustrates what an icon it is.
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shmokes:
A #1, yes -- Pong could have been updated as a table-tennis, or tennis franchise. In fact there is a brilliant spot run during Wimbledon a couple years ago in which Andy Roddick was pitted against Pong, LOL.
But beyond that, you said yourself that your example was exaggerated. While I think that Pong could, in fact, have been updated as a franchise, it's also clear that Pac-Man had a lot more complexity and even narrative to work with. Pac-Man has in fact, been updated all the way to into the world of 3D with mixed (mostly disappointing) results. The idea that these efforts have failed due to a fundamental flaw in the Pac-Man character seems rather unlikely to me, and certainly no more likely than the suggestion that a fundamental flaw in Lara Croft's character explains the second-rate sequels she generated.
protokatie:
Replace sonic with pacman, and the rings with dots, and we might be on to something...
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