There is a sort of charm to “bland generic fighter” templates especially in a game trying to go out of its way to not do that on its premade story characters.
That said, the no-selections default is better off showing anything but what the typical gater would expect from his yet-another-grizzled-cishet-white-man-avenging-fridged-wife-and/or-rescuing/protecting-le-sexy-daughter-figure-from-otherfied-subhumans-totally-nonpolitically slop.
Fridging is when the character gets unalived so no chance of rescuing.
Fridging refers to when the writer kills usually a partner of the main character to justify the vengeance motivation of the MC, but done in a lazy-writing way basically the partner gets no background nor focus, they are just an object that gets destroyed, like a reverse “McGuffin” if you will. Plus points if the death is done in a crass way, hence the “fridging” (google the origin of the term).
In Fallout 4, the spouse of the MC gets killed gratuitously for no real fucking reason in a crass way “here, you want revenge now”, so it checks all the boxes for being a “fridging”
Now, idk if the writers wanted to be “lol so meta” but the spouse gets fridged while sitting in a cryogenic pod.
Thanks for the detail. I quite enjoy learning about narrative techniques like this. Have you seen the lemmygrad creative writing and related communities? You might fit in well.
Plus, I’m actually very art/media illiterate, and the little I know I think I learned mostly from fucking breadtube.
For example: I played a lot of FNV and then I was watching an explanation about a failed total conversion mod of FNV which “made Courier=Jesus references ad nauseam as if the original game wasn’t obvious enough” and only then I went “Ooooooh resurrection”
In my defense, I’m christianity iliterate, I never learned the name of twelve apostles despite going to sunday school for a year.
There is a sort of charm to “bland generic fighter” templates especially in a game trying to go out of its way to not do that on its premade story characters.
That said, the no-selections default is better off showing anything but what the typical
gater would expect from his yet-another-grizzled-cishet-white-man-avenging-fridged-wife-and/or-rescuing/protecting-le-sexy-daughter-figure-from-otherfied-subhumans-totally-nonpolitically slop.
Fridged inside a fridge btw
The wife wouldn’t need rescuing if she was outside the fridge.
Fridging is when the character gets unalived so no chance of rescuing.
Fridging refers to when the writer kills usually a partner of the main character to justify the vengeance motivation of the MC, but done in a lazy-writing way basically the partner gets no background nor focus, they are just an object that gets destroyed, like a reverse “McGuffin” if you will. Plus points if the death is done in a crass way, hence the “fridging” (google the origin of the term).
In Fallout 4, the spouse of the MC gets killed gratuitously for no real fucking reason in a crass way “here, you want revenge now”, so it checks all the boxes for being a “fridging”
Now, idk if the writers wanted to be “lol so meta” but the spouse gets fridged while sitting in a cryogenic pod.
Thanks for the detail. I quite enjoy learning about narrative techniques like this. Have you seen the lemmygrad creative writing and related communities? You might fit in well.
Hadn’t checked them, but I’m not a writer
Plus, I’m actually very art/media illiterate, and the little I know I think I learned mostly from fucking breadtube.
For example: I played a lot of FNV and then I was watching an explanation about a failed total conversion mod of FNV which “made Courier=Jesus references ad nauseam as if the original game wasn’t obvious enough” and only then I went “Ooooooh resurrection”
In my defense, I’m christianity iliterate, I never learned the name of twelve apostles despite going to sunday school for a year.