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Update!
To all who shared - Thanks for your thoughts! It's been fun reading through these.
Here is the link for the article - if there are any more great submissions I'll add to it!
Click on the Articles link, then the title SNK's Relatable Characters.
Original Message:
Hey Peeps - this sounds like a noob question, but it is a serious question.
I'm developing an article for my website on how/why players relate to their favorite SNK characters, and I'd like to include some stories from long-time Neo fans. Despite the drama here, you are all a very thoughtful group and your ideas are usually well developed when you have a story to tell.
SNK brought a relateability to their characters in a way that Capcom or other fighting game developers typically didn't - their plotlines were often more "Saturday morning cartoon" in nature.
This idea came about when talking to a friend about why he is drawn to Ukyo from Samurai Shodown - while not the same illness, they both share a chronic condition that affects all areas of their lives they must overcome to survive.
Here's an excerpt from my draft to give you an idea of my angle.
The connection players feel to their favorite characters in SNK games run much deeper than enjoying the mechanics of how they play in the game engine. Sure, I love the way Terry Bogard plays, but it is his story of loss and his identity as a lone-wolf orphan that struck a chord with me when I was 13 years old. Having dealt with the loss of two fathers by that point, and dealing with the scars that come from being an adopted orphan, Terry’s story spoke to me. No, I didn’t have anyone to take revenge against or blame for the loss in my life, but I was angry. Terry was angry. But Terry channeled that anger into a driving force to make him better in every way possible. In a hurtful adolescence full of loss and being an outcast in my family and community, his story brought hope to me in a way that I’m only beginning to understand as an adult almost 30 years later.
If you'd like to contribute, thank you! If there are a lot of submissions I may not get to include all of them. I plan on attaching the user names of the members I include in the article, but if you wish to share your story and do not want me to include your user name, please share your story in confidence over PM. I will never release your name in conjunction with the story.
Thanks, everyone!
To all who shared - Thanks for your thoughts! It's been fun reading through these.
Here is the link for the article - if there are any more great submissions I'll add to it!
Click on the Articles link, then the title SNK's Relatable Characters.
Original Message:
Hey Peeps - this sounds like a noob question, but it is a serious question.
I'm developing an article for my website on how/why players relate to their favorite SNK characters, and I'd like to include some stories from long-time Neo fans. Despite the drama here, you are all a very thoughtful group and your ideas are usually well developed when you have a story to tell.
SNK brought a relateability to their characters in a way that Capcom or other fighting game developers typically didn't - their plotlines were often more "Saturday morning cartoon" in nature.
This idea came about when talking to a friend about why he is drawn to Ukyo from Samurai Shodown - while not the same illness, they both share a chronic condition that affects all areas of their lives they must overcome to survive.
Here's an excerpt from my draft to give you an idea of my angle.
The connection players feel to their favorite characters in SNK games run much deeper than enjoying the mechanics of how they play in the game engine. Sure, I love the way Terry Bogard plays, but it is his story of loss and his identity as a lone-wolf orphan that struck a chord with me when I was 13 years old. Having dealt with the loss of two fathers by that point, and dealing with the scars that come from being an adopted orphan, Terry’s story spoke to me. No, I didn’t have anyone to take revenge against or blame for the loss in my life, but I was angry. Terry was angry. But Terry channeled that anger into a driving force to make him better in every way possible. In a hurtful adolescence full of loss and being an outcast in my family and community, his story brought hope to me in a way that I’m only beginning to understand as an adult almost 30 years later.
If you'd like to contribute, thank you! If there are a lot of submissions I may not get to include all of them. I plan on attaching the user names of the members I include in the article, but if you wish to share your story and do not want me to include your user name, please share your story in confidence over PM. I will never release your name in conjunction with the story.
Thanks, everyone!
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