Someone roll up a newspaper and smack me, quick.
(Harder.)
Too late.
The majority of gamers don't know enough about the Holy Bible to keep straight who fathered whom. Yeah, there was this guy and he conceived some bozo with some chick. Lather, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat until we get to Jesus somewhereabouts. Oh boy, Sunday School's over. So long.
Yet, we obsess about the lineage of our favourite video game characters. Lord knows more than one schpincter has been ruptured in an effort to trace Link's bloodline to wherever it started (Ocarina of Time. No, Minish Cap. No--).
Everyone's a little obsessive about their ancestors' original spawning grounds--I'd like to have words with whichever one of my Irish forebears decided to breed with a leprechaun to bestow upon me my towering height of five feet--so it makes sense that we'd wonder a little about game characters and the loins thereof. For instance, the "Symphony of the Night 2" trailer has me wondering about Alucard.
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