Videogame staples: A sad realization that the new game you love is made up from older games.

      I sat down with a few freinds and had this discussion and I've realized no matter what form of game you play there is always a staple, be it a weapon or character design that refrences back to the older days of classic gaming.

1.) The Chosen One -
     This is kind of a sad staple and it really does play out well with some of the writing in videogames but it gets old. Some examples of this go back as far as the Legend of Zelda and even older if you're willing to look. If you're not familliar with this scenario, let me explain and sadly you'll see it everywhere.
- The world is somewhat in chaos. Monsters are appearing and even life in general is getting tough. Your character either awakens or is woken up somehow and goes out finds a magical weapon and by the end of the game saves the day.
Yeah trust me you've played that one.

2.) Weapons -
     Ok I'll admit weapons have gotten better but they do reflect back to an original design. Yeah there's quite a list to this so I'll sum it up to it's most basic forms
a.) grappling hook to pull something closer or pull you to it
b.) Gloves to either lift or break heavy stones
c.) A sword starts off really simple and then grows to either ungodly power or gains powers that don't always make sense
d.) Slightly newer is wings so you can glide to your objective
e.) An Axe to cut something down
That's a simple version of it I'll see if I can graph it out for a later post.

3.) Character Design -
Women - Either big breasted and thin or Kinda normal smart and they are a plot device
Men - yeah there's a sad design flaw here you can actually break it down to 3 stereotypes
Bulk, Twig, or medium but muscualar.

4.)Robotic humans-
   Ever play a game with a cyborg type with a gun for an arm. If they don't go the gun route it's a sword with either a basic energy type or supposedly unbreakable

Kinda disturbing isn't it yes it does break down further and in all honesty this is what makes gaming great. What I've covered here is mostly Rpgs and action/adventure games but this can also be said for platformers and even shooters. So remember yeah they can change it up but it does all basically break down to games you may have played way back when.