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You know, Americans not understand why the Japanese are desperate teenagers embody in their games, and Japanese not understand why Americans can not conceive of the characters who have not 40 years old and 100 pounds of muscle.

For example, the typical Japanese hero, it's the teens Final Fantasy:


While the American hero, Marcus Fenix is rather :


You will note in passing that This is the personal Deathblow that date 20 years ago, like what we're really in the stereotype Rican, huh, if you're military, forced you this face of beef. Creativity, when you hold us ...

So one answer, that would be the identification of the public. I do not believe for a second, because the public FF not limited to teens 15 years and that the public is not the exact FPS guy of 40 years ...

What happens, in my view, is that in a JRPG we gain experience. It should therefore not be too early. The baseline scenario under the initiatory journey (we learn love, Good, Evil and responsibilities along the way), it lends itself more naturally to a young hero who will forge its personality through adventure as an old man who has seen it all and will instead build a bunker in his garden instead of going to explore the continent. The seasoned military knowing that they always play better at home, you think that the geography of your RPG will take a hit.

Besides, you can see what look like in the old Final Fantasy : they are employed. They have a job (royal guard, engineer, etc..), A family ( Cid generally have a girl came out with the hero), in short, must really be the end of the world, and their son to be involved they deign to lend you their aircraft.

For war games (FPS ) in contrast, prefers a military with the ranks, because it sounds more credible than it is a professional who is nearing the end of the game rather than a rookie who would never touched a gun in his life and suddenly everything goes Felstriker without asking questions with a strategic science fell from the sky, how do I check the boxes to 200m, beginner's luck that follows me for 10h Thurs

So the choice of character is obviously related to the type of game much more than a cultural aspect. You got to see Metal Gear Solid , where we play an old man. It stands.