Delete "Protagonist" concept

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#1  Edited By SultS

This concept is not needed, because pretty much every game has some sort of protagonist, which makes this concept useless.

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#3  Edited By TheGTAvaccine

Yeah, HOW does this kind of stuff get accepted? Almost as bad as air, oxygen, water, etc.

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#5  Edited By Daniel

Blaaaah, deleted!

We should have a "Concept Cemetery." That'd be funny.

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#6  Edited By Djungelurban

Yes! Concept cemetery is actually a great idea. Would give people an idea of what not to add.

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#7  Edited By Daniel

Yeah, I'll look into that.

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#8  Edited By Systech

RIP: In loving memory of "Progagonist"...

Glad that's gone.

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#9  Edited By samcotts

Why was that deleted? Yeah the protagonist is in every game, but that doesn't make it invalid.

The protagonist is a pretty important concept to have in my opinion, just don't attached every game to it.

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#10  Edited By brukaoru
samcotts said:
" just don't attached every game to it."
That's the problem. People are already adding games that don't have water, grass, etc to those concepts just to get points. People will add every game in existence to the protagonist page... There's really now way to have it as a concept without people adding games to it, unless they somehow locked the game list.
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#11  Edited By Daniel

That's the problem though, you're a rational person, the people adding games to that page are not. Therefore, we get an ass load of games simple by virtue of having a protagonist. We have more interesting protagonist pages (Silent, Unnamed, etc.)

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#12  Edited By duxup
daniel said:
"Blaaaah, deleted!

We should have a "Concept Cemetery." That'd be funny."
Awesome idea.

Protagonist, what the heck are people thinking?
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#13  Edited By Daniel

They're not.

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#14  Edited By Djungelurban

No, they're thinking alright...
They're thinking "POINTS! POINTS! POINTS! ME LIKE POINTS! EEEHEHEHEHEHE!!"... Yeah, kinda like that...

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#15  Edited By FengShuiGod

I can see why a protagonist page is made, but I don't see why every point-hungry person on GB needs to add a game. IT JUST POINTS, GET OVER IT.

You should be able to lock the page so that no more games can be added, and delete the ones that are there.

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#16  Edited By SultS

Lock the page and maybe allow requests to be sent (doesn't matter how many points you have).

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#17  Edited By Daniel

We may have to resort to that, yeah.

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#18  Edited By FengShuiGod

Yeah, I can agree with that.

 I didn't see why it had to be deleted. Protagonists can be very important in games like Indigo Prophecy, for example, but it doesn't need to be attached to some generic FPS. Just because point grabbers want to attach it to every single game doesn't mean that it needs to be deleted.

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#19  Edited By samcotts
FengShuiGod said:
"Yeah, I can agree with that.

 I didn't see why it had to be deleted. Protagonists can be very important in games like Indigo Prophecy, for example, but it doesn't need to be attached to some generic FPS. Just because point grabbers want to attach it to every single game doesn't mean that it needs to be deleted."
Completely agree.
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#20  Edited By Daniel

True, but rather than having such a broad "Protagonist" page, we should have specific concept pages for specific TYPES of protagonists. Think about the pages like "Silent Protagonist" or "Unnamed Protagonist" Those are much more specific, and may inclue 50 games tops, which we want, not hundreds.

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#21  Edited By SultS

But doesn't protagonist mean  the same as main character? Because every game has at least one.

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#22  Edited By Djungelurban

SimCity... I'm just saying...

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#23  Edited By LordAndrew
Djungelurban said:
"SimCity... I'm just saying..."
Aren't you the playing the role of the mayor? That would make him a protagonist.
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#24  Edited By Djungelurban

An unseen and unheard protagonist, namely you. In that case every game really has a protagonist and that protagonist is you.

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#25  Edited By Vaxadrin

You guys are all antagonists....

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#26  Edited By LordAndrew
Vaxadrin said:
"You guys are all antagonists...."
But from my point of view, I'm a protagonist. :)
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#27  Edited By Justaddwater
LordAndrew said:
"Did someone say water?"
Well I can see how it would be valid if a game revolves around water, like Wet or the levels in sonic etc. Just having water in a game as an object shouldnt count, it should impact on the gameplay.
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#28  Edited By SultS

Someone even listed GTA games in the water concept. I know that GTA has water (sea/ocean) in it, but I don't think it is a thing, that gets extra attention. Maybe only in GTA III, because this is the first game in the series, where you can swim.

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#29  Edited By Vaxadrin
LordAndrew said:
"Vaxadrin said:
"You guys are all antagonists...."
But from my point of view, I'm a protagonist. :)"
But you want to kill the protagonist....

Oh I get it, you're an antihero!
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#30  Edited By Daniel

organizational bump and close!