The Possibility of Video Game Characters Being in Broforce

[Quartzionic]

I understand completely that this game is a love-letter to 80's action films, and action films in general. However, it also has hints of old run n' guns such as Contra or Metal Slug as well as many others. I can see the developers shooting down this idea pretty easily, and I understand why. If they have committed to the idea of only including characters from films, it would make little to no sense to include characters from any other media. But, there are a few upsides (that I can think of) to including video game characters:

• The fan-base would be allowed to make more character suggestions that they may have had before.
  
• The character list would become even more diverse, as video game characters have their own cliches and motifs.
  
• There are quite a few game characters who would fit in with the action movie stereotype, especially old game characters (e.g. Shatterhand, Bionic Command, Solid Snake, Samus Aran, and (maybe) Mega Man).

So, those are my thoughts. They may not be the best ones, and, well, this may not be the best idea. I'm sure that quite a few of you will be against it, but that's what discussion threads are for: discussion of a topic and related opinions. Please, be honest and give your best thoughts. So, what does everyone think?

[Wiesler]

If you use the search box (located right near the "start a new discussion" button) you will see that this has been suggested before. There are rules (searchbox, or just look at the Bro Suggestion thread pinned on the front page).

Sorry.

[Quartzionic]

Originally posted by Jean-Luc Wiesler:

If you use the search box (located right near the "start a new discussion" button) you will see that this has been suggested before. There are rules (searchbox, or just look at the Bro Suggestion thread pinned on the front page).

Sorry.

This is completely fine, don't worry! No apology needed. I had not realized that this was suggested before and that there are rules against it. Thanks for telling me. I do wish that video game characters could be in Bro Force, but I guess it'll just have to stay a dream of mine. I wonder if I should just delete this discussion.

[e.bkapalka]

Regarding your point about it allowing the users to make more suggestions -- the Devs could probably do nothing more than make bros for the next year if they intended to add the ~40 well qualified 80s-90s characters that have been suggested. That and what Porkfried said. Parody is only really defined by the opinion of the judge during your lawsuit. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see Gordon Freeman in this game, but there are probably good reasons why that isn't happening

[Quartzionic]

Originally posted by e.bkapalka:

Regarding your point about it allowing the users to make more suggestions -- the Devs could probably do nothing more than make bros for the next year if they intended to add the ~40 well qualified 80s-90s characters that have been suggested. That and what Porkfried said. Parody is only really defined by the opinion of the judge during your lawsuit. Don't get me wrong - I'd love to see Gordon Freeman in this game, but there are probably good reasons why that isn't happening

You're obviously right about the Devs being able to do nothing more than make characters for Broforce, as there are so many suggestions, and I see know way to make that less of a problem. People want their favorites in the game, regardless of how many characters have been suggested. And it doesn't help that there are so many good potential characters. From my understanding, the whole gimmick of Broforce is that the game has a ton of characters who are very iconic, but too many characters might overwhelm a player.

Now, about copyright and parody: it does make sense that parodies of video game characters would be more easily said to be carbon copies of the characters they are parodying when in a video game than parodies of film characters in a game. What I think is that, if any game characters were to be added, it would be characters that are not relevant and/or used anymore. Those are few and far between, and who would want a character from a game that's not relevant anymore in Broforce? Well, I do, but Shatterhand (Just think of the naming opportunities! Shatterbro, Brotterhand, Shabrohand, uh... Shatterbrond? Eh. Shatterbro is the only good one.) is far from relevant, as he has only had a game, and only that one, since 1991. (Off-topic, but, if you haven't heard of Shatterhand, here's the Wikipedia page:Link[en.wikipedia.org])