Forsaken Denizen

[severedhand]

@EJoyce

This is pretty genre-typical, no? I mean, it’s maybe 50/50 between that and normal people who are in over their heads, and some of that is Resident Evil skewing the count, but there are a lot of survival horror protagonists who are law enforcement or soldiers, which at least diegetically makes them even bigger ringers than a woman with an office job who used to take potshots at rats.

I thought I’d have a look into the numbers, as I keep a spreadsheet of survival horror games I own or have played.

I counted 18 games with combat-trained protagonists out of 48 games, and fourteen of those are Resident Evil games up to and including Village. The other four games were Chaos Break, Cold Fear, Dino Crisis and Vampire Hunter D.

I keep this list pretty strict with the Survival Horror qualification, so for instance, Dino Crisis 2 isn’t on it. I always felt Fear Effect was s/h, but few agree with me, so that’s not on there either, and none of the Resident Evil rail shooters are on it.

Thus in total games it’s about 60/40 normal folks to combat-trained, but take out the Resident Evil games and it’s 90% not combat-trained. High school students of both sexes make up the majority of that 90%.

(edit - whoops, I had the 60 and 40 around the wrong way previously)

-Wade