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Stereotypes

Within the games industry there are many stereotypes in many different games. An example of a stereotype in a video game is Mario, In Super Mario 64 when the player is idle for a certain amount of time Mario goes to sleep. When asleep he sleep talks some Italian stereotypes, the sleep talk implies that Mario is dreaming about various Italian food such as Spaghetti and Ravioli. This can be seen as an Italian stereotype.

Gender

Other stereotypes present in video games are that Male characters are the bulkier and stronger in game genres like RPG's. Men are stereotyped into the classes like Warrior and Tank. Meanwhile women could be stereotyped into roles such as Sorcerer and Healer. Women are also sometimes made into the character to character that would need saving and they would be the inspiration for the main character to save them.

Characterization

Games are characterizes by rules and goals, all games have an end goal which the player would aim to get to, in fighting games the objective would be to reduce the opponents health to 0 or to knock them off the fighting area. Modern shooting games are based on killing the opponent to get the most kills or to reduce the enemy teams lives/tickets to 0. Platformer games would have the goal of reaching the end of the level or collecting all of the collectibles in the level do advance.