When you (eventually) stop gaming to see the outside world every once in awhile, you might notice that everyone tends to dress the same. Sure, you may have your corporate dudes in suits or slackers in jeans and a hoodie, but there you'll see your fair share of guys with cuffed jeans, pom beanies, and a collection of Carhartt jackets and Penfield vests.
There has been a shift in how heroes in games are portrayed as well as a shift in how they dress. The 2% body fat, jacked up, huge jawed heroes are long gone, and they took their loin clothes with them (to everyone’s benefit). Video game heroes tend to look more like the common man and dress like that man as well. All it took was one character to change the style entirely.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
