Designers and their favourite recurring themes.

[Erik_Twice]

Some companies or game designers have certain recurring themes in their works. Or perhaps it's a certain aestethic, let's list them together!


For example, Blizzard loves Heavy Metal. All their games, without exception, are greatly influenced by it or introduce serveral nods to the genre. While The Lost Vikings and Rock N'Roll racing are obvious the entire Warcraft design draws from it and even the humans of Starcraft.

Any themes come to mind? =p

[hashiriya1]

Square Enix's androgynous male character designs.

[KillerJuan77]

Atlus and religion.

[Dylan]

Treasure games always have lots of huge Boss battles.

[BoringSupreez]

Rare games almost always have those "Rare" eyes. You know, the big googly ones that often sit atop the character. Goldeneye and Perfect Dark went for a more realistic look, but their platformers always feature a few characters with those eyes.

id's FPS games always have a shotgun, except for Wolf 3D.

Captain Price has been in every Infinity Ward produced COD game, both the WWII ones and the MW series.

[swiftzx]

I've noticed that with the exception of gen 2, all Pokemon games have an electric rodent (Pikachu, Plusle/Minun, Pachurisu, Emolga).

[BoneSnapDeez]

Nippon Ichi - Cute anime girls with big................ eyes.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

id's FPS games always have a shotgun, except for Wolf 3D.

Pretty much every id game has also had a reference to Wolf 3D somewhere in the game.

Bungie has put the Marathon logo in pretty much every single one of their games (excluding pre-Marathon games)

[Damm64]

id's FPS games always have a shotgun, except for Wolf 3D.

You can't make a FPS or any shooter without a shotgun... it's a law...

This one is obvious... the hero saving the princess (yes mario bros)

[lisalover1]

Atlus and religion.

Have you noticed that Atlus pretty much puts at least one demon of some sort into every game they make?