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Top 10 Video Game Cliches

Clichés are found in everything from music to movies to anything where creativity finds a home. This is no different with the video game medium which mimics past ideas to no end. Why tamper with a formula for success? Repetition has been the basis of our great civilization, and so it comes as no surprise that there are numerous clichés in the video game medium. Some of the clichés we can do with. Some of them actually make us happy when we see them all the time. Others however are just plain annoying and we will go through these in this list. Here then are the top 10 most used clichés in video game history.

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Son of Odin - 417 days 16 hours ago

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definitely agree with #'s 1, 2, 4, 8 but the rest seem a little off base.

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OldWizard - 417 days 16 hours ago

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how so?

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The Matrix - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Lmao funny article I love #2. It is true some games you're about to die and you eat a banana or something and you're at full health. Or like in Far Cry 2 when you're about to die you drink a water bottle and you're at full health.

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Drano - 417 days 14 hours ago

1.3 - Want some clichés?

http://project-apollo.net/t...

Enjoy.

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Sam Fisher - 417 days 8 hours ago

1.4 - this article is cliche

if you want to think of it like that, you might as well say life is cliche.

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DDP - 417 days 16 hours ago

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super soldiers are a little over done.

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Volvobug - 417 days 16 hours ago

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how so? there's barely any games with a "super" soldier in them.

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Son of Odin - 417 days 16 hours ago

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LMFAO!!!!

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The Matrix - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Just to name a few off the top of my head: Masterchief is a super soldier, turok, marcus feenix, Nathan hale (he has chimeran in him) and Solid Snake. I don't mind super solidiers. I'd rather play as a bad@$$ than some ordinary guy.

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Foxgod - 417 days 14 hours ago

2.4 - @ the matrix

dont forget GeOW is a squad based game.

Marcus Feenix is not a super soldier, hes more like a super squad leader that can form a killer team out of any group he joins.

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tinydancer - 417 days 16 hours ago

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the part about food replenishing health made me lol.

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OldWizard - 417 days 16 hours ago

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yeah bayou billy definitely comes to mind with that one.

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MountainMaverick - 417 days 11 hours ago

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Top 10 foods that totally replenish your energy.LOL

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Samus2080 - 417 days 16 hours ago

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Ha. Great article. Keep them coming

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MountainMaverick - 417 days 16 hours ago

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GarbageMen heroes? Really? Well there was a plumber. Not too out of the universe.

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Nike - 417 days 16 hours ago

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Hmmm...The one about princesses was right. In the sexual context, too. I'd go for Zelda. Much more mature than Peach. :)

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MrWeymes - 416 days 18 hours ago

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Peach has that cute, little voice, though.

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Heldrasil - 416 days 16 hours ago

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Admit it, you just want a piece of elf a$$...
Secret desires...

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OldWizard - 417 days 16 hours ago

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i think they really should do a game based on a mechanic.

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Nike - 417 days 16 hours ago

7.1 - Wasn't that...

Car Battler Joe for the Game Boy Advance?

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DDP - 417 days 15 hours ago

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never heard of that game. any good?

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Jenzo - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Very good rpg.

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The Matrix - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Dead Space you're a mechanic. When you're not disarming alien spawns of hell you're fixing everything because apparently the whole damn ship is broken.

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Stoneroses6300 - 417 days 16 hours ago

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haha. Funny funny article. I love this site.

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DDP - 417 days 16 hours ago

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i think they start lots of adventure and rpg games in bed to show the hero actually lives in a house and is a real person.

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Volvobug - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Halo= One big massive cliche

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schmeidenkamp - 417 days 14 hours ago

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yes

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Stoneroses6300 - 417 days 15 hours ago

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"The least chosen one" Hahaha

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Gun_Senshi - 417 days 15 hours ago

12 - Thank you mario! But our princess is in another Castle.

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Samus2080 - 417 days 15 hours ago

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I remember Soul Blazer being the only game where you were consistently called "the chosen one". I probably have been playing too many old games as of late.

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MountainMaverick - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Senshi - Thats a top 10 quote too

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ianp622 - 417 days 15 hours ago

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He forgot exploding barrels.

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DDP - 417 days 15 hours ago

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exploding barrels?

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Samus2080 - 417 days 15 hours ago

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LOL rereading #2. What game besides Gauntlet were there where you can eat some food to gain energy back? I remember there were plenty but I forgot which ones.

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schmeidenkamp - 417 days 14 hours ago

17.1 - lol

I remember a certain mode in the older tekkens where you move across a level fighting all kinds of people and there would be roasted chickens for you to pick up to regain health, and when you would pick them up the announcer would go 'CHICKEN!'

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riddlesticks - 417 days 13 hours ago

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Fallout
Prince of Persia
Super Mario (Mushrooms = Food) ^__^

Crash Bandicoot perhaps? what was with those apples? lol

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riddlesticks - 417 days 13 hours ago

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STREETS OF RAGE

FTW!

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Peow - 417 days 13 hours ago

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Castlevania for the SNES. Forget which one. It was turkey, though.

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Stoneroses6300 - 417 days 11 hours ago

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Castlevania

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buckethead_X - 417 days 11 hours ago

17.6 - rofl

when you kick a rock in a Legacy of Goku game, it is very likely that you will find a chicken leg in it. and of course, it heals you even if some alien just shot a freaking hole through your chest.

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Stoneroses6300 - 417 days 15 hours ago

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Castlevania, Ghosts n Gobblins. Any "warrior going into a castle" game

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Volvobug - 417 days 14 hours ago

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Bandage a turkey to your arm when your bleeding. haha.

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Drano - 417 days 14 hours ago

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Here's a bubble, man. You deserve it.

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The Matrix - 417 days 13 hours ago

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What are you talking about? He was just saying what the guy said in the article about wrapping a chicken to your arm when your bleeding. That means you didn't even read the article you just came and read the comments and posted. Those are the kind of people we don't need at n4g.

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Drano - 417 days 12 hours ago

19.3 - These are the kind of articles you see three times a month.

Plus I've got a link where you can find half of this list.

http://project-apollo.net/t...

This guy basically copy-pasted, changed a couple of words and gave his opinion. N4G is filled with "Top10 badasses/videogame quotes/characters/ultimate weapons/peejokes/best game no one played". Sorry for skipping a couple of paragraphs of déjà-vu.

Don't be so pissed off for nothing, dude.

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tinydancer - 417 days 12 hours ago

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Wish I could see that in realtime

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SeraphimBlade - 417 days 9 hours ago

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@ Drano: my thoughts exactly. any gamer worth his salt could have come up with a list like this. my friend online did one of RPGs alone that had over 100 points.

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Tony P - 417 days 14 hours ago

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Hm. Some of these are highly reminiscent of the Grand List.

http://project-apollo.net/t...

It's a great read.

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Son of Odin - 417 days 14 hours ago

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That's a RPG specific list.

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Tony P - 417 days 14 hours ago

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Is that a detractor? It's still a great read.

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