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  • At least Sega and Sony mostly dropped their fearmongering/correlation fallacies ship after the Bleem situation, but companies like Nintendo and Irdeto insist on being setbacks to the market. And with devices more and more closing down on what the user can do, despite being glorified computers, a friend of mine would even say that “console modding is an act of self-defense”. Furthermore, if piracy is as rampant as such companies insist on saying, I wonder how much wouldn’t be a “problem of service”, as GabeN once said, and/or if perhaps they’re using correlation to justify limiting what people can do.






  • Can’t remember many either, specially when ignoring characters like Alucard, that don’t seem to have the archetype of an older individual, be it emotional or physical, despite the character’s actual age.

    Now, the few cases of older protagonists I can remember:
    One Strike, if you consider games with a simulated old style, has an older playable character among the roster of characters.
    And though also not an old game, but heavily inspired by Castlevania 3, Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon has an elderly playable character, and his play style reflects that.
    And one of Gunbird’s playable characters is also an elderly individual, and… (spoiler)

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    in the joke ending, he even wishes to be young again.

    Dunno if that’d be too young, but Gall Gruner from Tales of Heart, which according to the wiki is 45 y.o., does give a strong “older person” impression throughout the game.
    Final Fantasy IV and V have older protagonists too, and in IV specifically, the character’s age plays a role in gameplay.