In some ways it’s quite uncanny at the research time and the depths some of these people have gone to accomplish the look of a single character.
There are many YouTube videos that show how to make certain characters in certain games, what styles to pick, etc. It’s not an isolated group of people with this same mindset as there are a lot of examples of people doing this same thing with different IPs. The only requirement is that your player character(s) need to be modeled after a Marvel character.
Sometimes the biggest challenge isn’t limited to just picking the appropriate look but also in finding and selecting a name that does your imitation proud.Īnd I’m not in the minority either as I’m currently in a DCUO league called “Marvel Unlimited”.
The difference being my form of imitation is in a digital sense versus the physical format of “dressing up”. On some level, when you get down to it, it’s like dressing up for Halloween or partaking in cosplay. It’s probably an interesting question to ask Jack Emmert (CEO of Dimensional Ink Games the studio behind DCUO’s development) of his take on it the next time I talk to him. In fact, I’d venture a guess that Marvel might cherish the fact that people create their IP characters in the competitor’s game. But I’ve never heard of this phrase being used in conjunction with player created digital game characters. It’s certainly a concern if we were posting such things on social media platforms. One could also call out in question whether this is copyright infringement. Some might say that takes more brain power than taking Part A, B & C and throwing them together quickly. Does it take any less creativity to model a character after another IP? For example, you need to find the best matching pieces, items, etc. There are some schools of thought that might say this is too unimaginative, perhaps laziness even. Perhaps it’s the challenge of trying to find the perfect styles in a game designed with another publisher’s characters in mind? Maybe it’s the challenge of finding style pieces that don’t easily create the character for you? It’s My Game and I’ll Imitate If I Want To It’s not that I love Marvel more than the DC intellectual property (IP) it’s just something I started doing early on. With the amount of DC inspired gear that the game makes available you’d have to ask why not model my characters after Superman, Batman, or the Flash? I’m not quite sure what it is but every role-playing game I play I tend to model my player characters after someone from the breadth of my fictional influences.įor example, I’m the comic book guy playing DC Universe Online who styles his heroes and villains after Marvel characters. I grew up on comic books, and later in my high school years, on Star Wars.