The Emotional Use of Role-Playing Game Characters

Abstract

RPG (Role-Playing Game) is a type of game where players take the role of fictional characters and interact in a fictional world. In RPG games, players have complete control over the characters they play, including appearance, skills, and action options. Because characters in RPG games have an important role, some RPG games also implement emotions in their game system. In real life, emotions have an important role in communication between humans. Even though the types of emotions are very diverse, not all emotions can be applied in games. In this article, we will identify the application of emotions to game characters and compare the extent to which emotions can be applied in an RPG genre game. Identification was carried out on 4 RPG games circulating on the market, namely "The Witcher" Series, "Mass Effect" Series, "Life is Strange" Series, and "Persona" Series.