Premade protagonist

Creatures concept

Player has little or no control over who the protagonist is, often with little or no control who their protagonist will be either. Mostly of interest for RPGs where character creation is often seen as integral part for western RPGs.

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games

platforms

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

WIN 2011-05-17

Entomorph: Plague of The Darkfall

MAC 1995

SWTC 2019-03-26

WIN 2000

PS1 1999-11-02

A800 1984

WIN 1998

MAC 1993-05

WIN 2006-10-13

WIN 2000-01-31

DOS 1995

Warhammer – Mark of Chaos

WIN 2006-11-14

Cross-tag notes:
* Class-based: would imply there are classes, but the protagonist already has one defined, you likely get other characters to join you who represent the other classes.

General notes:
* Does not prevent protagonist naming, which actually often goes unreferred, only being used for the game saves or player profile.

Limitations:
* ONLY for role-playing games, as for others we can assume this is always true.

Related:
* Premade characters
* Static character advancement

Parent group

Eastern RPG

Games by year

The first Premade protagonist video game was released in 1983.

Square, THQ and Deep Silver published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		65
Linux		25
MS-DOS		19
N64		16
Mac OS X		15
PS2		10
PS		10
SNES		7
X360		6
Mac OS Classic		5
PS3		5
Apple II E		4
PS4		4
Tandy Coco		3
NES		3
Switch		3
Flash		3
Nintendo DS		2
Atari 400/800		2
GBA		2
Coleco Adam		2
Xbox		2
C64		1
Amiga		1
Win3.1		1
NEC PC8801		1
GameCube		1
PS Vita		1
3DO		1
C16/Plus4		1

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