Author Topic: The Guy or The Kid?  (Read 3211 times)

MatthewRPG

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The Guy or The Kid?
« on: June 22, 2014, 12:27:47 PM »
Hey everyone, I just wanted to point out, why do so many fangames refer to The Guy as The Kid? Technically, The Kid would have became the Guy because he killed the Guy, speaking of which, Kill The Guy is the only fangame I know to refer to the Guy as the Guy...

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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2014, 01:02:02 PM »
Are you trying to tie in 1500 fangames from the wiki to the original IWBTG as sequels? :Kappa:

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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2014, 09:08:34 PM »
Are you trying to tie in 1500 fangames from the wiki to the original IWBTG as sequels? :Kappa:
Yes :Kappa:

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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2014, 09:33:31 PM »
To me it makes the most sense to call the character the kid unless the game specifies otherwise, think boshy or ktg.

One of the main reasons I saw this is that the guy makes appearances pretty regularly in fangames and is already an established character, making the kid have the tag of the guy also, just creates confusion.
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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2014, 05:05:45 PM »
If your game follows any events after 'IWBTG' then the name is The Guy, otherwise he is The Kid.

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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2014, 04:13:59 PM »
Are you suggesting that there's some sort of continuity spanning every fan game? If so, we have to assume that there is a true time line in which the Kid/Guy never dies at all throughout the platforming, and every death represents one of those branching timetrees that science fiction writers love. That also suggests that Cultured is the last game of said time line, since the Kid/Guy dies as part of the plot, as opposed to the gameplay.

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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2014, 08:37:27 PM »
I move that every time a new fangame comes out, we refer to The Kid as whatever he would be called after beating the previous fangame.  Let's make all 2600 fangames feel like one continuous story.
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Re: The Guy or The Kid?
« Reply #7 on: July 20, 2014, 09:00:30 AM »
This is how I see it:
The Kid is simply his name, the guy is a title he achieved by killing the former guy. And it's pretty usual that you refer to people by their name right? 
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