Canadian Content

Sega 16 seems to have a higher percentage of Canadian posters than most other gaming sites so I thought it might be a good place to discuss Canadian content (locations, characters, etc..) in video games. Of course, people from elsewhere are welcome but I don't know if it will interest them much.

There are more examples from the modern era than classic gaming (especially outside of the sports genre) due to the rise of Canadian developers in recent years. I'm excited to finally see us get more representation and add some variety instead of just having NYC or Tokyo for the millionth time.

It's cool that Ubisoft included Montreal in Assassin's Creed IV and Quebec City in the DLC. You can see Toronto get nuked in Far Cry: Blood Dragon's intro.

Montreal's appearance in Deus Ex: HR was a little disappointing for me as I expected more of a big hub level like Detroit or Shanghai.

Props to Bioware for Edmonton in MDK2 and the impressive opening level of Mass Effect 3 in Vancouver. I think Retro City Rampage sucks as a game but I liked the nods to Vancouver locations.

One of the strangest examples of Canadian content is Deadlight, a game developed in Spain. It mostly takes place in Seattle but the small town of Hope, BC has a cameo, and there's a reference to Karla Homolka thrown in for some reason.

What Canadian content do you like or would like to see happen?

​- Please stay on topic.

That's the exact type of off topic stereotypical crap I hoped wouldn't appear in this thread. Thanks!

I Fn)k!ng hate nickelback!

Rush please.

Keep it on topic or keep out of the thread.

Discussion about a certain melodramatic teen soap opera in which the girls say, "aboot."

I'm not overly familiar with Canadian video games, but most people must know about Silicon Knights and their Eternal Darkness game right? It was decent, but I'm not one for horror.

As for what we do, well as far as I know the whole "eh / A" thing is mostly a myth, at least around here. I notice a lot of the stereotypes like maple syrup and bags of milk are more common in Quebec and other French speaking communities. Maybe some people end sentences with eh / A over there?

I know that EA Canada created a lot of EA sports titles from @ 2004-2008. Black Box was part of that group and they also created an NHL title for the Saturn's Sega Sports lineup.

I always thought Street Fighter could have used a Canadian character. Either a pissed off hockey player or a hunter/mountain man.

EA Canada used to deal with Visual Concepts, who also worked with Sega's 2K sports. Ubisoft in Montreal and Bioware in Edmonton were both huge studios. Sega just picked up Relic out in Vancouver.

Canadian characters?

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I don't like Next Level Games' redesign of Bear Hugger. You can tell that version was made in BC because they gave him the backstory of being from the small town of Salmon Arm. I doubt many outside the province would be aware of that place.

For fighting games, there's also Wolf from Virtua Fighter.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

I'm not overly familiar with Canadian video games, but most people must know about Silicon Knights and their Eternal Darkness game right? It was decent, but I'm not one for horror.

As for what we do, well as far as I know the whole "eh / A" thing is mostly a myth, at least around here. I notice a lot of the stereotypes like maple syrup and bags of milk are more common in Quebec and other French speaking communities. Maybe some people end sentences with eh / A over there?

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Quebec is so messed, it should become its own country.

Canada has so many game developers, but none of them are well known for some reason. I think we're the 3rd biggest country in the industry, behind U.S. and Japan.

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Quebec is so messed, it should become its own country.

Canada has so many game developers, but none of them are well known for some reason. I think we're the 3rd biggest country in the industry, behind U.S. and Japan.

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There is Ubisoft Montreal.

They've been involved in several big-name franchises like Far Cry, Assassin's Creed and Rainbow six.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft_Montreal

I believe the UK would be the 3rd largest country for Video Game developers though.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...United_Kingdom

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I notice a lot of the stereotypes like maple syrup and bags of milk are more common in Quebec and other French speaking communities. Maybe some people end sentences with eh / A over there?

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What do you mean? I do not understand your statement.

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Originally Posted by MaxWar

What do you mean? I do not understand your statement.

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Bags of milk are sold in half the provinces on the east coast, maple syrup is a big deal everywhere but Quebec is where people still traditionally put it on snow to make taffy. People in southern Ontario say "Eh" a lot more than usual, while it's not common on the east or west coasts. These things are alien to people from the prairie provinces and the stereotype doesn't fit.