Love it or hate it, the vast majority of us have to work to make ends meets. Some people work in an office, others out in construction. Maybe you’re a teacher at school, or you work in IT support. Even gaming characters needs to have a day job when the story quietens down. For me, I get to write about what those jobs should be as part of my job.
Have you ever considered what Master Chief does in his downtime? What do Doomguy do when he’s not out there hunting down demons from hell? What we see in the games is just a fraction of their whole reality, and I have made it my duty to imagine what their games would be like with just a little bit or a career change.
Maybe you think this is actually a funny though, or maybe you just said his name wrong by mistake, but I am making it a reality. When he’s not being a super soldier made to fight off horrifying alien threats that want to wipe out all other forms of sentient life, it is entirely possible that Master Chief is, in fact, a master chef.
Going through such bloody work, it helps to find something more gentle, something that demands a more delicate touch. How would this fit into the gameplay flow of Halo itself? I’m not really sure.Throw in some survival mechanicsand let Master Chief make his own food. Treat it like a minigame. Maybe it even makes him happy, a little reprieve from all the bloodshed.
Aloy is a very self-assured person. She does not really cater to anyone’s opinion of her, for better and for worse. She is, at times, insufferable, but equally so able to take anything that is thrown at her because she truly does no value anyone else’s opinion of her. So what better way to spend her off time than solving someone else’s tech issues?
Aloy just loves showing off how much smarter than everyone else she is. While most people, myself included, find customer service to be a hellish career, I truly believe Aloy would find joy in it. Not from helping people by any means, but by having a tangible means to show off her technical expertise. It would absolutely stroke her ego to be proven right. It could have you choosing different dialogue options, a system the game already has anyway.
As it stands, Agent 47 is already a very talented professional. He can take on any disguise and masterfully blend right into that profession. However, he does this all to serve a particular end - to complete the contract. A hired killer, he will terminate his mark no matter what. But to play those roles so convincingly, he surely must have actually practiced many of these skills.
In fact, he seems very good at preparing fish. He knows his way around a car engine. He is a deft hand when it comes to photography. really, Agent 47 is already a master of all these talents, so why not go a step further. You want to sabotage a car? Make me actually move around the engine. He needs to take a picture? Let me frame the photo. Let Agent 47 use his diverse talents to the best of his ability.
Across all of the Devil May Cry games, Dante has had some varied personality shifts, though he has always been a bit light-hearted. Even when the whole demon-hunting business doesn’t actually seem to bring in that much money. So rather than trying to find more demons and just making ends meet, he should make his other love into a career - pizza.
We often see Dante with pizza, and his distress when it is taken from him. We also know he loves to drive very fast on his motorcycle. Combine the two, andhe would be delivering pizzas at record-breaking speeds. Build up the style meter by going faster, beating demons along the way.
Did you know that thet reason Dante has none of his old weapons in each subsequent game is because he sells them to afford his various other life expenses?
In Metaphor, every character is forced to face their anxieties, tearing out their own heart and screaming into a metallic, microphone version of it. Now they may have their hands full trying to gain the support of the people, but perhaps their awakening lays bare an even greater means of uniting the people into their camp - music.
Junah herself is already a massive celebrity through music, and we have seen in reality the political influence musical artists can engender. Why not let the party of Metaphor rock out with Junah on lead vocals. It would be like a world tour, stopping at every town and city along the way and choosing the right songs to get the people to support your cause. Heismay looks like he would be a killer Shamisen player.
Over the years, the Yakuza and Like a Dragon games have become a form of virtual tourism, being shockingly accurate recreations of the cities they depict, down to specific stores. In fact, it is likely that long-time players of the games can probably stroll the streets of Kamurocho and the like without ever having to refer to the map.
For Kiryu himself, this goes double. He has taken up so many different jobs over the decades, why not try one a little more casual. Kiryu would be an amazing tour guide, showing where to find the sights the average guide wouldn’t know about. Plus, he loves meeting new people from all over the world.The games are already packed with minigames, one more could only make it richer.
Sora may have grown up on a fairly isolated island, but his heart only grew larger the more people he met. The many Disney characters from all the worlds expanded his view of reality, from the many forms love comes to, to the lengths in which people will go to save their friends. Now what would happen if Sora ended up in our world?
Personally, I think he would love being a Disneyland worker. Sure, it might feel weird at first to see people dressed as Donald and Goofy rather than his actual antropromorphic buddies, but he’d adapt quickly. I mean Sora would basically be a celebrity at Disneyland. Or people would think he was in cosplay. Either way, it’s basically a theme park version of what he’s witnessed in the games already, he’d love it.
Doomguy is a big, buff man. A terrifying, imposing giant of a man that is packed to the gills with murderous weapons. Demon-slaying is more than second nature to him, it’s in the blood. He is built for slaughter. However, there is also nothing that says this extends to his personality. In fact, Doomguy’s steadfast protection of humanity might even be viewed as incredibly kind-hearted.
To that end, I think he would make an incredible mayor of any Animal Crossing settlement, especially if Isabelle is there. really, it doesn’t even have to be all that different, gameplay wise. He could receive requests from his office, and head out to protect the town from demons. Instead of upgrading his base, he could upgrade the village instead. Throw a little bit of a city builder in there.
