Do you put helmets on your characters?

[AD-Stu]

The only games I've played in ages where it's been an issue are Mass Effect and Dragon Age. In both cases I preferred not to wear one - partly because all the mage ones were silly looking in Dragon Age, and there was no penalty for not wearing one in ME1 (ME2 I compromised on the sniper-visor-HUD thing)

 

[The Bum]

Not if I can help it, but that's because I prefer to roleplay as this sort of fellow.

 

[nin_ninja]

I tend to not I like being able to see my character.

Though games like DA:O and DA 2 have your character's hat disappear during conversation.

OT: I do usually. My characters usually look so bland cause of lack of creativity or the poor graphics of the game being played, so covering up their mug is usually a good idea.

 

[evilneko]

In Mass Effect 2, which actually gave you the option, I did it sometimes, like if I expected a difficult fight.

In Fallout 3/NV, it depends on the helmet. I won't use one that hides my character's face unless absolutely necessary. Since I play as a child, most of them don't fit anyway. She's pretty cute in that cowboy hat though, or a headwrap and sunglasses, or mini combat helmet. :3

 

[Vrach]

Depends on helmet design, my character, personal RP reasons and whether choosing to not wear the helmet impacts me severely.

Helmet design - if it's a cowl (still counts I reckon as it's the same slot), I'll almost definitely wear it as I love cowls. Otherwise, I'm likely gonna try and avoid it, though there are exceptions (Fallout: NV Ranger outfit looked pretty awesome with the gas mask - though I should say, even there, liking it, I avoided wearing it a lot of the time as I liked seeing my character's face/head).

My character - I'm more prone to not wearing a helmet if the character is female due to their hair being one of their defining characteristics for me. Also depends if it's a character I made myself or the game gave it to me. If I'm playing a fugly arse ************, I might be more prone to helmeting up.

Personal RP reasons - in some games (usually open world ones), I'm quite prone to solo RPing. In that case, I might wear a helmet sometimes and not at other times, like for example, not wearing it while going around town or wearing a certain helmet to hide my identity even when there's no such mechanic in the game or it's not impacted that way. For example, in the above-mentioned F:NV, you could wear a Ranger's body armor and as far as anyone was concerned, you were one of them. But as far as I was concerned, if they could see my face, they still knew I was me, so when I wanted to seem like a member of the NCR, I'd wear the full gett-up.

Impact - if the game has the option to hide the helmet, I have no problem doing it when I want to. When it's a matter of stats though... well it depends then, on the other factors. For Dragon Age: Origins for example, I took off my helmet and played without it through the game, because:
1) I liked my character's hair
2) Mage hats are some of the ugliest fucking things to ever grace that game with their presence
I could pull through it though. If I needed to wear it for performance reasons, I would have.

 

[Gitty101]

Depends on the game to be honest. In most RPGs I tend to avoid it after putting all the effort into creating my character. I do sometimes go for hats and eye-pieces though, for the badass factor.

 

[DustyDrB]

I only wear them when the game gives me the option to hide it and still get the effects of wearing it. I like seeing my character's face. So I will gladly eschew the helmet, even if it means losing some nifty item set bonuses.

 

[Grimsinger]

Always wear helmets. I think it looks stupid when someone is running around in a warzone with nothing to protect their head.

 

[Foxbat Flyer]

I always wear one, I like the added bonus of having it, both for realism's sake and for the extra little defence... Also I think it makes my Character look better

 

[Engarde]

Meh, for the most part I wouldn't bother as it feels weird to have a helmet glued on when he wouldn't need it, like walking around town. Also not in any game like Dragon Age which has a lot of face zoom in time since the faces tend to be more detailed than the helmet textures. always wear cool hats when I can, however.

 

[Dark1Elder]

For oblivion, if im going into a large battle of some sort, of course im wearing my helmet. but other wise i usually put on a hood of some sort, to make my character look mysterious, you know like the rangers from Lord of the Rings

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Not really. I like to get a good look at the character's face, although I do like hats and masks.

 

[Chezza]

I am a mysterious character myself. Hoods I love, but if I am required to be more militaristic then ill gladly put a helm for the sake of fitting with the atmosphere, proudly wearing a uniform of who I serve or serves me and do not want to display emotions to anyone unless I feel I ought to.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

For me, it really depends on what it looks like. I usually always have a helmet, hood, etc. on my characters head. Even if the ugly helmet has better stats, I'd rather have the awesome looking hood or cap with lesser stats. Purely an aesthetic choice for me. Unless of course I absolutely need to wear that piece of armor for a quest-chain, mission, or what-have-you; but I'll take it off right after and put on something far better to look at.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

-Snip-
I was going to make that Mount and Blade: Warband point. Archers are the bane of my existence. I ALWAYS wear some form of headgear, because those damn archers are crack shots for headshots on me. On my main character, right now I'm rocking the Kettle Helm, because I won't go without a helmet, but at the very least I want to look different from the other lords and preferably see my character's handsomeish face, considering I'm the most dashing man in calradia.

Funnily enough, the Kettle Helm was the only one I was considering wearing, of all the helms. I equip my Storm Guard with the best winged great-helms I can get, but I won't wear them myself >.>

 

[distortedreality]

The only time i'll put a helmet on a character is if I gave up on the character creation and my character looks terrible without something covering his/her face.

Can't think of any game where a helmet has made that much of a difference protection wise.

 

[Bebus]

I will in Dark Souls, because

a) My carefully crafted character spends about 99% of the game looking like a zombie and,
b) I will take any damn advantage I will get!

Also, they have done an awesome job of armour design in the game. So I really don't mind too much.

Otherwise, I have never found a game so difficult that 2% extra armour or whatever makes the difference between victory and death. I liked ME1's option, where you could take the helmet off manually between battles, a minor feature like sadly too many others that were dropped in the sequel.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Even though they may give protection,I usually decide to leave the helm off unless the full set looks badass.

Otherwise,I tend to keep the helmet off if there is no option of disabling it visually.

 

[GeorgW]

Does the helmet have numbers? I like numbers. If the helmet gives me better numbers than without the helmet, I'll get the helmet.
However, if it's not much of a difference I'll go for the better looking one.
More games should have an option to hide the helmets.