Nah, I suck at customizing and since I'm going to put a helmet on sooner or later I don't bother. However, if I play a game where gender have no effect on story, like Diablo or Torchlight I usually create female character.
Do you 'self-insert' in videogames?
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Seeing as I always play as a black guy when given the choice...no, I don't self insert. I like to imagine what Idris Elba would be like in the role.
only sometimes will i bother to take the time to tweak the character creation to something that appeals to me. as often as not i will just use the default. only once have i taken the time to create a character that looks like me. that was in DA:O and i guess i was reasonably successful when my wife commented that the character wearing the black armor looked like me.
I tend to self-insert on the first play through - ideally unspoiled. That's usually my 'head-canon' thereafter, but I will on replays make alterations either to conform to the game's ideals or specific choice set for future import variation. I like to see all a game has to offer, in good time, and I'm a patient person with replays to do that.
Quite often I react to a situation as I would personally react. I find role playing in the traditional sense harder to do.
I first play a self-insert sort of character with complementing play style to see how the game really reacts to me on a sort of personal level. Then FANTASY OF THE WILDEST GENDER SWAPPING, FACE ARRANGING, CAT BURNING DREAMS.
Yeah, actually. I tend to DM / GM / Storyteller pen and paper sessions so I get my fix of playing all kinds of imagined characters that make up the NPC roster.
That said, I only recreate myself in modern or sci fi settings; Fallouts, Mass Effects, etc. I get a kick out of thinking 'what would I do, given these options' that suffers some kind of cerebral disconnect if it's a medieval fantasy setting.
That said, I only recreate myself in modern or sci fi settings; Fallouts, Mass Effects, etc. I get a kick out of thinking 'what would I do, given these options' that suffers some kind of cerebral disconnect if it's a medieval fantasy setting.
I did in the Tony Hawk games. I used to enjoy skateboarding so of course I wanted to make someone who looked like me. Outside of that, no, I can't think of anything else.
I mostly play myself in video games, with the exception of physical characteristics because that gets boring after a while. I'll generally pick something appropriate to the genre for physical characteristics, but make decisions as though I'm actually in the situation. Generally playing different games means each experience is unique even though I'm playing as myself.DoctorImpossible said:
I have a bad imagination so I'm poor at role-playing, so I tend to play the games for escapism.
1st play through on any rpg I make them look as close to me as possible, maybe jazz it up with a funky scar/tat/facial hair and play as I would in games like mass effect, fallout, dragons dogma.
Sillier ones like...saints row, I'll still make *my* descisions, but won't go for the likeness at all, i'll go for a theme, especially if I can change itt at any point and switch it up.
Sillier ones like...saints row, I'll still make *my* descisions, but won't go for the likeness at all, i'll go for a theme, especially if I can change itt at any point and switch it up.
Nah. I'm fuck ugly and short of stature, wouldn't want to play as that.
I usually end up recreating Kratos, actually. Weird.
I might have some issues.
I usually end up recreating Kratos, actually. Weird.
I might have some issues.
Funny that. I'm 20 and my Fallout 3 and New Vegas...and Skyrim now that I think about it...characters all have steely-grey hair. Same style as mine...but where mine's a kinda light brown/really dark blonde, they look old. I think I was trying to make them look weathered - I mean, that steel coloured hair and the Machiavellian facial hair makes them look seriously badass, and fitting of the name 'Tobias Grimm' but that's not the point.Varrdy said:
I do find that strange that they are essentially self-inserts with older appearances.
Sometimes? I mean if I am playing Pokemon I usually put myself in as the character since they have no personality, so I usually just pretend I am the Pokemon Trainer, but for the most part not really. I don't ever make characters look like me though, I'm hideous.
Not really, maybe hair color in some games, but usually I go with something that I like how it looks, changing faces and hair styles until I'm satisfied. In Mass Effect for example, I went with the stock Shep. Looked cool, the voice was right, no problem with him.
I do, and it's because I want to BE in the fantasy world. That's why I play FANTASY GAMES. They're a FANTASY of mine.Kopikatsu said:
CAPS LOCK.
Or I'm just really vain, whichever you prefer. In The Elder Scrolls I tend to go Argonian, but create a "me" character later on.
Er, sort of, and sometimes. If it's a game with a binary 1 for good, 0 for evil, you get two choices, I usually pick 1 for good. If it's a Bioware Good, Evil, and Snarky, it depends on what I want to do. My favorite Bioware character is still my Sith Inquisitor from SWTOR, who goes Snarky for all conversation that aren't "increase light side points here."
If it's a game without a morality meter, I'll usually pick something ultra generic based on what class I'm playing, unless I do the opposite. For example, almost all of my thief characters in elder scrolls games are the deadly, silent assassin types. All of my mage characters are pretty much me, but with fireball.
As far as looks: I never pick things that are human (if given a choice), much less that look like me. My logic: I'm already a human irl. There's a really good chance I'm always going to be one. If I want to try something else, the closest I'm going to get is a video game...
If it's a game without a morality meter, I'll usually pick something ultra generic based on what class I'm playing, unless I do the opposite. For example, almost all of my thief characters in elder scrolls games are the deadly, silent assassin types. All of my mage characters are pretty much me, but with fireball.
As far as looks: I never pick things that are human (if given a choice), much less that look like me. My logic: I'm already a human irl. There's a really good chance I'm always going to be one. If I want to try something else, the closest I'm going to get is a video game...
Good god no, I don't want to look like me in a game, I want to be someone else. I suppose on my first playthrough at least, my characters more or less have my personality, and other characters will act differently, but none of them ever look anything like me.
No, I'm a pretty average dude, I probably do one or two things different than most people, but I play video games because I feel like being a space hero or wizard or something, in games with morality or complex choices I usually make the decisions based on how I would do it in "real life" less out of auto-insertion more out to do with the fact that I'm a pretty nice guy and I enjoy being stalwart hero of the realm.
