Does anyone else do this shit?

[PureChaos]

nope, i make characters for keeps. i may change when i get used to the game so i can make a character more to how i want them to be rather than how they randomly end up but that's about it

 

[ReservoirAngel]

What? why would you? Seek help

I don't know where to go for "deleting characters therapy".

maybe i just have commitment issues...

 

[ZephrC]

Well... I usually have more variety in my numerous creations, otherwise yeah, I do the same thing.

For example in WoW I've created characters of every race and every class (except Death Knight) erasing them as I went to make room for new ones. Then I erased most of them so I could just make a set of characters covering every race and class. Then I erased most of those because I barely played any of them. Now I've started playing it again to see the new areas and try out some of the new race/class combinations. In all this time the highest level I've reached is 24.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

I'm just wondering if I'm alone in this aspect of my ultimate dumbfuckery.

Whenever I play RPGs, or MMORPGs, I always end up making loads and loads of new characters only to delete them after an hour or so and start another one.

Examples:
1) On WoW I made, in my tenure there, about 50 different Tauren Druids, the highest levelled of which only got to level 22 before i erased him from existance
2) on LotRO, I made loads of Lore Masters and Burglars, of which the highest level I got to was 10 for Buglar, and 16 for Lore Master
3) On Shining Soul 2, I have made literally hundreds of characters, but ALWAYS either Dark Wizards or Ninjas. never anything else
4) Currently on New Vegas, I am on my 20th character...and yet 18 of the 20 have just ended up being snipers, yet I keep deleting them and starting again for some reason.

So does anyone else ever find themselves doing this?

Tbh I'm starting to think I might just enjoy being a noob...I really want to be able to cut this shit out and actually play games to completion before putting a bullet in the brain of my existing character, burying him discreetly and moving onto his identical twin in what always feels like a massive betrayal.

I am exactly, exactly the same. I just can't commit to characters, I don't know what it is :|

 

[MintyNinja]

You are an Altoholic. Welcome to the club, we'd give you a t-shirt but the design is being remade over and over.

 

[Requx]

I gennerally stick with it till the end. Problem is when your playing with friends and you really want to find out your rhole as a Rpg class(Ive been debating with myself about this for the past 4 years if I'd rather fill a dps or tank rhole.) Bloody brutal picking what you wanna be right?

 

[ConfusedCrib]

I don't understand doing that, the game usually gets better later on, the early is usually grinding

 

[Hooded.Gamer]

I think it's perfectly fine that you've suddenly found that, I personally always play as a mage, rouge, or ranger character out of preference. I mean, variety is great, but if you find that you've been sticking to what you know, that's fine to.

 

[Piflik]

I can understand doing it with MMOs, since somewhere in the middle-lvl range they always stop being fun and start being tedious grind-fests...but singleplayer RPGs don't tend to have that problem...

 

[Count Igor]

Well, for example, last year I found that I had the maximum characters on WoW across all servers.
I have roughly 20 Fallout 3 characters.
10 Oblivion
7 ME2
9 Minecrafts
3 Hl2's
5 Mount and Blades
And those are only the one's I can remember.

 

[Jake the Snake]

I did that for about the first 6 months I played wow. Then I got serious, got to 80, realized it wasn't all that it was cracked up to be, got bored, burnt out, stopped playing.

 

[Nouw]

My friend does that all the time in Maple Story.

 

[Lullabye]

NO. But thats because I make one jack-of-all-trades character so I can enjoy everything at once. Also why I get yelled at alot in those online games for not specializing.

 

[Silent observer]

I do it (although I don't play a lot of RPGs) and I'm pretty sure I know why, at least why I do it.

For me, it's a matter of getting the best and most efficient loadout/skillset that I possibly can, or a matter of making the absolute most I can of everything. I do the same in games like AoE - as soon as I get to about the 15 minute mark of the game i get bored.

It's weird, I always assumed it was only me cause I'm crazy.

 

[zidine100]

if i roll a bad character, (or just screw up skill points) badly that its unplayable, i do this if its noticeable in the beginning only anything outwidth of the four hour mark i say im just rolling with it, eeven if i do turn out to be a evil fool, hell its not rp if you have the advantage of hindsight.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Ya I do this with every MMO I play, just to see the new shit, there is bugger all else to do otherwise.
And I created one of each characters in Dragon Age, to play all the intro parts, hell it's 8 hours of extra gameplay why wouldn't I do it

 

[maninahat]

Never ever had that problem. I didn't even realise it was something people did. The most characters I have ever made for one game is 7 (the game is Fallout 3). Even then, I finished the game with at least half of them.

 

[maninahat]

NO. But thats because I make one jack-of-all-trades character so I can enjoy everything at once. Also why I get yelled at alot in those online games for not specializing.

Specialisation is for insects. You're doing the right thing by enjoying all aspects of the game at once.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

My borther has made a made a male and female charcter of every class and race for Dragon Age: Origins and has never got past Ostagar with all except for one of them.

 

[drdamo]

I only play RPG's really and normally make 1 char and stick to it, regardless of the choices. Altho I usually do some research before playing when it comes to skills, talents, perks or other character defining choices. If things turn out crap or out of balance/broken I simply edit the savefile to fix the choices and rebalance the game.
In wow tho I had 2 choices, make a lvl 1 to use as a bank or get to 80. If by some bad luck my char reached level 2 before hitting a main city bank I felt myself forced to level it to 80.
If by some chance my skills/talents got screwed I bought myself a reset to fix it.
Problem of wow was that I dislike both PvP and PvE-raiding. I grew up with massive RvR combat and open world PvE-raiding in DAoC and wow never gave that same feeling, despite being alot simpler than DAoC.