Does anyone else do this shit?

[IzisviAziria]

I've done the same thing with Fallout, KotOR(1/2), Morrowind, Oblivion, Mass Effect(1/2), Neverwinter Nights... Ya, pretty much any RPG. I get this new idea for a character that I want to role-play, so I'll make a new character. Generally never get very far with it.

But that's always AFTER I beat the game with my first character. I definitely still always beat the game first

 

[Kris015]

YOU'RE NEVER THE ONLY ONE!

Anyways, no, but my friend does/did it.

EDIT:

I've done the same thing with Fallout, KotOR(1/2), Morrowind, Oblivion, Mass Effect(1/2), Neverwinter Nights... Ya, pretty much any RPG. I get this new idea for a character that I want to role-play, so I'll make a new character. Generally never get very far with it.

But that's always AFTER I beat the game with my first character. I definitely still always beat the game first

This is a bit off-topic, but HIGH-FIVE FOR AWESOME MUSIC TASTE! *High-five*

 

[Treeinthewoods]

I really like the leveling up, distributing points and becoming stronger aspect of RPG's so sometimes when I have a high level character and that's not happening as often I will decide to start a new character and try tweaking a few things.

Once leveling up starts to slow down I will admit I sometimes start to lose interest.

 

[ExileNZ]

For once I really don't see myself doing this or anything like it.

The only reason I remake a character is because they die horribly ten times as soon as I create them. Fallout and Exile were particularly brutal in this aspect. I think "Hey, he'll be awesome a few levels in" and there's just no way to make them survive that long.

Failing that, I tend to restart games from scratch when I leave them alone for too long. So I've played and replayed the first act of Lionheart about six times but never gotten further.

 

[The Stonker]

I can't stand WoW.
So much grind!
But I do it too DAO,Oblivion and mostly RPG games.
Pokemon as well, sometimes I go all dragon, sometimes all lightning...
Okay I have issues.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

I had 3 accounts full of characters in Diablo II. I have 15 characters in Titan's Quest: IT. WoW I only had one lvl 70 on horde and alliance...because It was so damn boring leveling up after that first time(I was a PvPer)

 

[voetballeeuw]

Definitely, not so much for mmos but I'll do that in FO3, Oblivion and New Vegas. I just don't like my first character for some reason, and i'll create a new one. I've made multiple characters for Oblivion and completed the main story once.

 

[Marmalade]

I do this all the time. All the god damn options.
It's the reason why I can't finish DA:O.

 

[mr.miyagi]

yes, making new characters is my favorite part of the game, i might rebuild a character at some point, but every time i start a new one i mix it up

list of games i've done this:
-diablo 1
-pokemon red/blue
-diablo 2
-guild wars
-fallout 1

i think a lot of people enjoy playing 1 class because they want to find the best stuff, i prefer making different variants and figuring out how "best" to play the game depending on your goal

I'll use diablo 2 as an example, because i've made hundreds of characters on battle.net

-I've made a few hammerdins, but stopped once they were overpowered in 1.10
-I've made all the different zealers
-smiter, charger, fist of the heavens (very boring)
-conversion pally (kinda fun, but also takes advantage of bug that sets monster's hp to 1 after it wearsoff)
-different clerics (very uncommon)

-ww barb (sword, axe, mace, spear, polearm) - think i had a staff barb once
-frenzy barb
-warcry barb (actually made first before synergies existed, got to a high lvl)
-find item + gold find barb

-firewall, fireball, inferno, hydra, enchant sorc
-charged bolt, nova, chain lightning, t-storm + static
-orb, blizzard, fast cast glacial spike/frozen bolt
-melee sorc

-multi-shot, strafe, frozen arrow, sniper(guided arrow only), multi with (6)poison gem bow
-jab spearazon, lightning javazon, poison javason, lightning strike
-non bow/spear tankazon

-necro, you can imagine all the combos i tried,
-including skel mage + dim vision, confusion/skel necro

Anyone else as nuts about Diablo II? or as nuts about another RPG to this extent?

 

[Kakashi on crack]

I used to do that.

Create a backstory for them and think out the character. It makes them seem more human and makes it a lot harder to delete em

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

For Wow,I did that,but in other instances,I just kept playing to finish beforehand

 

[dhvo]

Okay I have this exact same thing, but with a very strange twist if I must say so myself:

I only do it on PC games!? wtf!?! no seriously, when I play a console game I just stick with my character but in PC games I have absolutely no abandon when it comes to making new characters. You should have seen me with baldur's gate 2... it wasn't pretty

 

[zaiggs]

My brother does that in RPG's all the time. He somehow feels like his character is imperfect and decides to start over. Can't remember how many times he restarted Oblivion, Fallout, or Phantasy Star Online back in the day.

I guess I never had a problem with my character being "flawed" cause it was just sorta a quirk of the character and it often made the game slightly more challenging in a fun way.

I can totally understand the desire to restart though. Just not something I do myself.

 

[badgersprite]

Oh my God I do this so much. I do this even in RPGs where you don't customize your characters that much, but, when it comes to custom builds, I always reach a point where I go, "Damn it! I know I screwed up this build!" or something similar.

Honestly, I was even like this as a kid. I know I spent more cumulative hours in Midgar in FFVII than in the entire rest of the game. I have no idea why I'm like this.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

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 believe the official term is called mmo/character hopping. It is when a person keeps changing characters or mmos every time they get a little ways into a game. I do it too, though I tend to play my characters a little longer than you. I want to like mmos but I can't seem to get into them. Some people just aren't cut out for them, I guess.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

Yep, I do the same thing but not to the same scale. I'll make a bunch of characters to see what clicks or not, then focus more and more on the classes/races I get along with best. The altitis slows, but never fully stops no matter how much I enjoy the character. One will get leveled to about 30 or so, then another character that may make it to 40, then bounce between those two until they get almost to the level cap. Of course I've only managed to get ONE character in the many years of gaming to max level, and only because other people would keep me focused. If left to my own devices, the highest level character MAY get to 2/3 to the cap before I get bored, lonely, and frustrated to the point where I can't stand the game and the people.

 

[Stoic raptor]

I never do this. When I make a character, I finish it.
That would annoy me so badly. Besides, I never try to make them perfect, imperfection is more fun.

There is only 1 instance in which I did this. When I was trying Perfect World.
Goddamn, I can never get into an MMORPG. I love RPG's, but if it is MMO, I just cant get into it.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I had about 6 different playthoughs of Jade Empire with the exact same plot and side quest decisions and combat choices. Baist gaem evar!

 

[PureChaos]

nope, i make my characters for keeps. i may change them eventually once i know more about the character suits my playing style better but that's about it

 

[King of Wei]

This is the reason I have yet to beat New Vegas despite having it since release. I lose motivation to keep playing for some reason. Delete my current character and tell my self to put the game away for a month so it'll seem more fresh when I pick it back up. Then I find myself starting over the following day and the process repeats every week ad a half.