No Personality (yey my first thread)

[Zoe Castillo]

--

 

[ace_the_poet]

I would actually rather a character that has a personality that I can gel with. For example, playing Fallout 3, I feel like I'm an empty shell of a person running around doing things for no apparent reason. When I play Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood, I'm Ezio, the master assassin who has a stake in what he's doing. I understand the motives of Ezio, know why I'm completing missions, and feel that it's a more genuine experience for that reason.

 

[GiantRaven]

While I argued that that main characters (player controlled ones) don?t really need to have fully developed 3 dimensional personalities .

They don't need to, but it helps. I find it harder to enjoy stories that involve main characters completely devoid of personality. Not impossible, mind you, just harder.

I would actually rather a character that has a personality that I can gel with. For example, playing Fallout 3, I feel like I'm an empty shell of a person running around doing things for no apparent reason. When I play Assassin's Creed II and Brotherhood, I'm Ezio, the master assassin who has a stake in what he's doing. I understand the motives of Ezio, know why I'm completing missions, and feel that it's a more genuine experience for that reason.

I think part of the problem is the multiple choice text options that you get in conversations. That way conversing is less character building and more of a mini-game. This is why I really support the radial dialogue wheel that Mass Effect (along with Alpha Protocol and Dragon Age II) has been using. It allows for choice in dialogue but also allows for the growth of a character alongside that. The voice acting also helps bucketloads.

 

[StormShaun]

I really hate games that dont have the main character have personality or develoupment, such as lets say Jak in Jak and Daxter, he was a silent boy in the first one and in the second game he turned out to be a bad ass who wants a thirst for rebellion and revenge and then Micheal Thornton, Character should not be this clich'e type character thats has the perosality of a douche spud turd. I love game that make the main characters personality a unique and deep one and this makes the character have a deep relation to you, lets say any custom made character in games such as Saints Row 2 and Dragon Age: Origins, you can create their perosnality and looks which can create a deep relatonship with them.......hopefully everyone gets what im sayin...

 

[necromanzer52]

I usually think it's lazy to make the main character never speak and have no personality.

 

[Zoe Castillo]

--

 

[GiantRaven]

I think a better example would be fallout new Vegas . in fallout 3 you had a back-story and a past life ,you even got to played through it .
But I get what you are saying

Yeah, characterisation is practically non-existent in New Vegas, which I really hate. Thankfully, the upcoming DLC seems to/should hopefully be doing something to rectify that.