Poll: Do you have a standard character you create across multiple games?

[Malkavian]

I don't consider my characters to be the same person, but it's usually the same traits. Mostly because on 1st playthrougs in RPG's, I very much play me. I have one name that is used pretty often, unless it doesn't fit with the setting at all, which is when shit hits the fan, because I am very anal about names... You should see me in an MMO... Creating the character usually takes about half an hour to a full hour.

After my first playhtough of an RPG, that's when I diverge from my usual type. Currently doing full on Renegade Shepherd in ME2, and in DA: O have several playthroughs with unique personalities.

 

[Toriver]

I have 2 or 3 different characters that have spanned all the fantasy setting games I have with a create-a-character option. They are the main characters in a story I have been writing since I was younger. I have even adapted the setting of the story into a D&D campaign setting, and used those characters as NPCs. There's one "hero" guy for whom the influence from Link would be strikingly obvious to anyone who sees him, one mage girl who can also just kick ass at staff combat, and one "villain" with a very Darth Vader-esque backstory. In fact, my username is the name of that villain character.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I don't know whether this is relevant but my friend told me he can't replay games becuase he's decisive and picks what he thinks is the right action or response (probably cos hes ex army) So I challenged him to play a game in character rather than as himself lol can't wait to see how that turns out *rolls eyes*

 

[ScumbagEddie]

Yeah. I'm a guy who thinks that a girl who can beat up a whole room of guys without batting an eye is pretty damn cool. Especially when they're stealthy as hell about it.

 

[EllEzDee]

Always the same, and that's because it's always me, or as close to me as possible.

Slightly bigger afro, slightly (ok hugely) bigger muscles, always uses my middle name.

 

[vazzaroth]

I don't know whether this is relevant but my friend told me he can't replay games becuase he's decisive and picks what he thinks is the right action or response (probably cos hes ex army) So I challenged him to play a game in character rather than as himself lol can't wait to see how that turns out *rolls eyes*

Funny, I have trouble doing that myself. Probably why I'll never touch military service with a 10 million foot pole. ;P

Every time theres options, I think to myself "What would my character do?". Usually I try to just play myself (I approach them the same way I do online personality tests, which even then sort has a "What would I do if I was RPing myself?" aspect) the first time, but I also usually have made 1-5 more characters only a few hours after playing my first and play them all simultaneously.
Funnily enough, whenever I just make the choices that seem the most like my real choices, games categorize me as super good paragon of the light side. Every single test online I've taken has proven me to be close to True Neutral though. I think it goes to show the way that most games over simplify alignment. They almost NEVER allow "Neutral" to be an option, and anyone trying to be neutral usually has to either be equally good and evil (Only one of various forms of neutrality, the balanced form) or be forced to evilness as the game takes "I lookout for myself and my own" as "I'm a selfish dickwad who will gladly slaughter an entire village if it means I don't have to martyr myself."

 

[Smooth Operator]

I used to do the same thing every time, make the character as close to myself as possible and pick a magix type and was always the Goody two-shoes kind of guy...

But that got very old very quickly and we all know variety is the spice of life, so now I try out all the possibilities I can.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'm definately Chaotic Good, saving the world is just a side quest...

but I think its mostly becuase I hate paladins, I really do.

 

[sam42ification]

Obviously my Commander Shepard is the same from ME 1 to 2, and will be the same in 3, but that's because I didn't have to make him over again.

Usually I make new characters when I play a different game series, but I try to stay with a central theme if I can.

How about all of you? Got a character that crosses dimensions often?

Always a mage or a rouge and almost allways a girl and tiny. that how most of my characters are female halfling because it works. if im feeling exotic ill try using gnome illusionist but not often. i play a lot of D&D so i try to base my video game characters around my D&D characters.

 

[Rayne870]

I have a stable of characters, they were defined several years back when I played PSO on Dreamcast, they became more refined through D&D (on paper and with real talking, not the MMO) and WoW and now I use several of them in other games.

Most of these characters are female and have fairly established personalities/appearances. Two of them are as follows.

Sari-Chaotic Good, usually calm and accepting, with loner tendencies and mildly spiritual. She tends to be played as a hunter or ranger class, or a sniper. She tends to favor silenced rifles or if available bows.
Appearance-Firetruck red hair usually shoulder length or tied back with mild ornateness, green eyes.

Cali-Chaotic Neutral, logical with a high amount of attention to detail, calculated and quite sarcastic, she is a little arrogant and very skilled in terms of technology and mechanics. In combat she values disorienting and confusing her opponents and relishes in outwitting them. She is typically played as a rogue or mid range combatant using dual daggers and assault rifles.
Appearance-Dark hair usually kept a few inches past shoulder length and meticulously cared for. Hazel or amber colored eyes.

Gilder-Chaotic Good, a bit of a womanizer but wholly a joker, and often a guinea pig. Gilder can frequently be found caught up in traps as he has little concern for his own safety (not through gallantry or confidence, but through ignorance or daydreaming.) He tends to be played as a short range combatant, using dual short swords, a single pistol or double pistol.

 

[Tdc2182]

The good guy who doesn't take jack shit.

 

[plugav]

The characters I make are different in terms of looks and class, but psychologically I usually just end up playing myself. Or an idealised version of myself, if there is no reasonable alternative (ah, morality systems in games...).

 

[The Hero Killer]

If at all possible I try to have all my characters be female with black hair, dark eyeliner and dark lipstick, with a personality close to renegade Shepard's. Sometimes I deviate from this but I will always play as a female character as opposed to a male especially in western games.

I'm one of the weird people who think the Bishōnen style males look cool and cant stand that grizzled western space marine look.

 

[Nouw]

Usually goes from 'silent badass' to 'mouthy badass' to whatever.
As long as it has badassery in it >.>

 

[Soxafloppin]

IF theres an option for a Mask, i allways choose that.

I don't know why to be honest.

 

[KarumaK]

A Godmode version of myself.

 

[RidgeWolf]

I usually use the same characters through most of the games I play however they sometimes look different but they do though have the same personalities (assuming the game has moral factors in it, they all end out evil at first and after finishing once, I decide to go play the good side which results in me getting bored half-way though and quitting...)

 

[Laser Priest]

Almost all of my characters take the "I'm a nice guy who slaughters hundreds of people because they were in my way!" route, but that's because that's generally how I play.

Also, most of my male characters have short, black hair and a beard. I don't know why.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'm always making up new characters. I'll be going about a day as usual and then I'll get hit by a character concept (looks/build, personality, skills, affiliations etc) and I just have to create that character when I get home. I currently have six different characters in New Vegas, each going through the game in their own differnt ways. And I can pretty much guarantee that I'll have started three or four characters in Skyrim before I've finished the game even once.

 

[Bobbity]

I usually keep two or three at hand; one based on myself, one heavily influenced by Prince Arutha of the Riftwar Saga, and one complete badass