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

[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

 

[Stako]

Depends if I like the game. If I do I make the character look like me, but if I can't do that I just make him look as awesome as possible. If I don't like the game I make him look as stupidest as possible and than spend every boring moment in that game laughing at him. ^^ That goes for all games in which these options are available.

 

[VulakAerr]

Either as a chaotic good guy with short hair, full but stern face with none-to-minimal facial hair or an ultra-paragon girl with short-to-shoulder length black hair and piercing eyes. Mostly based on the VO work in the game. The guy I see as pretty much myself in the game. The girl I see as a character I would probably write.

Edit: P.S. Thanks for finally making a poll I haven't seen before. I actually find ones like this quite interesting. Hooray for original thinking.

 

[Aijou]

Not exactly "the same character", but I'll pretty much always end up with a hot white chick as my avatar. I could probably infuse that choice with some deeper meaning relating to sexual diversity or gender confusion, but really, if I have to stare at someone's ass running around for the next 20-80 hours, it better be a nice ass.

Also, Laurien\Lorien\Lauralanthalasa\La'ren\whatever stupid fantasy variation on the name I'll come up with at the moment, will pretty much always be into stealing anything that isn't nailed down, be moderatley interested in saving the world but not above burning an orphan alive if he looked at her funny, have a tendency to have sex with anything that'll let her, have a manic tendency to run around naked bonking people on the head just to see what happens, and a strong fetish for dragging dead bodies around and arranging them into naughty positions.
Behold, the ADD-clepto-nympho-necrophyliac stalwart hero of the land.

 

[Da Chi]

I like creating a character I call "DORNE" once I've finished a game and would like to see what kind of insanity I can get out of a game. Named after a drunken redneck neighbor I once had.

Usually I'll make him as ugly as possible. Mean and quite insane. He dresses like horror movie villains in Fallout and beats up little children. He boxes in the Wii with one arm and a bottle of cheap burbon. I'm slowly making him weigh a quarter ton on Wii Fit through a very ingenious contraption of backpacks. And he relishes in explosives and violence in Mass effect. Strangely enough he is very popular in the Sims.

And Lookout for a FPS near you where he nade spams and team kills!

 

[Julianking93]

Whenever I play a game for the first time with that option, I always play as myself and by sticking to the "good" storyline.
If a game is good, however, I'll play it multiple times in order to see everything a game has to offer, but most of the time, I stick to just making myself in those games.

Oblivion, Fallout, Mass Effect are all pretty much the same character in different time periods with slightly snazzier clothing each time through

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

The only game where I played a bad character first time through was fallout 3 when I started I was in a REALLY bad mood (I can't even remember what about) I think i actually shot Jonas in the ass with the air rifle. Also loved Jericho <3

 

[lordlillen]

always go for the big guns.

 

[darth.pixie]

Diverse ones. Each has its strengths and weaknesses (more than not, weaknesses because it's funnier to role-play and make them look badass) and they look rather different.

As for style...depends on my mood. Do I wanna jump in and bash everyone or do I go sneak around and backstab? Or turn people into ash with a fireball? Depends on the game and game mechanics.

 

[vazzaroth]

I've tried to play bad guys in fallout. But I always end up feeling horrible and quit...

I just can't get over killing or screwing over totally random, peaceful civilians for personal gain. I don't even like people in IRL but for some reason in those games I just can't do it. I blew up megaton to see how it looked... but had to immediately re-load and kill that guy instead. ._.;

 

[Pedro The Hutt]

I usually try to create different characters, on occasion I'll use a similar template, but I still try to develop them into entities of their own.

I wouldn't be able to live with myself as a writer if I used the same character over and over again.

 

[BoredDragon]

I usually use the default but they always have the same skillset. I'm always silver-tongued smooth-talker who is sarcastic in the face of danger.

 

[Camaranth]

I tend to play RPGs two or three times (probably why its my favourite genre) this applies to both moral choices and looks
first - idealized version of myself
second - almost the complete opposite of my moral compass
third - whatever i feel like, normally based more on the story and the universe the game is set in seeing as I've played the game through twice at this point!

 

[Epslion.Bear]

In the elder scrolls I have a female breton spellsword

In Mass effect I have a paragon femshep engineer

why most of my rpg characters are girls I have no idea (Im a guy)

 

[Sumtaedium]

I create a different character, even if it's the same game series.

 

[Evilsanta]

Really depends on how good the character creater is.

And how many custumations options I have.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

well i always play it how i would ACTUALLY play it, so yeah its generally the same..unless on multiple playthroughs, then i try to switch it up a bit and try a couple different things..not an entirely different character but still different enough to mix it up a bit.

 

[balimuzz]

I tend towards evil characters in most games, simply because it's always more fun to just take shit than have to work hard for it. However, the style of murder I choose for my character to study in plays a role in my deciding what shade of asshole to play as. In the original Fable, I played as a big burly ************ with a bigass axe, so I figured my character should probably be a really evil bandit king, and I spent most of my time leading teams of bandits from their camp to re-enact the Oakvale raid. In Fallout 3, I chose to play as a scavenging cowboy mechanic, so I figured I shouldn't be the kind of character who would kill you if you had the nerve to speak to him, but one who wouldn't be above killing you if you had the nerve to show me all the useful supplies you had while we were in the middle of the wilderness.