Silliest reason you've ever played a specific character or class?

[Kecunk]

So i've started playing overwatch recently since its the most hip and trendy game out right now.

Now normally i gravitate towards the more tanky characters in any video games since the stalwart damage sponge is what kind of suits my personality the best so i played a lot of reinhardt at first.

But then i watched the smosh games "honest game trailers" for overwatch where at the end of the video they give a short kind of sarcastic description of each character and they referred to Zenyatta as "robot krillen"

so since Krillen is my favourite DBZ character that one throw away joke inspired me to master and start maining Zenyatta even though support isn't what i normally go for.

So this whole situation has inspired me to ask if any body else has any similar stories where they mained a class or character for a weird reason?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

The Sorceress from Dragon's Crown, because of this gif:

 

[DeadProxy]

Do you know what the Vanguard class does from Mass Effect? Because I bought all the games and DLC almost immediately after I found out. It's main ability is called a Biotic Charge, and it's amazing. You practically fly 30-40 feet towards an enemy in a superman pose at high speed and ram into an enemy. If you spent your ability points well and were properly equipped, you could almost pinball between enemies with a shotgun blast between each charge.

I absolutely loved that ability, doubled great for covering ground when a teammate was downed across the map. It felt so satisfying slamming into people, even more so when the game introduced the Krogan class which were basically flying tanks. But my favourite was the N7 version, which had a short teleport that let you clip through walls for short cuts, a sword for fancy melee kills, and my beloved Biotic Charge, with some Iron Man laser beams for bonus.

Spoiler: **totally accurate representation of biotic charge

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[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

[small]Xiao Qiao[/small]​

I hate this character. I hate her will all of my soul. I execute her in every Empires game, and I wouldn't even execute Dong Zhuo, the dirty, fat bastard. She looks like she's wearing a diaper, he personality is terrible and her voice is like a cheese grater rubbing against my ears. She's basically jail bait, the required loli in every Japanese game. And she's a leech attached to one of my favorite characters.

Why would I ever play as her? Well, there are these huge weapons in the Warriors games, the Halberd, Revolving Crossbow, the Stele, and so on. I only ever play as this toxic character when she's wielding one of these absurdly large weapons.

Spoiler: Meng Huo wielding the Stele

Spoiler: Deng Ai wielding the Revolving Crossbow

She's basically less than half their size. A stupid reason to play as a character I despise, but I find it hilarious to watch a kid slaughtering her enemies with a huge ass weapon. I can only play if I mute her, though. Her voice is just so... Ugh.

 

[FalloutJack]

As a writer, I have a tendancy to recreate characters of my own devising in somebody else's media. This leads to a choice on class in order to fit their nature. I'm not sure that it is silly, but it's a little more involved than choosing for some other reason or at random.

 

[Zombie Proof]

I'll never play Vanquish because I think those knee and floor slides look absolutely retarded.

*edit*
oops, I read the title as "never". Thats what I get for posting while tired. I'm off lol

 

[Kyrian007]

Never playing D & D before or since have I ever played a cleric class. But in one game set in Forgotten Realms our GM specified that each of us had to be a cleric. We were all pretty concerned about how the game would turn out and how the balance would work.

"Four white mages... it'll never work." That's how well it went.

 

[aozgolo]

When I first played World of Warcraft I started as a Shaman, I liked hybrid classes, but then I saw a warrior fighting a couple of enemies and used the Charge ability which allowed them to zoom right towards the enemy at quick speed. Something about that made me reroll immediately and to this day, several hundred hours into that game, Warrior is still my preferred class.

Most of the time I just decide on certain themed playthroughs, like what if I did a Female-only army in Mount & Blade, or played a non-combative merchant in Oblivion, or a geeky hacker who builds killer robots in Fallout. I also like playing opposites, like an Orc who is a spellcaster in Skyrim.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

"Four white mages... it'll never work." That's how well it went.

Wait, you were worried playing 4 clerics would be disadvantageous to the players?

As a DM, I'd be utterly terrified 4 top tier full casters with a decent health pool, decent ability to tank and the ability to be just as good or better at the stuff specialist classes are good at with the right spell selection, would start utterly breaking my campaign with casual ease. And there's 4 of them? Friggin' FOUR? It wouldn't even require some kind of OP character builds. Just some smart cooperation and planning and there would be very little they couldn't handle.

Oh, I suppose I should say something on topic too. Ehm, well, I decided to play a bard in our newest 3.5 campaign because I had just finished reading Terry Pratchet's Soul Music.

 

[Kyrian007]

"Four white mages... it'll never work." That's how well it went.

Wait, you were worried playing 4 clerics would be disadvantageous to the players?

As a DM, I'd be utterly terrified 4 top tier full casters with a decent health pool, decent ability to tank and the ability to be just as good or better at the stuff specialist classes are good at with the right spell selection, would start utterly breaking my campaign with casual ease. And there's 4 of them? Friggin' FOUR? It wouldn't even require some kind of OP character builds. Just some smart cooperation and planning and there would be very little they couldn't handle.

Oh, I suppose I should say something on topic too. Ehm, well, I decided to play a bard in our newest 3.5 campaign because I had just finished reading Terry Pratchet's Soul Music.

Well, we were mostly worried about our ability to inflict damage without a full on fighter or mage. Also a thief can ease things for a party as well. But yes, it went pretty much exactly like you said, our GM realized early on our little band could recover from a beating very quickly. And a couple of specialty clerics and multi and dual class choices gave us plenty of options. Oh and there were 6 of us... the 4 white mage thing was just a Final Fantasy reference. Combat did take a little longer, but really it was the difference between quickly getting your head lopped off by a warrior or enduring a 6 or 7 round multi-faith priest gang mace-ing.

Depending on the game bards can be pretty OP. One was always a good addition in Black Isle's Icewind Dale.

 

[Gamerpalooza]

Played Garen in League of Legends because of this song.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Well, we were mostly worried about our ability to inflict damage without a full on fighter or mage. Also a thief can ease things for a party as well. But yes, it went pretty much exactly like you said, our GM realized early on our little band could recover from a beating very quickly. And a couple of specialty clerics and multi and dual class choices gave us plenty of options. Oh and there were 6 of us... the 4 white mage thing was just a Final Fantasy reference. Combat did take a little longer, but really it was the difference between quickly getting your head lopped off by a warrior or enduring a 6 or 7 round multi-faith priest gang mace-ing.

Depending on the game bards can be pretty OP. One was always a good addition in Black Isle's Icewind Dale.

Well, if damage is an issue, one cleric can always prestige into Malconvoker. Not having a dedicated warrior becomes a moot point when you can summon a bunch of disposable mooks on demand, which can give that dedicated warrior a run for his money in the damage department, depending on what you summon. Then add in the buff/debuff potential of 4 clerics, and anything facing you is gonna have a bad time.

And yeah, I know bard has a bit of a reputation as being one of the scrappy classes in 3.5, but I rather enjoy playing Jimi Hendrix inspired bard. They're quite versatile if used smartly. I've diplomanced my party out of quite a few sticky situations.

 

[SweetLemonTea]

I've played the female wizard in diablo 3 simply because she had the same VA as azula in avatar the last airbender

I then switched to witch doctors because i thought the idea of throwing snakes, spiders and midgets at demons was hilarious

Mained heavy in tf2 because i've found his lines funny

Played teemo alot in Leauge of Legends simply because he's the most hated champion in game

I made my main pawn in dragons dogma into a trap just to mess with people also they're kinda cute.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

Spoiler: Ody Mandrell in Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer

Purely because of his voice. A lot of the alien racers have crazy or 'thuggish' sounding voices speaking guttural Huttese, but lanky Ody is perhaps the craziest-sounding of them all. He would often let out this ludicrous maniacal scream when his Podracer was struck by something, and shouting 'KABOOOOM!' followed by insane laughter when his Pod explodes! Either he knows that he's going to respawn, or he is the Star Wars equivalent of the Joker, a character analog I don't believe they've done yet. Perhaps, a 'Darth Wahnsinn'?

Sadly, his stats suck and his Pod is rather generic-looking. I would later graduate to the vertically challenged Neva Kee, who also has a crazy cackle and high-pitched voice worthy of a gremlin, but also a cool Pod and great stats.

Always selecting Wario in Mario Party to be played by the AI, because we just couldn't get enough of 'D'oh I MISSED!'.

 

[happyninja42]

Playing Teemo and actually enjoying him, because so many people hate him and consider him the spawn of satan. I just find him amusing, and the amount of visceral nerd rage directed at him is hilarious. I mean, I don't even play him very well, and I don't actively try and troll people with him, but holy fuck will the entire enemy team crawl through their own entrails and feces to try and kill me, just to kill me. Nevermind if it actually helps the match, TEEMO MUST DIE!!

I just build him to be tanky as shit and then act as bait. Because forget logic and tactics, pure emotional rage apparently controls gamers in LOL when Teemo is on the field.

 

[Sonmi]

I main Jigglypuff out of nostalgia, he was my favourite Pokemon as a child.

Also, for the last instalments of Smash, it allows me to shift blame whenever I lose... "What? I lost? Pffft, I was using the shittiest character anyways!"

 

[Kecunk]

Was bored one day so pretty much paid $5 during a Steam sale on Saints Row 4 for the character creation to make a hot chic in sexy clothes. The novelty of watching her run around in a skimpy top and tight jean shorts with designer stockings wore off after a couple chapters, and the rest of the game was even more shallow than my reasoning for playing it in the first place.

Well, that's debatable but not worth keeping installed in either case lol.

 

[CaitSeith]

I had Zigzagoon in my team in Pokemon Y for a long time, because of its cute attack animation. Loved it the first time I saw it in Pokemon Colosseum, I still love it now.

 

[flying_whimsy]

In Onechanbara for the wii I discovered that the loli character (which I typically avoid like the plague) could punch zombies into dust, especially during her super mode. Yes, she literally pulverized them. Never bothered with any other character after that. I picked up the 360 version of the game after that, but since it was actually the previous game in the series she didn't have that awesome hand-to-hand mode. I'm hoping the new one that just came out on steam has it.

I guess it's not that silly, but it was completely motivated by how much I giggled the first time I obliterated an enemy with my fists. I suppose it's because it made me so silly. Does that count?

 

[Lufia Erim]

I usually pick the shortest cutesr character available, is that weird?

I usually always play women because boobs. Like.

The Sorceress from Dragon's Crown, because of this gif:

This.