What do you play as?

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

In games such as Oblivion, Fallout, etc., what type of character do you play as? All powerful tank who wails on enemies, sneaky ranged character, a mixture of the two? I personally go for the sneaky guy who picks people off without the others knowing; much more satisfying that way to me.

I stalk people. I do all the quests first and be a hero and all that. Then I systematically hunt down anyone foolish enough to walk down dark alleys or forests. Bow, backstab, summon freakin demon... it matters not I'm sending you ALL to hell.

 

[FalloutJack]

FalloutJack presents...the Lone Wanderer...Jack.

He likes being quick on the draw, such as incinerating Mr. Burke two seconds before Sheriff Lucas can be shot.

Wait? you can do that?

Oh, it took...alot of work. Personal challenge, completely unnecessay. I stand there like a fly on the wall as he and Burke hash it out. The Sheriff turns and I see a movement from Burke. It's a silenced pistol. This is not an easy thing to do, but I did manage to critical-hit the man and incinerate him with a laser pistol before he got off a shot. Afterwhich, the sheriff was grateful.

 

[ColateralDamage]

Depends on the game, if it's multilayer I'm always the support guy. But since you said Oblivion or Fallout like where your the main character and almost always alone I still try to be the sneaky guy.

If the game will let me I'll make a sneaky character that can pick people off from range while still having a trick or two if I do get cornered.
I played an Infiltrator all the way through Mass Effect 1 & 2 and loved it.

 

[mklnjbh]

For FO3, my favorite play-through was as a small guns nut. I used the blackhawk most of the game and a bit of stealth- so I'd go with mid-long range coward, but handy in close quarters with an automatic weapon. Hand-to-hand is for uncivilized brutes.

 

[Isaac The Grape]

FalloutJack presents...the Lone Wanderer...Jack.

He likes being quick on the draw, such as incinerating Mr. Burke two seconds before Sheriff Lucas can be shot.

Wait? you can do that?

Oh, it took...alot of work. Personal challenge, completely unnecessay. I stand there like a fly on the wall as he and Burke hash it out. The Sheriff turns and I see a movement from Burke. It's silenced pistol. This is not an easy thing to do, but I did manage to critical-hit the man and incinerate him before he got off a shot. Afterwhich, the sheriff was grateful.

So Burke isn't invul before he shoots the Sherrif. I thought it was scripted? Anyone got the G.E.C.K. for this one?

 

[AvsJoe]

I almost always opt for the thief/archer/gunman long range and speedy yet low damage character. However I play as Jess and Max in the Advance Wars games so I clearly don't go stealth every time (Jess and Max are the tanks of Advance Wars; no, really, their specialties are tanks).

 

[FalloutJack]

FalloutJack presents...the Lone Wanderer...Jack.

He likes being quick on the draw, such as incinerating Mr. Burke two seconds before Sheriff Lucas can be shot.

Wait? you can do that?

Oh, it took...alot of work. Personal challenge, completely unnecessay. I stand there like a fly on the wall as he and Burke hash it out. The Sheriff turns and I see a movement from Burke. It's silenced pistol. This is not an easy thing to do, but I did manage to critical-hit the man and incinerate him before he got off a shot. Afterwhich, the sheriff was grateful.

So Burke isn't invul before he shoots the Sherrif. I thought it was scripted? Anyone got the G.E.C.K. for this one?

For whatever reason, Burke is not only vulnerable, but the only person you can shoot in Megaton without people turning on you. I suppose this is because nobody likes him or something. I don't know the odds and ends of it. I just decided "No.", and made it so when the conversation was over, that Burke gets a face full of laser.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

I usally steal everthing that isn't nailed down, hit enemies with projectiles as they close in and then finish them off with a powerful melee attack.

 

[FortheLegion]

I play the support caster/tank I like the DnD Cleric a lot.
I love a nice combo of Heal spells/maces/heavy armor

 

[Yureina]

Here is my Fallout 3 character:

Spoiler: Good sized picture

As you can probably tell from that... I prefer sneaky types who surprise their foes through ambush, sniping, and infiltration. Rarely do I ever actually involve myself in direct conflict. My personality is very much the same way.

I can also tell that you play Fallout on the PC and mod the crap out of it.

Yup yup!

 

[Isaac The Grape]

FalloutJack presents...the Lone Wanderer...Jack.

He likes being quick on the draw, such as incinerating Mr. Burke two seconds before Sheriff Lucas can be shot.

Wait? you can do that?

Oh, it took...alot of work. Personal challenge, completely unnecessay. I stand there like a fly on the wall as he and Burke hash it out. The Sheriff turns and I see a movement from Burke. It's silenced pistol. This is not an easy thing to do, but I did manage to critical-hit the man and incinerate him before he got off a shot. Afterwhich, the sheriff was grateful.

So Burke isn't invul before he shoots the Sherrif. I thought it was scripted? Anyone got the G.E.C.K. for this one?

For whatever reason, Burke is not only vulnerable, but the only person you can shoot in Megaton without people turning on you. I suppose this is because nobody likes him or something. I don't know the odds and ends of it. I just decided "No.", and made it so when the conversation was over, that Burke gets a face full of laser.

Hmm. Thank you

 

[Iron Lightning]

I play the Magical Tank. A character in the heaviest armor available who also happens to be bursting with arcane energy. Unfortunately, it isn't a sort of character I often get to play, so far I've only had enough freedom to do so in Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, Dragon Age: Origins, and (to a certain extent) Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Many other games have class armor restrictions or arcane spell failure chances that prevent from doing this sort of thing.

Edit: I'm not into the divine magic that D&D Clerics use. It's just not how I roll.

 

[Serenegoose]

Alot. FWE and MMM are the two big ones, but I also run alot of other mods that add items to the game that improve my immersion, add special things that I like, and giving myself alot more hair styles to choose from. That character in hat picture actually isn't as modded as alot of people would probably think. Only the hair and the backpack in that picture can't be obtained from the original game.

MMM? I know what FWE is but I don't get the MMM acronym Yeah, though I figured the armour was modded too. Nicely made character though. Makes me want to play fallout 3 again, but I never get very far... it's one of those 'so close, yet so far' games for me. Maybe I should go trawling for these 'immersion boosting' items because that was really my main problem. FWE helped a lot with it but just not quite enough.

Mart's Mutant Mod, or something like that. Basically it adds variety to in-game enemy NPC's so that you are not fighting clones all the time. It does alot of other things too, but its another mod that adds alot to immersion. Oh, and the world is a much more violent place with it.

Given the name I doubt this... but does it make supermutants less 'the default enemy' and add more things like hostile wildlife/bigger raider gangs? I never liked how the mutants turned into total fodder from the threats they were in Fallout 1.

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Guns blazing. Two words right next to Badarse in the thesaurus.

 

[Vigormortis]

I tend to go with the silent, bespectacled, Messianic type character.

Oh wait.....wrong game.

Anyway, I'm not that fond of Oblivion or Fallout 3, so I'll just go with the RPG/grind-fest I've always (and only ever) enjoyed. Diablo 2.

I usually played either the Necromancer or the Barbarian. So...I guess you could say I go both ways? 'add cursory joke here' It always depends on my mood when it comes to what 'type' of character I play in games. Sometimes I feel like being technical and sneaky, and sometimes I feel like just jumping into the fray and bashing some heads.

 

[TK421]

I used to play stealth all the way, but lately I have gotten lazy and prefer the tanking method. Murdering everything in my path is just so much easier than sneaking around.

 

[Roamin11]

Well with the New (Vegas) Fallout I intend to play as a....

SECERET AGENT MAAANN!!!!

In other words sneaky break into everything, but always trying to use chrisma ect.

 

[Yureina]

Given the name I doubt this... but does it make supermutants less 'the default enemy' and add more things like hostile wildlife/bigger raider gangs? I never liked how the mutants turned into total fodder from the threats they were in Fallout 1.

Yes, actually. Alot of new creates are added to the wildlife, mainly from previous Fallout games. Super Mutants are not really much better, but that might just be because I avoid Downtown DC. The outdoor world can get pretty dangerous, and this mod also adjusts the AI in a way that leads to alot of monsters killing eachother out in the wasteland. I routinely have walked into an ongoing or just finished battled between two different enemies out in the wasteland who walked too close to eachother. Also, spawning levels are higher with that mod, which also results in larger number of enemies in certain areas, and especially for humans. So... yes, bigger raider gangs. I'd say the number of monsters or otherwise hostile NPC's out in the wasteland at least doubles with MMM.

 

[Sinspiration]

In Oblivion I was an assassin through-and-through, I could snipe anyone at any range so long as I had a general idea of where they were and there weren't obstacles on my trajectory xD I did work on my magic side a little so I could get some enchanting done too, resulting in me firing high strength bows with elements as high as 15 Fire, Ice and Lightning, xD ultimate killers against just about EVERYTHING. Add the multiplier of sneak killing a target and nothing would survive.

For Fallout it was sort of similar, but I mixed in close quarters combat specializations (such as powering up my small-arms, and melee) I'd sneak as much as I could then if I was detected I'd rush in with Grim Reapers sprint and a shotgun for blowing enemy skulls apart, xD few things survive my swift wrath... Except Super Mutant Overlords, Albino Radscorpions and REAVERS, freakin.. stupid... nasty.. THINGS

 

[lacktheknack]

Here is my Fallout 3 character:

Spoiler: Good sized picture

As you can probably tell from that... I prefer sneaky types who surprise their foes through ambush, sniping, and infiltration. Rarely do I ever actually involve myself in direct conflict. My personality is very much the same way.

I can also tell that you play Fallout on the PC and mod the crap out of it.

Yup yup!

...Quick, I neeeeeeed that gun, hair, and clothing mod.