Wednesday, 21 October 2009
-
What Do You Try To Do When You Create Your Characters?
Editor's Note: Thanks to Kappatappa for inspiring this with her comments on a previous post of mine.
My brother and I hadn't touched Oblivion in a long minute so we decided to pop it in recently and start new files. I played the game more seriously at my friend's place when I used to crash more a few summers back, and this is the first instance that I'm genuinely playing from the leisure of my own home (my brother used to hog the game mercilessly). Meaning I could take my sweet time to really mess with character creation. After a number of grotesque-featured caveman-esque abominations (it's so much easier to not care how your Khajit or Argonian looks like), I finally managed a medieval rendition of myself whose face didn't look like a foot.
Regardless, whether it's WoW or Aion or Soul Calibur or even a wrestling game, people will create characters according to an infinite variety of reasons and circumstances. And as in traditional roleplaying, with an appearance that hints at some kind of history for the character (unless it's meant as flat-out tribute/parody/comedy).
But when it comes to making your main, is there anything else you usually aim to do? Do you try and make your character an extension of yourself? Do you try and make him/her as cute or as badass or as comic as possible? Do you try to make someone believable within the confines of the game's narrative or backstory? Or do you just not give much a damn and focus solely on making a character as strong as possible in terms of gameplay?
-
recommend
- recs 1
-
share
-
email
- sent 1
Related Posts
Post a Comment
- Back to HardestLevel's HardestLevel Site!
- Note: your comment will appear in HardestLevel's local time zone: GMT -05:00 (Eastern Standard - US, Canada)
About the Author
-
- From: Altair_Specineff@xanga
- Name: Tanner
- Location: Long Island, New York, United States
- About Me: Attack me if you dare. I will crush you with my bare hands!
Stats: This Week All Time Posts: 0 64 Views: 0 60765 Comments: 0 1098 View all posts by Altair_Specineff@xanga
Comments (31)
I love the photos you use, some are pretty funny :P
Whenever I make characters, me being a girl I make them as cute as I can, hahaha
I typically will try to create a character that looks as close to how I imagine he/she would as I can. My main is usually the character my primary gaming persona lives in, so I've got to try to meet what I think They look like as I can.
On wow there is like a few hundred versions of night elf hunters named "legolas" or blood elves named different versions of "sephiroth"...oh how creative some players can get *sigh*. So I go and create a character that is nobody else wants to play..female dwarf. People look at me while im in shadowform..."WTF is that thing?!" I would rather play something more rare than play something that is copied/used many times before.
well when i can get the controller outta my boyfriend's hands, most my character's resemble (as much as i can manage, anyways) me!! cept most times i make them with a much bigger chest, if i can! lol though i really dont get to play much, but i like to mess with my character on HOME for PS3.....like i said....my boyfriend hardly walks away from it!! haha
I make my characters look a lot like me. In Rock Band, people comment a lot on the fact that I didn't change one thing about my appearance, right down to the sweater and guitar.
I've thought about this before after noticing I always lean towards making my first character look like myself, or some way I feel inside.
I think Morpheus said it best in this instance though:
"This is called your residual self-image. It is a digital representation of your physical self."
I think perhaps in some ways it can be a digital representation of your mental self as well; for instance someone who isn't happy about their own appearance might make a character that looks like themselves but is edited to their own standards. A person that spends life in a wheelchair most-likely wouldn't pick a character with the same handicap because they want to explore the new possibilities of the way they would wish they were.
I, personally, have curly hair. I generally tend to pick a character with straight hair because I wish I had straight hair, I percieve my inner self as someone having straight hair. I understand that is less than living in a wheelchair, but I generally do things in games that I couldn't do irl. I like to go mining in RPG-type games, because I couldn't make money off of that in life.
I think that most people make characters that are who they wish they were, or what they wish they could do.
I usually create my characters to look like someone I'm not but want want to be.
"Or do you just not give much a damn and focus solely on making a character as strong as possible in terms of gameplay?" <- me all day. I get too impatient when it comes to customizing their looks. I just want to play the damn game!
well when i play games i try to make the chars as badass as possible more or less anime esque or just straight out brutal but the thing i found out is i live a video game life everyday :D cus i do parkour and freerunning and it looks so fake that its real and there aint a damn thing anyone can do about it hehe cus if they try to stop me i just climb things and run away just like in games i dont neccesarily do things in games i wouldnt do irl i try to keep games to a more realistic level even if it is rpg or mmo or whatever just like fighting in the games i like to fight with swords irl and have been trained with a kitana for a few years and nunchaku as well as daggers and fists from the martial arts i try to keep it as close to my actual skills irl as possible but of course its fun to do things you cant do right?! so i like to eventually take my steps out every so often and make it fake once in a while just like some people but not always and character creation usually takes me some time depending on how many features i can change on the characters or weapon modifications or even stats of the chars but i never take forever but other then that keep it real or fake either way its a game so who cares what you look like in the game what you look like irl and can do irl matters more then anything else honestly
Depends on what I'm playing, I guess. In the Sims I try for someone HAWT. A cute couple, maybe. In short-lived multiplayer games I opt for the craziest thing I can make. And in RPGs or other sims, I try to create someone who I can stand looking at for hours upon hours...in other words, someone HAWT!
It really all depends on how thorough the customization is. I made a PSO character who's named Pikachu and looks pretty close to Pikachu. She's short and a little chubby, with bright yellow hair, a yellow and black costume, and a yellow and black jester hat with pom-poms.
Also, she shoots electricity and has pointy ears and red face makeup.
She is awesome.
I make the character look vaguely like me, but I usually don't have the patience to figure out exactly which nose is most like mine. So my character generally turns out to be some generic Asian looking guy.
I typically go for the sneaky, angsty, yet heroic archetype.
I try to go for something different each time.
I generally have a set of generic character names prepped for both genders. I tend towards names that sound realistic for the setting. As for the character's appearance, I like to maintain a serious looking character while trying to include badass elements.
-sigh- Sims 3 doesn't have a damn fro ;-; I couldn't make an extension of myself in that game, COMPLAINT I HAS!
I always always try to make a..beefed up extension of myself in games, but If that isn't possible, I make a complete unique badass.
An extension of myself usually.
I make them look (somewhat) like me; depends on how detailed I can be with the characters.
I normally either go for a character that looks like me... or one that looks like Nick Lea.
I like to make my characters look as harmless as possible so that, in the rare event that I actually turn out to be good at the game, nobody will suspect it.
Lol. That's such a cute comic. Meh, I just try to make one that either looks like me, or one that's pretty/cute.
ROFL, it mainly depends on the game. Obviously for time-killing games (in my opinion) like The Sims, it'd most probably end up looking like a 3D model of me.
Otherwise, I'd just go for the most practical solution.
Though most of my characters end up looking badass anyway.
I come up with a concept for a character and make the character fit the concept as much as possible. It's the roleplayer in me, I guess.
i try to make them look like me, and very cute :)
Well I usually play guys and though some may think I look like brent spiner and john lennons love child, I am not a guy. So no, I don't make them look like me lol. I usually sift through the premade faces and find a nose I like as that is usually the hardest to do from scratch. With Oblivion I decided on a race first and tried to make my guy look decent within that race. He ended up looking American Indianish and quite attractive. Fallout 3 was more punkish I guess (mohawk and sharp nose, etc). So I really don't have a set way, I just mess around until I see something I like and futz with it till it's done.