It happens sometimes when you spend too much time playing one game. And it's usually a game that allows you to do a lot of stuff. It will go away it always does.
Do you ever become your character?
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As a general matter, this is why I greatly prefer character-creation to playing some game where the character's been pre-defined and his motivations and whatnot have been laid down by some game writer or designer. And why I love Elder Scrolls and Fallout so much even though I'm not normally into RPGs.Super Toast said:
That character is an extension of me.
Sadly I don't which ruins all immersion for me. I just do what I think gets me forward in the game, tho I take the "good" alignment route when possible due to it fitting my own alignment better. I don't even think "Alright, now gotta do this, then that", I just try something out, reload if it fails and predict the AI patterns.
I do sometimes with my Table top RPG characters. I don't class computer games as role play games because you're just clicking away to a pre-detirmined destination. When I dice my fellow gamers and I get right into it. I try to become the character. I think 'yeah this would be the dirction we should take but that's not how my character would do it'. After a good session, sometimes we're still in the 'zone' so yeah I guess our characters' personalities rub off on us.
Considering your character to be you is a result of immersion.
Immersion is a result of good design.
They say that immitation is the sincerest form of flattery...perhaps for games the aformention relation to the character is, if not the sincerest, the most conclusive.
Immersion is a result of good design.
They say that immitation is the sincerest form of flattery...perhaps for games the aformention relation to the character is, if not the sincerest, the most conclusive.
not just you i do the same with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. call of pripyats major dagtryev or whatever and Fallout New VegasScreamarie said:
If I really get into it... yeah. Then again, I write, so I'm rather prone to falling into the character's mindset within 10-20 minutes xD Mass Effect is the easiest to get into, then (for some reason) Portal is the next.
If I play the latter too long, I start trying to plan the best route for portalling...
If I play the latter too long, I start trying to plan the best route for portalling...
Definitely, I've recently played trough Mass Effect 1 (femshep ftw), Alpha Protocol and I'm currently playing Dragon Age. In each game I thought about what I, the player, would do in that situation whenever it came to dialogue.
Alpha Protocol was great with this as the speech was actually a large part of the game play, so it effected what information I discovered, how missions turned out, and who ended up supporting me in various missions in the game.
Dragon Age falls a little short in those context as you don't see your character speak, but it's still got the actual role-playing fun to it
I love being immersed in the story-line. When you get to have a say and take each situation as it comes, it makes those few game-changing moments for your character exciting for you too.
I feel disappointed that Alpha Protocol won't see a sequel, if I knew it was this fun I would have got it a long time ago.
Alpha Protocol was great with this as the speech was actually a large part of the game play, so it effected what information I discovered, how missions turned out, and who ended up supporting me in various missions in the game.
Dragon Age falls a little short in those context as you don't see your character speak, but it's still got the actual role-playing fun to it
I love being immersed in the story-line. When you get to have a say and take each situation as it comes, it makes those few game-changing moments for your character exciting for you too.
I feel disappointed that Alpha Protocol won't see a sequel, if I knew it was this fun I would have got it a long time ago.
I have been in this state to such an extent that I will refuse to take certain weapons because my character wouldn't use them. Especially in games like Dragon Age, I don't care if the cursed armour of M'kharrar is going to give me infinite health, my Elf would not wear it. I once spent so long playing Brotherhood I actually realised I was walking like Ezio and if I saw someone I didn't like my left palm would twitch. When games are immersive and have good storytelling and a richly developed world you fall into that state.
An experience only games can provide.
An experience only games can provide.
Your character, polygon count notwithstanding, is pretty much an extension of you, even more so if you based your character's appearance off of your own. I think that's perfectly normal and I'm willing to believe that it's more common than you think. After all, you directly control the character.
I find that getting into character has a positive effect on my in-game performance. I was struggling to finish Transformers: WFC on the hard difficulty. so decided that in order to win, i would need to become as fast as Bumblebee and as tough as Ironhide; as intelligent as Ratchet and as brave as Optimus Prime.
I needed to become the Valentin Seleznyobot, so i made a helmet out of cardboard. It only took me a few tries after that.
I needed to become the Valentin Seleznyobot, so i made a helmet out of cardboard. It only took me a few tries after that.
Well next time I play a RPG I'll see if I do that but I do have one experience. This may not be me getting right into the game but when I lost Legion, Garrus, Thane and Mordin in the suicide mission of Mass Effect 3 I was so depressed I could cry but it wasn't just that, I felt like it was my fault that they died. Not my character's fault, mine and my own.
I do it with RPGs and any game that lets you put yourself over the main character (Saints Row 2 being another example)
Games like Stranglehold or Max Payne I tend to think in the third person, as if I were watching a story unfold.
Mass Effect I absolutely think of as 'I need to.' Fallout 3 is another contender. Sometimes my level of roleplaying has actually led me to make bad strategic decisions because I got too caught up in the character.
Protip: Just because you got accepted by the Regulators and have a duster and a Blackhawk magnum you are not suddenly Walker Texas Ranger...
I got killed a lot after the Regulators accepted me.
Games like Stranglehold or Max Payne I tend to think in the third person, as if I were watching a story unfold.
Mass Effect I absolutely think of as 'I need to.' Fallout 3 is another contender. Sometimes my level of roleplaying has actually led me to make bad strategic decisions because I got too caught up in the character.
Protip: Just because you got accepted by the Regulators and have a duster and a Blackhawk magnum you are not suddenly Walker Texas Ranger...
I got killed a lot after the Regulators accepted me.
I don't think it's pathetic. Even though you're playing a role as a protagonist, you're still effectively driving what they do and how they react in a lot of games- so it is still "you" that needs to deal with the Samedi etc. and not your character.
Particularly in games where you design your own character and have considerable control over their choices, I think it's much worse, because its easy to become much more immersed.
Particularly in games where you design your own character and have considerable control over their choices, I think it's much worse, because its easy to become much more immersed.
I relate to this, although from the other standpoint- I made it through first time with my entire team intact, and quite frankly, the relief I felt was bordering on the ridiculous.Diablo27 said: