Do you ever become your character?

[Wutaiflea]

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Making it with the entire team would be quite a feat but looking back on it I'm kind of glad that some people died, it made it so much darker, more realistic and I just got sucked into the story so much.

To be honest, doing it first time was more luck than judgement. Even though I'd invested a lot of time in upgrades and loyalty missions, that was more about enjoying all the game had to offer than being determined to get through it in one piece.
I can see what you mean when you say it made the story darker, but from the perspective of my first run-through, I felt it was still very dark and realistic- that sense of relief when a character made it through a dangerous situation, and that painful decision over who to pick for what task really added to the game whether they survived or not.

 

[Diablo27]

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To be honest, doing it first time was more luck than judgement. Even though I'd invested a lot of time in upgrades and loyalty missions, that was more about enjoying all the game had to offer than being determined to get through it in one piece.
I can see what you mean when you say it made the story darker, but from the perspective of my first run-through, I felt it was still very dark and realistic- that sense of relief when a character made it through a dangerous situation, and that painful decision over who to pick for what task really added to the game whether they survived or not.

Let's hope Mass Effect 3 is dark enough to make me cry. It takes one Hell of an emotional scene to get tears from me *cough*Dom and Maria Gears of War 2*cough* but I respect a piece of art if it makes me cry. Another thing I hope is in the third one, pretty much Dragon Age: Origins in space with the army collecting. A lot of people don't want that but my answer to that is "why not? That'd be fu**ing awesome!"

 

[realslimshadowen]

All the time. Heck, outside the game, describing my progress, if it's not a game like War For Cybertron where you play multiple characters throughout the campaign or a strategy game, I'll use "I" instead of "Mario/the Warden/Niko".

 

[Savagezion]

If I get to make my character, I am my character.

That's probably true with me too, but I'm not certain as I've never examined it to closely before. I'm often not privy to my own thoughts. It's just constant rambling up there so I rarely pay attention.

Can other people say this? Or does it matter to you whether you made the character or not?

And if anybody would like to share stories, I'd love to read.

I am always my first character. Any character after that are interesting character designs that I play out as in "get into character" and I try to think like that person would. For instance my first Shepard was me through and through. I did what I felt I would do in that situation. I fell like 60/40 Para/Ren through most of the game. My next Shepard was a female who was sort of bitter against the world but a bad ass. It was her way or the highway. Totally different experience. Had very small para rating.
My next Shepard is going to be as cocky as I can be. Not sure if I want to be male ro female this time through. I want them to be totally full of themselves though to the best of my ability with the choices given. Just be an arrogant smart ass who thinks they are God's gift to the universe.