I usually do what I would do if I were cool, so not excatly what I would do in real life, but similar
Do you play as yourself in RPG's?
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Role playing games are for playing out a role, not for playing yourself. People who play an idealised version of themseves in RPGs usually have some kind of self-esteem issues. They also tend to get very upset if something bad happens to their character because there often is a lack of psychological separation between that character and themselves. They get too attached. It's a very unhealthy thing to "play yourself" in any RPG.
I'm a guy but I always play as female in RPGs if the option is there. I also always pick a personality vastly different to my own and do my best to 'roleplay' that personality, I try to get into that other personality mode like an actor in a film would do.
I'm a guy but I always play as female in RPGs if the option is there. I also always pick a personality vastly different to my own and do my best to 'roleplay' that personality, I try to get into that other personality mode like an actor in a film would do.
No I generally don't. When I'm playing tabletop games I like to devote myself to having a character absolutely nothing like myself. I'm a bit too boring to want to RP myself. I tend to go for someone who is an eccentric in some way. Be it my character's overt tendency to shove his hands in your pockets and feel around as a greeting to strangers, or my other character's past experiments with astral projection that cause him to talk like a different farm animal 15% of the time. Now of course I can play a serious character if need be but the campaigns I tend to be part of have not been so serious. This may be a little hypocritical of me though considering I expect a certain level of seriousness from the PCs in my campaigns, but that's because I write serious campaigns. Now that's not to say your character can't be a wingnut, I just happen to have people I play with who like to make their characters oddly sadistic so I have to crack down on them to make reasonable characters.
I'd like to be a 10 year-old who's shitty at everything the next time I'm a player character. Unfortunately I'm the best DM out of all of my friends so I tend to take that role on.
I'd like to be a 10 year-old who's shitty at everything the next time I'm a player character. Unfortunately I'm the best DM out of all of my friends so I tend to take that role on.
I try to make my character like myself and do as I do, such as over compensating with large guns, and getting pwned when it isn't large enough.
Myself, but with a different gender. If a game offers you to play a male/female, I usually play as a female.
I ignore all moral quandries and do what ever gets the best shiny things for the player character. And i always make my character look strange and mutated by maxing out sliders and color choices.
I usually play as some androgynous guy with spiky hair and an unrealisticly huge sword, who's obviously compensating for something; so I'd have to say no, because I'm not David Bowie with a small penis.
Oh, you mean those action games with RPG elements and moral choices? Well, considering the only two options in Mass Effect were guidance counselor and prick, I probably played myself pretty well.
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Case in point.
Oh, you mean those action games with RPG elements and moral choices? Well, considering the only two options in Mass Effect were guidance counselor and prick, I probably played myself pretty well.
Either you like Latina females, or you should start saving up for some expensive surgery?The Youth Counselor said:
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Case in point.
I don't make my charactor look like myself but I do talor his skills to something that resembles myself. Personaly I don't like Fallout 3 for the fact that their isn't one peice of color in the whole game. I like Oblivion, and what I do In Oblivion is a "invisible archer" aproch (don't know how to spell it). Which is I put all my points into sneak and marksman so I can sneak up on someone and get a suprise attack on them doing massive amounts of dammage. IRL, I play airsoft in a simler way, I stalk the other players, and when the stop or get into a big group I run gunz a blazing into them at point blank range, and since I have a fully automatic aiirsoft gun that holds 400 BB's it's preety easy to single handedly kill an entire team.
What, really? Gosh, you're uglyVrex360 said:
. No offence.(Hah! Didn't see that comin'!)
My characters behave and look like I don't. I use them to vent all those negative emotions that pile up at the end of the week.
I also name them Grue.
I never play as myself. I just create random people with random personalities. Also, I sometimes create characters from stories I write in video games, just to give visualization and make my writing seem weird to me. It always works.
My character normally is a reflection of myself, especially in games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. I feel funny playing as someone evil or whatever. In games such as Oblivion, which isn't a very good game for role-playing, as role-playing in the game doesn't do anything to make it more fun, I just act however I feel at the moment. (Whether it is getting all the characters in a city to like me or saving and slaughtering everybody who can die.)
In Mass Effect I played first as a character that looked/acted like myself, and then I played again as a character that was different (opposite gender and alignment change.) I did the same thing in KOTOR I/II as well.
In Mass Effect I played first as a character that looked/acted like myself, and then I played again as a character that was different (opposite gender and alignment change.) I did the same thing in KOTOR I/II as well.
When push comes to shove im a all round good chap 8) but... I do enjoy a bit of delving into satanic rituals which are the murdering of lovely people, when I was playing oblivion i joined the dark bro'hood but although trying to be nice I enjoyed the murders especially that one at the party, but when it came to fallout3 I killed bad people and helped good or neautral, I was the savoiur of the wastes some may say, also I did this also with KOTOR except make em look like me which is quite hard with the small selection of faces ,also I try look even more aweeeeeesome then I do, mmmmmmm, hard to improve perfection!.
sooooooo in the end altho' I try be a good person every so often I go on a malevolent rampage killing all who look in my genral direction, fun indeedums
sooooooo in the end altho' I try be a good person every so often I go on a malevolent rampage killing all who look in my genral direction, fun indeedums
I always play women in RPGs, I don't know why (the only exception being when I play D&D with my friends, in which case I usually play a wizard or other magic-type character very similar to myself). Part of the reason is that I prefer looking at female avatars over male ones. Another reason is the fact that it's hilarious seeing some burly-ass men get their asses beat by a skinny little girl.
I suppose it has a lot to do with the anonymous factor of the internet. Knowing that you won't be outright scrutinized for playing a female character in an online game, many men's inhibitions about playing said characters disappear. When you're forced to act and roleplay that character in real life however (while playing D&D and the like), it feels extremely silly.
I suppose it has a lot to do with the anonymous factor of the internet. Knowing that you won't be outright scrutinized for playing a female character in an online game, many men's inhibitions about playing said characters disappear. When you're forced to act and roleplay that character in real life however (while playing D&D and the like), it feels extremely silly.