Does anyone else do this shit?

[ReservoirAngel]

I'm just wondering if I'm alone in this aspect of my ultimate dumbfuckery.

Whenever I play RPGs, or MMORPGs, I always end up making loads and loads of new characters only to delete them after an hour or so and start another one.

Examples:
1) On WoW I made, in my tenure there, about 50 different Tauren Druids, the highest levelled of which only got to level 22 before i erased him from existance
2) on LotRO, I made loads of Lore Masters and Burglars, of which the highest level I got to was 10 for Buglar, and 16 for Lore Master
3) On Shining Soul 2, I have made literally hundreds of characters, but ALWAYS either Dark Wizards or Ninjas. never anything else
4) Currently on New Vegas, I am on my 20th character...and yet 18 of the 20 have just ended up being snipers, yet I keep deleting them and starting again for some reason.

So does anyone else ever find themselves doing this?

Tbh I'm starting to think I might just enjoy being a noob...I really want to be able to cut this shit out and actually play games to completion before putting a bullet in the brain of my existing character, burying him discreetly and moving onto his identical twin in what always feels like a massive betrayal.

 

[delanofilms]

Sorry mate. I just stopped playing WoW with one 80, a 73, and a 30.

 

[FightThePower]

I sometimes restart Pokemon from the beginning for no reason at all or raise a brand new party, all from eggs. I get them up to Lvl 20 and then get bored and do it again.

I don't really play RPGs though...I've been known to commit suicide in pretty much every genre of games whenever I make the slightest error. That's kind of similar I guess.

 

[KiLl_RoY]

Nope, i have never done that.
I always keep my first char.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

I'm just wondering if I'm alone in this aspect of my ultimate dumbfuckery.

Whenever I play RPGs, or MMORPGs, I always end up making loads and loads of new characters only to delete them after an hour or so and start another one.

Examples:
1) On WoW I made, in my tenure there, about 50 different Tauren Druids, the highest levelled of which only got to level 22 before i erased him from existance
2) on LotRO, I made loads of Lore Masters and Burglars, of which the highest level I got to was 10 for Buglar, and 16 for Lore Master
3) On Shining Soul 2, I have made literally hundreds of characters, but ALWAYS either Dark Wizards or Ninjas. never anything else
4) Currently on New Vegas, I am on my 20th character...and yet 18 of the 20 have just ended up being snipers, yet I keep deleting them and starting again for some reason.

So does anyone else ever find themselves doing this?

Tbh I'm starting to think I might just enjoy being a noob...I really want to be able to cut this shit out and actually play games to completion before putting a bullet in the brain of my existing character, burying him discreetly and moving onto his identical twin in what always feels like a massive betrayal.

Holy crap! Yes! I have about twenty save files of a sniper/stealth specialist on Fallout:NV, and have only finished the game once.

I... I thought I was the only one...
*Tears up*

 

[Tartarga]

Oh god, my brother does that all the time and it annoys the crap out of me. He has yet to beat Fallout 3, Dragon Age: Origins, and Demon's Souls because of it. I've done it a few times myself but its usually because i'm not happy with how my character is progressing.

 

[kebab4you]

What? why would you? Seek help

 

[GWarface]

I do the same thing i WoW...
I have always found the start alot more fun than the rest of the journey...

 

[manythings]

I do that sort of but I usually will play a long way in, sometimes as far as the finale run, then just stop with that character and start a whole new game again. I've only finished DA:O like 3 times but I have 12 characters.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

Never in my life. I might create another when I'm a decently high level or beat the game already, but not nearly to the extent that you do it.

 

[Entropyutd]

Not sure what your problem is, in WoW specifically the leveling is fairly straight forwards but the characters don't really become fun till later on.
Although I understand this has changed somewhat with the new leveling and talents.

Maybe you just have attention defecit disorder.
Why a druid? Try another class you might enjoy more.

 

[T8B95]

I do it in The Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age Origins

 

[Tharwen]

I think the reason anyone ever does it is to try and recreate the feeling they had when they were first playing and discovering the world they were in before they worked out how to make it do what you wanted, or they got used to the epic-awesomeness that it was filled with.

I sometimes play the tutorial in games several times after I complete it on a character. The first level often feels like the best.

 

[Taxman1]

I do it too!
I swear every time I'm given the choice of making a character in an open ended game, I always go back and make another one. Usually falls into warrior or thief classes.

 

[RAMBO22]

I sometimes abort my characters such as you described. When i abort them, I find it's usually in games that don't have a very strong story element to keep me engaged and invested in my character, in games like Oblivion and Morrowind that have already been supplied as examples.

 

[Knusper]

I never change my character when I've started an RPG, except once in Oblivion, when my Elf arche just kept getting killed by... everything; but that was only after about a couple of hours of gameplay, then I went back to the good ol' Orc warrior which never fails me. Other than that time, I just see myself as failing if I have to start again.

 

[TheZapper]

I've only done this about a million times in Fallout:NV and Dragon Age:Origins.

I deleted my first character, a Human Warrior, in DA:O when I got to about level 12, and then spent the next week trying out different races and classes multiple times, only to settle on, you guessed it, another human warrior. With exactly the same build. And almost identical equipment.

 

[d3structor]

Did that alot in the MMO City of Heroes. That had a crazy character creation system that got more robust as you progressed through the game.

good times.