Game characters: Created in your own image?

[Motti]

I try for about five minutes and give up. I get something that looks vaguely like me, but you never get the messy hair option, or an akubra (australian hat). I want my akubra dammit!

 

[Talendra]

I tend to use my hair colour and length, as well as eye colour and skin pigment fairly often. I quite often make a completely different character altogether, just for fun. But yes my main character often resembles me at least a bit.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

It really depends.
Usually, what happens is I make a character with an almost-exact likeness of me, then on another save file, create a character which looks badass/retarded.
=D

 

[Matronadena]

I do now and then, but it's pretty tough to get really close when I do, as most games don't feature the creation details I would like...if they DID a game would pretty much be equal to having Maya or something built into it * lol*

seriously though, I find some games I love " like mass effect" which has potential for a great builder to have a really limited one...sure it looks nice, but the down side is that they are still a combo of presets, thus limiting the outcome...

I see some games with great face builders, so recreating my face is one thing.. never see good body building features, atleast not as often as I would like. I can always get my face anymore or close enough, but my body type is not one that fits most defaults for females, Im tall, " nearly 6ft" and athletic build and quite busty ( some games that allow altering to the bust make me think the developers have NEVER seen a womans chest before in real life, as they look scary when enlarged even to " more realistically natural standards of large") I know it's mostly because they keep the models fairly simple, and the control points lower to save room, and ease, but sometimes a game comes along that I may want an identical match. and if your a woman, hair options can suck quite often too..

but again there are some games that do break the mold and have really good altering ability that look realistically rendered...

and though I lost interest in the games and the spectacle of it all.. WWE games traditionally have had really good character creation even going back to the 64 bit gens.. and though they are not always the top line, they have been pretty consistent and offer alot of goodies to help perfect the character, and I think some studios should take a look and atleast try and emulate that alittle more

 

[onelifecrisis]

I do tend to create approximations of myself in games that allow me to customise my character. Otherwise it just... doesn't work for me. In Oblivion, for example, I decided one day to try and play characters that weren't like me at all, to see what it was like, but I just couldn't get into them. Playing as a male Wood Elf was just bizarre. They are really, really short whereas I'm fairly tall, so having the first-person camera looking up at everyone during conversations was just weird to me. Playing as a female character was even stranger. When the Emperor said "no, she's not one of them" I actually wondered for a moment who he was talking about. So I abandoned the whole idea and went back to playing as a male Dark Elf.

 

[Flour]

New character in Oblivion/Fallout means I flip a coin to decide on gender and then I "randomize" until I get something that looks good.

 

[The Cheezy One]

you try to make them like yourself, but i bet you dont put that bit of fat round your chin or that beer belly!
my 360 avatar is a bit like me though

 

[nolph fooz]

put in vin diesel... that always seems to work

 

[cptjack42]

In Fallout 3 I made my character like me. Then I felt like a total asshole at the ending (I was completely evil). I have decided not to do it again.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

I love RSV2 because if you have the vision camera you can make you soldries have you face. Face breakers does that too but thats a horrible game.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Metal Gear Solid. Its scary.

 

[Amarok]

I try to make my characters look like me, but I'm clearly very bad at it, because my characters always end up looking fat or retarded...

...waaaait a minute

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

put in vin diesel... that always seems to work

Because he is easy to make.

 

[090907]

I generally try to make an approximation of me to start out, but then I'll find dreadlocks or some thing and add that, then something else, then another thing, ad nausea, until I end up with me with blue dreads, pointy goatee, scars, and everything else cool which looks nothing like me.

 

[Andalusa]

Never exactly like me.
They never have the right skin tone or hair colour.
So pick the right height/weight ratio then get the palest skin up from white, the darkest ginger hair and the random-est clothes (if you can pick them).

 

[SmilingKitsune]

I usualy make my characters female, maybe it's because I wish I was female.

 

[Abedeus]

Yeah. I made a Neverwinter Nights Wizard/Rogue/Shadowdancer and I just played... me. Casting spells, being a smartass and making fun of people.

put in vin diesel... that always seems to work

Because he is easy to make.

"Hurr, hurr, I'm so manly, I pee testosterone and I must shit into a metal toilet unless I want to damage it"

Did I get it right? Don't get me wrong, I like him and that he made sure that PC game was one of the greatest games of the year, but even Will Smith played in a semi-romantic movie.

 

[Insert Funny Name Here]

Ummm...yeah...

I do this in basically ALL games where it is possible to do this...

Call me a geek if you want, but I think that its more of an experience to imagine yourself doing this stuff.

 

[ScarBrow07]

All tony Hawks mes