Poll: Do you model your character after yourself?

[Snarky Username]

If you play WRPGs at all, you've probably noticed that the beginning of your game features a menu that allows you to customize the looks of your character. So use this as an opportunity to created their own little digital person, some use it to make a hot blonde woman to furiously masturbate to roleplay as while you play. Also, choice systems are becoming more and more prevalent. Do you try to make choices you would make in the same situation, or do you use the choice system as an excuse to be the evilest bastard who ever lived?

So my question is, what do model your character after?

 

[xavi]

First playthrough I give same decisions I'd make
Second playthrough I do the opposite.

 

[Blackmagic1515]

Considering I mainly make male characters, no they don't look like me. But the decisions they make are mine.

 

[Radeonx]

Not really, because it is kind of hard to model something after a God.
I normally just give my character the most awesome hairstyle I can find, and give him/her crazy names.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

I tend to do whatever I happen to be in the mood for at the time, which varies widely (I've played just about every combination of race/gender/morality/etc. available). Once in a while it'll vaguely resemble me, but not usually.

 

[The Austin]

When I play a game, I want to feel like it's ME in the game.
So I play as me making decisions that I would make.

 

[Shockolate]

If there is an option, I try to make my character look like myself, but dialogue/what to do options are always limited.

It's either Good/Bad/Neutral, often without actually knowing what said choice will entail. Yes, I'm staring at you Mass Effect. Of course, I can't really blame the game or it's game makers for being unable to mirror my personality.

There's just quite a few options where I wouldn't do any of the choices listed, but have to anyways. Being forced to pick, I usually take the "Good" route, but it's not always what I want.

 

[SteinFaust]

i make mine look like me all the time, then i choose dialogue options that i want to do IRL but can't due to money/paperwork/litigation.

i will always kick the Eclipse Merc out of the 4000000th story window.

i will always fight if offended.

i will always press my luck with the girl.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Nope, I generally just try to make a character I think will look cool, sometimes I'll model them off a character I like though. As for decisions, yeah... my characters definately don't make the decisions I would. I mean, granted, I can kind of be a dick sometimes in real life... but the character I tend to play in games... well, if there were an achievement called "Lord Commando Douchebag Supreme," I wouldn't even have to try. I'll murder and pillage just about anyone or anything for no reason other than "oh, that shiny thing looks kind of cool!"

 

[Marter]

Usually as much as I can. Both looks and decision wise, at least the first time.

 

[L4hlborg]

I don't try to make characters look like myself, since I usually epicly fail at that. Instead, I just make them look bearable. If I put some of myself in my character, it is through the choise system. I usually replay RPGs a lot, but I usually do my own decisions in my main profile.

The problem with this is, that the moral choises are often really extreme. It really pisses me off if games misenterperate my real intentions. I concider myself a righteous person, so being forced to make my character be a douchebag to make the right decision is really annoying. Let's take Legion's loyalty mission in ME2 as an example.

Spoiler

So the decision is between brainwashing a huge ammount of geth to your cause or blowing them up. I choose to blow them up because I find it an insult to the geth to say that they don't have free will like us. I mean the game has tried to make me treat them as my equal. So to do the humane thing, my character has to be a raging lunatic and say that he hates robots and wants to blow shit up.

 

[Fraught]

I do usually choose the decisions I'd make, but not in appearance.

Even though I do like my appearance, and I'm not ugly in any way, I do kind like to make big, beard-y men, and stuff.

 

[MrJohnson]

I try too, but most of them have ridiculous slider systems that just make you look moronic, and all the guys have to be chiseled gods.

 

[Mike Andrews]

I really do not do either. In my opinion, I enjoy detaching myself from the game and becoming someone else. I find it the most fulfilling way to enjoy the games.

 

[BlackStar42]

I can't usually be bothered to make it like me, I just hit "Random" until it comes out OK. Gameplay-wise, I tend to put myself in my character's shoes and usually do whatever I'd do IRL.

 

[Danzaivar]

I always give my characters green eyes if possible. Not sure why, don't ever bother making them match myself in any other way...but they always have green eyes like me.

Never really thought about it before. Good topic!

 

[Nosense]

The character I make depends on the game really. If its a 60+ hour epic then I want a character that I am comfortable with staring at for 60+ hours. But I don't make it a habit to make the character look like me, because I always end up with a face only a mother could love ( hey wait...). My in-game choices usually reflect what my own choices would be but can also be context specific aswell. That's why I love the interrupt system in ME2 so much, and that's why the eclipse merc always goes for that fall

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

I try to make it as much 'me' as possible in 1st playthrough evil in 2nd.
Though it's hard finding my hairstyle in character cration.
I ALWAYS look like I just got out of bed with semi-long hair (trying to grow long to mosh).