Poll: Does anyone actually like being the "warrior"?

[Zyquux]

If the other things are done right I think they are better, Take The fable games for example.. If you did ranged or magic, you were doing it wrong. Melee was the most powerful and easest to use, a few ranged things here and there and a few magic but you spec melee. Its easy to make and easy to use therefore normally OP as shit

What? I've only played Fable 1 (I'M SO POOR) but I played a Ranged Mage character. Jack of Blades was laughably easy. Multi Arrow with a properly augmented Ebony Bow and I killed his second stage in about a minute. I beat him and said, "That's it?" It was a rather anti-climatic end to the game, for me.



OT: I'll avoid it when possible. I usually go for a mage/rogue hybrid with an emphasis on utility and/or support. i.e. A mage with utility skills like lockpick, persuasion, etc.

Example:
In Fallout 3, I started with Small Guns as my main damage source, but later switched to Energy Weapons. I maxed out Speech, Lockpick, and Computer Use first to get as much loot as possible.

In the KOTOR games, I took the Scoundrel(I)/Sentinel(II) first, then prestiged as a Consular(I)/Sith Lord(II) on my first playthrough.

In Mass Effect, my first Shepard was an Engineer in ME1 and a Sentinel in ME2
My second Shepard was a Sentinel in 1, and will probably make her an Infiltrator in 2, when I get around to starting that again.

Even in FPSs, I tend to go the more support classes like Medics or Engineers (specifically Battlefield 1942). The only exception is that I prefer MOAR DAKKA over sniper rifles in FPSs, so in TF2, I usually play Heavy, Pyro, or Medic.

 

[Strazdas]

I do. in all games that allow it, i play the warrior first time around. i love being able to carry a lot and have huge HP. i playo ther classes too, yes, but i love warrior/knight

 

[PurePareidolia]

I always go for rogue/mage. Usually rogue in things like Oblivion, where stealth is a viable option or Mage when it isn't. Lately though I pretty much always go mage, just for the versatility. I've never been interested in playing a direct damage class, except in TF2 where I play heavy quite a bit. Except I usually play the heavy like a rogue and ambush people.

I sometimes of wonder if basic RPG classes should be:

Warrior/Thief/Archer -> Magic/Technology user

So then you focus on tanking, stealth or ranged combat, and you can play using gadgets or magic, but not both. So Warriors would get all the heavy armour, and then either big swords, or close range AOE spells. Thieves would get knives and gadgets, or cloaking and debuffs. Archers would then get bows and/or guns, high mobility and low damage, high rate of fire spells. That way you have three different playstyles, they all have a magic option.

 

[Schwenkdawg]

I love playing warrior/melee dps beefy characters. there are few things more exhilarating than being the one standing toe-to-toe with the enemy instead of uttering some silly words and raining magic down on him or running away, stealthing, and stabbing him in the back. to be honest, those kinds of things strike me as downright cowardly (not a judge of the player, merely of the class and its chosen method of combat). so, yes, i love playing the class that either tanks a ton of damage (WoW warriors) or dishes out massive physical melee damage (LoL melee carries). Swinging a gigantic two-handed axe in the thick of the melee is the best for me

 

[Cowabungaa]

Sometimes I do yeah. They're just something primeval about rushing in the fray armed with a big axe/mace/sword and murdering everything in sight, or slowly advancing all clad in heavy armor, while your enemies' attacks fail without hope and you just march on, knowing you'll crush them.

Of course, only when the mechanics in the game make it feel gratifying. In Oblivion for example I cared little for it, it didn't have much "oomph" in it's melee combat. In Age of Conan on the other hand it felt a lot better.

The idea of being clad in 2,5 tons of metal and shrugging at a massive attack greatly appeals to me.

That's why I liked Warhammer Online; you could play a proper tank in PvP, thanks to collision detection. Leading the defensive force in a choke point, standing there pushing them back is the epitome of the tanking idea.

Just look at that ************!

 

[Gunner 51]

I don't mind being a warrior in RPGs, though I have to admit I'm generally a squishy witch. (If I'm going to look at someone's rear end for hour after hour, it may as well be a nice one.)

But in all seriousness, I always tend to start out as a warrior to get the feel for the game. If he proves to be fun, I continue with him. If not, it's squishy female mage for me.

Games will often let a mage give his / her enemies a satisfying incindiary death, but often a bloodless death for the warrior. Dark Souls remedied this magnificently, playing as a warrior was brutal and satisfying.

 

[socialmenace42]

For first play through purposes the 'standard class' is good fun, basically because it's the simplest and best for getting a feel for the game. I think mages and rogues are so appealing because they invariably start out kind of weak but end up preposterously powerful. Well, that's why i play them anyway...

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I almost always play as a ''ranged'' class
It's fun to destroy things from a distance while hidden

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Stepping aside from RPGs, almost everyone wants to be the warrior in FPS games, who wants to be thinking, or using tactics when you can just run face first at everyone and blow stuff up?

See Painkiller/Serious Sam/Duke Nukem/Doom/Quake/etc

 

[Gottesstrafe]

Personally I prefer to play to my power fantasies of being a suave, socially accepted and cunning individual by being the silver-tongued rogue/thief class with a crippling case of kleptomania and heavily romanticized case of explorer's OCD. However, that doesn't mean I'm unable to appreciate the Warrior class.

Warrior is a relatively simple class, easy to learn and moderately difficult to master (that is to say if you've never changed your strategy beyond move to point A and hit target B until you or it falls over) and a good for beginners who are unfamiliar with the controls. A good melee system has its fair share of blocks, dodges, and parries that keeps combat fluid and exciting as opposed to an exercise in spamming arrows/spells from a distance or abusing stealth to the point that your hunched over back has probably fused a few spinal disks for the sake of convenience. We've come a long way from the days of yore where warriors only came in the flavors of your Conan the Barbarian types or your mobile steel towers that can and probably have needed to be resuscitated after tripping face first into a shallow puddle. The increased proliferation of sub-classes for warriors have really changed the game, for the better I think anyway.

 

[Farotsu]

Unless I'm playing a trickster type of a class (low healthpool, high damage and mobility) I prefer to be able to take a beating while dishing more back. Actually these days I play almost all my games like that. Balls to the wall who backs off first kind of play.

 

[Dogstile]

Nothing wrong with warriors. Even in WOW back when I played it the warrior was a decent class to play because of having to hold aggro for everyone else. It wasn't always easy.

Although I prefer Diablo 2 for warrior play, its pretty fun.

 

[Random berk]

I generally use warriors. They're simple, but effective in a good game. In SW: Battlefront for example, I loved the trooper because I could get up to thirteen kills per death, the only time I could do better was when I got Darth Maul or Obi Wan Kenobi (At which point I could kill the entire enemy garrison). In LOTR: Conquest I always picked the warrior, because the shitty game mechanics meant that no other class would be able to beat the enemy warriors one on one. Even in Fallout 3 I tended to use mid range weapons like the shotgun, assault rifle or similar energy and plasma weapons all the time, though I did get quite good at using the .32 rifle for sniping towards the end. The only game I can think of where I prefer the other classes is Mass Effect, in which I quite enjoy using the infiltrator class.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yes I like being a warrior, how else do I get to use a sword and shield when spellcaster only use wand and staff? Granted if there is another melee like classes like a rogue, paladin or thief etc (a melee but not as strong as a warrior) I tend to play those instead.

 

[Titan Buttons]

My favorite role is being the Tank that either is a sponge for damage or just to be the heavy hitter

 

[Bishop99999999]

I think the warrior is a pretty cool guy. Eh wear heavy armor hitting things with sharp sticks and doesn't afraid of anything.

 

[spartandude]

Only when I'm a dwarf or if im a dps warrior

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Me? I do.

Though in terms of what social class I fall in with RPG's, I'm kind of the dirty Peasant who cleans up the lettuce that gets thrown at the prisoners in the stocks, so really my opinion doesn't matter.