Poll: Have you ever grown attracted to a videogame character YOU created?

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Katherine Kerensky

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I cannot let Lt. Bastable die.
Lt. Bastable being the character I created originally on KOTOR, but I use it in Mass Effect.
They must go to great lengths to kick asses and be the hero!
 

Sigel

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No, not really. I have some attachment for the character(s) I create or play because I see them as kinda of like extensions of myself.
 

hazabaza1

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Ooooh, that sort of attached. No. Not like that. I have felt as though I want to do the best that I can for them in a lot of games, however.

EDIT: Oh, wow, it said attracted. I thought you said attached. Wow. Awkward.
 

Toothache of Sauron

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Well, yes. I've created in NWN some characters with whom I've had a lot of fun. Some because I got them out so nicely, other because she's so fun and I got so many laughs playing her.

Besides I have good luck to find portraits for those (not so much luck with portraits for male chars) and have good imagination to quickly translate from drawing/3d model to real girl who'd be represented.

Also because in playing I try to imagine the character and get inside her skin and at the same time it's not chars I play as being myself in any way so it's kind of another but I know her from inside and generally have something of the kind of girl I like.

So getting attached is kind of inevitable and necessary, if the char were one I couldn't get attached to and connect to it, I would not get to enjoy the game. In fact the reason every character I made failed because not having a good portrait caused me to not get the connection to get a feel of how they'd be and react and hence it would feel too much of a generic piece of imaginary pixels that I don't care and I don't know how would react.

Also those three chars I've got to like and feel attached to are also such that are aesthetically pleasing to me.

Of course that attachment doesn't mind any creepy thing like getting obsessed over them or develop feelings or whatever.

I would so like to cross them in the street, though, or knowing someone like them will or has existed. I cry in fetal position when I think they may not exist[/jest].


P.S. - Hazabaaza has felt attached, in my book. (man wouldn't have it been awesome without the comma?):
 

Gir1yG4m3r

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Ahh, I see. That's makes sense. I keep on forgetting how I like evil characters sometimes and think they're sexy. In real life, I would not tolerate such a thing with my partner.
 

Loop Stricken

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yersimapestis said:
Loop Stricken said:
Oh sure.
Behold, my Rock [http://www.rockband.com/wallpaper/3339260/2] Band 2 character [http://www.rockband.com/wallpaper/3304489/2]!
sooooo ur into emos?
Nah, goggles. And dark hair.

PoisonUnagi said:
She IS ugly!
So's your face.
Cajt said:
Ozzy Osbourne with boobs!?
I've heard that before... but thinking of it now, how is that a bad thing?
 

Thimblefoot

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I am attached to my character in Mass Effect, i only ever made one, he was so badass looking i could never bring myself to make another, i knew they would be inferior. Loooking forward to using him in ME2...
 

Beldaros

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attracted to no. Attractive yes, there's nothing wrong with a cartoon character/video game character looking good and maybe giving you wood, after all many are designed that way. especially females.

However, the idea of somebody wanting to be with a cartoon/video game character is quite a disturbing one, and speaks of a terrible future. Looks aren't everything.

I kind of feel I haven't made myself clear here. Meh, think I'm weird if you want.
 

Jammerz

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Well, whenever I create a character in a game, I make them ugly or funny looking that will make me laugh whenever I see them
 

OwenWalker

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Not really. I have been attracted to characters in games, but characters I make are often limited by my creativity, or the lack thereof.
 

reg42

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I really like my Shepard, my Warden, and my guy from KotOR.
<-- Bioware fan
 

NezumiiroKitsune

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I made a character in Saints Row 2 with the express purpose of making her as sexy as I could possibly produce with the tools at hand. I would have hit that if she hadn't been pixelated and a sociopath.

Regarding falling in love, no. No. Nooo. That would be problematic for my already unstable mind. I have formed real emotional attachment to characters I have led through a game for many hours, maybe through many games (Snake, hammering X at the end of MGS4). The same as with books really. Less so with movies because they are such a brief medium but occasionally when the film is really well done.
 

JeanLuc761

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My female Shepard in Mass Effect looks a good deal like Annie Wersching and I like it a lot. ;)

I've grown emotionally attached to some characters but I've never actually fallen in love with one. Hopefully I never will because it can only end in disappointment.
 

Flying Dagger

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Um... Not really...
Though i tend to be attracted to things that are more then just appearance, and differ widely from my personality, which the characters i create end up similar to.
 

Dobrev

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Most fresh example, my Shepard from Mass Effect. Sure he is as generic as any other, but because it was me that played and made the choices it feels unique (good game Bioware).
I send half an hour cussing in frustrationtrying to import his face from the the first episode. Wanted to grow him a beared and maybe change the haircut a bit, but n such otion was given to me. Either have him as-was or start from scratch. And with that much tweaking I had done in the first game and no dual screen to keep continuous comparisments it just broke it with me.