Watching yourself die...repeatedly

[Amnestic]

This server has like 50 people so impossible to raid. But ya on other servers my Warlocks always look kick ass. (especially bugged servers where Blood Elves can have all professions)

I get the feeling your server isn't entirely official.

 

[Amnestic]

I get the feeling your server isn't entirely official.

Shhh dont tell anyone. And go back to your old avatar. Was sooo much cuter, *wants the little chip eating gif*

I've had three avatars over my time at the Escapist including this one. They are the following:

Spoiler: First

Spoiler: Second

Spoiler: Current

Chip Eating? ;/

 

[Galletea]

I suppose you could create someone you hated in something like soul calibur, and then deight in beating the snot out of him/her, but if you did that in say, Fallout, you're stuck with them, until of course you wear a helmet I guess.

Although wearing a helmet doesn't alter the fact that you know what he looks like, so would it make a difference if your representation is being brutally murdered, but he's wearing a helmet so you don't have to gaze upon his lifeless features?

 

[tregon75]

Has anyone made a character look like someone else they know?

In some games, I make a character that looks like this one guy, (Guy who bullied me in elementary school... lol) then I repeatedly kill him in the most embarrassing ways possible.

 

[Amnestic]

Although wearing a helmet doesn't alter the fact that you know what he looks like, so would it make a difference if your representation is being brutally murdered, but he's wearing a helmet so you don't have to gaze upon his lifeless features?

I dunno, I quite like my character not wearing a hat so I get a better look at him when I'm playing. Similarly, my character in mass effect barely ever has her helmet up when it doesn't have to be.

 

[searanox]

I do try to make my initial character look like myself, but usually that results in failure because I'm too ugly for the beauty pageant simulations most games provide me with. I don't feel any more connected to my avatar as a result.

 

[ShogunGino]

I suppose you could create someone you hated in something like soul calibur, and then deight in beating the snot out of him/her, but if you did that in say, Fallout, you're stuck with them, until of course you wear a helmet I guess.

Although wearing a helmet doesn't alter the fact that you know what he looks like, so would it make a difference if your representation is being brutally murdered, but he's wearing a helmet so you don't have to gaze upon his lifeless features?

Unless you start a new file in Fallout, then you can do more, maybe. Could just be the 360 version talking.

As for the helmet thing, it's kinda like what Yahtzee said in his Chain of Olympus review, when he said that imagining the face of your childhood bully on the heads of the enemies makes the game more fun. I guess if the hate or memories are bad enough, even the sword-fodder can be good for that, including a helmeted avatar.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Has anyone made a character look like someone else they know?

In some games, I make a character that looks like this one guy, (Guy who bullied me in elementary school... lol) then I repeatedly kill him in the most embarrassing ways possible.

....OK? *Backs away slowly*

 

[MONTGOMERYWOODRUFF69]

Why on earth would I want my avatar to look like me? I do horrible things to them, besides there is already an avatar that resembles me, Agent 47 in the Hitman series, well minus the bar code tattoo on the back of my head.

 

[Sezo]

This is a very interesting topic.

I always make my character look as much as myself as possible, even if theres little character customization. I have black beard and hair which I shave every 6 months or so, my features are average and my body athletic so I pretty much get a good result every time, cause thats how almost all characters look like.


I don't know if it affects me when I see "myself" die. I think I've gotten over it after "dying" so many times. But I have wondered the same thing myself.

What if watching yourself die repeatedly does affect you in a subconscious way we can't even understand?

 

[Baonec]

I tend to try and make the ideal me (in my eyes) which usually makes me more attached & gets me a little riled up when i die knowing that even my vision of perfection is heavily flawed ...*sad face*

 

[Altorin]

Games do not allow the necessary amount of gratuitous flab and chin fat to make my avatars look like me, so I just try and find something I like.. Usually they either look like Mel Gibson or Robert Downey Jr.. Or the bastard lovechild of Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.

 

[Fiskmasen]

the bastard lovechild of Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.

That sounds oddly compelling.

 

[RinrIck]

Has anyone made a character look like someone else they know?

Hour and a half of my girlfriend sitting on my bed as I crafted her. Best thing was it was her idea. But watching her die over and over as she gets beaten down by mutants with giant nailboards...is quite on the disturbing side...

She is there...but i started over..

 

[The_Deleted]

But does making yourself in the game make you connect with the character more? Or is it just lack of imagination as to what to create?

In the case of SR2, I feel more of a connection to the game because of the option to build a character. Where as GTAIV, you feel like you're controlling A Guy instead of someone who is an extension of you, no matter how 0utTh3re the character looks.

 

[Galletea]

Games do not allow the necessary amount of gratuitous flab and chin fat to make my avatars look like me, so I just try and find something I like.. Usually they either look like Mel Gibson or Robert Downey Jr.. Or the bastard lovechild of Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.

That is an interesting prospect.
But when I mean an avatar looks like you, I mean vaguely, more like an improved version. Does improving your features remove your sympathy for 'yourself'?

 

[Yegargeburble]

I managed a decent representation of myself in the oddly fantastic game 'Godfather'....

It was... disturbing to be gunned down, but made cut scenes awesome and using the streetsweeper auto-shotgun and god-weapon into private fantasies of death and flame.

My Godfather character looks nothing like me, but now that I have read this, I want to make myself and go on another rampage, killing cops, people, and other gangsters.