Who likes to just sit back and make a character or two?

[The Rockerfly]

It's the reason I have ten bands worth of musicians in Guitar Hero 5.

MUST... MAKE... NEW... SINGER!

I have exactly the same problem

I made a pimp robot with a bar code on his forehead, the most expensive guitars, drum kits, bass and mics, silver skin, dreads, glasses and all the piercings I could have

The next is a purple glam rocker who has a Viking helmet. He had a yellow suit with puffy chest fluff

An Irish interpretation of the devil, he had red skin and a leprechaun hat and green suit

A man who has tattoo's so he looks like a cow and has "Moo" tattooed across his chest

finally I made "Tina" the talking troll who has everything set to the maximum size and is green but wears sexy clothes

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts.

Its not character creation, but making vehichles with what is essentially grown up lego, is just too much fun!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

3000+ hours in Oblivion for a reason.

I've done it all, from the assassin to the illusionist.

That game lends itself to replayablity, since everything is leveled to you.

Once I hit level 25-ish, I scrap my current character (even if its got 100+ hours on it), and start over.

 

[Jenova65]

3000+ hours in Oblivion for a reason.

I've done it all, from the assassin to the illusionist.

That game lends itself to replayablity, since everything is leveled to you.

Once I hit level 25-ish, I scrap my current character (even if its got 100+ hours on it), and start over.

Blimey, I know you say you like Oblivion (think it was on the how we pick our user name thread) but that is some dedication, kudos to you. I have a really hard time deleting games I have invested anything over 50 hours on, I mean I can do it, but it makes me twitch a bit.

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

i have the same addiction... sometimes i just start over with an character just because i think some minor things can be changed or i have an idea for a totally different character

 

[Manhattan2112]

Fallout 3's system of making characters is kinda weak, but the girl I made, Afro Man, who I turned evil was a lot of fun to make.

 

[Shockolate]

I'm probably the opposite. Even with my first playthrough of say Mass effect for example, I can't help but make my character look the same as he did when I first made him. Why you might ask? Because I use him to represent myself. My thoughts, personality, ideas (to the extent of the dialague trees of course) because he is ment to represent ME.

Even with the good/bad choice system, it's always the same. I make decisions based on what I would do. I also find it extremely hard and unsatisfying doing a "bad" playthrough of a game (Since I usually pick good for most things unless I really hate someone and decide to be a dick, which I do sometimes in life), because that's just not how I do things.

As for creating the character himself, if it's like Mass Effect, I try to make him look like a possible adult version of myself. If not, I try to make him look cool.

 

[Meggiepants]

3000+ hours in Oblivion for a reason.

I've done it all, from the assassin to the illusionist.

That game lends itself to replayablity, since everything is leveled to you.

Once I hit level 25-ish, I scrap my current character (even if its got 100+ hours on it), and start over.

Holy crap dude! You win. That is some serious dedication. I suppose if there is any game I would contemplate doing that with, Oblivion would have to be it. I take it you're eagerly looking forward to the next installment.

 

[ShotgunSmoke]

Total character creator addict, reporting in.

My first game with character creation was NBA 2003, I made like 30 characters there. Same for Tony Hawk's Underground 2, after I mastered the game (I bet I'm still ace at it) I did nothing but create characters.

I'm a hopeless perfectionist when it comes to creating a character. I spent an hour creating my Shepard in Mass Effect. I'm extremely proud of how good-looking he turned out to be. I guess I'm pretty talented at creating characters. Whenever I see a "post your custom character" thread, I look at some characters with disbelief, not knowing how one could endure the whole game while playing with that abomination.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

3000+ hours in Oblivion for a reason.

I've done it all, from the assassin to the illusionist.

That game lends itself to replayablity, since everything is leveled to you.

Once I hit level 25-ish, I scrap my current character (even if its got 100+ hours on it), and start over.

Holy crap dude! You win. That is some serious dedication. I suppose if there is any game I would contemplate doing that with, Oblivion would have to be it. I take it you're eagerly looking forward to the next installment.

Unless they announce a change in the leveling system...

Seriously. Oblivion was near perfect. Some difficulty issues at higher levels, but that's why I restart.

 

[Oneirius]

I really love creating characters for tabletop role playing games. I have created some that were more fun to just think about then to play!

 

[Meggiepants]

I have a really hard time deleting games I have invested anything over 50 hours on, I mean I can do it, but it makes me twitch a bit.

This bothers me sometimes, but often I get to a certain point in a game and decide I don't like my character anymore for some reason, and scrap it. If it's one of my favorite playthroughs though, I keep my saves.

OT: I love character creation. If the game let's me do it, I can guarantee that I'll play that game more than any other. I totally role play. Fallout 3 doesn't have the most flexible character creation tool ever, but it does allow you to be certain kinds of characters that are hard to achieve in other games. Especially because of some of the perks. I played an irresistible fellow once, high charisma, handsome, but he'd steal your wallet the second you turned around. It was a little easier to do this in the earlier Fallouts. I hope the New Vegas expansion allows more flexibility. Oblivion is pretty flexible. Sometimes I forget how flexible it is until I put the game in again and start creating a character.

 

[SavingPrincess]

Character creation is one of the serious gateway drugs to getting me to even touch an MMO. Games like City of Heroes and Champions Online are often more fun in their first 30-60 minutes of character creation than the actual gameplay itself. I cannot even begin to count how many level 5-10 character's I've offed in sake of their new younger brothers and sisters. I've even designed characters for other people (Champions Online makes that process extremely easy).

That being said... games like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Mass Effect leave a LOT to be desired for me in terms of character creation. I don't know if it's the overall system that I'm not very good with or something else, but I do not enjoy generating a character in those types of games as much as I would in say a Champions Online. However, given the fact that there is a narrative in games like Mass Effect to keep you moving forward, I find myself getting much more attached to my characters in single player RPG's than I ever have in MMO's.

Sometimes it's the characters you screw up on that you end up getting the most attached to.

 

[Eleima]

Be it Oblivion, Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect (mostly 1, since I've yet to create a character from scratch in ME2), I love just sitting back and playing around with the character creator. Before Dragon Age: Origins came out, they released the character creator. Must've churned out at least 15 characters before the game itself was released! *chuckles*

 

[AfroTree]

not so much character creating...more map creating, I like to sit back, and if I get the chance on some little out of the way game with map-making, I can sit and make a lot of maps ( none are very good, to me anyway ._. )

 

[regallmighty]

i love just screwing around with character generators

 

[SavingPrincess]

I'm probably the opposite. Even with my first playthrough of say Mass effect for example, I can't help but make my character look the same as he did when I first made him. Why you might ask? Because I use him to represent myself. My thoughts, personality, ideas (to the extent of the dialague trees of course) because he is ment to represent ME.

Even with the good/bad choice system, it's always the same. I make decisions based on what I would do. I also find it extremely hard and unsatisfying doing a "bad" playthrough of a game (Since I usually pick good for most things unless I really hate someone and decide to be a dick, which I do sometimes in life), because that's just not how I do things.

As for creating the character himself, if it's like Mass Effect, I try to make him look like a possible adult version of myself. If not, I try to make him look cool.

This mentality always intrigued me. I don't really see characters I create as "avatars" for who I am as a person. In fact, often times, especially in a game like Mass Effect, I will play a character to fit the story rather than my own personality. In both Mass Effect games, I found after a few jaunts through the games story, that a female "renegade with a paragon heart" kind of character is the most entertaining to me and gives the greatest sense of belivability to the narrative; you know, like a character who would punch a kid in the face to prevent him from accidentally hurting himself or someone around him.

I have a hard time visually representing this type of character given the system in place to work with... she always ends up looking like a messed up Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, which I suppose fits well enough personality and setting wise, but I wish either I or the system were more flexible when making a character.

 

[Trivun]

I actually find it pretty boring, to be honest. I'll usually create a male character that looks like me, and spend ages trying to get as close to my appearance as the game engine will allow. Then for female characters I have a set idea that I usually try to get as close as possible to (based on a particular character I created for my short stories). But aside from being a perfectionist on those cases, I find character creation to be pretty boring. It's one of the reasons I don't enjoy playing The Sims. I'd much rather just have my character and go out into the world with them and play the game, rather than spending ages creating a bunch of characters for no real reason aside from aesthetics.