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Topic	Only 16% of people make characters look like themselves
ParanoidObsessive 12/04/17 7:24:35 PM #38:	AngryBlueOrange posted... Why don't you make your character look anything like you when you create one? Because I am literally never playing as "me". Whether it's a game like Mass Effect where I'm explicitly someone else, or a game like Fallout or Skyrim where I don't have a specific identity in-game but still have a background that makes them very much not me, or even a game where there is literally no identity of any kind, never once in nearly 30 years worth of gaming (both video games AND tabletop RPGing) have I ever seen or played as a character in-game who I see as being ME. But whether or not a character is "me" doesn't mean shit to me in terms of immersion, because even if I somehow visualized my character as me, it doesn't change the fact that -I- can't shoot fireballs, call down lightning, gun down aliens with machine guns, or any of the other thousand things you can do in video games. Any video game I ever play (and nearly every video game ever made) is by definition going to be about things I cannot or will never do, so that sort of immersion is out the door from second one anyway. But I don't really need that level of immersion to care about characters or their story, either. I've played as tons of fictional characters who are absolutely distinct from me, and yet whose lives mean far more to me than actual living, breathing humans (who I rarely give much of a shit about at all). Maybe if I was playing a photorealistic VR game with perfect tactile input on every level with intricately scripted AI dialogue that is like being inside the Matrix, I could play myself as a character and get something out of it, but as is, I really don't. As a related aside, I'm currently playing South Park: Fractured But Whole as a redhead girl, when I am neither a redhead nor a girl. But then again, neither am I a fourth grader who lives in Colorado, nor a child who can power construction equipment or fly by the power of my own farts, so, you know, realism died a long, long time ago. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:891595455] in Only 16% o... [t:76061833]...</cite> <quote><cite>AngryBlueOrange posted...</cite> <quote>Why don't you make your character look anything like you when you create one?</quote> Because I am literally never playing as "me". Whether it's a game like Mass Effect where I'm explicitly someone else, or a game like Fallout or Skyrim where I don't have a specific identity in-game but still have a background that makes them very much not me, or even a game where there is literally no identity of any kind, never once in nearly 30 years worth of gaming (both video games AND tabletop RPGing) have I ever seen or played as a character in-game who I see as being ME. But whether or not a character is "me" doesn't mean shit to me in terms of immersion, because even if I somehow visualized my character as me, it doesn't change the fact that -I- can't shoot fireballs, call down lightning, gun down aliens with machine guns, or any of the other thousand things you can do in video games. Any video game I ever play (and nearly every video game ever made) is by definition going to be about things I cannot or will never do, so that sort of immersion is out the door from second one anyway. But I don't really need that level of immersion to care about characters or their story, either. I've played as tons of fictional characters who are absolutely distinct from me, and yet whose lives mean far more to me than actual living, breathing humans (who I rarely give much of a shit about at all). Maybe if I was playing a photorealistic VR game with perfect tactile input on every level with intricately scripted AI dialogue that is like being inside the Matrix, I could play myself as a character and get something out of it, but as is, I really don't. As a related aside, I'm currently playing South Park: Fractured But Whole as a redhead girl, when I am neither a redhead nor a girl. But then again, neither am I a fourth grader who lives in Colorado, nor a child who can power construction equipment or fly by the power of my own farts, so, you know, realism died a long, long time ago. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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