Board 8 > In games with blank playable characters...

(+) Yeah! (+)

Like, say, P3, do you count them as an extension of yourself, or just another character with their own story?

--
Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest

A mix of both?

--
Proud ValHellen x Maha_Bufudyne shipper.

Well, it's just that I never considered the first option, and now I'm curious how most people play after looking over the P3 board.

--
Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest

It's yourself if you make all the choices for them and stuff.

Applies mostly to WRPGs though.

--
http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr345/Rakaputra/pjbasis.png
SuperNiceDog - 1, pjbasis - 0

It depends on how blank they are.

There's an invisible line between "enough control that I insert myself into the character's place" and "few enough choices that I treat the character as a separate entity I am roleplaying as."

--
Ace Detective in Sir Chris' Police
http://i39.tinypic.com/262l4ci.jpg

That's true.

Though I usually have several characters rolled for WRPGs, each with a set of plans on on how they'll act, but I'm crazy.

--
Aww, I lost to SuperNiceDog, Winner of the Rivalry Rumble Guru Contest

From: Pram_the_Oracle | #006
Though I usually have several characters rolled for WRPGs, each with a set of plans on on how they'll act, but I'm crazy.
I do this, too.

But still, one of them is always "me."

--
Ace Detective in Sir Chris' Police
I assure you, my dear, all Ace Detectives are perfect gentlemen!

When I played The Sims I had a character who was me. And that character acted how I would act.

But every other character had their own kind of personality and so when I was playing them I made sure they stayed in their own respective character as well.


But when it's a game where you have less freedom I think Rad Link has it correct. There is a difficult to distinguish line that determines whether or not you feel it is 'you' or not.

--
~Ç~ http://img.imgcake.com/AlecTrevylan006/fdshieldpngyn.png Eff_Dee
http://img.imgcake.com/nio/9fdpngys.png

Always someone else.

Even games like Elder Scrolls where they're entirely my creation, I think of them as characters in a story I'm writing (or rather, actors in a story I'm directing, since I can only control how they behave rather the whole story). Most of them tend to end up with little 'quirks' based on early decisions that I'll constantly refer back to in later ones.

For example, my Skyrim character, Fiolina, particularly hates necromancers, and will always stop to cleanse a location of them if she spots one in passing (by comparison, if I'm planning on doing a particular quest and pass a fort occupied by bandits, she might just carry on and ignore them.) And she's wary about stepping between standing stones. Both are just random thoughts that occurred to me early on, but I still act on them some 40-odd hours later. Even if it ends up making things harder.

--
"My name is Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and like my father before me, I am an accountant"
Nothing is true. Everything is tax-deductible

Games like The Elder Scrolls, I always play one character as though it was me, I make all the choices I personally would in those situations to a point, eventually I start thinking about which choice would benefit my playthrough most.

--
RayDyn on his Droid, probably at work.

Not me, because I wouldn't imagine myself as being some unstoppable warrior god. Or looking like the main characters. Or being limited to those choices when they get to them.

--
I have no idea who you are, but I thank you for arousing me. - Beruga
Brawl FC: 3823-8243-5663

Final Fantasy 9!

--
http://backloggery.com/genesistwilight/sig.gif
http://mlkshk.com/r/3JLF.gif

I always try to act in character if I'm controlling a character with a personality, as in most JRPGs. Like, having Cloud declare his undying love for Barret would make the game feel completely "off" for me, funny though it may be.

Frankly, choices in story-driven games annoy me. I play games to have a story told to me, not to "create my own" based on a bunch of binary selections within a horribly restricted framework. If I want to make my own story I boot up 3D Studio Max.

I tend to come up with a personality for them and act it out. I'm an actor; it's what I do.

--
K | H | A | Q | Q | A | H | K
"we're about 50 years behind the rest of western society." -icon on B8

BMJ said it best as far as my style is concerned, really.

--
K | H | A | Q | Q | A | H | K
"we're about 50 years behind the rest of western society." -icon on B8

explain?

--
Random Things 12 http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/236287

Certainly.

From: BlackMageJawa | #009
Always someone else.

Even games like Elder Scrolls where they're entirely my creation, I think of them as characters in a story I'm writing (or rather, actors in a story I'm directing, since I can only control how they behave rather the whole story). Most of them tend to end up with little 'quirks' based on early decisions that I'll constantly refer back to in later ones.

For example, my Skyrim character, Fiolina, particularly hates necromancers, and will always stop to cleanse a location of them if she spots one in passing (by comparison, if I'm planning on doing a particular quest and pass a fort occupied by bandits, she might just carry on and ignore them.) And she's wary about stepping between standing stones. Both are just random thoughts that occurred to me early on, but I still act on them some 40-odd hours later. Even if it ends up making things harder.

--
K | H | A | Q | Q | A | H | K
"we're about 50 years behind the rest of western society." -icon on B8