Do you make characters that look like you?

[Sj]

nope

I view myself as a puppet master in regards to characters rather than an extension of myself

That's the way I am as well. All my characters are different from each other as well.

[Poppincaps]

I generally don't because I don't have enough patience to do alot of tweaks in character customization. I usually pick a preset and make a couple tweaks like hair and hair color.

Only games I actually make a character that looks like me (which usually means that the character is black and that's it) is Elder Scrolls and Fallout.

[Skulljin]

Depends on the game I play.

For Mass Effect, I thought about it but then I realized that I can't stand Male Shepards Voice Actor, so it came down to Female Shepard, thus I haven't even considered to make the Character look like me.
In WOW, I never played a human, so that kinda eliminates that in here too.
In Star Wars, I really much would have liked to do so, but the problem I had there was that the customization was rather limited which I disliked while I also found it strange to play a character who may look vaguely like me but would have an totally unfitting Voice Actor.

For example, I would have never been able to play Jedi Counsellor who is looking like me while having to listen to Nathan Drake trying to act like he is a honourable Jedi. It just felt wrong on so many levels.

I created a character who looked remotely like me in The Secret World though.

[Jaen]

Not usually. My husband plays fps games and always tries to make his character look like himself. I'm the mmorpg player, and I tend to make up characters who don't look anything like me. I even go as far as to prefer tall characters over short, as I'm short irl.

I'm also a roleplayer, so that may come into play as well. I want them to look like the character I want them to be, not me.

[Bender]

Either I make it look as badass as I can or I make it look completely silly. In WoW that is pretty much limited to transmogging, where my choice usually falls upon the first alternative. If Blizzard had a less restrictive transmog policy I'd probably run around with stuff like the frying pan with an egg in it and that sort of stuff.

[PizzaSHARK]

Fun question. When customizing characters (usually RPGs), do you make your characters as close to your actual look as possible? If so, why? Or why not?

Sort of. I tend to treat my characters as an extension of myself, so they'll often bear some similarity to me (and, obviously, are always male.) For whatever reason, I've always preferred to try and go for something of a "grizzled veteran" look with my characters. Dunno why, just fits my character concepts more than young and healthy and beautiful tends to, I guess

[Mifuyne]

Never.
Cutest girl if possible!

[Tidezen]

Yes, I almost always make my first character in any game look as close to me as possible (one exception being that I sometimes give them greener eyes, since I wish mine were a little greener ). But for alts I branch out, and make them their own character, including gender. I wouldn't want five different clones; that would get boring.

One oddity about me is that I've never, ever made a blonde-haired character, male or female. Which is weird because I can accept green, grey, white, red, blue, and purple as hair colors on my alts (I have brown hair just a shade lighter than black myself, so that's what my first character will always have)...but not blonde. Just can't do it. For some reason it just looks so wrong on me.

Nothing against blondes btw

[May90]

Well, I am a male and my characters are usually females... I'm trying to make them look like me, but somehow it doesn't work.

[Achaman]

best excuse is the (if i have to look at the back of a character for ages it might aswell be female) or something like that

thats what i go for when asked :/

i dont quite remember why i dont play male chars but whenever someone acuses me of being gay for playing a female char i think the opposite as im not the one staring at a guys arse all day

[Tidezen]

I wonder if it has anything to do with what games you first got into. Well after 3D anyway. Like as a kid I played mario and such, but I got my first real gaming computer in the 90s, basically the golden age of FPS. And I also played a lot of rpgs and adventure (and point-and-clicks like Myst) that all took place in first-person view. So for me, I always just WAS the character. Even in EQ1 I started off playing in first-person, because it just felt the most natural for me.

It wasn't until around 2000 when third-person games started taking over the market, although you could argue Metal Gear and Tomb Raider started that trend back in the 90's (But I never played them myself). I remember there being a big stink when that third Thief game came out featuring a third-person mode, people complain that it destroyed immersion.

Do you think there's anything to that? I mean, when you're playing a third-person game, it does feel more like you're watching that character instead of being that character, to me at least. But I grew up on FPS, so for me I still have a default tendency to play as though I am that character, whether Fp or 3p.

[Charge me Doctor]

In most RPGs i can't make freckles, so, no

[Loaf Lord]

If I play human, yes.

[Rukh]

Usually not. I build my characters around a concept for them, and they are not me. Once in a while I've made a character that might look like me, but generally they're their own concept. That's why some of my characters are also female.

[Crackleslap]

Nope. I'm generally playing a female character.

[Kuntantee]

Last year's i've been playing alot of online survival games , then i usually make black skinned character , cause its harder to get spotted then / better camouflaged in forest envirement.
In real mmo games i usually pick a female character wich used to look like a girl i used to date ( sounds pathetic).

Not pathetic, but it does sound weird.

[Deleted]

I usually want them to look meanest and the most bad-ass to my liking!

I usually pick long hair, huge beard and stuff like that, don't have that IRL.

[Rampant Rabbit]

Yes. I make them very handsome.

[Avada Kedavra]

not after myself per ce, but someone else I dont mind looking at all the time.

[Deleted]

I like pink irl, they get to be as pink as possible to make in game, but the similarities end there, I usually tend to choose none-humans if possible...