Does your character fit your personality?, well? Options

[Dive]

Do the character(s) you play reflect your own personality and style?

I play a Fomar mainly because I can be either a tech heavy nuker, or a subtle damage dealer. I think this dichotomy reflects on my own tastes and disposition. I like to think that I am multi faceted with a different path choice available at any time. The Fomar excels in a few areas while not being outstanding in one particualar. I like to have the option to be successful in a multitude of situations.

Is this too deep?

[Shotie]

QUOTE (Shojin @ May 9 2003, 09:50 AM)

hmm Ive always thought of Role Playing as "Playing a game in which you control a person or thing through a story or sequence of events and interpret a path for he/she/it."  THats what ive always thought, and any character i make is directly related to my personality imo.

Let me clarify: I specifically said, "I don't role play in PSO". When I play PSO, what you see is the real Shotie, not a character in my mind that I pretend I am when I'm playing. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not. Now, it's fine if you want to do that; PSO certainly encourages that, and it can be a blast. But I don't pretend I'm really my RAcaseal, or really a FOmarl when I'm playing. I'm still me, Shotie, no matter what character you see on the screen, the same personality comes out of it.

Now there IS a huge difference between playing a role-playing game, and ROLE-playing in a role-playing game. You follow?

Example: When someone plays Final Fantasy X, they are playing a role that has been preconcocted for them by other people. You don't interact with other real people however, only other characters within the game. (i.e. not online)

When you role-play, in an enviroment where you can choose the role, and customize it, then you are truly role-playing, not taking on someone else's preconceived role that everyone who plays that game must take.

I think I'm having a hard time explaining what I'm getting at here...

The bottom line is, there are different kinds of role-playing here. When you play a video game of any kind, yes, technically you are taking on that character's role, playing from their point of view. However, this isn't really the type of role play we're discussing here. We mean, in an eviroment when you do not HAVE to role-play, do you choose to role-play anyway?

You don't have to role-play in PSO. You are not forced to take on a character's background really. You can play without that. Or, you can say that you're a mercenary HUnewearl sent to destroy all HUmars cause you're the Amazonian Leader of PSO Lesbians Who Hate HUmars or something-but you don't have to.

Am I making sense at all? I didn't get much sleep last night....haha