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Ever spend so much time deciding on character creation you never play the game?
seeyouspacec0wboy
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So it dosen't happen to me too often, but there are times when a game will come out and i am SO torn between what to play that don't end up playing the game for months. This only happens with games that I have been following for a long time and plan to make a home of for awhile. In this instance it is Final Fantasy XIV.
My current dilemma is choosing betwen a Lalafell (little cute guy) and a Miqote (badass cat lady). I much prefer the look of the Miqote but I like to see my characters as an extension of myself, kind of an avatar. It's hard for me to do this with female characters. On the other hand I'm not to keen on playing a short, cute, pudgy child for months or years to come. All of the other races are out. I've had the game since release and have hardly played becuase I keep switching/making new characters. It's sad really.
Anyways, anybody else have a similar experience?
Originally posted by Scagweed22
is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life
Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
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Wow that's crazy. I am the same exact way! I spent so much time in my life playing MMOs and wasting hours upon hours on re-rolling and charecter creation because i cant really figure out who i want to be and what i really want to look like. I even am as crazy as rolling a charecter, leveling up a certain amount, and deleting the toon because i couldn't stand a mark i had put on my face or if i picked a hair color i felt wasnt really for me or somthing stupid. I can go on. yeah im pretty crazy and you aren't the only one bro
Oh btw, i just bought FFXIV and ive already re rolled 3 times in a week. lol
Hahah yep same here, will level a bit but reroll based on eyebrows being just a little to thin or something. Glad to hear : )
What are you leaning towards for your character in FFXIV?
Originally posted by Scagweed22
is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life
Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
Don't worry, this game is so bad you'll only be playing it for 2 weeks tops.
yeah. Its sad because i can burn myself out on a potentially great game becauses of things like that. *lol*
Well right now, i have a male Hyur mage. But then i cant stop thinking, "do i really want to play a human". I really like the look of a human mage but, i have a chance to play a race that i dont see often. but then again it wont feel right. i don't know. im back to the same ol' song and dance. lol
Heh, playing a conjurer myself. I always try to stray from humans because, like you said, we are humans every day of our lives. But then again...it IS a solid race to play and typically looks good no matter what. Man, I feel you.
How deperessing. I am getting burnt out as well. Can't tell oyu how many times I've played through this damn intro. What server are you on?
Originally posted by Scagweed22
is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life
Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
Yeah. If i were big into Sci-fi i would just go play EVE so i didn't have to worry about seeing my toon. Just the ships i own, and i can always by a new one if i got bored of it instead of restarting. lol.
And you are right about the human thing. I think alot of times thats why i end up playing human, is because ultimatly. They do look good and right in just about anything. But makes it boring because its all we see.
Right now i am on the server Besaid
Heh, I did that when I first played COH. It took me a few weeks of re-rolling cuz there were just too many darn options to character customization.
Thats how it was in Oblivion ... mainly because the facegen there was extremely bad and it required hours and hours of work to get a face ... that still was crap.
And IF you managed a face that was NOT crap, well ... you couldnt save it ! Grrrrmpf.
Only happened to me in City of Heroes and Champions Online: the former as it was new and unprecedented the amount of customization available while the latter due to creation > than the rest of the game.
I have to admit, superhero games seem to have a huge boost over other games when it comes to character customization. I heard APB is an exception, but never got to play that.
I probably have more stories about character creation and characters I made in CoH than I have about actually playing the game, haha.
Only time that ever happened to me was the Hordes of the Underdark expansion for Neverwinter Nights. I would spend more time making level 15 characters with prestige classes than I would playing.
There was a City of Heroes 'game' after character creation?
Kind of sounds like my wife, It takes her hours to roll a new toon. She eventually plays, but yes i take 2-3 minutes on toon cration but the wife could be there all night trying to decide.
I've never spent so much time that I didn't play the game but i have often spent so much time that the connection timed out or dropped during creation.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
From a psychological standpoint I find the above fascinating. I'm not the least bit interested in my character's appearance. Give me a cylinder that slides around the game world; I couldn't possibly care less. I care about what I can do with my character , not what it looks like.
Which is why MMOs ultimately disappoint me. The emphasis is on form more than function. When the form of a game greatly outpaces its function, I find the disconnect jarring. EverQuest made a bit of sense because the graphics were just as clunky as the gameplay. Now we have beautiful, refined graphics and the same clunky gameplay. It's like crossing the room to talk to a beautiful woman only to find that she's an idiot.
No, I'll blow through the character creation screen in quick order. Get me into the game.
I did that with D&D Online, selecting my appearance wasn't that hard but by the time I figured out how I wanted to develop my character I was burned out and uninstalled the game.
Hehe. I have spent a lot of time on character creation screens before, but eventually I get bored and want to whack something with my sword.
Vault-Tec analysts have concluded that the odds of worldwide nuclear armaggeddon this decade are 17,143,762... to 1.
Never. Matter of fact, the games with too much customizability drive me nuts. I want to get into the game ASAP. Half the time you end up wearing a ton of gear that covers what you look like anyway.
I have a tendency to spend alot of time creating my characters. And if i find something i dont like and these are still lower then level 10 i will delete them and make them again. Vanguard and TCOS were the worst for keeping me at the character screen. The funny thing with EVE onlines character creaster i created my character in 10 minutes and I loved him.
Playing: PO, EVE
Waiting for: WoD
Favourite MMOs: VG, EVE, FE and DDO
Any person who expresses rage and loathing for an MMO is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
A good deal of it comes from the difference between those players who seek MMOs as a means of escape/immursion and those who utilize them simply as a mild form of entertainment. The former tend to connect much more heavily with their characters as they see them as the in game extension of themselves, thus they want them to appear in just such a way. Were you given the opportunity to make yourself look anyway you wished in real life I would venture a guess you might take more than 30 seconds to get it just so. Those to whom the game is no more than a way to blow off some steam and get a few laughs the avatar is irrelevant. This is why FPS games have never spent any great amount of time on generating unique player characters but rather simply give them a default 'soldier' to blow things up with. Now in recent times, the lines have blurred a little as more surface level gamers have begun to seek richer gameplay but on average the norm remains.
As for those to whom the avatar is everything, think of it in the same way one would a movie, another entertainment medium we use for escape. Were you to sit down to watch the upcoming "Hobbit" film and Gandalf entered scene wearing a yellow blazer, pink swimtrunks and cowboy boots introducing himself as 'ilikypewpew' it would unvariably ruin the film. This is another of the reasons that more serious gamers and roleplayers spend so much time on their characters. To play a role in a world, one must seem to belong or fit in. Now this opens up all kind of psychological debates regarding those gamers that intentionally make ugly annoying characters just to shake their fist at 'the man'. But that is for another time.
I spent hours creating my characters In almost every game, especially in Champions Online and Star Trek Online (which are practically the same)...
Why? - I'm a roleplayer so well, you know, a character has to make sense. The more thought I put into a character the more profile it has when it comes to roleplaying.
I usually try to get distinct things attached to my character, something people can remember and start RPing at. Like short legs or a huge nose, I even included a pregnant woman in my bridge crew... I can't hear the immersion bla bla crap anymore though, character customization for me is an instrument for fun roleplaying. A congruent and authentically played character is a lot more fun to play and play with than some random crap-toon with Tier 15 raidgear (in a tavern).
In Oblivion, I spent 5 minutes at the char gen, because I would play a single player game in 1st person anyways, so who gives a damn.
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It's too bad nobody told you that you can open the terminal and enter ChangeRace (or something to that effect) and open the character creation window whenever you want to change your characters apperance : )
Originally posted by Scagweed22
is it the graphics? the repetativenesses? i mean what is the point? you could be so much more productive in real life
Real life brings repetition and pointlessness too. The only thing real life offers is Great graphics. Its kinda expensive too and way to dependent on the cash shop. Totally pay to win as well. No thank you. Ill stick to my games.
CoH/CoV is the poster child for this one. So many options, so many choices (and much without knowing what they really do) that it ends up that the creation system is better than the game.
Played: Asheron's Call(still the best fantasy MMO!), EQ1, EQ2, Vanguard, DAoC, Horizons, City of Heroes/Villians, WoW (crap), LOTORO, D&D Online, Eve, Anarchy Online, and still playing SWG daily.
OMG i probably spent 3/hrs if not more deciding what class to play and then the whole character customization deal of my character in Aion, then played maybe an hour of the game only to realise it wasn't for me. /face palm