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[Stalky24]

Im jusk asking coz it just happened to me.
I was making one of my starting chars (still deciding if arcane warrior or noble/dalish ranger) and I noticed that during adjusting stuff I was making a background for them in my mind and I created their personalities too. My noble warrior is kinda ruddish guy, who likes hunting, ladies, drinking and all that stuff is arrogant but badass. My mage, at the other hand, was born with a silver hair, what showed more then average magic talent. He, ofcourse, is very proud of it and during studying in Circle, he was telling others about much more power hidden in to earn some school respect. He believes in his powers and believes that hes better then the other non-mages. And at the end, younger dalish elf, parentless, is kind person, but with belief in dalish people. He would sacrifice his life for them and he wouldnt be afraid of worst actions in order to help forest elves.

I dunno how you, but I am really looking forward to play each of them and see what future brings them in such a story.

[Blessed Silence]

Oh defiantely, especially when it comes to deciding what my charaters will say.

[Nekator]

I´m mostly trying to.. sadly it´s not always easy in computer RPGs..



I especially hate it if there are only dialogue choices which won´t fit my actual character at all ..

[Servant of Nature]

I have personalities and backgrounds ready and waiting for at least seven characters now, I've made ten, still working on how I want my males to act.



My avatar is a city elf, I am taking her in a new and difficult direction for me. I play self-aware characters constantly, mainly because it's hard to ignore flaws that you have actually created. This time I am going to strive to have a naive, altruistic, doormat of a character, who only fights when she knows her friends and family are in danger. She doesn't like conflict, especially vs the humans, so she learned to talk her way out of things very well, and covers for her friends and family.

[Mystranna Kelteel]

It's a must for me in a game like this. I need to know where she's been before I can decide where she will go. It makes it that much more fun.

[Riot Inducer]

I know I do, although a lot of the time I'm finding in the Character Creator that the characters sometimes make themselves. With several characters of mine I've just started tweaking with their appearance until I find something I really like and then it seems like their personality just kinda falls into place, in fact, I'm finding the hardest part is finding a voice that matches them.



When it comes down to the game though, I think you're more or less forced to RP your characters simply because the dialogue choices you choose determine your characters personality more than the backstory (you choose if your character is noble, a psychopath, morally bi-polar or w/e else)

[hexaligned]

I try to! No matter how I start a character they usually end up being sarcastic with little to no patience as the game goes on... I wonder why >.>

[Mistress9Nine]

I don't RP the first one, cause then I play as myself. The subsequent ones, yes.

[AgentGeej]

Always
I love creating a background and personality for a character then playing through in character.

[Jimjim Sauragil]

Always - that's the fun of it. I usually end up creating a basic background and set of motiviations and seeing where the game takes me. I usually end up doing a lot of things and going in directions I never thought I would! I think DA will take that to a new level.

[Bathedor]

When I first start playing I will have made two characters.



One - Being the one in my display pic, is going to be my Definitive character, who will have a personality and a history. He is the one I will pay most attention to and care about more.



Two - Action orientated, probably a warrior, who will be used to play the game through without paying too much attention to detail and character and focusing more on the Game mechanics and tactics etc.



Generally speaking though, I love to Roleplay. :]

[Falmung]

Yes I roleplay for all the characters I create. My avatar is based on a story character that I made based on myself who is a person with the ability to travel through time and space. In order to gain this ability he lives 100 lives of himself in alternate realities. Like the movie "The One". That is why the Philp from Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Soul Calibur IV and Oblivion is the same guy travelling through time and space.



As for the other characters I create they sometimes make themselves as some noted here. I just start randomly messing around with them and as I see the face it all comes flashing to me. I'm someone who just loves games with customization for this specific reason. That's why Mass effect and all those other games are my special games. I spend 6+ hours just tweaking and creating characters. Then when I see them in the cutscenes I smile with pride.



I'm thinking since this social site came out of making my little roleplay journals for talking about what each of my characters is doing and their reactions. Like a journal of the character's journey as a Grey Warden.

[Remmirath]

I always do. That's probably the single most fun part of the game for me. (Not that the rest of it isn't, of course.) The first two times I play through any game I usually do it once with an evil character and once with a good character, but I'm not sure if I'll end up doing that in this one. None of the characters I've thought of so far have been either, really.



So far I'm thinking my first character (male city elf rogue) will have had a reasonably good life up until the point the game starts, and then he'll start becoming more bitter and cynical as time goes on. He's probably sort of stuck between genuinely wanting to help people and just being self-serving. He probably wasn't completely happy with his lot in life to begin with.

My second character (female human noble warrior) will probably be more of the dedicated sort, trying to do the right thing even if it's done the wrong way. Which it probably will be most of the time. "Kill first, ask questions later" and all that.



My characters always seem to change a bit in the first few hours of actually playing the game, though, so it's pretty hard to say for sure what they'll be like yet.

[Torrius]

For sure I do that.. if only so that I can readily make dialogue choices. My first two characters are based off of PCs I played in tabletop games years ago, so I know them very, very well. The one in my pic is a warmonger... he lives for battle, and as a warrior who bores of peacetime he is a bit of an anarchist. My elven mage on the other hand is a kind, diplomatic knowledge-seeker, who has made it his life's mission to unravel the secrets behind.. well anything and everything. Knowledge is power so they say.

Modifié par Torrius, 14 octobre 2009 - 07:46 .

[Rivie]

Yep, I always do. I develop a class/race/personality combo, make up a background for it that I can fit around game canon, and when I figure out a name, that character is made. They have their people they romance, their companions. Sometimes the romances and companions get switched around, and sometimes even class gets switched around if I like that particular character a lot, but mostly they all stay their individual self.

[Odd Bet]

I do, usually for any game I play. I pretty much go into character creation with an idea of who my character is, but sometimes the character surprises me and I end up with something I never expected.

[Red Viking]

I tend to use a base pattern of behavior when I play a character instead of constructing an elaborate backstory. Besides, DA:O has already done the hard work for us in that regard.



At any rate, making choices based on a personality "blueprint" is a lot more fun since I find that having an elaborate backstory limits what I can do in the game. That's not to say there's anything wrong with that, only that it's not my preferred method.



I find it to be a more organic flow since my characters are literally defined by the choices they make which can lead to some very interesting moments.



For example, my renegade Shepard in my second Mass Effect playthrough made her decisions based on "Not afraid to make hard choices to protect others" and who "Deep down cares about the innocent". So I ended up with someone who executed criminals without a second thought but who spared the Rachni Queen because she couldn't bring herself to commit genocide, even though that left the door open for a second war with the species.

[Cuuniyevo]

Oh absolutely. There's just no other way to play, honestly. Far more important than 'what' you do is 'why' you do it. Sometimes I'll really really really want to pick one dialogue option in a game because it's so cool or funny or fitting or whatever, but hold back because it's not in my characters' character, if you know what I mean. That being said, sometimes the best role-playing is done on the fly, as 'you' discover something new, or uncover some dark secret that changes your outlook on the world. So I may start a game with a full character in mind and know exactly who it is, but 'life intervenes' and by the end it feels as though I've gone on a real journey. Having this open world is extremely exciting for me, as I've been dreaming about things like this since first reading The Hobbit so many years ago. The main character's no hero at the beginning, he just happens to be swept away and rises to the occasion.

[Lucas78]

Yes, I'll try to roleplay as much as the game mechanics allow; the companions I'll choose will also depend on the behaviour traits of my character combined with how I'll react to the situation during which I'll meet a certain, potential companion.



Err, ok, or something like that.

[DadeLeviathan]

yes and no. Sometimes I already have the background and personality laid out, and are just creating the image, so i don't RP it out when I create all the time. But yes.

[fairandbalancedfan]

I like redemption stories. So yeah, from being a low life to someone respectable ? count me in.

[Para Pett]

Yeah I do, but I don't always get the background of my character. As long as I have the personailty nailed down, I'm good to go.

[DalishRanger]

Always. I love coming up with backgrounds and personalities before I play characters in-game; it's one reason I now have trouble playing games that don't let you create the main character. While I fiddle around with different types/backgrounds, I almost always favor characters with at least a shred of compassion and some sort of sense of humor. Both are important in my life, and it's hard to seperate from it in-game, even though I never play as myself.

[Chaos-fusion]

I do, to a point. I have a personality in mind and give them a background/class and appearence to suit them, but from then on in I don't bother.