Because I canвЂ™t help but start approaching the game the way I would in real life, as a kind of generally decent guy who doesnвЂ™t want to set off a nuclear bomb in the middle of a crowded settlement, or really stick his nose in other peopleвЂ™s business either. When I call a character Nic, curse him with a mop of red hair, a slightly round face, and send him out to save the galaxy or tame the wasteland, he always turns out to be a real fence-sitting drag about it. IвЂ™ve made characters based on myself in the past, or just gone with the generic hero type they start you with, but you know what? ThatвЂ™s boring. Not only do I have a rough idea of what kind of skills, equipment, and storylines I want to lean towards with a character, but by having clearly defined characters with their own weird ways of going about their business, it also keeps the gameplay fresh. To me, itвЂ™s been the best middle ground between ruthlessly planning out my characters and pointlessly faffing about. Sometimes that means running straight at the enemy with a two-handed sword, other times it means teleporting to them with a nuclear-powered shotgun in hand. Building around a few personality traits like вЂњloves sneak attacks and charms his way through conversationsвЂќ or вЂњalways goes with the most aggressive combat option available and never tells a lieвЂќ and try to fit them into whatever game IвЂ™m playing. I take the same characters with the same basic preferences and attitudes and run with them. What IвЂ™ve come to over the past few years has been a system of recycling a few characters over in different games in different genres. Pretty soon, IвЂ™ve had the game for over a week and have only managed to see the tutorial area. Or I end up chain-smoking characters, making one, playing around for an hour or so (which barely counts as playing at all when youвЂ™re talking about the Fallouts and Dragon Ages of the world), and wandering back to the вЂњnew gameвЂќ screen to try out another one.

As IвЂ™ve talked about before, I have a tendency to slip into an eternal planning mode - sketching out possible character builds, ideas, and dorky little stories - while never actually sitting down to play any of them out if IвЂ™m not careful. TheyвЂ™re my familiar crew, the usual suspects, and while I try and figure out who is going to be the first to explore the irradiated ruins of Boston in Fallout 4, I also have to wonder - am I the only one who does this?Д¬haracter creation is something I love in games, maybe a little too much.

A small cast of characters IвЂ™ve remade again and again as everything from spacefaring psychic demigods, to mangy vampires skulking around the backstreets of L.A., to members of an up-and-coming band. I never walk into a character creation screen alone.Д®very time I start a new RPG where you have to brew up a character to spend the next 30-80 hours with, I bring a few familiar faces with me.

Fallout 3 being evil