Games with created characters

[Evil Tim]

So I figured I'd post this up here and ask everyone cause this one has been eating away at me for a little bit.

When you're playing a game that lets you create and customize your character, whether it be a game like Skyrim or Dragon Age or Fallout, do you create the same character for every game or do you make a new one for each game?

I have lot of original characters on standby for various uses and I find myself using them for certain games if they fit, but I knew a few people that just create the same character over and over again.  So which is better for all of ya'll?  New character for each game or do you just make the same character?

[Sara Nilsson]

New one for each game, and new one for each playthrough.

Usually the first time I play a game my character is more of a blank slate, since I dont know what the story will throw my way. But after that they get more elaborate.  By picking a new character each time I hit New Game the game can still be fresh. hell I have more hours than I want to admit in Skyrim or Morrowind these days, so the only way I can avoid just powering through the game without thought is to make a new character. So I have to go.. hmm how would my character react here?

Besides, need to avoid.. woops stealth archer again :)

[Evil Tim]

I can honestly say as many times as I've played Skyrim I've never once done the stealth archer build.  At first it was because my version of stealth is "It's perfectly stealthy if there's no one alive to see you."  But now that stealth archer has kinda be 'correct' build for Skyrim I've been avoiding it out of principle.  I've heard stealth sniper is just as broken in Fallout 4, maybe even more so since you can target individual body parts with VATS.

[Revelation]

There's usually a theme I go for for certain things. I like my blonde lady knights in heavy armor, and I also like more agile dudes. In MMOs I usually play ladies as I prefer their fashion choices. In Monster Hunter I also usually play gals, but the armor for ladies is often hit or miss in those games but with all armor types being unisex now it's a lot more appealing.

[CyrodilicBrandy]

there's typically a theme i follow depending on the game's mechanics and what it offers

so for dragon age i'll typically play a duel dagger rogue (mages sucked in origins, don't @ me) and i'll rarely play warrior because i'm too scared to be at the front (especially when there's spiders, don't @ me)

for skyrim i always tell myself i'll do like... punch cat or spellsword. and then 15 hours later i'm still just a sneaky sneaky archer with a silver tongue.

fallout, again, my brain is like 'please do something NEW' and i'm like 'yeah yeah i gotchu' and then 15 hours later i'm still just a sneaky sneaky plasma gun wielder with a silver tongue.

so i definitely have a type...

in ff14 i first played as a pugilist because i was a lalafell and i thought it was hilarious to be a punching potato, but the tables have turned and i suddenly main white mage?

[The Green One]

I tend to always play the same character... I either start over but make the same character with maybe a different build/skill set, or just reload from my frist save and start over...

I've played Skyrim 6546121 times, most of them with a nord that looks like Till Lindemann and usually ends up being fully archer/sneaky instead of a fighter.

Dragon Age Inq. I've played it like 6 times I think. I had one human Reaver, one elven mage but never fishined the game with those I believe, and the other times I played with an elven rogue/archer who always looked the same and had the same name.

And with Baldur's Gate, that I finished 3 times already, I just reloaded my first save every time... I enjoyed playing with him so much I just can't imagine myself useing another character. Plus, I based him off an old D&D character I had and seeing him blosson in the game was amazing.

I've also used the same character "across" games, in a way. For Fallout 4 I made my boy Aidan and then I made him in Cyberpunk.

[Silvered Sutures]

My first playthrough is usually with a self-expy; and idealized version of myself. If the game is good enough to play a second time, I may throw one of my current muses into it. 

[Faceless Tragedian]

I almost always make a new character, and how easy it is to make someone that feels totally different each play through is pretty crucial to how much I enjoy an RPG. I don't think any game has topped FO:NV for me in having each play through feel totally different depending on who you want to RP as.

RPGs are a huge part of how I got into role-play and writing in general, at some point I felt like they just weren't enough to play the sorts of characters I wanted to.

[Sockette009]

I have really grown to like roleplaying in videogames over the last few years. Ignoring the mechanics in favor of whatever makes sense for my character has given me a new perspective on a lot of games, like how much you can end up missing in the big open-world games if you're always fast traveling.

I have a couple of characters from roleplaying that I use to 'test' new games, see how adaptable and adjustable the mechanics are for actual character diversity outside of its main scope/plot.

Otherwise I'll usually make new characters to fit in the world that suit my playstyle (its really hard to break away from stealth archer in Skyrim isn't it?). Unless something about it really jives with a previous character and then it's 'put rp character in AU' time.