Do you mirror yourself in games

Jezzah

Jezzah
I thought a little about this earlier.

If I'm playing a game where I have a choice in what I play and how it normally goes like this.

Male - mirrored
Looks - generally mirrored
Gameplay - I'll virtually always choose a stealth based approach in anything I play. This doesn't mirror me at all...I'm 6 foot 3 and 105kgs so about as stealthy as Hodor.

Am I really wishing I were a diminutive elf type trapped in the body of Hodor?

Anyway it seemed like a fun topic interested in your feeling on it.
 

Garix

G
Nope.

Depends on the game TBH and the default view and voice acting.

Mass Effect I preferred FemShem simply because I preferred the voice acting from Jennifer Hale.

Dragon Age:Origins I was always male. Why? Claudia Black is why :p

Elite I stick to male. Don't touch the looks thing at all. No interest in it.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
I play games to forget about the real world for a moment.
My avatars and their character/behaviour is therefore usually as far from my R/L self as possible.

If it means to play skittish female necromancer, so be it. :LOL:
 
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askavir

askavir
Yeah, in pretty much all RPGs I tend to play as myself. Even though I usually go slightly creative with looks, on quest decisions and overall actions I do tend to do what the real me would likely do in those situations.

I guess that's because I play most games (well the ones where I play as a character) as a form of escapism, where I'm living a different life in a different setting.
 

kilvenny

kilvenny
I create a character to suit what I am playing. Here, I am Lance Kilvenny, Space cowboy. In car racing, I am Lance Kilvenny, rookie racing driver. The only constant is my moniker.
 

EUS

EUS
Never mirror myself, I have to look at my mug everyday when I shave, why would I put myself through that when I game too?
Also, I haven't cared about char creation for at least 5 years now, so I usually just stick to a default.
 

Borderline Bob

B
Nope always create a opposite sex character (but not with exaggerated features), partly I think to wind up the perfumed ayatollah. She however usually picks the same sex but with exaggerated features.
 

Far Beyond Driven

Far Beyond Driven
Jezzah said:
I thought a little about this earlier.

If I'm playing a game where I have a choice in what I play and how it normally goes like this.

Male - mirrored
Looks - generally mirrored
Gameplay - I'll virtually always choose a stealth based approach in anything I play. This doesn't mirror me at all...I'm 6 foot 3 and 105kgs so about as stealthy as Hodor.

Am I really wishing I were a diminutive elf type trapped in the body of Hodor?

Anyway it seemed like a fun topic interested in your feeling on it.
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I make myself in every game I can that allows it. 5'9, fat, bald, beard. If I can't make my character fat, or bald, or get my facial hair style it really es me off.

It just feels more immersive I guess. I really enjoy games like Rimworld and Ck2 where you can also create the mental side of yourself.
 

Kayweg

Kayweg
It's a mixed bag for me really.
I prefer to go down the "good guy"route in games, as i'm generally a laid back and friendly fellow irl, and being rude or brutish isn't something i enjoy.
So i stay true to myself in the "moral choice" aspect, y'know,the ethical bit....this would apply mostly to RPGs i guess.
I will frequently roll female characters in games, and i do spend time tweaking my chars during character creation, male and female alike.
With regard to play styles i tend to mix it up. Stealth, open combat, subterfuge, diplomacy....i may have a preferred method, but will often explore other ways where feasible.
Recently i have played a lot of Conan Exiles, and that game managed to create a bit of a moral choice conundrum for me.
You can enslave crafting NPCs and put them at your crafting station for higher efficiency and even expanded recipe lists, so they're pretty essential to have.
Knock 'em down, bind them and drag them home to your base.Then put them into a "wheel of pain" to break their will, and after that you can assign them
to your carpenter table, blacksmith, stove etc.
Now, i despise slavery, and this made me feel actual uncomfortable to engage in.
Not least because it's all very graphical (unlike ED for example, where slaves are merely a unrelatable item tag).
Of course after the initial reluctance i embraced it, it's just a game mechanic and the NPCs are just pixels afterall.
Still, that certainly didn't mirror myself and created an interesting problem.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
Old Duck said:
If it's first person game, I make myself a hotter, more muscular version of myself with a full head of hair. If it's a third person game, then I often create a hot female and name her after my wife so they aren't jealous of each other, LOL.
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One of my favourite replies to the usual question in MMOs "Why do you play as a chick?" - "Because I'd rather watch a nicely shaped sorceress, running around for the next couple hundred hours than a hairy barbarian". :LOL:
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Chris Simon said:
One of my favourite replies to the usual question in MMOs "Why do you play as a chick?" - "Because I'd rather watch a nicely shaped sorceress, running around for the next couple hundred hours than a hairy barbarian". :LOL:
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This might be one of the reasons I actually prefer the Tomb Raider games over Uncharted, LOL.

There was one exception to the third person as a chick rule - Mass Effect. That game felt much more like it was ME in the body of Shepherd, so in this case I preferred playing a male Shepherd that looked a lot like me (with more hair). Oh, and the exception to playing first person as a dude goes to Skyrim, because of the cool kill-shot cinematics.
 

Mole HD

Mole HD
If I play male characters and the options in character creation allow it...I will do it. Female characters I tend to model on my wife.

As a for instance...a 16 year old virtual me is a football star (soccer for the Colonials) instead of the slightly less glamourous reality of being a rugby player and scrum half at that age...could never work out the mechanics of soccer at all, all that running about just to fall over when anyone else came within 3 feet...

I suppose the games that allow this alter virtual role playing identity are slightly more interesting for me as a player...as opposed to wanting to appear as a Japanese anime character for instance. I should mention I've never played FIFA 19 as a multiplayer or single player E-sport or managerial sim as it's intended...nor do I play controlling the entire team, I control only my virtual self in a single player career mode and treat FIFA just as another RP game.

In FIFA 19, this is as accurate a rendition of the 16 year old me as I could create...slightly less military hairstyle since I was a soldier at that age and I didn't yet have the trademark rugby players shattered nose that I've had since the age of 18...but it's close enough.

Maybe someone, someday will release a decent rugger game... we live in hope.

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A view of virtual 16 year old me in action...apologies to any Danish folk...you were soundly thrashed ;)

 
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AkenBosch

AkenBosch
askavir said:
Yeah, in pretty much all RPGs I tend to play as myself. Even though I usually go slightly creative with looks, on quest decisions and overall actions I do tend to do what the real me would likely do in those situations.

I guess that's because I play most games (well the ones where I play as a character) as a form of escapism, where I'm living a different life in a different setting.
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The exact same, word for word. As for looks, I'll usually try to mirror myself in some ways, unless it's some high fantasy setting a la Elder Scrolls. The Elite holo-me is one of my "best" efforts so far, my girlfriend finds it slightly unsettling. 😅
I also did a Mii version of myself for my profile on the Switch, whenever we play some Mario Kart and my silly self comes out on the replays doing silly stuff, general hilarity ensues.

jasonbarron said:
I always mirror myself. Unless I'm playing Tomb Raider.
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Same, but in that case I wear a wig, some tight shorts and play cross-dressed as her.

You should see me play Nier Automata.
 

jasonbarron

jasonbarron
AkenBosch said:
The exact same, word for word. As for looks, I'll usually try to mirror myself in some ways, unless it's some high fantasy setting a la Elder Scrolls. The Elite holo-me is one of my "best" efforts so far, my girlfriend finds it slightly unsettling. 😅
I also did a Mii version of myself for my profile on the Switch, whenever we play some Mario Kart and my silly self comes out on the replays doing silly stuff, general hilarity ensues.



Same, but in that case I wear a wig, some tight shorts and play cross-dressed as her.

You should see me play Nier Automata.
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😂
 
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