Anyone Make Themselves as a Character?

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In games where you have the option of naming and customizing your character, I always like to make myself as a character. I study my appearance in the mirror to try and make the same hairstyle, eyes, skin tone, face, etc. For some reason I think it's fun to pretend I'm in the game killing monsters and exploring cool locations.

Does anybody else do this?

I made myself almost perfectly in a skating game. People were like 'I didn't think you'd have long hair' when I played online with them.

I do this In almost every game that allows customization like this I try to get as close as possible to how I look. Although in games like ME/ME2, I find it hard to do so. The customization level in those games just IS NOT enough to do it properly(although I still customized, although it looks nothing like me, IMO)

And if I decide to make a female character, normally I make them look like my fiance Ashlei, and name them after her.

I usually do this too, unless I feel like playing as a male character. But even then I make him look like what I think I'd look like as a guy. It's fun to try and make familiar people in games. I have a whole bunch of Miis based on real people in my life and a few of them it's actually shocking how much it looks like them.

Yeah I do it usually when I can, I create a character close as possible to myself. Some like Oblivion have made me able to include my naturel dark rings around my eyes, and some like Fallout 3 allowed me to include my beared, and I usually try to make choices that I would make (usually good) and choose skill sets that match simular to my own.

Though when I want to choose a female character I try to create a female version of myself, instead of useing Bradleigh I use the name Ashleigh and I tend to be bad.

Also a bad experience, I created a character in Fable II that was suposed to be like me, I invested a lot of time and I thought "yes this is me in this world". Ok I ended up buying the castle and while exploreing I discovered a magical potion that will make me change gender, I thought that it would be fun to see what I would look like, big mistake as the game saved automaticly, and I neither looked like my usual self, or a supposed female version of myself. And all my family ties fell appart.

lol, I never found the potion in Fable 2. It just seemed like too much trouble to buy that castle. I didn't even really like Fable 2 that much, I felt that Oblivion had more stuff to do.

I used to always make my character in Fallout 3 make choices I would make in real life, but I found that it's more fun to try an evil roleplay. So I end up making a lot of bad decsions like blowing up megaton.

Sadly being evil isn't as fun as in Oblivion.

I try my best, although it's hard to simulate either of my hairstyles (shaved bald or thinning) in many games - usually I have to settle for a close buzzcut, as in Mass Effect - and my usual beard (a squared-off goatee) is often unavailable as well. Also, many games refuse to let you have glasses.

This dates back before videogames, actually - whenever I learned a new RPG, I'd try to build myself, or at least a version of myself appropriate to the system, to demonstrate to myself that I understood the rules. Thus were born Jonath the Younger, half-elven ranger/mage (the only way I could simulate my breadth of knowledge, under D&D rules); Bluestreak, the speedster/flyer who couldn't fly higher than eight feet off the ground, in Champions (I have Psychological Limitation: Fear of Heights, common, disabling); an accidental Gangrel Kindred (mistaken for a survivalist by his sire) who laired in a small mountain town and had reached an agreement with the local Garou tribe (he didn't make them notice his presence, and they didn't roast his heart on a stick), in Vampire: the Masquerade; Vulcan science officer Lt. Samek, of the scout-class starship USS Unicorn, in Star Trek: the Role-Playing Game; Capt. John Silivas, former artillery commander, now first-shift driver of a HMMWV with the unit's combat medic aboard, in Twilight: 2000; and a handful of others I never actually got to play.

I can't find similar characteristics options.

I'll try to get my characters to look like me if i pick a human race. Other races I'll customize to my aesthetics.

Nah, I don't make any characters of myself. I like to make characters based on fictional characters I imagine in my mind.

I used to do so in the start, and indeed the character named Sivri, my main in WoW, still has some traits that are mine.. But rather than making her what I look like completely, I've taking it a step further and made her look like how I would like to look if I had the chance ^^
When I make a new character these days, I don't do that so much anymore as I use by far the most of them for RP, they get their own personalities and quirks.

My fallout 3 character looks a lot like me, but most other games that I play have non-human races. Also I play a female, half-elven character in dungeons and dragons, making it impossible for it to look like me. She looks like Celebrian from the Lord of the Rings, but with armor instead of jewels.

Pictured: Celebrian

No, I like to make my characters completely different from me.

I really enjoy making a little me in games. I first did this in the original sims game. I also custom designed clothes for my character. I have the Sims 2 now and I was impressed by the detail you can add to your character' face. I always make myself in these games and name it after me, but sometimes I give it a different last name. The only part of Tony Hawk's Underground that I liked alot was the part where I could design my own character.