Curtis wrote:

Hot skinny female, always. ".

I know what you mean. My character, Jocasta, has worked her way through the capital wasteland, Skyrim, Demons and Dark Souls and a bit of Pandora. I always go for a tactical character. I get bored with too much stealth. Mainly ranged but in Skyrim and Dark Souls I moved to a fast moving melee type.

After an entire lifetime of various RPGs, beat 'em ups, customisable robot based shooty shooty games, the usual selection of soldier/stealth/mage seem dullsville, so these days I tend to go for the unconventional characters if such a choice exists. If nothign else, just for a bit of variety, for myself, and also in fighting games for my opponents, I hate seeing the same handful of characters over and over agaon, so I hope that whenever someone had to play my Hakan in SF they were like 'Oh, a Hakan, that makes a change'

Recentish examples being Q in Street Fighter 3, Hakan in Street Fighter 4, Algol and Dampierre in Soul Cal 5. Fallout 3 and New Vegas characters that were either hand to hand only (i.e fist weapons) and then on what turned out to be a hilrious naughty character playthrough; explosives only. Oh yeah I totally rolled an Ithorian smuggler in Star Wars Galaxies and a gnome tank build warrior aeons ago in WoW.

I tend towards the lean, athletic type (much like myself as I am a minor superhero) with ranged weapons - praps because I need that slight detachment from the horrific reality of ending a life? Or simply that I am shit at close quarters combat.

In Skyrim I went with a  human warrior called "Stranger" so there we have the need for cloaking and anonymity, yet I have slowly leaned towards the magic side of the skills trees.....I just wanted a humanoid look - I find it very difficult to play looking like a reptile or something even more stupid.

I think a lean athletic, magicky type of dude is my closest ideal avatar......hence in Diablo, the demon hunter is my choice and perhaps the closest fit for my playing style and yes my outlook on life: "take them out at range and then leap in and fucking destroy every last one of them as quickly as possible".............

Borderlands 2 I find that Zer0 is a pleasing mix of ranged sniper and then sword wielding loon - works for me and if things get too sticky - stay back........that last approach is perhaps another lamentable personality trait (or habit) of mine.......I am a fucking coward. 

I need to change this aspect of my character - the need to be constantly liked and be a puppet of a Yes Man.....again, perhaps the shadowy and strong characters I like are a yearning for an attitude that has a little more "yeah, I see your point, but piss off...."

In WOW I was a dwarf. He was ace. A paladin, so he could help people, but he stood on his own two feet man and had a simple, solid outlook to life. I think he is probably my all round fave, although not as sexy as the demon hunter, he had a good mix of ranged magic and a massive bloody axe.

In sports titles I tend to go tall, as I'm 6 6".

So in Fifas etc I go real height and then make myself in to some sort of speedy tall left footed winger/forward.

In NBA2k I always go 6 10" powerforward with a jumpshot and big rebounding.

In class based stuff: usually hack and slasher/solider. Although with Blands 2 I went gunzerker first.

Have taken to mages and stealth in a couple of titles recently.

Dark Souls I went dex first. Ended up trying literally every class though.

I make myself taller.  I add a quarter inch and say I'm 5'9".

Is there actually room (aha) for short people in basketball?

Asking for a friend. Yeah.

I prefer light with fast weapons where possible (fast close combat is probably the best in Dark Souls). I did pretty much snipe my way through ME3 though, and I'll always pick up a sniper rifle when one's available. Then again, my first ME2 character was a biotic and that was probably more fun.

Oh and Ken, always Ken.

JonB wrote:

I prefer light with fast weapons where possible (fast close combat is probably the best in Dark Souls). I did pretty much snipe my way through ME3 though, and I'll always pick up a sniper rifle when one's available. Then again, my first ME2 character was a biotic and that was probably more fun. Oh and Ken, always Ken.

one of the great, great pleasures of gaming for me is the well placed sniper shot.......haiku - like in its feeling of satisfaction, often making up for a more when the whole game may be less than great. Sniper characters are sexy, cool and the bestest.