Aside: Suggest characters!

[xyzzysqrl]

So hey, let's derail for a second. Are you readerly types enjoying this playthrough of Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines: Ashe Edition? I'm enjoying this. I don't really do roleplaying much in video games, and having a kind of "template" to focus my play around prevents me from wandering too far off-track and getting obsessed with, say, increasingly large explosions.

We also went out to Rifftrax tonight to see Santa Claus Conquers The Martians (I love that movie, no irony) and in a game shop nearby found a cheap used copy of Mass Effect 3, which I hadn't bought yet. (The online-stuff code doesn't work, but it's a collector's edition with the artbook and comic and metal case. So swanky.) The BF mentioned on the ride home that it's going to be interesting seeing me someday play the Mass Effect series as... who? Ashelia B'nargin Shepard?

And y'know. I don't know.

When I was coming up with the suggestions for characters for this playthrough, I went for three "types" (Destructive, Inquistive, Somewhere Between) and mapped characters from games I'd played recently to them for familiarity. But... it really seems to work! Ashe is a great "template" because her motivations and drives ... er, in my twisted uncanonical view ... map well onto game goals.

I've been wondering, therefore: What established characters that I might know -- or character concepts, or ideas, or whatever -- would you like to see pop up if I draw, say... Neverwinter Nights, or Dragon Age, or some other "create-a-character" style game? Who would you want me to be, tomorrow? (Not literally tomorrow. Someday.)

(Aside: If your suggestion is "It's your blog! Do what you want!", please understand that what I want is a helpful audience participation hinge, and what I want is creative ideas that I would not come up with on my own, and that telling me I should just "do whatever I want" is not actually helpful in any way when I'm attempting to spark discussion.)

Comments

[silveradept]

I think out would be entertaining to play of those games as "a person who must compulsively be honest and who may or may not be able to find the way to be honest and tactful".

[swordianmaster]

Jim Carrey's character in Liar, Liar, then.

Considering most of these RPGs include Obsessively Grabbing Everything Not Nailed Down, I can see this as a problem.

[silveradept]

Well, one could honestly say that they needed the object...

[relee.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see you do Ken from Fist of the North Star again. <3

You wa SHOCK! XD

[xyzzysqrl]

..."Again"? Have I done that before?

Noted, anyway!

[relee.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall you playing Fallout 2 as Kenshiro.

[swordianmaster.livejournal.com]

That may have been me.

Also I have absolutely no non-memetic Fist of the North Star knowledge, so I am apparently just very, very good at bullshit.

[xyzzysqrl]

Oh my god. Sword. I know what to do now.

Knights of the Old Republic 2 Kenshiro run. It has unarmed combat feats. It has JUSTICE. It's PERFECT.

[xyzzysqrl]

That was someone else.

[relee.livejournal.com]

Oh well then you should do it this time!

Hah, it's always so weird when I get people mixed up.

[kiruppert.livejournal.com]

I am so bummed that I couldn't make RiffTrax Live again! How was it, compared to the MST3K riff?

[xyzzysqrl]

It was a great deal more... they went a little more Adult with some of the comedy, and they didn't repeat a single joke. It was pretty funny! Not QUITE as good as the original MST3K riff, but a good bit more "timely" feeling. Entertaining all around.

[rowyn]

I still want to see you Nancy-Drew your way through a non-Nancy-Drew game. n_n

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, so he was a minor character in his source game, but:

Gilder, from Skies of Arcadia. Because he's cool as heck. And I was just playing that, and therefore was reminded.

-- dang bunni