I don't role play. I just play. :/

My first playthrough I'll role play the one in my avatar. Woman wearing Leather Jacket and blasting baddies with a Shotgun. Basically Mad Max Female version. Simple but lotta fun.

Meh. The role is that of a pre-war family man, apparently with a military background. I am none of those things. When I say I play as an idealized version of myself I'm not being literal, I mean that like Jurassic Park's frog DNA, I use myself to fill in the blanks not already filled by the role and the setting.

I will play the role of a family man who, having lost his entire world and family has found himself in the Boston Wasteland. It will just so happen that that fellow's values and priorities will not be drastically divergent from my own.

i always play as myself will play, long range weapons, good guy that try to help everyone. I know is bored but that how i am

Which is exactly why I never roleplay myself in games. Usually we gamers are boring.

Speak for yourself. Just because I am good, doesn't mean I am boring

I normally make my first character a better me but I have been trying to role play more. I think this my be the first game I start as someone truly different.

Well, yeah my life is boring, but i dont exacly play myself. More like a "what i wish i was" version. Some of the personality traits thus are things i wish i was (devilishly handsome, smart like einstein, and good in social encounters) while in truth, i aint realy that good in them. The one thing that doesnt change much, is that just like myself, i cant let anny oportunity to make a joke at the bad guy go unused. I love being the smart ass in the room.

With my first character I always place myself as a toon that is completely lost in a new strange land. It just helps me have that sense of wonder when I play a Bethesda game for the first time.

Like I have bipolar with a dash of schizophrenia. Oh ,and a hint of homicidal rampage.

Chicks dig that.

I love to roleplaying smooth-talking, lady-loving/money-loving charismatic people in video games, especially when it comes to Fallout where it seemingly matters much more. This trend will continue in Fallout 4, with be roleplaying as that same archetype, in a wandering gunslinger form. Plan to join up with the Minuteman faction too, especially if they are what I believe them to be (basically, a goodish/neutralish mercenary company doing odd jobs throughout the wasteland for positive-ish karma and caps).

I roleplay Rick from TWD. A highly intelligent person with strong moralic bonds, good gun skills and a tedency to utilize extreme brutality in extremely brutal situations.

I'm also always roleplaying a trophy hunter style of character, using only weapons and stuff I found on my victims body.

I always roleplay utter [censored] in Fallout. Not crazy murderers, just people who realize they have a chance to get a lot of power in this ravaged world, and go for it, not really caring how many innocents they trample over along the way. They usually hide it well at the start thanks to a charismatic personality and a tendency to lie through their teeth, but there comes a moment when they're forced to show their true colors, or are simply found out, and then there's no more Mr. Nice Guy, people are gonna die.

Yeah, I play a twisted version of myself. Basically the in-game version of me. I'm nice and all, but I don't mind doing slightly nasty things if it means better loot. But that's only in-game me, not me in real life. Cause life and games are different, right?

First time PC svcks for me as just to get a feel for the game (only different this time around is a dedicated build vs other times), thus always go the goody-two-shoe route. Basically it is who I am, though, perhaps I need to be badass when the situation arises. Thereafter, bad karma will be experimented a lot more with future PCs, though not absolute "renegade", sort of speak, either.

The first run is "myself", including the average SPECIAL. I imagine myself in his scenario to be frightened, confused, then angry.

Tony Stark in a cave. High Intelligence, Charisma, and Luck. Dude is going to be a wise-cracking, mechanical engineer jerk. Karma-wise I'm shooting for neutral, it's going to hinge on doing "whatever it takes to get my family back".

I'm just going to launch the game and see what develops from there. considering I haven't played the game yet, I don't want to go in with any preset expectations of how I will RP.

I do know that what ever I end up with, its going to be awesome.

I will roleplay myself with a real world mindset which means doing the right thing to live as long and happy a life as possible as well as being nice to people because it feels good. Of course i'll be naughty here and there but what is life without a little innocent mischief.

I do the same thing, thinking of backstory while I'm in bed or driving around or whatever. I hope that even though we know what the character's life is like on October 23, 2077, we can still have some sort of backstory leading up to that, for personality and motivation reasons. It was impossible to do this at all in Fallout 3 though. I have a really detailed character in my mind that I'm pretty proud of, hopefully I don't have to make that many adjustments to make her fit with the restrictions in the prologue.

Exactly. I usually start with a character close to myself personality-wise (not necessarily in terms of skills, story, or appearance), but who knows what will happen out in the wasteland? My Skyrim character was good for 90% of the game, then his power got to his head and he ended up a violent megalomaniac.

On thing I'm careful to NOT do is meta-game, e.g. go into a character that takes actions specifically for "good karma" or whatever. Make good choices sure, but because it fits their personality, not to collect karma points.

I don't understand all the "role play as yourself". Kinda hard to figure anyways...

Anyway, I like to create characters. Determine their morality and sometimes come up with a Brief backstory. Or just play the "idea" of a character depending on the game world. Even if this means taking unadvantageous stances in dialogue etc

My first F4 character will be based loosely on Ron Swanson - so tons of crafting/guns etc but kinda gruff in dialogue. Good morality. Also to get all the special levels in order to unlock craft perks I sacrificed agility and luck, which also reflects that character.

Second character will be very loosely based on Colonel Kurtz from apocalypse now. Essentially extraordinarily high endurance and charisma. Questionable morality. And reasonably high intelligence (mainly so I can level up faster in order to take full advantage of all the level-check charisma related perks). In order to get those three specials high I had to sacrifice all the others. Should be very interesting play through.

As a sole survivor... with lots of fury...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTidn2dBYbY

I suppose I work out a basic idea about what kind of character I will play and then do whatever I think that character would want to do, go wherever he would want to go.

I like to try different combat styles with completely different characters, and usually only join one or two factions during each playthrough, so there is a lot of content I haven't touched for the second and third time I play the game, etc.

Definitely won't ever keep playing one character long enough to max out all the SPECIAL and perks, etc.

Huge Kung Fury fan! Reminded me a bit of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon.

Same

I have trouble doing that also.. I would so svck as myself. I wouldn't go on any mission. I'd find some place to hole up. Every now and then I'd go scavenging .. but not too far away. Hell. I'd send the robot to do it.