Am I Alone in this? : Fallout: New Vegas

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:22 am

Does anyone else plan out thier charcters beforehand? Because I think I'm on my seventh to plan and I can't seem to stop. O.o

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:25 am

You're certainly not the only one.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:03 am

I tend to free-form my character as I build them... but I have a rouch archtype in mind usually: gruff miner, dainty seductress, chiselled swordsman, etc....
I don't make up a back story or anything, once I start playing the rest falls into place.
As for making dozens of characters before the game releases? You are definitely INSANE :bonk:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:55 am

Yeah, I do that all the time for plenty of games. Making characters is fun. I currently only have 2 builds for FNV though.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:00 pm

I planned a hardcoe mode character and a non hardcoe mode character.

hardcoe mode character= Jeremiah Johnson an old rugged mountain man who lives off the land, and survives no matter what.

Non hardcoe mode character= Jesse James a young cowboy who is the fastest gun in the Mojave and isn't afraid to kill people who are in his way.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:35 am

You are insanely crazy, you should be locked away forever!

I just free-ball my first dude and than I go back through and do stuff that he didn't with later guys.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:21 am

I will think about the kind of characters that I want, but until I see the character creation mechanics of the actual game, it is hard to Pre-Roll a character.

However once I do know how it works, I will have a starter character that is not supposed to get far in the game, but give me experience with what the game needs or how it plays. Then, I spend time planning out a character.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:15 am

I tend to free-form my character as I build them... but I have a rouch archtype in mind usually: gruff miner, dainty seductress, chiselled swordsman, etc....
I don't make up a back story or anything, once I start playing the rest falls into place.
As for making dozens of characters before the game releases? You are definitely INSANE :bonk:

I don't make up backstory, I just plan out skills, karma, main story faction, etc... And it'll prolli be twenty or more before the game actually comes out if I don't quit... Hahaha.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:37 am

I don't really do that unless I find some "character building tool" online similar to this:

http://vault106.com/fallout-3-character-builder

That keeps track of the perks and skills and whatnot.

Otherwise, I just play the game on the fly and if I feel like a seriously flubbed a build I either cowboy up and move on or I go for broke and start a new build...

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:04 pm

I definitely do... I have a backstory and a reason for the tagged skills and SPECIAL my character has. It just enriches the game for me.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:37 pm

I usually don't, but since I am so excited for this game I have.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:13 pm

I really only try and get an idea on what my 1st character will be like and go from there when I get the game

I usually have no clue what my second or third character will be, hell in FO3 my second character was just a more efficient 1st one

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:52 am

I think physically, I'll build my character the way my Fallout 3 character looks, because I was quite proud of how he looked. I may use the same build. Fallout 1, 2 and 3 I enjuy a charismatic and speech character over combat.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:32 am

I'm down for hardcoe, so Medicine, Repair, and Survival tags for me. If a high Intelligence is at all related to Fallout 3's Intelligence, I'll max out those skills. And Small Guns, and Speech, and Lockpick, and Barter,...etc. It was just so easy to do. Even without Broken Steel, I maxed out 5 skills by lvl. 20. w00t FOR HIGH INTELLIGENCE!!11!11!

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:12 am

You're absolutely crazy if you stick to the plan. I have a rough idea in my mind and then I work with it when I actually get to character creation. That's pretty normal. As long as you're not drawing up charts of Traits, SPECIAL stats, Perks, and so on, you're not crazy.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:10 pm

My first character no,the rest which maybe go over 20 total very much so.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:46 am

About the only planning I've done is decide that my normal play through (first) will be a saint, my second play through (hardcoe) will be the anti-christ.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:18 am

No, I've planned my first 3 so far.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:45 am

You're absolutely crazy if you stick to the plan. I have a rough idea in my mind and then I work with it when I actually get to character creation. That's pretty normal. As long as you're not drawing up charts of Traits, SPECIAL stats, Perks, and so on, you're not crazy.

xD No charts. I have no need of them... I remember it all in my head. :B I know SPECIAL and most of the traits and perks I just choose whatever... And I DO stick to the plan... At least, I did for FO3.... Hahahah,

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:06 am

I have one really developed backgorund on the first one I'm doing and 2 ideas for the next 2.

A stuttering explorer who collects oddities in the wasteland. I would go into his background but that would take a bit of time.

A young CL gold digger Clint Eastwood wannabee who gets in trouble with his big mouth. Handy with speech and explosives.

A tribal of some sort.

Then a mafia like guy who uses all non combat skills and has Raul or boone do the dirty work.

A good doctor for my pacifist playthrough.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:19 am

Yeah I plan my characters out before I play the game, Don't feel bad your not alone. :tops:

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:23 am

Only their skills/SPECIAL. Not their backstory and stuff.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:58 am

Nope, when you plot ways to kidnap npc's for your love nest you're crazy.

Planning characters just means you've an imagination, but as for builds I really cant decide untill I get the game and start to feel immersed.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:41 pm

Does anyone else plan out thier charcters beforehand? Because I think I'm on my seventh to plan and I can't seem to stop. O.o

I would bug the devs by sending them PMs asking about the behind the scenes calculations so I could have a character planned out down to the exact skill point distribution, starting statistics, birth signs etc. before the launch of Oblivion. So no, you are most certainly not alone.

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:51 pm

not so much for fallout, but first play through im gonna be good, second evil, but for mass effect im playing through ME1 and ME2 in all the different paths , so its all set up for ME3 as that i dont want to miss anything lol