Be Yourself, Be Someone Else

RPGs give people chance to be something they can never be in real life, but at home, on a gaming console.

RPGs really don’t stand out when it comes to being different video game characters, games of different genres offer the same luxury. What’s different is that the RPGs out there that let gamers choose a character that’s unique to them.

 

Who you are, Who you want to be.

Specifically, RPGs let you customize your own character that looks and acts the same as the gamer himself or completely different with looks and personality. Regardless of how the character is made what happens next once the game begins is up to you. There are even RPGs that don’t have customization options and let gamers choose the name of the character they’re playing. With character design being the first step, gamers must choose their lifestyle in the game as well. The determined lives or job classes will affect the created character throughout the game albeit positively or negatively.

 

They must keep in mind that the person in they are in real life and the person in they made based off them in the are completely different people with different lives. Separating oneself from reality and fiction can be trying for people who want to live in a fantasy and that can be a good thing. However, it’s always important to remember who someone was in the real world, so they don’t lose their grip on life.

 

Interactions Will Define You and Others

It’s commonly known that no man is an island, and the same logic can be applied to the player’s RPG character. Activity with non-player characters is the key to becoming a better person. As I said in the previous post RPG party members have their own backstory, the main character engaging with help them to become better. In the custom character’s case, the party members are NPCs and they’re non-party members who have just as much to offer.

NPCs can impact the character inside and outside the game narrative and the more the player interacts with them the more they understand each other. With these NPCs come choices, carefully chosen voice interactions that will determine the player’s and NPC’s growing or diminishing intimacy towards each other. Some NPCs have major impact on the game’s true story while some have minor influences for the player. The player receives rewards, gets more character story depth, and if they’re feeling lucky, a little romance.

The You From Reality vs The You From RPG

Why do people want to fashion a character with similarities and differences with their real selves? Why do they make friends and romances with people who don’t exist in reality? Why do people want to indulge in a realistic, fantasy world that has so much to offer than the real world?

The answer is simple, you can’t do many of those things in real life. I’m not saying all people including RPG fans, but some people just want to escape to the confines of the RPG world. Some people are unfulfilled in their normal lives while in RPGs their characters accomplish so much more. Once they see that life in a RPG is better they would start playing for hours on end without grasping the time of the day. However, there are some who play RPGs and still cling to reality because they feel like they already have everything they ever wanted.