discussion Do you play as yourself or role-play as someone else?

[IFF01]

I make them close to my self with adjustments for my Kinks.

 

[CharlieV]

I roleplay as a character, but I now kind of play as that same character in all games if that makes sense (same name etc). I weirdly feel like I know him after all these games!

 

[Wily Rodent]

There isn't much point playing as myself. If the game features something I could feasibly do myself, what's the point of playing a game?
I'd rather explore characters I roleplay as from the point of view of that character.

 

[jone32]

Role playing in the game is not for me but I enjoy it

 

[Flame125]

Either as myself or as another me. It depends on what progresses the best, to be honest. If choices doesn't matter, so does my path.

 

[herelooking027]

In the spirit of being more involved on the social side of things, I figured I'd make my first post. So I'm curious, when you are playing a game that allows you to make choices (good/bad, dominant/submissive), do you tend to pretend that the mc character is you, and makes decisions as you would? Or do you play as a character that is different from yourself, possibly even with a different name.

Personally, I tend to play as close to myself as possible, even going as far as playing out certain scenes just to see lewd content but then rolling back if it's not a decision I would personally make in real life. What do you guys do?

I can't be myself in a game because I wouldn't do what characters do. I don't make up a fantasy character because the game forces choices most times. I just try to bend the game to what is interesting (and ignore things that aren't interesting)

 

[Ant28jsp]

depends if the theme of the game can resemble me or not

 

[aminam]

I take the main variables from my life but roleplay the way i am in the games. That is the most fun for me because you can act like you want that you normally not act

 

[Regacide]

I usually mix it up.

Usually, I don’t identify with the game character, so I’ll role play as them. I still like what I like, so that role-playing will be close to what I personally want. (Whenever it doesn’t I tend to start skipping content and then abandoning the game…)

 

[Gorden]

I use my fake name sometime me real name

 

[anon515]

I try to roleplay the character and adjust to the setting as much as possible

 

[arystark]

if i feel like the mc is like relatable to me then i'll go ahead and self-insert buttt sometimes i do like to go completely opposite of who i am and roleplay that way, it's fun as well :3

 

[Dobermann]

Ah, yes. The root of all evil in the world.

 

[User_98650]

I roleplay as a character, but I now kind of play as that same character in all games if that makes sense (same name etc). I weirdly feel like I know him after all these games!

This is what I do. I want to disassociate myself away from that character per say but also be able to roleplay and from there as you've said this character has grown a bit over time.

 

[Xia Liu Bei]

Play the character as close to myself as possible. Not sure why you'd do it any other way.

 

[menman123]

I play as the default, but also do multiple play throughs when possible

 

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[tritus]

When you play a visual novel you think as the main character as yourself OR you think that you are just watching a story about him/her?

 

[Runescape771]

I see myself as an omnipotent being. There were times when I put myself in MC's shoes, but it passed quickly

 

[Nokotannn]

I treat it like reading novel, but sometimes I may get so immersed that I self inserted.