Kupowered: I Am Obsessed with Making Characters

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

I Am Obsessed with Making Characters

I've honestly never thought about this before, but I honestly think I have a problem with making characters in video games that I honestly have no intention of really using. It's been going on for a while, I know; way back in Phantasy Star Online, I had, er.....probably ten characters, since I had a few VMUs, and two of them were the type that lacked a screen, but you could slide a switch and it was a -whole other- memory card. So, since you could only have one character per card, I could just tick between them to pick which character I wanted. Of course, I mainly only used my main, a HUcast named Raynor (which has since become a trend with my PS games), but I had so many characters.

I guess with PSO, it served a purpose, at least since you could only get certain things depending on your color ID, which depended on your name (some sort of algorithm) so you just may not see some things if you were Pinkal instead of Yellowboze. But then again, like I said, I barely played any other character except for Raynor because I just wanted him to get higher leveled and I saw any attempt to play any other character an impediment to that, since EXP took quite a bit to gather after a certain level.

Yet, whenever I'm presented with a character creator, I can't help but freeze up for a moment, not really knowing what to make. Staring down a blank slate like that, knowing it can be molded to whatever I want, it's almost terrifying in a way, since, what if I don't get what I want? Then I'm -stuck- with it. 'Forever'. As in the case of White Knight Chronicles, had I not lost my save file, I'd be stuck with the short-ish, green-haired, uh.....elf-guy that I made. At least, he kinda looked like an elf. Maybe sort of like Magus but with green hair. Whenever I looked at him, there just seemed....something off, but the knowledge that I could fix him for a -fee- was not a tantalizing one. Whenever I pick the game up again, I do believe I'll be going in with a gameplan unless the game has saved my character through Geonet or something. (I'm sure it hasn't.)

The latest in this long line of giving shape, form and a name, yet no attention has been Phantasy Star Portable 2. I'm up to six characters (out of eight allowable) now, and the highest after my main is level, er...28. Keeping in mind Raynor is 86 or so. Which is a fairly wide margin! I don't know what it is, really, but I guess I just like making characters, just to see what I can come up with, to maybe use them at some point in the future for something. But I guess it serves no negative purpose other than bugging me every now and then.

I wanted to make this longer and add a couple more pictures but either IGN is down, or my router is being a dick. Considering I'm already annoyed from a long day.....bleh.

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What's all this, then?

This is going to be many things, but first and foremost, it is, quite simply and unsurprisingly, a place for me to write. Sometimes about video games, sometimes about movies, and other times, just to write out mini-stories and the like. As an outlet for me, it will likely reflect how I am; at times it will be entertaining, and other times it will be informative. I just hope that every time it's interesting at the very least.

The current goal is a post every other day to settle myself in; eventually, I will seek to post every day, if just to raise an inquiry that I've found I've tripped over most of that day, or to retell an amusing, or perhaps less so, tale from the day. I find that I can be long-winded at times, so perhaps this will be less of a concern than I imagine!

While it would make sense to change this to grow as "Kupowered" does, I hope to keep this just as it is and, sometime down the road, re-read it with a slight chuckle and mumble to myself, "I did it." So take this as a mission statement, if you will, and we will see how it works out!

Handy Post-Types Guide!

A Look Back: In lieu of reviews (which I might do in the future), these posts will be fond recollections of older games from my past, telling you why I believe them to be good and why you might be interested in playing them.
Giant Robot On: I like Giant Robots. Who doesn't? These posts will always be talking about something with Giant Robots in it, be it video games or anime or movies.
Less-Short Story: On occasion, inspiration will hit me and I'll want to write a short story or, as the name implies, expand on a story from my old Ficly. That will be these posts.
LittleBigThings: In these posts, I will be discussing (read: gushing about) things in the LittleBigPlanet series of games, from the game itself, to user-created levels, to my own adventures in Craftworld.
Music!: Fairly self-Explanatory. In these posts, I will talk (gush) about music I like, and possibly music that I don't care for.
Popcorn On: These posts will revolve around movies that I've seen that are just great in one way or another. The aim is to give you enough to interest you into seeing it without giving too much so that you feel you know what's going to happen.
Quick Note: These will usually be, as can be expected, short posts to keep in touch with the blog and it's readers if I'm not prepared for a full post or if I'm updating on a past post.
Ragequit: Completely opposite of A Look Back, these posts will be about the few games I've had to quit playing because they just weren't fun. (Or that I might have finished, but still hated.)

There will likely be more types of posts added in the future that will be explained here.