Hey everyone, my name is Renee Gade II, and I'd like to talk about my feelings. And if you'd also like to share, you can do so as well. Le'ts have a little group therapy session.

I am talking about what we feel while we play and possibly become our characters, that is. I've got Oblivion, but this topic can work with any TES game I suppose. There's plenty of threads on how our characters feel about stuff, but what about us? What emotions do we experience?


Character: Igodah Go^pe

emotions involved: POWER TRIP, cold humor :gun: :cold:

Igodah is my high-elf mage. Been playing this character on and off for over a year (Earth year, not game year) and her spell book is packed with high-potency at this point. Becoming Igodah is great in some ways. I always get psyched to "become" her because she's at the point where the entire land of Cyrodiil really is at her mercy. If she wanted, she could literally maim and destroy an entire town's residents (all the NPCs who are non-essential, basically) within an Earth hour. She's not gonna do this, but she HAS been killing all the orcs she can by leading them away from their comfort zones, and then Immobilizing them (usually), and then murdering them!

And of course, Igodah Go^Pe simply dominates the dungeons. She rarely has to deal with face-to-face combat anymore with the wide range of spells she's got at her fingertips. Before the enemy even knows she's around, she's already got a strategy all planned out since she always knows where and how many enemies are around far before she even enters the area.

But what do I feel while playing her?

Like I said, it's a power-trip feeling. She's my power trip fix. I have to listen to my boss all day, have to wait in line at the supermarket sometimes for like 15 mintues, have to deal with dumb drivers cutting me off and tailgating me on my commute to work...so Igodah is sort of a release for all this. When becoming her, I'm the one in charge! I'm hte one in control....and BOY does it feel good to be the boss sometimes!

Also, things happen during combat with Igodah...moments that are so FUNNY, I laugh my ass off when I'm with Igodah sometimes, but it's a cold sort of laughter. Like a bit cruel....she'll walk into a room with three enemies while invisible for instance...sheild, light, and Fortify Magic spells already going. Casts a spell at one bandit, drops a summoned creature into the room, and calmly goes about searching the rest of the room while invisible. The enemies start tripping over each other's feet...OOF! I"ll hack you to ARGH@!!! It's funny as hell to listen to them struggle while Igodah calmly hides in the corner!

But also...if I didn't have other characters to play, I would certainly get bored of Igodah. If I didn't have a balance of other emotions while playin Oblivion, I wouldn't get as psyched to play Oblivion as I do. Since she's got a huge radius of light spell she can cast (and she's always got a Torchlight {5 minute} spell going underground) I rarely feel surprised while playing Igodah.



Character: Dyan phor à Càuze

emotions involved: Righteousness, discipline, caution, surprise... :angel: :ninja: :nono: oo:

Dyan is my Holy Paladin. Completely and uttterly Lawful Good, devoted to the Empire, and a follower of the Nine Divines. Becoming Dyan (at this point) really IS different from becoming Igodah. I only bring all this up because it illustrates just how many ways there are to play TES games.

When playing Dyan, the first thing I always notice is that now I won't have to ever worry about dealing with Imperial Guards trying to bust me. Dyan NEVER has a bounty, so it's a sigh of relief I breathe when Dyan gets into the game. When going into various civilized areas (where there's guards) with Igodah, I sometimes get very hair-triggered & nervous. That moment when the guard runs up always raises my blood pressure even after all this time! But with Dyan, I always feel completely relaxed and laid-back in the towns & IC. I can also count on help from Imperials when Dyan is on the road...which has come in handy at times.

And then I also look forward to her quests. She's very righteous, and as I'm going about the KOTN quests (and other "good" questlines) I actually start feeling like a do-gooder, but not in a haughty way. Dyan is not haughty. She's (in fact) quite a servant to the good peoples of Cyrodiil. :angel: It's all about serving the people for the greater good with her. I've (in fact) shed a tear or two while being Dyan, which is too deep for me to even try to explain why/how.

But in the dungeons, Dyan is NOTHING like Igodah. She's a fighter mostly, only using Healing spells, potions, and the occasional scroll. This means she deals with close combat quite alot. I'm role-playing her NOT to use SNeak, also. She's one of those "burst into the room and start slashing" types!

But sometimes I feel surprise while playing Dyan. Utter surprise; literally get the hair standing up on my arms (what hair there is anyways); goosepimples over my entire body! Dyan hasn't got nifty Detect Life spells like the high elf mage does, and only carries a torch at the moment. So there are plenty of moments when I simply do not see my enemy coming. I program my TV screen pretty dark when in caves and ruins.


That's all for now, and now if you'd like to share Go for it!

Depending on what game i'm playing, Morrowind, Oblivion or even Fallout 3, my mind is elsewhere. I'm constantly thinking and reflecting about the things going on in my life, the things i'll have to deal with in the future.

Its kinda funny. Of course, the first time I played through each of these games, they had my full undivided attention, but theres only so many times you can play these games until you, yourself turn into an empty shell, with thoughts tinkering elsewhere.

I don't i've ever done what you've done, though. I'm a very poor roleyplayer. I make a character who simply looks cool, and play the game as if its a linear story. I don't follow a set of morals, or anything, because they're not clearly set out for you in TES games, like they are in say Dragon Age or Mass Effect.

:lol: Hey that's cool! At least you're honest. Yea, my problems, my real-life concerns, my thoughts about work, etc, are usually pushed way into the background while I game. Guess I'm lucky in that way.

I unveil my animosity :brokencomputer:

I can only get immersed in Morrowind when nothing is going on in my life.

Also with all TES games... the more money you have the less enjoyable the game is.

These open world games are best when your in the early fight for survival stage. Once traversing the wilderness is no longer a threat (money, armour and god-powers), the game is less fun.

Hellmouth - Morrowind/Argonian/Rot Monk:
Despite being an argonian, he is Telvanni through and through. He is largely amoral, tends to not really care about the plight of others, unpredictable, and most of all a follower of entropy. He also owns plenty of slaves, of all races and genders (he may be a bastard, but he's not racist and a sixist!)

His origin started in Black Marsh, where his uncanny ability with poisons and potions was highly noticed in his tribe. During a Dres raid, he downed an unknown potion lying around in the shaman's tent, which ended up causing him to exhale a nasty combination of poison and disease. However, his village was destroyed, but his mind was becoming too warped to really care. He traveled around the northern Black Marsh and southern Morrowind border, creating and testing new poisons and diseases on the populace, and changed his name to Hellmouth. Because he wandered alone, he had to become self-sufficient, and how to travel lightly. He became skilled in hand-to-hand, unarmored, and sneak. In addition, since the consumption of that potion, he studied entropy, diseases and poisons and found ways to manipulate them to his will, and even cause dead flesh to rise.

However, this all came to an end when he was ambushed by Imperial soldiers investigating the rise in plagues in Dres lands. He was jailed, and there he learned how to stab and club people to death, as the dunmer prisoners often did not take kindly to him. Yet, in a twist of fate, he was sent to Vvardenfel with instructions to became there Nerevarine. However, this is not the real twist. In reality, Hellmouth was supposed to be put to death, but there was a mix up in the documentation and the real nerevarine ended up having his tongue and hands cut off, and tossed into the bottom of the ocean tied to a rock.

He currently is a magister of Telvanni, completed the prophesies, and defeated Dagoth Ur. And this wasn't because he was afraid of being put to death or anything, but mostly to tear down the Tribunal (entropy! Things need to end), and to show up Dagoth Ur that he was nothing more than a hack, and that Hellmouth was the true master of plagues, blights, and toxins in a way only the Telvanni shows who is right, by killing him. He then killed Alamenxia to further insult the dunmer to show that a slave race killed their warrior-queen goddess, and is plotting Helseth's death for giving him such a headache. He has no intention of killing Vivec, as he'd rather have him die a slow decay of power.

I'll write up my OB's story later.

:drool:

I forgot to mention he's taken up a hobby of finding unique artifacts (he is Telvanni), and will eventually make his way to Solstheim.

I just love the "switched with the real Nerevarine" thing. I would never have thought of that! :laugh:

Oh, yeah, I wanted to make him twisted and humorous at the same time.

I usually slip into a alternate reality bubble when I play TES games.

EDIT: I guess I should at least tell of my current character in Oblivion.

Raven Mindsnare

Breton Shroudcaster

Raven Mindsnare is fairly neutral in his alignment, takes care of himself before anyone else. He excels at bending and altering the perception of others, and would rather have his enemies fight among themselves, before he has to do anything. He's completely devoted to magic, and looks down on usage of weapons and tools. This devotion leaves him in no armor, but enchanted clothes and with a firm understanding of H2H. Through a series of unfortunate events, he was wrongfully accused of murder, to which he refused to except punishment for. This has over time resulted in a lot of dead guards and a humongous bounty. Raven is currently seeking refuges in the Shivering Isles, a suitable place for a manipulator of minds.

I'm going to have to charge $200 an hour to listen to you about your feelings. Lay on the couch.

When I play with my orc male, I get aroused.

Like I said, the first time and maybe the second the time the games had my full attention, but afterwards I just don't pay attention that much. I do that a lot during racing games too. I'll be driving, and my mind will be else where, and the next thing you know, the race will be over.

I just can't believe I can stay on the track.


PS. I see what you did with your name there. clever!

Thanks! All my character names are a play on words, if you notice. Renee Gade is pretty close to my real name...kinda sorta.


Well so far, most of y'all aren't getting the jist of this thread. It's not a "tell your character's story" sort of thread (there are already dozens of those), this thread is supposed to be about what we feel while gaming.

Like does anybody here ever feel frightful, cunning, bored? Do different characters of your actually bring out different emotions while you game?

The point of my character's story is to pretty much I become a follower of Nurgle in-game. In other words, bring despair and entropy to a static Vvardenfell.

In Oblivion, it's to be a Tzeenchian (a magnificent bastard who tries to cause change for the sake of change)

Here are my two favorites:

Morrowind - Dandowin - Nord, Archer, ande reluctant hero.

Emotions involved - as varied as the incidents that shape his life. But mostly reservation, as each life he takes affects him. For a good look at his life and how he is as a person, read my fanfic. It's a 2 part novel with much dialogue.

Dandowin's life was at the mercy of the fates. Orphaned. Imprisoned by the Imperium and released without so much as a word as to why and why he was arrested. He tried to make his way as a new resident of Morrowind and stumbled badly here and there. It is one thing to be hated because you are a convict, even if released. It is another thing to be hated for being a Nord.

He is an atypical Nord. Red headed, with features more the ken of Bosmeri or Redguard, slight of build but still quite tall. As he has joked often in many a tavern, he is "built for speed, not punishment." Life in Vvardenfell shaped him, and after his charge of giving his papers to Caius Cosades, he immediately took the first boat out of the mainland and headed for something he never saw since a young age...the snow. But sadly, Solstheim proved to be a terrible paradox. A beautiful, if not harsh, land, with a populace that was all at once violent as they were interesting. Worked for the very same Imperials that imprisoned him, but found great adventure when the werewolves attacked. This led to a series of most unfortunate events, ending in many lives lost at Thirsk. After being heralded as the new chieftain for slaying the Udyrfykte, he busied himself with monthly mead hall profits, and helping the fledgling Raven Rock company become a small town. But something nagged at him, and he found himself called back to the mainland. It was then that he was attacked in his sleep by he Dark Brotherhood. Investigating the incident, it led him on a most interesting and dangerous few months in the great city of Mournhold. Some facets of his life were revealed, and for clarification, he sought out Caius Cosades who set him on a path to great dangerous adventure. With the spoils of his Solstheim adventures, he bought the Dome Home in Balmora, and with his new bodyguard Ingred Rems, set out on perilous and fun adventures from one end of Vvardenfell to the other.
Time brought the two closer, and as kinsman and kinswoman, they found themselves fighting side by side in the valleys and ruins of Red Mountain. Poor Ingred suffered a near fatal blow from a young dragon, so he scooped her up and set her on the road to recovery at the Ghostgate. With new determination, he set out and with the tools of Kagrenac, faced Dagoth Ur, and his abominations. With a thunderous crash he brought ruin to his plans, and his life, watching Dagoth Ur fall into the laval pools of the Akulakahn cavern.
Restless was the mind of this reluctant hero, and Ingred soon found him staying home most of the time annoying. Soon she stopped talking to him altogether, and neglected their son. She bored, and with the last of his treasure, left enough for his senechal, cook, dancer/smith, and his best friend bodyguard wife, to live comfortable for several lifetimes. With a handful of gold and the legacies of a hero, he looked at his possessions and found something that he had overlooked since he was released. It was a bit of parchment that spoke of great beast hunting in the far, frozen, North not too far from his home at the Thirsk MeadHall, in the land called Lokken. Taking the first longboat out, he headed to this remote icy land and new adventure. But sadly, what he found was an icy reception, and a land frought with sadness, corruption, and dangers. Through the oddest of events, and in true reluctant hero fashion, he freed a fractured family from corruption and death. Freed the land of tyranny, and brought back hope amongst them. Fate was far kinder this time, and through his actions and his manner, earned the love of the Princess of Lokken and in time, earned a family too. All the very things in life that eluded him for so long back in Vvardenfell.

So now, he makes rounds on his new, frozen, island home. Helping his new people, running errands for his mother-in-law and the populace. He delights in his nieces and loves the frozen nights of mead, meals, and watching his most beautiful Nord wife dance for him in the fireplace light.


Oblivion - Dandowin II, Nord/Imperial - Adventurer. Feelings mostly are adventure and a curious wanderlust.

Dandowin II is the son of the Nerevarine, Dandowin, and his consort from his first kinswoman, Ingred Rems. He set out for Cyrodiil after listening to his mother drone on about how Cyrodiil was a far better place than the frozen place his father settled down in, with his new, "big briasted smelly Nord wife". He was invited to stay with his father, but longed to see the world. Sadly, Cyrodiil is not Morrowind, and he soon found himself set up and imprisoned for the most mundane of incidents by an annoying Altmer. Yet, one evening, with much commotion from the cells, the emperor himself and a retinue of armed guards came to his cell, and actually set him free in the hopes he would lend his sword and help. Given his current situation, he naturally acquiesced.
Sadly for him they were beseiged all along the catacombs of the undercity, and one such took the life of the Emperor. He motioned to him to listen and he told of a most interesting tale of a son and troubles to come. Trusting him with the famed Amulet of Kings, he was now thrust like his father before him, on an adventure in which lives hung in the balance. With few coin in his pouch, and fewer friends, he now sets out amongst the wilds of the land living off deer and fruit, since he inherited his father's ability with the bow.

What lies before him, only the fates know. The land is unforgiving, but most definitely worthy of songs for his father and stepmom, and letters home to his mother.

Here are my top two characters:

Morrowind: Dante Darathos - Redguard - Siege Master

Dante Darathos was born on the mountian tops of Skyrim and quickly became a master at walking. When he was older he traveled to Dawnstar and stole a painting of a naked Khajiit from a nobleman. His crime was reported and he was sent to the Imperial City prison where he learned that he was to be transported to Morrowind. This pissed him off because he had discovered an escape root through the wall of his cell. After being transported to Morrowind he talked with Jiub then went to Balmora. There he sold the package for Cauis Cascades (spelling svcks) to Ra'virr the Trader!

Dante would spend the remainder of his life killing cliff racers and freeing slaves from their owners. Dante was killed when he assaulted "Dren Plantation" to free the slaves. I thought that was a nice end to a character that I had screwed up the main quest for.




Oblivion: Danyul Darathos - Redguard - Hero

Danyul was created by Sithis on the 27th of Last Seed, The year of Akatosh, 3E 433.

He escaped prison, single handedly defeated the hoards of Oblivion, utterly destroyed the arena grand champion in a battle to the death, and shot down the Adoring Fan when he shined Danyul's boots to the point where the finish came off. This was when Danyul's life became far more darker and bloody. A speaker for the Dark Brotherhood, Lucien Luchance, came to Danyul Darathos in his sleep with an offer for him to join the dark family. Danyul accepted and rose through the ranks of the brotherhood. He... ok you guys know what happens in the dark brother hood next so don't make me write it... The now Listener for the Dark Brotherhood moved to Morrowind to visit Dren Plantation and finish Dante's job.

Now that you're comfortable talking about your feelings, why don't you tell me about your childhood....... :hubbahubba:

Feelings? Damn...

Okay.

My current main character is a Altmer Male named Harrandil.
He is a mage who runs around killing bandits, imps and goblins while helping people who need help. He is also trying to get into the Arcane University (just Leyawiin left!).

I am pretty much being the powerful good guy who is always the good guy. First I thought about making him some sort of Power-Seeking Slightly Badguy Guy but that didnt work out well... Feelings? I dont feel anything special with him really.

I svck at roleplaying in the game. But I like him anyways.

When I made my characters, Dante Xavier and Kush Vicieux, I was planning on doing the guilds, Dark Brotherhood, and Arena.
Well I did Arena but after I completed The Dark Brotherhood, the game gets you soo attatched to what guild you were currently working on that you don't really want to leave it.
On my mage, Dante Xavier, I want to go work on my Mage's Guild, but I don't want to leave the The Dark Brotherhood to go work on it, after my character says "All hail Sithis" and all of that.

I'm a normal person.

So am I but its fun to pretend

When I was playing Morrowind, I was drowned with the largest video game world I've ever been in which made me feel like I was in Lord of the Rings the movie. Although I must confess for some reason I was really exhausted every time I play and still to this day. I was blown away when I played Oblivion and not really exhausted as much as Morrowind thankfully.

I am confused as to the subject of the thread.