Does anybody find this as difficult as I? I tried to do it, but just ended up creating a bipolar character who blew up Megaton, but helped every other person in the game due to the possibility of rewards, acting different than real life.

I made a whole blog (the one in my sig) where I tried to live like a REAL person. I think that I (or any real person) in that situation would do what Joe did... avoid 'quests', get some food and try and keep away from super mutants.

I try and do this in each RPG I can, so my appearance, skills, attributes will be as close as possible. In quests and dealing with NPCs I'll try and choose something I would say in real life. Of course in reality I'd be cowering somewhere, not charging into a ruin full of super mutants with miniguns so it's never really accurate, but I can try.

Out of interest, would you really have nuked a town for $500 in real life???

:rofl:

Ermm I kinda act like myself on each playthrough just with different stats each time.
I tend to slide towards evil when Im playing though.

I used to look at RPGs, with the "That's Me" viewpoint. I still do with some characters. Now that I use female characters, more often than males, I look at it from a third person viewpoint. Like I'm a spiritual guide or something.

Spiritual and slightly pervy guide.

It's very difficult!

My r/l-stats as special:

s - 5
p - 6
e - 7
c - 4
i - 7
a- 4
l - 5

A couple of points can be changed during the early game, but that is pretty much me. Slightly overweight and too old to run around in the waste to kill Rad-scorpions. But I still do it in the game and when the choice of good and evil comes...

I'm always neutral. At least I can live with that, except for me to pick someones lock or steal their things, to offset the good karma I just got for helping that poor slave. And so on...

But I have played good and evil too, with chars outside myself and I feel just as comfy with those chars, just make it happen.

Playing myself though, must be the biggest challenge in any/all RPG-games I've played so far. But I do it all the time and then switch to something else after the first play-through.

Yes, very much so...on both accounts. Namely the latter. I say that loud and proud. :mohawk:

:celebration:Gotta like a guy who knows what they like.

I might do it for free.

can't say that I've ever attempted RP'ing as myself...If I did, I'd wind up spending all my time somewhere safe, like Megaton or Rivet City; rarely leaving the safety of town. That doesn't sound like much fun. It's much more fun for me to RP as someone other than me.

If I was to stat myself as I am right now I'd be:

S - 4 - I ain't no bodybuilder
P - 3 - I just count sight here but its + 1 since I'm four eyed lol (hearing, smell etc would make it 5+1)
E - 7 - Punch me and you'll hurt yourself too
C - 6 - I' have a way of getting what I want
I - 4 - I know what I need to stay alive stuff quantum physics
A - 6 - I can run a mile in < 5 mins on average
L - 7 - I could have been blinded, stabbed and other potenially fatal mishaps and worked my way into places that can only be explained by luck

I dont even use 4 of the 5 extra SPECIAL points you get at the start of the game

My main character, Troy Hunter, was me playing as myself. It was really easy. I didn't do things because they were right or wrong, I made my decisions on I feel like it basis. He was a good karma character, and never insults people, but he did join the Enclave and did his best to promote their position, although he always needed a little push from his personal assistant (who, in game terms, gave quests). I thought about this, if this was me, and I later on noticed that it was. When I was in military service I noticed that I was the concentration camp type of guy, one who blindly follows orders and who is ready to do anything to help his own group. But only if he believes he is doing the right thing in the end. Ends justify the means.

I havn't acheived this on fallout 3 but im pretty sure i have on fallout new vegas all i do realy is hunt for food and water and kill the odd fiend but its pretty boring.