Seems like everyone here has every last single little detail for their character (or usually more than one character) already figured out.

Am I the only one that wants to see what the characters actually look like and test out the game for a minute before my character's entire life story is written?

Some people already have 10 characters planned out with their name, race, age, appearance, skills, perks, background story, storyline, combat style, wife and kids, companions, etc. completely detailed.

To me that would get really boring and depressing, knowing that for the entire time you are playing Skyrim, everything has already been planned out ahead of time. Even your other characters after the first.

MOAR bacon?!

Meh, I don't have a preplanned story. I just make it up as I go. :tongue:

I never plan out my characters. I just play the game and have fun.

I haven't planned anything, but I have a basic idea what I'm going to head for first.

Lightning spells to disintegrate things with. After that, I have no clue where I'll head.

You definitely ain't the only one. I know i'll use a Nord, and that's it.

I don't really have anything picked out except gender and general idea.

I tried picking out the perks I wanted but without knowing the specifics and order it's impossible really.

Since there are no attributes, birth signs or anything like that there really isn't no need.

They designed the game to pick up and play without any character design, and that is unfortunate.

I might try to make a back story for my character, but it's not nearly and fun when you build your character as you play.

I've worked out outlines for several characters
No certainty I'll actually use any of them in Skyrim though but since I enjoy thinking up character ideas and may use them in some other game or in Skyrim at some point the effort isn't wasted even if my 1st character isn't one of them

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I ALWAYS PLAN AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've planned everything about my character, right down to his favourite books (He occasionally pulls out The Lusty Argonian Maid every once in a while)

-Mr. Maric

I may be wrong to do this, but I don't actually ROLE PLAY. I play the game. My character doesn't have a story. He's just a character. I am my character, I guess. I get stuff for me. To better fight of monsters. The most in depth I go into a story for my character is a name that fits the race. He doesn't go off and get drunk with local maidens when my ps3 is off.

I don't ever use a backstory, but I know the type of character I'm going to start off with - like many others, an assassin with some magic abilities (destruction and/or conjuration).

There really isn't no need?

So there IS a need?

Please stop with the "Grammer Police". It gets old.

Since the character that will be my "main" has been the same since Morrowind, and retroactively in previous games... It's kind of impossible for me to not have his backstory pre-planned since I already role-played through it in Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, and Oblivion. He's the only character I have planned in depth. :shrug:

As far as the others go... I know my second character will be an Orc. What he will be other than a Malacath worshiper? I have no idea. After that? ????? :spotted owl:

I have the overview finished but I won't know exactly until I play the game.

I can't help thinking about what character I would like to play, but every time I really try to plan one before a game comes out, I end up changing my mind. So, yes, i have a few ideas, but I won't really know until I get started. And even then I might change my mind hours into the game.

I need to play the game and get a taste of the world politics before I decide what my character's backstory is- I just RP she doesn't remember anything before prison, until little things remind her of who she is.

This is me, exactly.

well said ...

Well I only prepared one character (my main). I will play a gameplay I know I will love (since I have experience from 2 TES and I have read about the improvements in skyrim). I know the look of each races, I know how we'll mostly be able to customize our character and I know the plot.

Since my character history as little to do with tamriel history (since she's a peasant daughter) I have no reason to wait for the game to be released to begin working on her.


edit:

Wrong. What's interesting is that we know who is our character, his past, but we don't know the choices he will be confronting, how he will react to them, and how they will change him. And even if we already know the game, we still don't know what he will do, in what order and that can change everything including who our character is.
So no, nothing boring about that. Sometimes setting boundaries is the best way to increase the possibilities.

Same as always, I'll use a Nord with a strong emphasis on combat. Leaning towards male this time around (had a female in Oblivion) but nothing is certain until I have the game running and actually see everything on my own screen.