I know I am not alone here. In all my games I play, I always restart all time. No matter what, I always start over and over again, making a new charcter all the time. Well here is a chance to try something new. Start with a new character and keep it. Let us not restart and make new characters. I have never done it, and I want to swear, I will do it this time. I will stick with my first character.

So who is with me? Who will not join the restartitis club. Who will make one character and stick with it, no matter what? So for us to prepare for this, let us say what skills or traits will be improtant. Let us discuss how we will do this. How we will play this and what we will do not to restart the game.

So who wants to join me in this club. This is our chance to have a new and refreshing game, and not making a new character knowing what will happend eventually.

No one I'd imagine. We all want to try different Karma levels, factions, and RP's. Sorry but you can count me out...

I won't make a promise I know I won't be able to deliver on. You're on your own.

Wait... How long does it take for you to create a new character?
30 minutes?
3 hours?
2 days?
A week?

And no, I'll stick with my character until I've finished the CL main quest.
After that I'm not going to touch that character ever again and might just remove the save for it.
And then start the next one.

I always create my character, no beforehand planning, then play to the end. Every single RPG I've played. Other than the times I've died before I saved.

The game has a hard end, and I do want to see how helping out the NCR/Mr. House/other factions/Me impacts the ending.

Are you suggesting that we stick with a new character all the way if we make one, or that we never ever start a new game?

only time i restart a charecter with bethesda/obsidian games is if i took a month or more break and come back and have no idea what the hell i was doing at the time lol

Um, I don't restart as in trashing a character because I'm unsatisfied, but I do make a variety of different characters, all of which I complete every possible quest with. I play each of them in different ways and RP certain backstories and behaviors for them, which color the way I play the game as them.

So, no?

I'm guilty of restarting RPGs over and over again in the past, to the point where I never finish them. So to make sure this never happens, I will literally spend hours planning out my character before I even start playing to make sure I end up with an effective character that is fun to play by the time I finish the game. That said, in Fallout's case, I'm aware there are choices I have to make during the course of the game that will directly effect the ending, so I just have to go with whatever choice I think will most likely have a desired effect on the ending and just see it through to the end.

I've got a tougher idea - the no respawns club.
Rules:
1: You can never save.
2: You can never load
3: your character dies? Its dead. You restart from scratch.

Hahaha so true, I do that all the time.

I personally don't understand why people will plan their characters stats to make them perfect. Yeah, owning everything is fun, but it gets old for me after a while. Its probably because of my playstyle. I'm gleefully unprepared for everything. I once did Reilly's Rangers with 5 10mm bullets and a baseball bat. I also like my stats not being perfect because it simulates your character just being a guy. Who turns into a http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadassNormal

I'll restart, but only after the game is done with and I generally keep my characters all pretty much the same. Good karma, side with same people, same skills, etc.

Holy crud that link is so interesting, I'm still reading it now. Thanks for giving me something to take my mind of NV for a while.

I am suggestiong that we stick with our first character we make. After, when the game is complete you make a new game. I would never ever say you do not start a new game afterwards. When I played Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, and finally Fallout 3, but the same would go for, Star Wars KotOR, Baulders Gate I and II etc, I would keep restarting all the time. Lets take Morrowind for example, I played over 350 hours, but I have never completed the Main Quest. Oblivion I played abour 200 hours, never finished it. Fallout 3, I cheated and checked the Fallout wiki so I can say at least I finished a game for once.

When I played Fallout 3, I restared like 5 times before I actually finished it. So this time for once in my life, instead of playing over 200 hours in a game, and never finishing, I want to spend 200 playing a game and finish it. I guess, I always see something different, how i can make my character more perfect or get the better weapon more earlier and start over again, time and time again.

So for once, I am going to say, I will make a character and stick with it, till the end and then start a new game. This way I am not restarting over and over again.

Oh, I always stick with my first character until the end. I have a large backstory for him and everything. I plan on sticking with each character to the end for all of my playthroughs until the main quest gets stale. Even then, there will be mods and DLC to add content for me to enjoy.

I'm allready a member cause I stick with my girl and has done so for hundreds of hours in FO3. That will not change in NV.

But I do make som makeshift characters for testing, once in a while, just to explore all the aspects of the game.

Does that count as restartitis?

Could someone explain what Restaritis is?

I'd never be able to keep track of more than one character at a time.
Plus, I wouldn't be as emotionally invested in my characters if I had several of them going at once.
Plus, I would inevitably forget which was good or evil.

The urge to start a new character over and over again.

For Oblivion it took me about 5 characters, get them to a certain lvl and then starting to dislike it.
Eventually I found one and kept him around for about 800 hrs.

Didn't have that problem with Fallout 3, I liked the first character from the start and sticked with it.

OH god! I have introduced another human to the time-svcker that is TVtropes! I am so sorry! You'll never be able to stop!

Nope I wouldn't count that as restartitis because it's just training purposes. You are not playing, then deleting the character to start a new one.



Well for me, I considner restartitis when you make a new character, play it for one hour, or evern a week or to level 30 or what ever, then you delete this character and make a new one, basically starting all over again. I usually do this when my characters are level 10 and I start over because I find something new, or should have done it this way instead of that way. In esence, I spend like 200 hours playing the game, but never completeing it since I start over and over agian.

wait, there is a main quest in Oblivion? I have been playing the same char in Oblivion for the last 2 years and haven't touched that quest past the opening tutorial. bliviongate:

F03 I still haven't finished Broken Steel, though I did finish the main game and all other DLC.

Both are now so heavily modded that I wouldn't recognize standard if it booted up.

I still only have 8 save games on both, and largely due to new race mods. Anwolf being my Oblivion fave, and my Shojo-neko save game is interesting for FO3......she blew up megaton......and the citidel.......shot Three Dog in the face.......released the FEV virus.......giggled durring tranquility lane......she isn't a nice kid, nope. Raiders are nicer than her.

^^^^^^
that all means I play single chars.......indefinitely. Restaritis is not an issue for me.