I started playing Bard Tales IV and ended up selecting one of the older male characters.
I just can’t get myself to pick the younger avatars any more being 59. I like to think that I can kick some butt as a wiser, older hero.
I’ve begun giving my avatars grey hair. I know that feel, bro.
Witcher Series made grey/gray hair cool!
I don’t select older characters. But then again, I usually choose female characters as my avatar anyway, so I’m obviously not identifying myself with my avatar too much. I guess other people do?
Gray hair is anime
Pink hair is netflix
Purple hair is furry porn
Red hair is vampire-viking-ism
Black hair is “black hair is exotic where I live”
Blue hair is “I am colorblind”
Green hair is “there are moonelves in the forest, too”.
Wait gray hair is Anime? I thought that was green hair.
I love @Teiman’s guide to hair colors.
I use older characters in a lot of games. Just recently I created a character in Elder Scrolls Online and chose max wrinkles but it was a bit too wrinkly, so I dialed it back a bit. Still using a lot of wrinkles and gray hair though.
It never occurred to me to change my character in Bard’s Tale IV. I think it’s because Melody had already been shown to have a good voice actor, and the game seemed to be designed for her in the role, so I didn’t create a custom character.
Many main protagonist hair is white. My own theory is that is a “blank slate” color, when they want the protagonist to start has a “everyone man” (even if the anime ends with the protagonist being the opposite of that). It also language. When you see the guy with white hair, you know is the protagonist, even if the story temporally show more focus on other characters.
Edit:
Is not rare! (nsfw warning).
https://akibento.com/blog/2018/02/14/31-characters-white-hair/
I only select the female avatars with porn star bodies. I didn’t realize people did anything else.
Whenever possible my avatars are fat and bald.
I started in 2001. Look at my avatar :). It does seem that since then I always make my guys older, with wrinkles, and bald or gray hair of some sort.
I usually choose female avatars too, but I make them about my age (early 40’s). I like to see some facial weathering and grey hairs. It gives the characters more gravitas and I take them more seriously.
I tend to pick avatars that resemble me without any semblance of beer gut or over 40 look. It’s bad enough I have to look in the mirror every day, much less see an avatar of myself onscreen.
I like going with the non-humans too. Slightly different reason.
Yeah, I am at the stage where an avatar my age seems better BUT! You just try that as a female.
One of the odder things is many MMOs seem to have been told “add one old female for diversity” or something. So every choice looks like it is not legal in any bar, except that one … and it looks 80! Twice my wrinkles and downright evil looking. Feel like a kiddie fetish or hag, let me think. Yeah, non-human works. Looking “my age” and gender almost impossible in games.
It feels even weirder now I’m a grandmother.
I tend to pick older, too, when available. I don’t think I have ever played a female character by choice. And when available, I like to pick the non-human characters (Dunmer/Dark Elves are my go-to race in Elder Scrolls games and come to think of it, I like the Drow, too).
I don’t know, I just go with what looks coolest to me. I created three characters in both Destiny games because the women look cooler, sleeker than the men, who just look chunky. I used the older Asian gentleman with a ponytail in Crackdown. I went with a black dude in The Division because he looked a lot like a friend of mine. I hardly ever pick someone that looks like me because I bore me.
I make the biggest beardiest man I can to fulfill all my androphilic fantasies.
I can’t make avatars look like me because games still don’t handle flowing tresses of long, curly hair well at all. It’s usually just a sad shower curtain drape of greasy-looking lines poorly fitted around the dome of the normal hair model.
Also because games generally don’t let you go for the spectacular combination of spotty, gross beard, significant weight issues, and clammy pale skin that I rep so hard.
Alas :(
I pick dwarf first, when an option. When it is human based, my characters are almost always older and/or grey-haired, or look like Gordan Freeman. Really, the older ones usually just look like an older Gordan Freeman.