fett on 14/5/2007 at 01:06
I've hit upon an identity crisis of sorts. My original plan was to play the main quest, then start a new character with different traits, skills, etc. and do this for each Guild I joined so that I could experience all the different play styles.
Problem is, I've gotten really attached to my current character. I'm a Kajit and have finished all but one mission of the TG (see my other thread...), and went ahead and started the Dark Brotherhood. My sneak skills, security, and agility are killer right now and I'm really digging all the cool arrows and thiefy potions and such.
Should I start a new character, or just keep the Kajit and start building skills that will be beneficial for the other Guilds? Sure, I can play everything with the Kajit, then start a new character and play it all over, but most of the suspense is gone after the first time ya know?
Also, the enemies are not very challenging anymore, so I'm going to ratchet up the difficulty, but will this also make sneaking, lockpicking, etc. more difficult? I don't want to up the difficulty if it only affects combat, since I don't fight much to begin with.
Any advice or insight is appreciated.
Gorgonseye on 14/5/2007 at 19:35
I see it this way, you can more or less in the end, do everything on one character, or you can make a bunch of different characters each doing certain things, which could be more like role playing in some ways. In the end you could stretch the game play out more in making multiple characters, but you could also end up just gettingbored of constantly starting it over and over, and just stop playing altogether, meanwhile the other way would, as you said be stuck to one character, which has better flow then constant restarting, but can also feel kind of lame if you like to be deeply in character, and be a bit shorter.
In the end you have to decide which trade offs you find better, or which downside would affect you less. Personally, if this were Morrowind, I would keep making different characters due to it's massive nature. However, this is Oblivion, which all in all is a bit more shallow, and thus probably better off with one character to do it all.
steo on 15/5/2007 at 22:35
I dunno, I must of played at least thirty characters in oblivion and I've still only completed the mages guild and the dark brotherhood. Not that I would recommend doing that sort of thing, I just tend to get bored of some characters very quickly.
~s:a:n:i:t:y~ on 16/5/2007 at 07:08
Become a vampire then - you'll be seeing changes to your appearance daily :)
Booser_bob on 27/5/2007 at 01:10
Fett, thats exactly what happend to me. What i ended up doing was having 3 characters, One of pure evil, one that was pure good. And one to do that main quest. Pure evil was dark brotherhood and theifs. My good character was mainly the Knights of the Nine quest(Only available to PS3 or download). Otherwize, you cant make a character thats good AND bad, so if you want to have High Fame or Imfamy you have to make at least two.
But i think you should continue your Kajiit and finish the dark brotherhood quest and do whatever you want to be evil. Then maybe make a Theif of a different race or something so its not like your completly repeating yourself.
I always wanted to make a stealthy orc... You should make a theif orc :thumb:
