/selfinsert/

Believe me, there's alot of people on here who say "I don't want to stare at man ass when I play" which is simply retarded because I don't usually look at my character at all except to customize to look cool.

There's a bunch of insecure, unchill, closet fags that just ruin my day man…

It's really difficult for me to enjoy a game from a female perspective, especially if there's a love interest.

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It boggles the fucking mind that they can't do that shit correctly.

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Holy shit, this guy looks so fucking badass.

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the most common argument I see is this

People like that are fucking faggots

Depending on the character creator I might try to make myself, but I usually settle for same race/gender. Other times I just make up a character to RP as, depends on the game.

link can't get old because a boat crashes on his gay elf island and a dude on said boat kill's links gay elf ass.

Most of the time I do. Sometimes I play as a female POC just for a change of pace. That is to say, I try to make someone who's opposite of me simply because I want to do something different. If I can make 2+ characters, I make a bro.

Who looks at their character while playing?
Hell, what if your character doesn't even have a visible ass like pic related?

I find a way.

Horrible example, Excalibur and Nekros have serious manass going on. Why do you think the game has so much gay porn? Even one of the guys who makes models for the game draws gay shit of it

Nekros' legs are too skinny though.
Because the character designs tap into a niche fetish.

I'm the type of guy who makes super edgy looking motherfuckers who always end up doing all the nice things.

"I AM DEVIL THE DEMON MAN AND I GOT YOUR PURSE BACK MADAME LET ME ALSO HELP YOU CROSS THE STREET" just resonates with me, you know.

A bit over the top and trying too hard for my tastes. I like to go with a guy who's like a slightly less duchebaggy version of the Sword Art Online Abridged version of Kirito.

I always play as a female, I'm a guy but I do like to self insert sometimes.
I'm also a huge faggot for female clothes.

I would like to play as someone cute or handsome, and have his or her personality be a blank slate so I can fit in more

If the game offers me a gender, then I usually go for girl because they're cute.

so I guess gender is secondary but the very top of what I said is a priority or else I ain't playing

I should clarify that I'm ugly as fuck irl
I want that blank slate so I can pretend

escapism 101

I self-insert pretty much everything that I play, but usually in some idealized version of myself. I think I'm a pretty cool dude, but my vidya dudes are way cooler than me.

Sometimes I also like to play Arnold Schwarzenegger lookalikes and do the entire playthrough making Arnold quotes and screams.

I make cute girls and then usually self insert my own actual morality/personality if possible, unless I just feel like being a cunt.

Wow the dub is just disgusting, holy fuck.
Also Kazuma is the best MC in any parallel universe anime. Also best waifus

This. I like self inserting as a cute girl.

Better over the top and try hard then absolutely bland and uninteresting, like SAO vanilla Kirito is.

It's an abridged series.

We're just a few days away from walking the path of explosions once again. Also, that wasn't the official dub, but I'd bet it's still better than the official. It was a fan parody that makes Kirito a complete asshole. This parody shockingly manages to be infinitely more entertaining than the actual show.

Indeed, which is why I specified Abdidged Kirito.

my man

Warframe has some good waifu frames too though.

When playing a game I'd rather have something cooler or cuter to look at than myself. Generally cuter because most males in games I play are andro faggot-looking.

I approach character creation more like I'm designing an important npc to fit in the game, so I end up playing both genders depending on how good the options are.

Only find someone's choice offensive if they pick an extremely boring combo whenever they get the chance, like the same brown haired featureless everyman that stars in most cinematic AAA action games already.

Didn't have it saved, thank you.

How long is it, worth a watch? I'm somewhat intrigued. Got a link?

I don't use dildos because I'm not gay.

I only tend to do self-insert sort of stuff in games where the character creation options aren't great. I'm a fairly generic looking white man, so there's not much work I have to do to make a character look like me.
If there's actually a character creator worth tinkering with I make a female version of me so that I can pretend as if I were the cute girl I want to be

What's the name of that song?

It's abridged, so not long. There is literally only one ongoing for SAO. Just type in Sword Art Online Abridged on youtube.

As someone who hated SAO, I enjoyed the abridged series for what it did with the cast. The writing is also high above average compared to other abridged series. I'd definitely say it's worth a watch since it's only 10 episodes at about 10 minutes each for now.

Same, except the swole part. In fantasy games with character creators I always play as Rincewind.

I'm a guy RL so I only play guys in video games unless the protag is only female and I literally have no choice in the matter.
I'm white RL so the same customization rules apply.

I feel like I'm lying about myself I choose otherwise. Plus, I'm comfortable in my own skin so I'm not compensating for anything or trying to live out some outlandish swap fantasy.

I'd insert myself in some cuteboys

ShibayanRecords - nachi (Casual Killer remix)

Shiggy Diggy

Thanks

Wow this abridged is fucking gold, thanks. Almost makes it worth to have watched SAO.

Must be new to imageboards or something. The self loathing must not have got to you yet.
-37,094,283/10

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I still don't know why they did that.

good goy protag should get better at tuvking then

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Kind of want to play as an old wise badass warrior now, but most games just offer you some young retard that doesn't know anything about the world around him.

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I'm old, getting older. At this point I just make myself and play doing whatever I would do in that situation. I always try to make something vaguely myself (hair, eyes, beard, etc) but I don't get autistic about the details and measurements. It would be nice if I could scan my face in though and have the game adjust measurements accordingly. Surely there's some middleware that's close to supporting that? Like the same facial middleware that Dark Souls and Oblivion uses.

MRW Jap games always have shit beard options because nips can't grow manly facial hair.

I tried to self-insert all the way up to the point that I realized I couldn't make a character that both looked like me, and was as handsome as me. That's when I gave up and started playing games as chicks.

I have never cried bigger bitch tears at a game's ending than I did with Bioshock Infinite.

Fuck all you faggots for hating it, you don't know what it did to and for me. It was a message from God himself, and I know now that my resistance against him, though noble and righteous and just against such savage cruelty, is futile.

But it's ok, love was just chemicals anyways. Another lesson from the series that also traumatized me.

m8 it's best you leave, I sense some hefty bullying about to commence

Mostly on games with roleplaying elements, usually just pick an archetype or if I'm feeling really bored, just make some over the top idiot, edgemaster or some dickhead, otherwise, just go with the flow with premade character because most games don't have any changes with your choices.

I generally self-insert in almost every game I play. Though normally the immersion works best when I create an idealized version of myself in an RPG. Sometimes I even take random detailed quizzes that give me a random class to play.
And I'll play a character based around that class, even if the game doesn't have something like a Dark Knight to play as.

I've always been someone who can get lost in what he does creatively. Hell, it would explain why I've had nightmares since childhood.

you obviously haven't been in the nier automata threads.

as usual, op is a raging faggot. go choke on a bag of dongs you prancing queer.

infinite was shit because the ending retconned everything you did. 8 hours of my life wasted and at the end
i wish refunds were a thing back then, fuck bioshit and fuck ken (((levine)))

I never self-insert. Too faggy. First playthrough in the beginning I get a feel for the setting, then base my character around those early pressions and try to be consistent. If I do further replays, I usually just do the opposite of what I did before to see what I missed.

For some reason I really like playing as old ladies. Any kind too: adorable grandmas, crooked witches, strict nuns. Maybe it's just because so few games (any?) have you play as an old lady and doing something different for a change is refreshing.

I self-insert a lot in 4X games.
I mainly try to be peacefull and establish alliances. I keep to my own land.
It's very rare for me to atack someone because I'm a chill dude like that.
But when someone atacks me or pisses me off, I fall upon him with great vengeance.
The exact way I play heavily depends on the faction I picked, but I always strive to be a benevolent dictator that gets rightly pissed when someone steps into my land.

I do bully weaklings though. If they don't have troops to defend themselves but a lot of resources, I'll atack if I'm at peace with everyone else.
I'm trying to be more "evil" and "asshole" but it's honestly kinda hard. Why go after someone when you can sit and grow prosper on your own?

Stop sexualizing female characters in video games. Women aren't sexual toys, they are real human beings. You practically play as a naked woman, you creep! I consider this a virtual rape.

I need zero self-insertion to enjoy a game, even a story-heavy game. The only requirement is that the playable character is likeable. I pity people who need to self-insert.

I only self inserted once, when playing Dragon's Dogma.

Otherwise, I like to make female characters with the idea of them being someone I'd sit down and interview about their life and experiences with. I like to give them Some sort of small deformity, like heterochromia/scarred eye that's covered by their bangs, as a sort of conversation starter to denote their age and experience. Not to mention that I make her exactly 195 cm tall, and well built, as an allusion to Jonathan Joestar.

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I like to play as robots. Bonus points if you get to fight another robots.

I do.
I think it's somewhat autistic, but I really can't bring myself to play as "someone else" when I have the option to self-insert.

I tried to make Ocelot in Dragon's Dogma, and while I did get the looks right, playing the game didn't feel like it should have.
Maybe I'll try it again some day.

Every time i see PSO screenshots i want to play it. But then i remember its a shitty japan only mmo for which you need to buy a vpn for.

why be myself when i can be hitler?

dating sims are essentially personality tests, so why not be honest the first playthrough?

Well if you're SEA monkey, then you deserve everything you get.
Otherwise no, you don't need a vpn.

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Post your waifu.

See what I mean about the insecure need to shitpost?

I pretty much always make either freaky goblin dudes, or if I can't change my hue, depressed looking old men. Always max height/lanky. Skinny sad weirdos in general.

It's pretty sad tbh, I just ignore em

no

Why? We only will applaud to your taste.
What can possibly go wrong?

Every time i make a character i make it look like me. Hairstyle, eye color, face shape, but then i also add musculature and a full beardxstache.
It ends up looking as what i want to look like.

Start lifting mate, we all were here. It will help with the beard too, if you're not drinking

Same, it's always an idealized or fantasy version of who I'd want to be in that specific universe. For some reason I always make asian protags even though I'm white. Maybe deep down I wish I was asian…

well i got the drinking right atleast

Basically alcohol kills your testosterone and prevents hair from growing on body and face.

It's not wrong to try and make the ideal version of yourself in a videogame, it's called escapism. Alot of us are fat & ugly or wish we were as cool as the character's we make. Nothing wrong with that.

normalfag.

Whenever the game gives me the option to create a character i tend to recreate myself as closely as possible. I like to think of the characters as an extension of myself. Like an additional body which i can use to interact with the games world.

wheres the stand?

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Thats good to know, thanks for the tip friend.

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Just not drinking and not killing whatever little manhood you still have is anything but normalfaggotry.
Actually by not drinking you'll be able to fap to our favourite waifu more often and it will feel better.

I only fap to 3DPD thicc milfs on dragon dildos, I don't quite have a waifu

Male version when? So I can stalk female senpai and take pantyshots without feeling like a dyke?

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prepare your butt

You have to go back
>>>/reddit/

>yanderedev coding is worse than the code of a guy learned to code by bruteforcing sex scenes on CoC

But there's no other sim like it for japanese life. I really wish someone made a gta:tokyo or something. I tried Yakuza but I don't like brawlers that much.

I fucking hate that voice and knowing it comes from a fat bearded faggot pisses me off more

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

nigger

Anyone else here black, and self-insert as a white male?

Our very existence is shitposting and you know it

Mentally ill people with an incredibly basic understanding of Freud using it as an excuse for their illness.

I mean if you want to play as a female who gives a shit, but thats the thing who really gives a shit?

Because, people who play as female are usually super insecure and post shit like this

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I'm white and i self insert as a slav

I pick random for the first few times, then RP as that character. I don't selfinsert as the character, I just try and make a good one and see what he/she does.
In later runs I make the goofiest looking motherfucker I can, because breaking the character creation is hilarious.

Like bending your dick into your own asshole? Sounds gay dude

I never managed to do that, i have the length but i can never bend it enough to end up in my own ass and my balls end up in front most of the time

In h games, sure.

Last game I played that allowed a decent self-insert was Dragon's Dogma. Created a character with similar height, weight and appearance. I also used my first name as the character's name, but in the end I only spent 10 minutes making the character.

The main problem I had with the self-inserting is that I had all sorts of bonds that I didn't have before that moment, so it felt awkward. Quina who loves the player character for instance.

Did you ever try Shenmue 2?

I played Mass Effect as a girl. Went a little ways as the dude but I got tired of the skintight jumpsuit shoving his ass in my face all the time. I didn't mind the jumpsuit on femshep at all, though.

But besides that I always play as a dude, it takes me out of the game if a girl is super strong and emotionally resilient like protags have to be (except in gay weebshit where protags are the biggest bitch in the whole cast).

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You know what, fuck it, snake has a nice ass and I'm not afraid to admit it

if the default character is a woman, I typically don't have any grudge with that. Given a character creator, I just make a dude with glasses and a beard, a) because it slightly resembles me, and b) because it's stupidly simple to do

I didn't mind Snake's ass in MGS4 or 5, actually. Dunno why.

I do, but it feels awkward when someone talks so familiarly with you when you don't know them. It's just my issue with self-inserting as it suddenly feels more personal

Because it was spectacular

This is for you, user.

I'll occasionally play as a red pilled black man.

…Are you a red-pilled black man?

kill yourself.

Why can't I stop thinking of MGS4 jokes?

I never self insert. I just like making characters that have just enough to distinguish themselves from everyone else without being speshul snowflaek shit.

Also mute and shows their personality, mentality and reliability solely through actions. Especially in something like Monster Hunter. Just doing his job, just helping, just making what he likes to use or wear.

I make girls that I want to fuck and kiss and hold hands with and I get a big boner when I'm picking out what outfits to wear.
Sometimes I mix it up a bit and make a little boy that I want to be and get fucked.

I self insert but I also like crafting stories for my characters in my head. Autism incoming but Since the Souls games and Bloodborne sort of connect in terms of the timeline i was able to do what I normally do for souls games. I create a different character for each game and imagine them as descendants of the first character in a very long bloodline.

I play as a Dunmer supremacist in TES games.

Don't hang out with feminazis.

Everybody does, to a certain extent.

I got that reference

Personally I hate playing as self-insert characters unless I'm playing a strategy game or a game I don't see myself in. Then I self-insert myself into the world of the game, otherwise I like to think of myself as something of a guiding spirit to a character which helps him/her get through the game like in OFF but with less depression and moral problems

Haze Stratos go to bed

Don't hurt yourself on all that edge, bro.

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Snake is the Dick Grayson of vidya.

I would self-insert, but my dick isn't big enough. I can get the tip right to my butt hole, but it doesn't really go in more than a few centimeters.

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Rendering hair is intensive, dude.

IT'S BUTT O CLOCK, FELLAS.

ASSTASTIC

Dude, you can't just drop that shit on the front page like that.

Stop being so Assnine

Look, I get that the CGs all feature a dude and drawing new ones to feature a lady would be expensive for a niche product like this (not even mentioning the wide array of character models you could use for the protag). I could let those being the same slide, no problem, but goddamn, it's not that much effort to record some new lines here and there to accommodate the player. Script changes to account for the fact that we're now in yuritown with all the romance options would be trickier - but if they're going low-effort from the start, they don't even really need to bother beyond a few extra lines and some minor scene changes.

And while I'm sperging out over a Japanese panty-stealing simulator, the fact that there's no route for the Finn is a sin.

tits or gtfo

Depends.

Outside the typical tumblredditard reasons, if you could choose to stare at a hot chick all day vs some dude, what would you choose?

I mostly find myself having hard time playing vidya these days if there's no female option but that's mostly because the male protag of choice is the most generic blandest piece of garbage there ever is even though i dont touch AAA-shit anymore.

Atleast with chicks i can play dress-up and stare at their asses. and generally the 'generic' female protag voice has a lot more personality than the male variantsame with portraits,body models etc

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I love how people come in this thread with the purpose of purposely shitting up a good self-insert thread, it's almost like they're violating a rule or something…

That's not how it works.

Learn the etiquette for that phrase dipshit. It's applicable if they bring their sex to attention FOR attention and not actual discussion. In this case he's just playing a chick. Do you not?

Sargon?

I think you need to lurk some more instead

To think you thought you could fool me.