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Edited by OJ191:
8/27/2014 4:39:11 PM
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It's not at all an ego thing, it helps to identify with the character.
Personally I will use the default/canon look in a character driven game but in something like Destiny... depending on how much I feel like role-playing either I will make it look as close to an idealised me as is possible (easy to identify with and the "role-play" is merely confronting things as I believe I personally would if I happened to be in that situation, or I will make it look as close to what I feel a character in this universe and situation might look like and role-play based on what sort of moral code etc I feel they would have.
But if you ask any of my friends you won't hear a thing about my ego, I often talk too much but nobody has any problems with my ego.
edit: although narcissistic people probably WOULD also make an idealised version of themselves... I'm just saying correlation != causation here. Just because narcissistic people do so because they are narcissistic, doesn't mean other people who do so are also narcissistic.
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"Ego" isn't just about self boasting and narcissism, but even with that aside, I would just see the idea of playing as yourself due to a lack of creativity or imagination, especially if it's "needed" to "identify with the character."
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Edited by OJ191: 8/27/2014 5:00:19 PMI said it helps in identifying with a character, not is required to do so. You can fantasize about something without believing it to be true. If I want to fantasize about Becoming Legend(tm) that's perfectly fine and has nothing to do with an inflated ego and/or narcissism unless I actually exhibits traits of those things. Again, just because egotists/narcissists are likely to do those sorts of things, doesn't mean everyone who does so is an egotist/narcissist.
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Edited by H0RSE: 8/27/2014 5:10:47 PMAnd as I said, "ego" isn't just about narcissism. You seem to show you have a general understating of what "ego" is. For one, ego resides in both the conscious and subconscious.
