Making IRL people or fictional characters in game character customization

Fluke939 · Jan 20, 2020

With all the games that let you change your character's appearence, name, and other attributes, I would like to know who else, like me, has a habit of basing them on characters from fiction.

Let's share some of our creations, whether it is a race car you painted in the colours of your favourite superhero of an avatar you lovingly crafted the cheekbones and eyebrows of until it looked like your friend. I wanna hear about it

Me first:

XCOM 2 - I made every recruit that survived a mission into someone from books, films, or games usually inspired by their gender and/or what class they were assigned. Though I am struggling to remember specifics. I think I had Adolin from the Stormlight
Archive books cus he had a sword, and Hiro from the book Snow Crash because he was a hacker. And I think I made Squidward once...

Fallout Shelter - Some vault dwellers I named after people they kind of looked like, I had my friend Lindsey, Chloe Moretz and Lynn Gunn (Pvris).

Saints Row 4 - I made a spot on Alice from Superjail. Was super fun to fly around and stomp bad guys with her.

Watchdogs - Not many options in that game. but I picked his outfit to make him look as close to Castiel from Supernatural as I could.

I've based my Pokemon character on my wife a few times.

In subnautica, my Seamoth, Prawnsuit and Cyclops subs were all coloured and named after pet fish of mine.

:)

Honda Man 04

I tend to only apply my likeness to characters/avatars. I sometimes will call a character by the name of someone else if I think their behavior or likeness matches another.

Sagaroth

I did Chuck Norris in WWE 2009, I was super proud of it!

T0xicpezz

I generally make my character resemble myself at least for my primary character. Then if there is a green skin option I will usually make a Hulk or She-Hulk character to play as.

darkist1

This is actually a really awesome idea.

I often feel like in games when customization is possible, i tend to model my character on a super hero like superman. Obviously not myself because i got that dad bod. but, they will have names with the word dark in. Example : In Sim's 4, i made a Sim, and
named him Dark Knight, and he was to be a town hero almost (more like just celebrity)

AquaRockStar

On my initial run of a game, I’ll make the character look like myself, but after I beat the game, i’ll make the character look like someone from whatever anime i’m watching at the time.

Making IRL people or fictional characters in game character customization