Fellow GBers,
I'm writing to you looking for a shot at atonement and in the vein hope that I might find some like-minded individuals amongst you. I'm 30 hours into Skyrim and if the end is not in sight then I can at the very least say that the story is in full swing now; I'm level 25 and would say I've done a respectable amount of side missions. But my head has been turned by the other possibilities on my skill tree. Don't get me wrong: I love my Reguard archer but I can't help but think of all the other things out there that I'm missing out on by confining myself to only one character. So much so that I'm actively avoiding the major side quests (admittedly a relative term in the context of Skyrim) because I don't want to 'waste' them on a character that has lost his shine little bit. If I want to join the thieves guild then I'll roll a thief; Companions? Orc; College of Winterhold? Why I'll take some Altmer with that, thank you kindly. My main is the character that I know will always be there and because of this I'm rapidly losing interest in him.
So here's the problem: I don't want to go off and do everything with this character because it wouldn't be as fun as rolling new characters dedicated to certain parts of the game, but because I'm now entertaining this thought I've begun rushing through the main quest because it's the only thing that I want to do with this character before I switch. In short, the promise of what I'm going to do with my next character has sullied my experience with my current one who cannot possibly live up to the high hopes I have for a character forged entirely out of fantasy rather than 30+ hours of actual gameplay.
So, questions: is anyone else out there constantly struggling to stick with characters? Have you missed out on elements of games because you've never gone deep enough in with one character to experience them? How have you managed to contain this desire to experience something new?
Giant Bomb community: My name is Jim and I am addicted to re-rolls. Help me.
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