What makes a player unique?

[Shinosuke]

I was wondering what other players thought, and I thought it was a kind of interesting topic...
If you think about it, every player has potential to become something in Vana'diel. We all have limits, and those limits are the same. Does this mean it is possible, that there is a point where eventually no matter what, anyone can attain a certain level of power and skill, and everyone is the same in the end?
Does this mean no one in particular is special? That you are just another face in the crowd? Or is there ways a player can truly be unique? With so many names being taken, and not alot of variety when it comes to designing a character that doesn't look like the one next to you, limits of power and skill, and difficulty doing anything solo...how can a player truly be unique? There are ways I am sure are possible...but what really makes a unique player?
Personality? The way they Role Play? Their skill in battle? The Merit system? Their LVL? Their LS? The Armor they choose? Their Strength? Their strategies?
Discuss.

[Legal Fish]

Re: What makes a player unique?

No one is unique in real life, so why should it be any different? Even if you don't follow the same route as everyone else, there is someone else going the same way as you.

But as for your question, it can only be the player behind the character.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: What makes a player unique?

I think a truely outstanding player never forgets two important things:

We were all new once.
No matter how far you've come, you can still learn something.

[DakAttack]

Re: What makes a player unique?

No one is unique in real life, so why should it be any different? Even if you don't follow the same route as everyone else, there is someone else going the same way as you.

I disagree. No two people have all the same opportunities in life, and though paths intersect at times, the perspectives from each path differ.

In FFXI your adventures will be unique. You're all going through the same areas at the same levels, and seeing the same cutscenes, but you're most likely doing it with different people. I remember going through CoP with a good friend of mine, Egon, and it was the one friend that helped make the whole thing memorable.

[ItazuraNhomango]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Each item can only be unique if distinguishable from all others. Since each character presume has an ID number not shared with any other character, we can reasonably infer that each avatar is unique.

... What was the question again?

[neokaril]

Re: What makes a player unique?

To assume that each player has the same potential and each the same limitations is your first fallacy. We were not all created equal in real life, there are winners and there are losers, someone finishes first, someone finishes last and some never finish at all. It only takes a few seconds in a party to confirm that statement. Just because "we can all run" doesn't mean we all can compete in the Olympics.

Regardless of how hard we try and hide it, our own personalities come through in our playing style and game choices, this is what makes each character unique, each player behind the character is unique.

Please don't let PL'ing and Gil buying fool you in to thinking the player base is or becomes vanilla, there are superior players, players who think they are superior and those who know they stink and therefore hide in parties for the free ride.

Interesting post topic though, thanks

[hongman]

Re: What makes a player unique?

I was going to type some longass reply. but neokaril pretty much sums up what I was going to say.

[Malevolent]

Re: What makes a player unique?

No one is unique in real life, so why should it be any different? Even if you don't follow the same route as everyone else, there is someone else going the same way as you.

But as for your question, it can only be the player behind the character.

Men and women are unique compared to one another...one has a vagina and one has a penis...sometimes one has both but thats another story...

[Mhurron]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Men and women are unique compared to one another...one has a vagina and one has a penis...

Just like the other 3 billion people of the same gender.

You are not a unique snowflake. No matter what you do, there are millions of others that can do it just as well as you. All it takes is time.

[hongman]

Re: What makes a player unique?

No one had led their life exactly as I have done, therefore I am unique.

[Mhurron]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Since most of the decisions in life are irrelevant to the course of it, there effect on your uniqueness is about equal to their impact on your life.

You woke up and had a big breakfast, I woke up and skipped it. In 100 years we'll both be dead and no one will care because neither made an impact on the world.

[hongman]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Mhurron, you need a ray of sunshine in your life.

[Murphie]

Re: What makes a player unique?

Yeah, but who cares what's going to happen in 100 years? I'm more concerned with what is going to happen this afternoon.

Just because it won't matter eventually doesn't mean it doesn't matter now.

[hongman]

Re: What makes a player unique?

And there can only ever be 1 Murphy.

[Murphie]

Re: What makes a player unique?

IE.

Man, it's right there by my post.

Though to be fair, I use Murphy everywhere else.

Anywho! I don't even know what would make a unique player. This game thrives on sameness.