(02-27-2013, 11:50 PM)Ryanti Veanysus Wrote: I believe even if I was 50, I'd start over anyway, just because to me it's a whole new game.
See, I don't know that this is necessarily the same for everyone.
I'm definitely looking forward to all of the new things that start at level 1 and go from there. I've got several classes midway along the leveling path, as well, so there's going to be plenty for me to do on my non-50 options, and I've got an entirely new class to play as well. I also do intend to roll a couple of new characters along the way, to see things new from the ground up.
But starting over entirely is something I couldn't do, because that would mean leaving behind a character at the end of the old game. Leaving behind a character whose story ended with her alone, separated from every single person and place she loved, waiting for death in the desperate hope that it would give her life up to that point some meaning. You can argue that recreating her would be fundamentally the same, that I could just fudge it and say it's the same person, but she'd be missing possessions that matter, a history that matters, the time I spent playing her from launch until the game went cold and dark.
Starting fresh is really neat. But I'd rather be exploring a strange and yet familiar world with an old friend.
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