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Unsung
Since: Jun, 2016
Florestan
Since: May, 2015
13th Mar, 2020 08:33:36 PM
There's also Player Personality Quiz.
RealoFoxtrot
Since: Oct, 2018
13th Mar, 2020 09:07:59 PM
Ooh, I missed Player Personality Quiz.
Hmm... Player Personality Quiz probably needs more love than creating a new trope.
I'm genuinely not sure this trope exists, despite having found several references to it. The idea is that instead of creating your character through a menu system, you are presented with questions from in the game world where your answers shape your character.
Examples include: System Shock 2 - at the start of the game, you arrive at the carreers office which offers you several batches of choices. each choice is followed by an explaination of what happened as a result of that choice, and gives your character experience in a certain area
Final Fantasy XV: Comrades - While you get to choose your appearance through acenstories, the character creation takes the form of remembering your past. as you progress through the game, you are given choices where your responces shape your character and attributes.
Unvowed - so much of this game changes based on what you respond at the start of the game. from being asked if you are man, woman, or demon, to how your respond to being asked what you do changes your flashbacks and your relationships to other characters.
Always Sometimes Monsters - I know that your choices are diagetic in this, but not actually played it.
Before I go to the Trope Launch Pad, I do want to see if anything exists like this already. Closest i could find was the TTRPG Traveller having "Death by Origin Story"