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I'm trying to determine which should be a higher priority to get across at the beginning of a game. The character's personality or the circumstances surround them?
I want to say...personality. For a text reasons, without voice actors to intone the dialogue, it might be better to establish context that a character is a jokester and shouldn't be taken too seriously right from the start. And I think there's more entertainment value in discovering the circumstances of a character that then explain their personality, like a backstory of abandonment or something.
On the other hand, I can think of a few stories that are better off establishing circumstances first. Starting off with a childhood trauma origin story, a burning village ect...that quickly establishes the character's motivations.
I don't know. I think the majority of RPGs start slowly. Meandering around a home or town, giving you a sense of who the character is before anything really starts. At least with Jrpgs anyways. But I guess with Western Rpgs, the character's personality is up to you, if they have one at all, so their stories begin a little more promptly.
I want to say...personality. For a text reasons, without voice actors to intone the dialogue, it might be better to establish context that a character is a jokester and shouldn't be taken too seriously right from the start. And I think there's more entertainment value in discovering the circumstances of a character that then explain their personality, like a backstory of abandonment or something.
On the other hand, I can think of a few stories that are better off establishing circumstances first. Starting off with a childhood trauma origin story, a burning village ect...that quickly establishes the character's motivations.
I don't know. I think the majority of RPGs start slowly. Meandering around a home or town, giving you a sense of who the character is before anything really starts. At least with Jrpgs anyways. But I guess with Western Rpgs, the character's personality is up to you, if they have one at all, so their stories begin a little more promptly.