{"id":71,"date":"2017-10-16T05:45:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T05:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2017-10-17T04:36:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T04:36:53","slug":"dark-souls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhetoricofgaming.digitalwcu.org\/customizingidentity\/dark-souls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the case with the character creation process in Dark Souls<\/em><\/a>, as well \u2013 both games have impressively extensive customizability.\u00a0 Just like in Oblivion<\/em>, players can make their Dark Souls<\/em> avatar look anywhere from extremely serious, intimidating, and heroic to the total opposite: casual, funny, and entirely malformed.\u00a0 And Dark Souls<\/em> allows its players to accompany their character design with a wide array of gear that can be used to accentuate the personality and style of each avatar \u2013 just a bit more so than Oblivion<\/em> does.\u00a0 Some players may choose to equip their character with a massive, two-handed greatsword or bludgeon if they are going for an avatar that intimidates and threatens with brute force.\u00a0 They might even wear bulky and heroic plate-armor to match, creating the appearance of a tank, of a hulk that shouldn\u2019t be messed with.\u00a0 Some players may choose to use light leather armor, a dark, hooded cloak, a crossbow, and a pair of daggers if they want to live out a life of stealth and trickery in game.\u00a0 Some players, however, might run around in the nude or with some piece of goofy joke-gear.\u00a0 These are just some basic examples, but, realistically, there is no true limit on what each player can choose to adorn their avatar with.\u00a0 \u201cNot only is man what [they] conceive [their self] to be, but [they] [are] also only what [they] will [their self] to be after this thrust toward existence\u201d (Sartre 345).<\/p>\n

What Dark Souls<\/em> also brings to the table is that it can be played as both single-player and multi-player, rather than just single-player.\u00a0 Players can choose to play the game alone, without ever encountering other players, by switching to Offline Mode.\u00a0 On the other hand, if players want to interact with the community while they play, they can choose Online Mode, allowing them to fight bosses with<\/em> other players, fight to the death against<\/em> other players (whether just for the ~Thrill of the Kill~ or for dominion over a particular region of the game\u2019s world), or anything of the sort.\u00a0 An in-game element such as this means that Dark Souls <\/em>can be played in a manner that allows the player to run their own fantasy of identity without having to worry about the impressions it might make on other players (like in Oblivion<\/em>), as well as in a manner that allows the player to submit their avatar\u2019s identity out into the public sphere, to be inevitably judged by other players.\u00a0 This is an important distinction to make when moving on to the next example, RuneScape 2<\/em> (Old School RuneScape<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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This is the case with the character creation process in Dark Souls, as well \u2013 both games have impressively extensive customizability.\u00a0 Just like in Oblivion, players can make their Dark Souls avatar look anywhere from extremely serious, intimidating, and heroic to the total opposite: casual, funny, and entirely malformed.\u00a0 And Dark Souls allows its players … <\/p>\n

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