: The character is blank so there is nothing to get in the way of projecting
: yourself onto the character. We don't know his polital leanings, hair
: colour, taste in food, views on capital punishment; therefore you can
: imagine that the Chief is a Green Party, red head, curry lover who thinks
: people should be executed for litering. And there is nothing to contradict
: that image.

: You bring your, not blank slatedness and overlay the character with it.

Glad to see someone in this thread gets the idea. It sounds like Morhek and Grizzlei would rather read a book/watch a movie than play an interactive game.

I hate it when I get to control a clearly defined character. Then it's like, why am I even here? Why can I influence the actions of this character who clearly has a mind of their own as soon as I don't get to control him/her?

Sort of like playing Halo 4 felt. The chatty, dramatic, unstable, insubordinate Chief I'm playing is clearly not the same person I was when I saved the world from those insane Prophets, and now he clearly has some issues of his own he wants to take care off, and I don't have a choice but to go with him.