[bananamerica]

You don't get to be the character, you get to control it within very narrow constraints...

[ddingus]

This is all up to the player.

In SSX, they broke that wall by referring to the characters as riders we identify with, explicitly challenging the idea of them being characters we pretend to become.

Other titles do that, but that was the first one I noticed the distinction made in an overt way.

People are all over the place on this too.

[bananamerica]

Can you command the character in this game to give up snowboarding and become an accountant?

[ddingus]

Of course not, and that is taking the distinction the wrong direction anyway, lol

[bananamerica]

It'd be cool game though.