Role-playing

Sometimes you'll play one of those long and epic RPGs with stories so grand and customizations so detailed, that it's easy to spend a hundred hours on the first playthrough, and I say first playthrough because the virtually endless options and choices give the game plenty of re-playability.

Your character will gain such strengthened levels that he/she has become very powerful, and his/her story has come along so far that you feel like it must have been years ago when their journey began.

But sometimes no matter how much fun you're having, no matter how curious you've become about the what-ifs and what-might-have-happeneds had you made different choices, joined different in-game factions, saved different lives, killed others, it's too difficult to start at the beginning again. It's much too hard to lay down all the progress you've made with your current character's storyline and start at the beginning again with a new character whose sword strikes are back to doing only one hitpoint of damage, especially when you're main character has been dealing 9999hp with each strike.

With all this progress you start thinking "Yeah that was fun, but I'm getting bored with this character and want to start a new one, but throwing all this power and progress away will kinda suck, especially after putting so many nights and hours into this one character."

Yeah... sometimes you just get bored of your job no matter how much you love it, and you just start considering other employment possibilities. You wanna see what other characters and job classes you can play as. Mage-thief. Warrior-priest. Pilot-tech.

But do you really wanna start at the bottom again with a new boss, new system, new method, possibly lower exp ratings, and what if the overall difficulty is higher than you're used to and you just end up getting pwnd...?

You hit cancel at the "Create new character" screen, and go back to load game. Then you resume your current character, but instead of continuing his/her path you start to change things up a bit. The whole time they've been a neutral-good, but since you backed out of starting a new character, you decide your current character will start taking on characteristics of a new character. From now on, you start making your character lean towards the darker side. Save the king? Nah. Slay the king and take over the throne.