Character creator is awful?

[Nonomori]

8 face presets to choose from and you can't edit anything? In a mid 2023 game?

Is that some kind of a joke? I have no idea how stuff like this gets approved. And if I remember early access version of this game actually had MORE options to choose from. What happened, why did they cut it?

EDIT: The point of the thread: any game in which you can create your own character, that has face presets instead of sliders should be condemned and left on the outskirts of history.

[Dominian]

Yeah, this is begging for a couple of collections for new body types, faces, hairstyles and some dongs that are bigger than a greek ancient statue.

The essential gameplay stuff is great. Lots of choices for races and classes. The customization needs more prefabs.

[Nonomori]

Originally posted by SnuffSaid:

Originally posted by REEEman:

No facial sliders is a bummer, but if the trade-off is having realistic animations for all the presets, then I can live with that.

They're not mutually exclusive, as Dragon Age: Inquisition proved about a decade ago. Hell, even The Sims 4 can pull that trick off.

Ive already brought DAI example out and yes, game from 2014 managed to do what 2023 game can't x)

[VONNY]

Originally posted by ⛥ ⌁⌁L⁕ꝉ⁜ϾH ⌁⌁:

Originally posted by rok.borovnik:

Check older games and come back. This is miles ahead of all CRPG games ever. And BTW D4 only got 4 faces in 2023 ?

We need less of you liars around here. You are not the original gamers. Don't make up ♥♥♥♥ about past games played by the elite gamers:

https://retrogamer.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Baldurs-Gate-MANUAL.pdf
This one of the several manuals. I have an original game box and 157 page manual in my possession. On the very first page after the contents it says "AD&D® Rules—An Introduction". After that it has 151 pages dedicated to outlaying the rules. The setting content is probably only one single page or even less worth collectively via narrator quotes.

151 pages of rules VS <1 page of setting/story in the Baldur's Gate 1 manual.

And you and others openly come to the forum and LIE through your teeth about it. It's disgusting behaviour and it's clearly part of a californian cartel who have the nerve to lie about history and cheat everyone to self promote their cartel. The cartel has to be destroyed and these nuEuropeans infesting gaming have to be silenced to prevent their lying about elite games and elite gamers, who THEY are trying to silence with their cartel ♥♥♥♥.

Amen

[info]

Originally posted by Soul:

you have less options but all faces are animated like real humans :) all expressions are really nice. i wonder how are starfield face animations going to look like, i can tell you, like ♥♥♥♥.

Perhaps, but everyone knows Bethesda's facial details are naff. However, Larian was proud of its character gen system and the EA showed they had a good system which just needed a little improvement. Instead, it seems to have been gutted.

[kw0lf.tw]

It's a joke. Hopefully mods will fix it.

[Dad0ne]

100% so far the biggest let down of the game. We have almost as many penis as faces. I'm not even joking.

[bonds7]

The whole character creator is garbage and not intuitive at all and felt like it was actively fighting me when I tried to change the default human.

[Pie Eater]

Originally posted by Dad0ne:

100% so far the biggest let down of the game. We have almost as many penis as faces. I'm not even joking.

Penises are mature and engaging, and is obviously seen more than your characters face or body.

[Pie Eater]

Man, I'd love the BDO creator features on everything....or hell, even Saints row. The Gordon Ramsay I could make would be mint.

What we have is fine, but seeing as how stuff like vitiligo, penises, vulvas and what not are here, yet basic face structures edits being omitted seems like the weirdest inclusion juxtaposition. Wonder if its the way the animations work that they didn't want abominations to be able to exist and it would break something?

I mean, i don't even think there's a face option that has a sharp chin for a bunch of races.

[Dad0ne]

It is definitely so far the biggest negative of the game. At least for me. Especially in a supposed dnd campaign which customization of your character is key to get immersed. Im not asking black desert online type of customization, but not even having almost as many penis as faces or having 2 body types and not a slider for both height and weight. It's in the most barebone character creation game.

[Yoshiya]

Originally posted by rok.borovnik:

I can tell you this that this is animated in all cutscenes. If you want every detail changed on your face then Larian would need years to implement all animations in to cutscenes and character options which can be for every playtrough different.

Or.... they could consult Linden Labs (Second Life) on how to rig facial bones to animate a 3d rendered mesh head and have customize-able faces that respond to sliders.

[HumanNinjaToo]

I think Fallout 4 has forever ruined my own appraisal of any other character creator.

That being said, the one in BG3 is better than most I've seen recently.

I'm really interested in seeing how the character creator in Starfield will stack up against Fallout 4 tbh.

[fluong]

Originally posted by Nonomori:

Originally posted by rok.borovnik:

I can tell you this that this is animated in all cutscenes. If you want every detail changed on your face then Larian would need years to implement all animations in to cutscenes and character options which can be for every playtrough different.

You joking or what? Dragon Age Inquisition which came back in 2014 had fully customizeable face and it was animated in all cutscenes perfectly. You seriously tried to justify their laziness with this puny excuse?

One of the issues I've always had with Dragon Age Inquisition is how off your main character's face looks compared to NPC, even when using the default heads. Maybe I suck at customizing character's faces, but I'm probably not the only one. So I can appreciate the carefully sculpted heads of Baldur's Gate 3. My immersion is not going to break whenever I see my PC.

[Iron]

thinking this guy only focus on one single detail. i think.

[desertmaker]

Why? Look at sreenshots before and after launch (and I mean unmodded) and it is obvious.