The character creator sucks

[Littlefatcat]

So I didn't get the game. It is 2025 and the game released in 2024. I would expect a game like Dragonage to have a character creator that is able to compete with a character creator like this at the very least:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mSqZ4ksLo

Instead we got this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO-nxsekzJc&t=70s

Look I'm sure other aspects of the game were fine. The graphics look nice but it makes me think of Saints Row and not in a good way. This kind of character creator just doesn't cut it in 2025. Sorry but no. Hopefully we get more agency over the character creation in the next Mass Effect. Most people won't admit it but this is a big part of why the game flopped. The other part is that quirky dialogue that a lot of modern western devs seem obsessed with nowadays.

[James Logan 87]

I'm glad Bioware is cleaning the house for ME4, still expectations are low and wallets are down unless they surprise us with a miracle

[bunny de fluff]

Origineel geplaatst door James Logan 87:

I'm glad Bioware is cleaning the house for ME4, still expectations are low and wallets are down unless they surprise us with a miracle :seriousboss:

Older mass effect games only have gender to choose from, the Andromeda customization also sucked.

[KB8Killa]

whoa whoa whoa they have scars indicating elective aesthetic, medical procedures! that is groundbreaking! No other game has gone to such lengths to give the market what it has desperately wanted! the character creator is the best part of the game! ! !

[radblue]

Origineel geplaatst door James Logan 87:

I'm glad Bioware is cleaning the house for ME4, still expectations are low and wallets are down unless they surprise us with a miracle :seriousboss:

I think you'll be greatly disappointed,Seems a bunch of the fired writers go all the way back to DA:O. When the corpo's trim the fat they drop the most expensive ppl not the sub-par. So
you're gonna get the bottom of the barrel for next game.

[Darrenb209]

Origineel geplaatst door radblue:

Origineel geplaatst door James Logan 87:

I'm glad Bioware is cleaning the house for ME4, still expectations are low and wallets are down unless they surprise us with a miracle :seriousboss:

I think you'll be greatly disappointed,Seems a bunch of the fired writers go all the way back to DA:O. When the corpo's trim the fat they drop the most expensive ppl not the sub-par. So
you're gonna get the bottom of the barrel for next game.

The mistake you're making is assuming that "most expensive" or "highest paid" equals best.

At least with the people named to still be working on it, you have one of the core game designers from Kotor, the Mass Effect trilogy's cinematic director and the Art Director that worked on Kotor and Mass Effect. Possibly the trilogy, possibly the first game. Apparently also the Project Director from said trilogy.

They, at least at one point, had the skills and weren't sub-par.
It's not a guarantee that EA won't kill bioware before the game releases or that the game will be good, but it's a far better sign than you'd expect.

And also leaves me wondering about what the internal state of Bioware was like if a bunch of people who were instrumental to previous successful games survived a purge that probably did target a lot of the highest paid.

[nobalkain]

Origineel geplaatst door bunny de fluff:

Origineel geplaatst door James Logan 87:

I'm glad Bioware is cleaning the house for ME4, still expectations are low and wallets are down unless they surprise us with a miracle :seriousboss:

Older mass effect games only have gender to choose from, the Andromeda customization also sucked.

While the Character Creator was not very detailed, you could do more then just Gender.

[JayS86]

I spent hours in the character creator in an attempt to make heads smaller, female characters more feminine in their foreheads, shoulders, waist, and chest areas. Male characters all around less square shaped in their body, they looked incredibly disproportionate from neck down, it is almost like the developers never studied human anatomy or looked at body types. The I tried to get rid of the forehead for the Qunari. When you finally get them looking a little less pixar and proportions a bit better, you get in game and they're cross-eyed, big eyed, and the lighting despite looking at lighting previews made them look completely awful. So I went to the mirror and did more tweaking, shading, make-up, etc. I play on console so modding and shading isn't possible.

But.. we got hair dynamics... woo. Hair dynamics that was manic when you chose longer hair that made little sense as hair does have a weight to it, but not in Dragon Age.

[Littlefatcat]

Origineel geplaatst door JayS86:

I spent hours in the character creator in an attempt to make heads smaller, female characters more feminine in their foreheads, shoulders, waist, and chest areas. Male characters all around less square shaped in their body, they looked incredibly disproportionate from neck down, it is almost like the developers never studied human anatomy or looked at body types. The I tried to get rid of the forehead for the Qunari. When you finally get them looking a little less pixar and proportions a bit better, you get in game and they're cross-eyed, big eyed, and the lighting despite looking at lighting previews made them look completely awful. So I went to the mirror and did more tweaking, shading, make-up, etc. I play on console so modding and shading isn't possible.

But.. we got hair dynamics... woo. Hair dynamics that was manic when you chose longer hair that made little sense as hair does have a weight to it, but not in Dragon Age.

Yeah it's why I did not get the game and why many others did not either. If they make a bad character creator when they have a budget as high as they did it pisses me off. So many games overseas have nice character creators but then studios like bioware who have more funding give us crap like this. If we are paying 70-90 dollars for a game we should be getting the best quality game and that goes beyond just nice graphics.