Cant get over how ugly the player models are

[Ansgar Odinson]

It seems like the devs were going for a whimsical stylized approach when designing their human characters. These caricature-like designs could even play well with a cartoony art style or something a bit more storybook.

But unfortunately, with more realistic textures, shaders, and overall presentation of the game, the characters are just pure nightmare fuel. You can spend hours playing with the ancestry system to try and get something sort of approaching not hideous, but its no easy task. And when I say they are ugly... I mean they are truly difficult to look at. They all look like their family trees could use a few more branches if you know what I mean.

I would kindly ask the devs to either go back to the drawing-board with their human models, or choose a presentation style that was better suited for the characters they designed.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Terran:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

That is a horrible reason to refund a game.

whats the point of trying to immerse myself in a survival game when i cant even create someone i want to go on a adventure with.

The way you look is 100% irrelevant. You can just mash random and play, it doesn't affect anything.

[V]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by Terran:

whats the point of trying to immerse myself in a survival game when i cant even create someone i want to go on a adventure with.

The way you look is 100% irrelevant. You can just mash random and play, it doesn't affect anything.

..to you.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Terran:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

The way you look is 100% irrelevant. You can just mash random and play, it doesn't affect anything.

..to you.

Nah, not to anyone. It has zero in game effect. The only effect is on you, and only because you are choosing to let it bother you.

[V]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by Terran:

..to you.

Nah, not to anyone. It has zero in game effect. The only effect is on you, and only because you are choosing to let it bother you.

oh im sorry, i didn't realise you knew 'everyone' ..tsk my bad.

[KellyR]

I managed to get a face I didn't mind in the character creator, but then zoomed out to realize I have a tiny head on a giant's body. That's my main gripe, bodies are too many heads tall.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by KellyR:

I managed to get a face I didn't mind in the character creator, but then zoomed out to realize I have a tiny head on a giant's body. That's my main gripe, bodies are too many heads tall.

Bodies in general seem oddly proportioned and the animations are really bizarre.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Soren:

The British get one game where you're playing as characters designed to look like them and some people go nuts...

Ah yes, because British people are famous for bug eyes and massive fish lips.

[Weihunglo]

Ya..I'd have to agree that the faces look like unfinished Pla-Doh sculptures. Hopefully it'll be better at launch.

The "inherit features from your lineage" is a neat idea, but I don't think it adds anything when the final output looks like the melted guy at the end of "Raiders" ....

[Soren]

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

Originally posted by Soren:

The British get one game where you're playing as characters designed to look like them and some people go nuts...

Ah yes, because British people are famous for bug eyes and massive fish lips.

I'm joking around. The art style feels vaguely similar to what Lionhead Studios did with Fable. Which feels like it has a tinge of Victorian era caricatures.

I think Nightingale's art style is unique and interesting. Which is partially why I bought it. But like Fable, it tends to lead to people accusing characters of looking ugly when they are meant to fit the setting and art style imo.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Soren:

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

Ah yes, because British people are famous for bug eyes and massive fish lips.

I'm joking around. The art style feels vaguely similar to what Lionhead Studios did with Fable. Which feels like it has a tinge of Victorian era caricatures.

I think Nightingale's art style is unique and interesting. Which is partially why I bought it. But like Fable, it tends to lead to people accusing characters of looking ugly when they are meant to fit the setting and art style imo.

It definitely feels storybook in the same vein as fable. Which is why I think with a more cartoony or storybook presentation of the graphics would make the style of the models look much better.

[Macdallan]

Originally posted by Terran:

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Nah, not to anyone. It has zero in game effect. The only effect is on you, and only because you are choosing to let it bother you.

oh im sorry, i didn't realise you knew 'everyone' ..tsk my bad.

Just stating facts. Your character's appearance makes no difference whatsoever in game, there are no game mechanics that change because your nose is slightly larger or your hair is a slightly different style. The only effect is on you and you're choosing to let it bother you. If you decide to choose not to let it bother you then you can play, and enjoy, the game.

[Kai]

Every single one of the noses are round and big, there's no character models with sharper smaller noses.

[Ansgar Odinson]

Originally posted by Macdallan:

Originally posted by Terran:

oh im sorry, i didn't realise you knew 'everyone' ..tsk my bad.

Just stating facts. Your character's appearance makes no difference whatsoever in game, there are no game mechanics that change because your nose is slightly larger or your hair is a slightly different style. The only effect is on you and you're choosing to let it bother you. If you decide to choose not to let it bother you then you can play, and enjoy, the game.

You arent the arbiter of what people care about in their games or what is important to them. There is a reason game companies make bank on selling cosmetics. Plenty of gamers care what their character looks like.

[40kTookMyName]

Originally posted by Ansgar Odinson:

You arent the arbiter of what people care about in their games or what is important to them. There is a reason game companies make bank on selling cosmetics. Plenty of gamers care what their character looks like.

Yeah, not sure what the person you are arguing with is even trying to say. Do they actually think gamers don't care about character looks? Why is there character creation in games at all then, and why has it become an almost required feature in RPGs, especially MMOs etc? I think you are either talking to a kid or someone who suffers from Egocentrism.

Egocentrism is the inability to differentiate between self and other. More specifically, it is the inability to accurately assume or understand any perspective other than one's own. -Wiki

Either way, the characters are ugly as hell, and that is one of several reasons I didn't buy the game.

[Frankie]

Of course many people care how game characters look, why else would there be so many videos about the tifa rebirth swimsuit trailer :)