Are characters meant to be ugly?

[Rystiya]

I didn't figure out how to make my character look pretty in the customization screen. Did I miss something?

[AdahnGorion]

Bethesda games always looked like this.
UE5 does not change much, as they still had to work within the style.

Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQvWleWu_A
Remaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjLwwUCY6VM

[wirednight]

One thing Bethesda has never quite figured out is how to make a proper character creator. They have all the sliders and such, but somehow it always, from even way back in the day, always ends up looking like bad. It's why a lot of the more popular mods for their games always make the faces (and bodies of course) look better because Bethesda's engine (and I guess this subsequent engine) just doesn't do a lot of things well, one of which is character creation.

[Honey Bun]

I think the khajiit are cutie patooties

[ntl69]

The default character looks good, but the randomized faces look awful. If you fiddle with the settings, putting everything to the middle (brow height, etc) you can get a decent looking character

[Just Chill]

WhAt wOrD diD yOU cAlL mY fABulOuS Breton?

[Rystiya]

Originally posted by AdahnGorion:

Bethesda games always looked like this.
UE5 does not change much, as they still had to work within the style.

Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UQvWleWu_A
Remaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjLwwUCY6VM

Ok... I still think FallOut 4 characters look better, though

[Terran Ghost]

Skill issue.

I made a smokin' hot elf babe.

[Chudwick]

leftists and their small hat handlers are enemies of objective beauty, so yes

[Lusty Argonian Femboy]

Yes. It's literally oblivion.

[Terrifying Turnip]

Originally posted by wirednight:

One thing Bethesda has never quite figured out is how to make a proper character creator. They have all the sliders and such, but somehow it always, from even way back in the day, always ends up looking like bad. It's why a lot of the more popular mods for their games always make the faces (and bodies of course) look better because Bethesda's engine (and I guess this subsequent engine) just doesn't do a lot of things well, one of which is character creation.

Fallout 4 had a pretty robust character editor, it was just tedious to use.

[Dude]

Originally posted by Terran Ghost:

Skill issue.

I made a smokin' hot elf babe.

post proof

[MuscleBroStolas]

Originally posted by Terran Ghost:

Skill issue.

I made a smokin' hot elf babe.

waiting for the screenshot.

[Lostar]

Meanwhile I’m hungering for some scars to rough up my pretty male Dunmer

[Acpolax]

It´s a Bethesda game, so yeah I believe they have to be ugly.

[♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

After about an hour or so in and out of Showracemenu I managed to make a pretty hot twink lmao

But the sliders are super weird and are difficult to work with. For some reason some characters looks like they have 10 different appearance mods installed