Characters

[Patriot]

I got this game because I loved P&P 1&2, but I've never liked that you can't customize the look of the players. In this game, I can't find a character I want to identify with. I'd like to identify with the Archiver, but that is a black female so I cannot. That'd be fine if I could find another character, but the only one's with whom I would would be the Slayer or Buddy (If I recall that name properly).

I don't see why the character skins are stuck to the classes, and in galaxy P&P this is more of a problem for me than it has been in prior games.

[𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚]

I agree with you, but we must remember that Behold is an indie company ...

Even though, for feeling the same, I suggest you test play ... the game allows you a series of customizations that end, rather, leaving the air of customization of RPG ... mainly in combat technique ..

You still have story choices, GM options, RPG modules and etc.

[Patriot]

I agree with everything you've said. It's those things I enjoy about the game series. Though, this aspect I believe deserved to be brought to attention as well.

[Sarasvato]

Well, maybe you can try imagining you're not a racist sexist dudebro for a few hours playing this game?

[𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐚]

Originally posted by ko.bang:

Well, maybe you can try imagining you're not a racist sexist dudebro for a few hours playing this game?

Take it easy, I understood what Wayne meant and I agree. When I play a game, I like to see myself inside, so I always choose male and brown characters.

And, my replica was, since the game has aspects so well done (history, world, combat ..) that is still very immersive.

[Sayonara Kickflip]

Yeah Wayne, I know what you mean. We would LOVE to have everything as customizable as possible, but customization in general is a huge amount of work, so we gotta pick carefully what we're going to do and it's always a hard choice.

The character customization, for example; you can combine three different aspects of your character (character/race/class), and the work increases exponentially with each aspect. We've managed to simplify the proccess by making a standard, universal body animation for every class, so we'd only need to switch the head for every character/race variation; still, it's a lot of work! To make a single new character and animate it on every race/class combination possible, we have to make 462 sprites in total - all animated one by one, by hand. It's nuts, and we're VERY limited on people, time, and money, so our battles must be picked very carefully.

On the other hand, that's why there are much more options to customize your DM; they're much less animated than the player characters, so we could afford to make much more options for it.

I know this is not a solution to your criticism, but I hope it explains our reasoning behind it!

[Sarasvato]

Originally posted by Regicida Panguá:

Take it easy, I understood what Wayne meant and I agree. When I play a game, I like to see myself inside, so I always choose male and brown characters.

There are thousands of games with default white guy character. In this one we play as a group of friends. And he's whining because he can only have three white guys out of five characters. Is it so crazy to have an imaginary black woman friend?

[Felis]

I made my real life friends into the party. Now my Indonesian friend is white, and I'm white but now I'm black, it's funny as hell. But I see no reason to pull the racist sexist card on Wayne for asking a normal question. Please keep the triggered hysteria on Facebook or I'm pulling out the popcorn.

[Patriot]

Originally posted by ko.bang:

Originally posted by Regicida Panguá:

Take it easy, I understood what Wayne meant and I agree. When I play a game, I like to see myself inside, so I always choose male and brown characters.

There are thousands of games with default white guy character. In this one we play as a group of friends. And he's whining because he can only have three white guys out of five characters. Is it so crazy to have an imaginary black woman friend?

No it's not Crazy to have an Imaginary black woman friend, or black male friend, or white transgendered friend, or a half-asian half-british friend. My Critism has nothing to do with that. It has to do with specifically the avatar you choose for yourself. I could tell you in my close circle of friends there is a black woman and man along with a white woman.

Believe it or not, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I was speaking about. I'd be surprised if anyone does not have a friend of another skin color or ancestory. That's not very common in modern America, in China/Africa/Iran/Cuba/India/Japan that may be the case, not in the USA.

The dev fortunately did answer my question, and I understand the reasoning. Limited resources means making sacrifice. This didn't seem like a major amount of work from the end user prospective, but I have limited knowledge on game design.

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