Bioware should pay attention - Character Creator options

Well, Saint Row 3 needed something going for it because the rest of the game sure wasn't. Bleh.

They should've just look at DAI's chargen and improve it.

It's not just to rag on BW for the billionth time, but I honestly didn't know that the CC's in these other games were this involved and complex. Considering that BW is focused on character driven RPG's had obviously have had the talent to make this kind of thing, my curiosity is why this wasn't done?

Who made the decision to nerf the CC in Andromeda to have 5 minutes of the father in a glorified cameo? Who came up with this and thought it would actually fly with the gamers?

That black desert one . . . I can only fantasize about how awesome that would be in MEA . . .le sigh.

Oh yes.

Except completely unrealistic for now. BD is an MMO, so cutscenes are rare and your PC barely does anything it. The model only really has to function in the game. In Mass Effect it needs to work in dozens and dozens of cutscenes.

I don't think 'quality facial animations' is the excuse BW would really want to go with as a reason why they limited their CC. Just sayin'...

Yeah, really funny, except it's not just facial animations. Body height, width, arm length and weight all come into play, which is why you can never change those.

And also why some romance options in DA are bound to species and why adding dwarves (and to a lesser extent Qunari) as PC was very difficult, because this messes with the cutscenes in many ways.

Yes, currently the only upside to it now is that after 1.06, default Sara makes some horrendous faces in her romance scenes, but cc Sara is still okay.

Even if they don't fix anything else, I hope they at least fix the beards (or lack thereof) in ME:A's CC. I wanted a little stubble on my character, but there aren't really any options for that...so I tried out the "full beard," and... the sideburn parts don't match any of the hair styles, except for one (barely) or bald. But with any other hair, it's like the beard texture doesn't match the sides of the hair; it's too far forward, like your character hasn't actually grown a beard, but has instead glued a fake one on. It's just very odd looking and I'm assuming it's a mistake. The only reason my male Ryder's hair works with the beard is because that particular hairstyle's sides angle a little forward, covering up the weird too-far-forward beard sides.

Let's see what they do since the new CC is still happening!

I don't really see a connection between the family mechanic and how the CC so drastically limits the customization options to the point of being superficial.

The limitations are a result of BW's choices, not the family mechanic.  It is pretty easy to make a Scott/Sara/Alec combination that all look to be a completely different ethnicity more or less all completely unrelated.  I can use preset 9 for a latino Sara, preset 1 for an Asian Scott, and end up with James Earl Jones as the daddy.