Which Character Creator would you choose between?

Full body customization without question.
It wouldn't just benefit the protagonist, but the game as a whole since there'd be more options for NPCs as well.

While I would love some measure of control over body shape/size, I'd rather be able to create vastly different looking characters than have a handful of facial options I like and the ability to spread those out over a slightly taller than usual elf, or a slightly buffer than usual human.

I'll take fewer options any day, if those options actually look half decent. Who cares how many hair options the game has when they look like plastic crap and five or them are some version of "bald"?

And I wouldn't mind being able to choose between a few different body types.

Amusingly, Cyberpunk's body customisation is extremely basic, and outside of tattoos doesn't really reflect in game. At least for fem!V.

Can't change height or frame, chest size isn't reflected in clothes, they just use default size, and whatever you put down there is hidden by unremovable underwear outside of menu screen.

So that would not be worth loss of options elsewhere.

I'd pick body customization but I kind of doubt we'd have to choose between these options. At least in my experience, games with body customization usually have good facial customization too.

Selection between a few body types is definitelly doable, though adding it on top of the DAI framework would be fairly labour intensive.

They need to adapt all armour for all the body types available, so if they keep human, elf, dwarf, qunari, giving each, say, 3 body types, they would have make armour models for additional 16 bodies on top of what they already did in DAI.

Which is definitely not impossible, but certainly a lot of work, unless they figure out how to make the game do it proceduraly without everything looking stretched or smushed on the non-default bodies. Although I guess BioWare games never really had all that many armour/clothing styles to choose from anyway.

Given how buggy Cyberpunk supposedly is. I say supposedly as I've not played it so can't talk for first hand experience. I'm not suer having to great a CC detail necessarily is a good thing. As far as I'm concerned so lomn gas they give us better hair options and a good CC like DAI's I don' think that's too bad

DD has like a dozen presets for each gender, and then you can customize from there. Different heads, features, legs, backs, torsos, arms, etc., like 2-3 dozen of each, along with overall height, weight, and other body sliders. All of everything available for any gender or preset. Vast array of armor and clothing options that fit any of them. I never quite understood how they managed that, unless they have algorithms that generate (alter) meshes on the fly. There's just so many possible permutations.

But - what DD doesn't have is much in the way of cutscenes. There are very few, and the characters are standing independently, not touching anything during the cutscenes. So they don't have to concern themselves with clipping in cutscenes like BioWare devs do.

Okay, but again, DD came out nearly a decade ago, and DAI nearly 8 years ago at this point. So it's not as if there's been no time to work it out.

Whilst i would like to be able to determine body size, shape and muscle I'm aware of the limitations having more options in that department tends put on armour and cinematics (armour that often looks flat and painted on, few animations that don't involve touching things).

I also value more and better quality face and hair customisation higher than body customisation options. So if I we have to pick I'd pick that.

However it would be really nice to be able to make a female warrior who actually looks musclely while she swings her twohander, and a scrawny male mage who doesn't have huge pecs.

Bioware did manage to do a model for each race/gender combination in dai. But I doubt we'd get body sliders or multiple options for every body part in a game with lots of cinematics and animations of characters interacting with each other.

But maybe they'd consider giving each of the race models a Thin, Fat, and Muscular version. While keeping the same height and basic model frame? That would probably be simpler?

Could maybe add things like body scars and tattoos which wouldn't affect armour, animations or cause clipping.

I was actually mostly satisfied with the character creator in DAI. I could dictate several details for the shape of head and had a healthy variety of colors to choose from when it came to eye and hair color. Not being able to dictate the shape of my body was a tad disappointing, but I can understand why they may not want to go through the trouble.

That said, there were some glaring flaws that really miffed me. The most important of which was the lighting in character creation. It. Was. Awful. I know we were in a darker portion of the fade, but could they seriously not give us a floating light of some sort we could toggle? The other thing was how the Inquisitor was always forced to wear that bulky mercenary gear. Can't they give us more sample clothing options? Or the option to get them down to their small clothes? When I'm making a head, I generally want to know what the body actually looks like before I make it.

Otherwise most of my gripes are about things like the lack of long hair options and wanting more control over the camera view.