Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

Sure these things are quite subjective

Apart from lack of option that majority can agree on I think.

The character creator takes the cake... I'll just decide to laugh about the absurdity that is MEA to me at this point.

I haven't seen an uglier CC in ten years. It's making ME1 look good. How come they went from the excellent CC of DAI (except for the hair) to THIS?!?

Nope. It's a night and day difference. It's comparing a character creator to a preset picker with hair & make-up options. 

What's amazing is, BEFORE I scrolled down, I thought "oh wow, I love that one, it totally looks like Eva Green!" That's how awesome the DAI CC was. I didn't even need to see the text to know who that was modeled after. 

All Inquisitors look the same, my fluffy nerd ass.


Though we seem to have very different opinions in other areas, I'm actually right with you on that part. Though I understand some people are very passionate right now, this is... complicated.

As much as it sucks, and as adamant as I am about wanting more options, it's entirely possible that at one time they did port over the DAI CC. But then with testing options, maybe they saw a lot of problems with facial animations; the kind of things that could happen in DAI if you made the wrong facial structure. Since there's no way to edit your character after you start the game, no Black Emporium, they may have gone waaaaaaaaaaaaay overboard on trying desperately to make it impossible for eyes and teeth to clip through the wrong things. Just been overzealous about making it all work.

So lack of communication between teams and other issues may have caused a thing that was once true to no longer be true.

Doesn't mean I'm happy, nor that I accept this and will cease to ask for what I want--but I'm not going to call anyone an outright liar. Life is often more complex than that. In talking with the devs on Twitter, I'm convinced they're trying and they want us satisfied. 

I don't care how Alec looks. For me they could make a dadRyder for every race and I would be good. 

I wouldn't look for logic in there. 

They might think that limiting options will lead to higher aggregate satisfaction. Remember, the part of the playerbase which is really invested in doing good work with the CC is also small. Forum chatter is a lousy measure of the tastes of the  playerbase as a whole because boards like this self-select for high engagement.That's why Bio runs formal testing.

The difficulty level metaphor is pretty good, but in a sense a robust CC like DAI's has only two levels; casual and insanity. And the cost structures of the various options don't map onto each other well.

I had already forgotten that I can't play it anymore like I used to with constant combat pausing :/

It just feels like they're trying to control everything and don't offer choices anymore.


You have to use a preset character or default and you can't even play renegade anymore because the choices are literally sassy "A" and serious "A". 
I want MY character and MY decisions. If I wanted to play an ugly idiot who constantly behaves like a psychopath and is reckless, I could do it in the OT. But here I have my little young explorer without any personal connection through customization and choice-making. ATM my hypetrain is going backwards and after the announcement to release a CC patch I basically have the choice of playing something everyone else has or waiting weeks, getting spoilered probably, and hoping the patch will add more than 1 slider.

Has anyone seen a video of someone who used the blonde/caucasian face preset that also showed Alec's face? I'm wondering if that's the preset we need to use if we want Alec to look like the default from the promos or if he's locked to the default twins.

I just want to know if I can die my hair blue, but leave my beard alone.

I love mucking about in the CC as much as the next person, I am a little disappointed but I just can't get too worked up about this. There are changes I'd like to see certainly, unlock all skin tones for all presets and allow all hair across all presets/genders, but mostly I am fine with it. I think with those changes there would be enough variation to get the racial look desired and to create multiple characters for multiple play throughs without repeating yourself.

What I think I'm getting from a lot of the complaints is 'everyones characters are going to look like mine', which given this is single player and not an MMO seems sort of irrelevant. As long as you can create the look you want, why does it matter that a gamer down the street has the same looking Ryder, it literally has no impact on your play through at all.

Awesome, thanks! That's disappointing tho I wish he wasn't exclusive to the defaults.