Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

If you expect good looking characters from Frostbite, you expect too much,

Update, I've changed my opinion. After watching this I've come to the conclusion that it's not that bad, not that good either but also not that bad. Still disappointed with the lack of eye brow options and inability to increase facial hair length. I guess it's not a deal breaker but it still leaves something to be desired for sure.

Personally, I really like it. I get that people don't like only being able to customize presets and that you can't mix and match eyes/noses/mouths/etc, it disappoints me a little too, but besides that I think it looks really good.

Being able to rotate our character smoothly is an improvement, and the lighting isn't bad, which should make characters in the creator look the same in the real game.

I hope your right but it was confirmed by Ian that after you leave the CC you are stuck with your ryders unless you start over I guess we could maybe buy new Customization options on the Nexus but once again you would have to start over this is BS pure and simple.

I hope your right but it was confirmed by Ian that after you leave the CC you are stuck with your ryders unless you start over I guess we could maybe buy new Customization options on the Nexus but once again you would have to start over this is BS pure and simple.

If you expect good looking characters from Frostbite, you expect too much, as evidenced by DAI: 50 Types of Bald Monstrosities!

I did not even notice that, but yeah, I kind of noticed that.  And the lighting did look pretty solid in comparison with the weird as fuck Fade lighting in Inquisition.  But yeah, I get people's complaints but I think for me we have the difference between people who are artists and people who aren't.  I'm not an artist at all or an expert on the human face so for me simplicity is good and this character creator is simple.  It does not mean that you can't do amazing things with it, but its very easy to get the grasp of.  Back during the trilogy, and especially the DA I CC i would be frusterated because I could not tell what a lot of the options would even do or why they would include them in the game.  I would just move the slider back and forth for like a minute or two seeing if anything would move on Shepard's head, and when I did not see anything move...I would move onto the next one.  It was even worse for DA Is.  And despite that I still have managed to create some really good looking characters.

But with the MEA CC I don't even have to guess.  I could see exactly what each one of those options was doing to Ryder's face which should limit my frustration and make it so I can get into the game even faster with the exact Ryder I want, the limits of the CC not withstanding.  Though yeah, on the other hand it is a bit dissapointing about the ears and stuff.  

....And here come the videos comparing MEA to CCs in genres other then Mass Effect, which are entirely different games, and have very different constraints in terms of gameplay and cinematics.  *sighs...drinks*  

Who cares how good Elite Dangerous looks in its CC, if you like that game so much go buy it.  I will be enjoying my deep and rich RPG experience in the Andromeda Galaxy. 

I did not even notice that, but yeah, I kind of noticed that.  And the lighting did look pretty solid in comparison with the weird as fuck Fade lighting in Inquisition.  But yeah, I get people's complaints but I think for me we have the difference between people who are artists and people who aren't.  I'm not an artist at all or an expert on the human face so for me simplicity is good and this character creator is simple.  It does not mean that you can't do amazing things with it, but its very easy to get the grasp of.  Back during the trilogy, and especially the DA I CC i would be frusterated because I could not tell what a lot of the options would even do or why they would include them in the game.  I would just move the slider back and forth for like a minute or two seeing if anything would move on Shepard's head, and when I did not see anything move...I would move onto the next one.  It was even worse for DA Is.  And despite that I still have managed to create some really good looking characters.

But with the MEA CC I don't even have to guess.  I could see exactly what each one of those options was doing to Ryder's face which should limit my frustration and make it so I can get into the game even faster with the exact Ryder I want, the limits of the CC not withstanding.  Though yeah, on the other hand it is a bit dissapointing about the ears and stuff.  

....And here come the videos comparing MEA to CCs in genres other then Mass Effect, which are entirely different games, and have very different constraints in terms of gameplay and cinematics.  *sighs...drinks*  

Who cares how good Elite Dangerous looks in its CC, if you like that game so much go buy it.  I will be enjoying my deep and rich RPG experience in the Andromeda Galaxy.