Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

Could be worse, but could be better, I guess.

I'm happy that DAI stupid coordinate-grid-with-no-coordinates had vanished into oblivion. It's much more user-friendly this way. I had a feeling that those sliders provide enough morphing, including the ridiculous extreme points. Scaling the sliders up to ~40 from 20 could have given some extra flexibility in the 'middle' values, but (as I've already mentioned),I'm glad it's not the stupid infinite inmeasurable grid.

Hairs are bad, but that's the old news. I'm yet to see a BW title which has good hair. Those makeups& tattoos, however are terrible and barely make any sense. They remind me of some freebie set of vector stamps& brushes.

All and all - I need to try it myself before judging, because it's hard to judge the CC when you see the creation of a random ugly monstrosity.

One thing I've missed here - what about the facecodes? Do we have them or not?

I don't think different-looking Ryders is exactly the point. It has more to do with the ability to craft a character who possesses the features the player desires.

That's a bloody preset same as any other preset looks the same, they'll all look the same with minimal level of adjustment possible.

There are ten presets of different races and an overbundance of unnecessary makeup and tattoo options. What's your point? Pfft, a whole four different Ryders, I guess there's nothing to complain about.

The lack of eye shapes sliders really kills any sense of actual "character creation".

...and they all look kinda ugly, I might add.

I have big issue with lack of facial feature options with CC. If you want to make Asian character you pretty much have to pick from 2 presets since you can't change eyes, nose, lips, eyebrowns of the character, just move them around. So you are stuck with very limited CC. This actually makes ME:A's CC lot more restricted than trilogy's. I made new Shepard in ME2's CC couple days ago and I changed her eyes, nose and eyebrowns multiple times to figure out what would work best with her face. ME:A lacks crucial option like that which is big "WHY?!" to me, it's like most basic stuff CCs have.

Making it work can't possibly be the issue. They did that in DA:I. The game had tons of cinematics and no glaring issues with animation. You can't honestly tell me they traded off the ability to change your eyebrows or eye shape for the sake of animation when they've had these options for ten years.

Agreed, but why then DAI can look better is some aspects than almost 3 years newer game on the same (polished?) engine?
Also limiting options that were present 10 years ago and are present even in indie RPG's is strange decision to say in polite way..

Or maybe just maybe its simple lazyness.

Seems MEA has way more cinematics, which was my point and DA I had its fair share of animation issues.  Its the first game I actually really noticed animation issues.

Yeah, there is no way I am gonna worry about how my character looks when most of the game you can't even see the face. I worry about things that adversely effect the gaming experience. Things like actual gameplay, interaction, environments, etc. not how pretty my character looks to the NPCs and enemies.