Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

I don't agree with that. You're making a lot of assumptions of the actual relevance of Montreal in this and other decisisons. Let's keep in mind that Walters and Gamble are still in the top spot on the team. 
And the lack of options in this case is a design decision, not one taken because they didn't have enough experience.

And yet more options are coming post-launch. Yep, keep telling yourself this isn't the result of a downgraded creative vision. Mike even wrote "The MEA character creator is so much more robust than MET's" or something to that effect when a fan asked. I take it, that's a PR move but if it isn't it's just another example of them having crunched too hard and being too close to their own work to notice that it's been lagging behind.

That was exactly my train of thought. I was looking forward to Origin Access because I though I'd really spend 10 hours in the CC and I'd prepare my Ryders right away and wait for the official release.
Now, or I'll use default or touch the cc for just some minutes.
I took two major disappointments today. This one and romances. But the latter is for another topic.

alyssa marrocco‏ @allyssaam
@tibermoon looks pretty good so far, though I really wish you could choose your eyebrow style =(

Ian Soon Frazier‏ @tibermoon
@allyssaam Yeah, I wish we'd gotten that in too. Down side of the way we did facial scans, unfortunately.

I think it'd have preferred no face scans and more options, to be honest.

Then don't freaking do facial scans  How is this an improvement over giving us the tools to craft faces ourselves? What a waste of time and money, hiring those models, that could have been spent making a decent CC. Who thought this would be better?

Or more accurately, the problems of a developer not coming close to their own established status quo in their past work.

I'm not judging Bioware, I don't know what their constraints and challenges were. But we are not being unreasonable and insane here. It is not pie in the sky to think that a series will meet its own standards, or that a developer will come close to what has been seen in its products before, which used the same engine. Come close, not even necessarily equal. That is just logic at work. This is shocking for a reason, and it's not because we all dreamed up a magical fantasy land CC, too good to be true and based on simulators which do nothing but let you make a character to your tastes. We were JUST expecting at least the status quo.


While this is funny, something to consider: this is part of the reason why I don't own that game and have no interest in getting it.


Here's hoping that changes. But you did notice the part where we can't choose nose, eye, brow, or mouth shape, right? The problem isn't whether we can make good-looking characters, the problem is that we can't choose. And since we saw everything in the CC, I don't think it's about who reviews or demonstrates. When someone clicks nose and there's no nose shape slider, that is definitive. It's not like a demonstrative trailer would alter the lack of options. Maybe the patch will, but I'm not holding my breath here. I'd rather assume less and get more than hope and be disappointed.


Aside from the above, I defy anyone to seriously tell me my Inquisitors look like every other of their respective races.
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Thing is, they don't even look like facial scans.....

I expected the faces to actually look good- like real people- the way default Scott does for example.   The other faces don't look like they are scans at all to me.

And with such limited customization options, I doubt I can fix any of the other presets enough to make a good-looking guy.   I will try my damnedest though. 

After seeing all those cc videos I'm pretty sure there's gonna be like two types of Sara and two types of Scott everywhere
It's good tho, because all fanart you'll see, it's gonna be your Ryder since almost everyone will look the same!

No but for real. Where are my freckles bioware?

I'm thinking of doing an asian Ryder and I've gotta say, I'm pretty happy with 1st preset. You can make it look really good (at least, I think it looks amazing)


Cool asian Ryder. And I think 1st Scott preset looks alright too, it just needs a bit of tweaking 

I have newfound nostalgia for Inquisition thanks to this game

what i find annoying as well ia that scars and facial hair looks like it was made by a toddler with crayons.