Character Creator & Character Customization (Official Thread)

If it came at the cost of losing all facial animation during cutscenes -- no raised eyebrows, no smiles/frowns, no squints, etc. -- would you still want it? I don't think any of those sports games have facial animation.

Well, yes but those are live people. Sex scenes in video games look like a Barbie and Ken dolls trying to hump each other. If Bioware would add face importing from photos then we woud have "sex scenes that look like a Barbie and Ken dolls trying to hump each other while one of them have your face". It would make the whole thing go from funny to creepy.

Even putting the Ken and Barbie aspect of the romance scenes aside, there is just no way that a face with as many years on it as mine belongs on the body of a 20's or 30's something soldier.  Imagine putting Hackett's head on Shepard's body and watching him court someone much younger still... like Tali... I think it would be totally laughable and completely kill any hope of further immersion in the story.

Because this way I get to be myself IN SPACE!!!1111!

I admit that I didn't even think that far. It makes the whole thing even stranger. Let's just hope that none of the RPG's implement the face import from photo anytime soon.

Please please please. I hate having to go through intro shenanigans to get to CC, and being unable to save custom faces so I don't have to recreate it from scratch when I inevitably realize in game that I need to tweak the jaw and nose a few notches.

Wasn't the face of maleRyder in the last gameplay footage scanned, too? I think Biofan said this in one of his videos that his face was a scan of the CGI actor - please correct me if I'm wrong and understood that the wrong way. I don't know if that meant face scanning mechanic ingame or just use for the footage only.


For this thread: If Bioware found a way to incorparate this feature nicely and without technical bugs - why not? I wouldn't use my face though, that would be too much selfinsert for me. But I would use some beautiful facemodel to have a beautiful femRyder in the end.

The danger I sense here is that you use a photo of someone who doesn't want or know that. Like googling a face, think "Hey, he/she looks nice for my Ryder." You don't mean it bad at that moment. But if he/she'll end up in a public thread or other public room (like a Let's play on youtube or twitch) as a game protag, sees that and is not amused about it he/she could end it in a lawsuit. For EA, BW or in the end the player himself/herself. Edit: worst case scenario here. How will you control personal use of something like that? Through regulations?

So I'd rather play it safe and use a nicely done CC with a good & solid amount of eye/hair and slideroptions.

Yeah, I think the same. That's why I don't think they will integrate face scanning into the game. But I wouldn't mind the opportunity in a game, though. That's all I wanted to say. I'm aware about the background of CCs and I am happy that they are there. Thanks for your insight, explanation & opinion I didn't know the system behind default CC & the use of other stuff for actual players because I'm not familiar with laws in the gaming industrie etc. I can just assume a few things .

I might use it, but only for a game, since I only tend to play through ME as a guy once or twice anyway. As far as females go,

Hm, putting your face on a companion and have that companion be a romance option... That takes "Go f--- yourself!" to a whole new level.

I'm guessing that FemShep was not editable to avoid creating a discrepancy between the two.  You could, however, use the CC to make a FemShep that looked very similar to the default one; whereas, you could not create an even remotely similar MaleShep to the default (Vanderloo) face.  I don't play DA, so I can't speak to what was done there.