Your opinion of the Character creator.

I really liked that for the first time I could make an ethnic character that didn't look like a white person painted brown. I love my Asian Sara.

I would prefer more options for brows, lips, noses and eyes and the ability to tweak a character after starting the game. Also, the ability to look at the character from different angles in the CC. (From above, for example.) The hair needs to be less saturated -- it looks like paint.

Inquisitions's CC was pretty flexible but didn't allow the ability to share face codes. This time we can share faces but have limited options. The face sharing site is not very useful because the faces are small and shown only from the front. Also we can't sort by hair color or preset. And the lighting is terrible.

I never had much issue with Skyrim's CC out of the box.  You could make some fairly decent looking characters with it or some really horrific looking ones too. 

True, mod'ing allows you to make outright beautiful characters but I don't need all that just to get into playing the game.  Something on level with Oblivion or MEA though can make it difficult to get into it, especially in a game like ME where you spend so much time looking directly at your character's face in dialogue and cut scenes.  At least for me.

In Skyrim, you could make some pretty decent looking human and a couple other races' characters. But the elves were always fugly without mods. Dirty, wrinkled skin galore!

The biggest problem in MEA's CC is that you can't choose the different eye shapes, eyebrows, nose shape, and mouth shape between the presets. Unlocking that function would eliminate 80% of the complaints.

Dear god, Oblivion's CC was awful.

Well in DA2, they had your sib change as well and it wasn't this limited.

Everyone bitched about the lack of hair options and hair colors in the DA:I CC and that is what BioWare seemed to think everyone wanted was just more hair options and colors, give the people what they want and they still hate it.


Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

To be fair, most people I've seen talk about it seemed pretty happy with the DA:I cc other than hairstyles; I'm pretty sure absolutely nobody wanted them to add hair and take away almost all other choices.

I can't get into this game because I am waiting for CC modding to start up, it really sucks.

...They didn't even add that many hairstyles, or colors, or improve on the DAI hairstyles. There's only a handful of hair options. 90% of the colors make the hair look like lumps of clay. And the blond isn't even close to actual blond. Kinda looks like opaque piss, really.

Since I generally suck at the character creation anyway (no matter how good or bad it is) it's not big deal for me, but I do understand why people are upset. Like I said there were probably too many threads (not just at the old BSN and here, but everywhere else) just about hair and not enough about other issues with the DA:I CC like a clunky UI when it came to eye color and the bad lighting and it being literally set in the Fade with all that debris floating around. Those were bigger issues for me than how many haircuts I had.  

Then we wouldn't be able to make this -

*cries*

I'm among those unhappy with character creation in this game.

First impressions from the 10-hour trial: I didn't want to spent a lot of time, but for some reason I decided to have a look at the options rather than just go with the default. Went through the male presets. Not impressed with any of them, but went for the most "more badass than goofy-looking". Found a preset. I don't think I changed anything besides hair and possibly tattoos. Entering the game, aaaaaaand... he no longer looks more badass than goofy. Doh. But I just kept going.

Second playthrough, Asian female. Worked fine. Lucked out? She's part of a preset clone army, but at least her animations didn't bother me as much. Were I too used to them by then?

Third playthrough, grabbed someone else's female Ryder. She looks fantastic in some scenes, but I was back to really disliking facial animations. What good is an attractive CC character if they break down in-game?

Fourth playthrough, finally I'm like whatever, default male Ryder it is. He looks quite decent, but clean-shaven would have been better than the terrible beard (which is still better than facial hair the CC can deliver, more's the pity).

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DA:I? I was actually fairly content with the CC. Played dwarves, elves, qunari and a human, creating characters I didn't mind looking at.