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Kings Journal: Character Customization (Patreon)

Published:
2017-02-11 16:19:42
Imported:
2023-05

Content

I am sure a lot of you played games with character customization before. I did and I think it can be a blessing or a curse. In this journal I gonna tell you my thoughts about customizations and my troubles.

To customize your own character is fun, as long as the developers made a good customization system. There are games where it is simply a torture to create a character with little and bad options. In that case I try to choose at least green eyes and dark brown hair - so that the guy looks a bit like me. And the trouble starts...

The latest games I played with my own characters are: Dragon Age Inquisition, Fallout 4 and currently Skyrim. 

The customization in Skyrim is super fun. There is a lot to choose and many nice hairstyles and also a lot of races. The bad (good) part is - I can´t decide and I start the game over and over again to create a new character. Look at the picture above. I play as an orc and still wonder if I should play with another guy (ALTOUGH I MADE 8 GUYS SO FAR). XD

Fallout 4 has one of the best customization options I know and I made a single character and played the whole game with him. I was able to pick my own haircolour AND the part of the game where you create your character is a mirror in a bathroom. There is light and you can see, what your character might look like in the game.

NOW the "curse" example. In Dragon Age Inquisition there is an arguable character creation system (in a very dark area). The options for the face are alright, but in fact each one looks like a doll and scars and beards look like make-up for a party. The haircolours look extremely artificial and like plastic. And the few hairstyles are just boring and badly done. Most of them don´t fit with your characters head... AND quite funny: The mimic programmed behind the main characters face is... well... It doesn´t work. It is very basic, either to little or tooooooo much. You just can´t make one mimic program work fine for a dwarf, a human, an elf or a quanari (a bull-human). 

I think character customization in general is made to identify yourself with the character you play and you are able to create someone of any skincolour, sex and in some games also any body physics. Some people create themselves, others create "Perfect-looking-People", make-up dolls on a beauty trip...

After all I like and I don´t like character customization, because there are arguments to support it and there are arguments to deny it. It depends on the game and story-telling if a random character or a set one works better. If I can make my own character in a game, I just want a proper, well done customization system that really offers me the opportunity for a unique gaming experience and not just an illusion of fake options.



Have you ever started a game twice, because you didn´t like your first character?

What do you miss in character customizations most times?

Please use the comment section to tell me your thoughts about character customization.

And a last note: I played Dragon Age Inquisition a lot and in several playthroughs. It is a nice game and that´s why the customization system should have been better in my opinion.

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Ty

Character customization has always been an important thing for me in those type of games such as mass effect, skyrim, dragon age and fallout and even saints row. I've always enjoyed making my own character and making them look kinda like me and I can agree I have started over damn near 100 times Bc I got one thing wrong. However when the options are in fact lacking it takes out a lot of the fun for me, that's y I try n play on Pc just to have more options to choose from.

greeneyedwolfking

Thank you for your comment! I bet a lot of people restart games only to make a new and a new and a new... character ^^

Waghran

I don't really make character looking like me because I prefer to play like I'm creating a story for him/her. Though they generally have some similar features from a game to another. DAI was so frustrating, I had to redo my characters several time because the skin or hair color wasn't good after creation. And like you said some parts doesn't fit with others, and that's so annoying. -_- Skyrim is certainly the game with the be best character customization I've played. Many races and features to make each characters different. And mods help to make them even more originals. Though the one thing that is lacking in games are body hair. And beard choices are so rare in japanese games. :/

Ryan Ellison

I've always been creating characters that I would be interested in and would want them to be attractive to what I find appealing. In DA:I, I stuck with the first generic character as an elf because I didn't like how bland everything looked, turned out to be perfect because the tiny elf next to the Iron Bull was the perfect combo. I miss having more input onto the characters traits like the Sims games had. I enjoy dialogue trees and developing a character through actions, but physical traits and mental quirks that you could preset were great. I wanted my Inquisitor to be a clumsy elf, but there were no options for those kinds traits. I played Skyrim for like 30 minutes, but open world games like that lose my interest because I have nothing to keep me progressing and get lost easily. Bastard Bonds was a great game that had character customization as it includes most body types and races and you can make a hot pink orc and it works.

greeneyedwolfking

I WANT MORE BODY HAIR IN VIDEOGAMES!! ^^ That is a pretty good argument. So far I know only Skyrim to have hairy men. Mods are a great option to add new content to a game. I guess japanese games are strongly based on japanese people who aren´t as hairy as other people by nature... AND I can tell from drawing that it means extra work to add body hair and I am sure that is one reason why there isn´t much body hair. The developers do not want to invest time into it.

greeneyedwolfking

It´s great to read your comments!! Sometimes one can create the perfect character directly. To think about a (background) story on your own and to experience that characters ongoing story is very important. Character traits would be nice to choose, too. And "Open world games" could be a topic for a new Kings Journal. :)