Character creation playing with sliders

[ace_of_something]

I must have god complex.

I love making characters far too much.
Nowadays many games that come out let you customize your own character which I feel is usually a good thing especially since recently they use different voice actors for y our customizable voice. The best example of this I can think of is Saints Row 2 where there are 6 voices (not a lot) that the recorded all the lines for so the game still has full voice acting. (I picked the cockney accent of course)
Sometimes it?s overwhelming like the facial sliders in the same game each part of the face had between 5-24 sliders. Which if you fudged even one of them to extreme one way without messing with other related sliders could make your character go from ?a normal looking guy? to ?circus freak? really fast. I also like that this one of the only games I?ve played where there are a variety of options for creating a character that is a minority. It used to be a black guy had clearly ?white facial features? and was just darker.

How do you feel about these ?sliders?? Other games? Character creation in general. Good or bad examples? How do you make your characters?

Before I get howlers saying search button I did search and found nothing that was as general about the topic as what I have here. Most threats were over a month old.

 

[Panken]

Honestly its way to complicated. I like creating my characters but more along the line of the Tony Hawk or Soul Calibur series, where they give you presets and you just throw alot of presets together. Sometimes you can get a pretty cool looking character.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

I like to make my own character, although I take ages doing it. They never look how I want them too, either.

If you slide thing just right in Oblivion your character can look like a fish.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Give me saints row 2 level of customization for all my characters, and i'll be very happy

 

[sneak_copter]

I'm not bothered. I guess I preferred my character in Saints Row 2 to GTA IV, purely because he's got individual style i.e. is a feminine cross-dresser with a cockney accent, handlebar moustache, and snazzy handbag.

 

[ek599]

A good type of characterization is the one from Soul Calibur 4. Great

 

[quack35]

The one in Oblivion and Fallout 3 is neat.

In Fallout 3 I normally just get a preset I want, tweak it a little, and I'm off.

 

[TikiShades]

I don't like sliders usually, since they usually either offer only slight change, or they give you a small bar that controls a huge variety to try and nudge ever so slightly so you don't skip right over a regular eye size.

 

[Rickyvantof]

Meh, I usually just want to play the game. Depending on my mood I either pick a default face or make a totally rediculous one.

 

[NeutralDrow]

...I'd mention City of Heroes, but you either already play it, or you'd explode in sheer glee if you tried.

I think my favorite character creation systems are the aforementioned CoH - five sliders for general physical appearance, many more to finely tune facial features, more costume options than you could make a robot shake a stick at, and an insane number of primary power/secondary power/origin combinations - and Wizardry 8, which just has character portraits, but also has 36 <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ale_Q-EePow>possible voices (18 male, 18 female) for any character you make, ranging from well-meaning but stupid, French hunter, rough-and-tumble, completely jaded (my favorite), a few eccentrics and psychos, fairly normal sounding, justice freak, intellectual, philosophical, several random European accents, and more I'm forgetting. Not to mention the class system and stats and all that fun stuff.

 

[Erana]

What bothers me is that I could get banned on Perfect World because I modified the program files to give my character realistic curves...
The sliders can't hardly do a healthy weight.

 

[ace_of_something]

...I'd mention City of Heroes, but you either already play it, or you'd explode in sheer glee if you tried.

I think I spent as much time making characters in CoH/CoV as I did actually playing the game. Having all those different powers didn't help. One of my best was a Hero healer who looked like a nurse from a the 1940's (pillbox hat and all) with a very very ugly face named "The Nurse Who Love Me" Not as many as I had hoped got the referance.

 

[3rd rung]

I like character creation I don't play many games that have it but when I get the option I do like to go in and try every thing out, Rock band I find really fun making the guy and picking clothes out I mad a homless guy called tom hat and and Ben Franklen really fun

 

[Hippobatman]

I don't care much about altering facial attributes, but I have to make a fancy beard with a (somewhat) matching mustache.

I just randomize a face until I'm satisfied and then customize hair and 'stache.

 

[Arrers]

I like to make my own character, although I take ages doing it. They never look how I want them too, either.

If you slide thing just right in Oblivion your character can look like a fish.

On Oblivion, all my charactewrs look like fish, whever I want them too or not.

 

[NeutralDrow]

...I'd mention City of Heroes, but you either already play it, or you'd explode in sheer glee if you tried.

I think I spent as much time making characters in CoH/CoV as I did actually playing the game. Having all those different powers didn't help. One of my best was a Hero healer who looked like a nurse from a the 1940's (pillbox hat and all) with a very very ugly face named "The Nurse Who Love Me" Not as many as I had hoped got the referance.

Reminds me of one of mine. War Chef, complete with tall hat and white coat, using his super cooking power and mighty battle whisk to smite evil! In other words, a Fire Aura/War Mace Tanker.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Honestly its way to complicated. I like creating my characters but more along the line of the Tony Hawk or Soul Calibur series, where they give you presets and you just throw alot of presets together. Sometimes you can get a pretty cool looking character.

Me too...Soul Calibur CC was very fun. Especially creating a midget warrior with a huge axe who spoke with an extremely out of place depth to his voice.

 

[richard misiak]

I like to make my own character, although I take ages doing it. They never look how I want them too, either.

If you slide thing just right in Oblivion your character can look like a fish.

On Oblivion, all my charactewrs look like fish, whever I want them too or not.

same

 

[PeaceFistCreations]

I absolutely love character creation. I wish there was a game or program that let you do just that. Oblivion and Saints Row have some of the best character customising, but they run it on the slider based creations, which I think is too problematic and outdated. The analog controled character creators in games like UFC 2009, the Tiger Wood games(I think), and Home are much better for the character creation in every way of the process in my opinion, and I think games should adapt these type of character tools and get rid of sliders.
I made a character in UFC that looks amazingly like me. I don't exactly have the toning he has, but since I used to work out a lot, I knew that my tone would look just like the one I chose for him if I really did work out like a UFC fighter. Its so weird and uncanny to see myself throwing punches and grappling with UFC stars. I wish I could bring that version of me into every game I played

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

Every time a game has character creation, I always make more female characters than male characters.