Poll: Character customisation: Do you usually make stupid looking characters?

[shrekfan246]

I don't actively try, but as a lot of character creators tend to suck, if I don't stick with one of the preset looks and just tweak colors or hair or something, they'll invariably end up looking stupid.

MaleShep always looks like he's half-gorilla.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

No, I take character creation VERY seriously. I don't exactly try to make them look like me, per se, but I try to give the face some personality. This also factors into armor/clothing decision: in Skyrim, my first guy was a stealthy rogue/archer combination, and, naturally, wound up in mostly elvish stuff to stay light. The result was that he looked very green in his Elvish armor, shield, boots, bow and dagger. But I never gave him a helmet, because it never looked right.

Imagine my delight when I found a green cloth hood, which matched the shade of my armor almost perfectly, and made my dude look SO stealthy and badass. I felt like fuckin' Ezio after that.

 

[Zhukov]

I try not to. I can spend hours in the character editors.

Although often a face that looked fine on the character creation screen ends up looking terrible in game. I've been known to restart games a dozen times trying to get it right.

By way of example, here are my Shepards:

Spoiler

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Kupo!

Jesus, I know that feel. I'm pretty much exactly like that. I have that problem, especially, with White Knight Chronicles. I make my character and he looks amazing in the character creator, but once he's in the real game he contracts a serious case of baby face.

My characters never really look silly. I prefer my characters to be believable because I always take my character seriously. If the character doesn't look exactly like I want it to, I will instantly restart the game. And I will do it as many times as it takes to get it perfect.

Although there is the rare occasion I prefer the defaults over anything I could make in the character creator. I will always prefer the default ManShep and I will always prefer the default ManHawke.

 

[piinyouri]

Well, depends.
For example I once made a character in New Vegas who was something of a savant. He had some physical deformities (Over pronounced brow and lower jaw, think Sling Blade) that I used to distinguish him and give him some character.

But as far as doing it "for the lawlz", no I don't make silly looking characters for no reason.

 

[Roxor]

I tend to spend half an hour playing around with the character creator, only to end up using the default settings with maybe a different hair or eye colour when I actually play the game.

 

[Silvanus]

Nawp. Never. I take character customisation super cereal.

I've deleted fully-levelled characters in the past, purely because I've become unhappy with how they look/ their name.

 

[sammysoso]

I usually don't even bother. Nothing ever looks right.

For the most part, I use either the default or one of the presets. (depending on the game)

 

[elbrandino]

Sometimes, though really not often. I find the customization takes way too much time and no one is likely to even see it anyway. I usually stick with the default (or something close to it) and maybe change hair color/style.

 

[thesilentman]

Meh. When I role play, I role play. When I play a game, I play a game. No need to mix the two unless the game's a natural fit for it. No need to make a character look the way I want when it doesn't matter in the slightest in-game.

 

[NeutralDrow]

I don't really. Hell, City of Heroes offered insane customization, and a good portion of my characters were still plainclothes superheroes.

Unless I can make the silliness work within a concept. Thus, War Chef:

Spoiler: And his mighty battle-whisk.

 

[Camaranth]

I take it more seriously than I should. It really starts to bug me if they look silly or dis-proportionate. I even had problems with my Dalish character in DA:O because I set the skin tone too light and I thought that being a Dalish and a hunter he should have a tan!

Because I have no artistic ability what so ever I normally cycle through the presets to find one I like then adjust a few things like eyes and hair.

That being said my Saints Row 3 character was silver with blue hair, lips and crazy face tattoos, but physically everything looked alright.

 

[jackinmydaniels]

Not really, making a funny character is good and all for around ten minutes or so, but the hilarity soon wears off. And since I play games by myself more or less, I'd prefer to have a character that I can take seriously so it doesn't throw me out of the experience. Though if I'm only going to play a game for an hour or two, say, one of the Saints Row games, making a silly character is fun.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I usually go for pleasant looking characters; I'll sometimes go for a very unconventional look, however, if I feel like it.

 

[Kaymish]

i take the character creation seriously very seriously and then the toons end up looking stupid because i suck and i can never see the model properly so i get in game and get a good look and then i see the horror and then restart the game or visit the re-creator as soon as i can and even then it takes a couple of hits to get it right

 

[Lieju]

I like to make my female characters look sort of, not exactly ugly or unattractive, but give them more personality than most female characters in games.

If I can modify the body, I like to make them a bit more normal ('fat' in video-game terms), with smaller breasts. And I like giving them scars and broken/odd noses.

Although sometimes (especially if I'm playing a mage or something not physical) I like to make them very starved-looking, like they forget to eat.

I don't really like making them look 'silly', not on the first playthrough, at least, but I try to sometimes make them look like Neanderthals, or something. Especially with dwarves.

 

[Sir Pootis]

Not really "stupid looking" per say, but whenever I play a game with character customization I play as on old lady named Siegfried von Manstein.

 

[Candidus]

I tend to make characters of the opposite sex with features that are attractive to me. I've never, not even once, gone out of my way to make a silly looking character. I don't think my sense of humour is attuned to that sort of gag.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Sometimes. For example, my Gunzerker in Borderlands 2 has the nuts and bots hat while wearing the pink pandoracorn skin, which really helps lighten up the mood. In more serious games however, I tend to stick with more normal looking features.

 

[Evil Smurf]

I base the character off me, just with better defined muscles.