Poll: Customizable Characters - Do you like them and Ideas?
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Creating characters has always been one of my favorite things to do in games. I think it has to do with The Sims being my first game, and what largely got me into gaming. I was really interested in Brink's customization, but to bad the game wasn't very good. Right now I'm having fun just playing around with the Saints Row 3 character creator.
Though I do believe custom characters have their place, using your example, I'd never want to make my own character in an Uncharted game. It just wouldn't work, I play those games for the well characterized and developed characters in it. That's simply not something that could ever be done as well with a character I created myself. When I play Uncharted I want to play as Drake, not some one dimensional person I designed. Those games, like you said, are like a blockbuster movie. You wouldn't ever see a movie where you create the character's personality before hand, like I said, it just wouldn't work.
I'd prefer to keep my custom characters to games like Skyrim.
Mmmmmm, Skyrim...
Though I do believe custom characters have their place, using your example, I'd never want to make my own character in an Uncharted game. It just wouldn't work, I play those games for the well characterized and developed characters in it. That's simply not something that could ever be done as well with a character I created myself. When I play Uncharted I want to play as Drake, not some one dimensional person I designed. Those games, like you said, are like a blockbuster movie. You wouldn't ever see a movie where you create the character's personality before hand, like I said, it just wouldn't work.
I'd prefer to keep my custom characters to games like Skyrim.
Mmmmmm, Skyrim...
Oh, well that's a bird of a different feather, then. Shoot, I'd change my answer to "yes" in a half a goddamn second.SirBryghtside said:Third person, and customisation isn't just limited to looks - I'm also talking about the stats. Which I love in TES games, especially what it looks like in SkyrimNickCaligo42 said:
I like them, depending. Unfortunately, all that I'm usually allowed to play in a game is a male character.
I'm a person who likes playing as a female character, or if a guy, a bishounen.
I don't mind the lack of choices in a lot of jRPGs, because I like the character that's been laid out for me.
On the other hand, I'd rather create my own character than be forced to play as a character I don't like. Usually I find this a bit inferior though to a character being laid out to me that I at least like. As if you have a completely customized character, they haven't been given a lot of interesting depth. I like there being something to the character, and usually if you have a customizable character, they're just a vessel for you, not a character in their own right.
So basically, an uncustomizable, well developed character I like is better than a customized character that I do like. Which is superior to a customized character I don't like, which is superior to a uncustomizable character I don't like.
Or another way of putting it, customized characters to me generally feel like a cheap replacement for a well developed, pre-made character I do like. They feel better than being forced to play as a character I hate. But they aren't my favourite situation.
I'm a person who likes playing as a female character, or if a guy, a bishounen.
I don't mind the lack of choices in a lot of jRPGs, because I like the character that's been laid out for me.
On the other hand, I'd rather create my own character than be forced to play as a character I don't like. Usually I find this a bit inferior though to a character being laid out to me that I at least like. As if you have a completely customized character, they haven't been given a lot of interesting depth. I like there being something to the character, and usually if you have a customizable character, they're just a vessel for you, not a character in their own right.
So basically, an uncustomizable, well developed character I like is better than a customized character that I do like. Which is superior to a customized character I don't like, which is superior to a uncustomizable character I don't like.
Or another way of putting it, customized characters to me generally feel like a cheap replacement for a well developed, pre-made character I do like. They feel better than being forced to play as a character I hate. But they aren't my favourite situation.
Every game should be some percent customizable. If I can't even mod a pc game for whatever reason I feel ripped off.
It really depends, but overall, yes, I do like them. My only problems are the fact there either aren't enough options for certain things, like hair and facial hair as another poster stated above, or the fact that some of the areas you can tweak barely seem to change your characters features very much.
Now before I do get to listing ideas, I feel the need to say this: If Bioware doesn't allow us to customize our co-op characters for Mass Effect 3 in terms of facial features, and that includes our Asari, Drell, Salarians, Krogans and Turians looking just the way we like down to the face-paint, I will be a little disappointed.
As for ideas, I want to see the range of customization be a little more diverse, even cartoony. Maybe I want a character who has a nose that so closely resembles a beak, he could be mistaken for an eagle.
Even delve into body-type, since I'm not sure if any game has really delved into customizing that extensively. While that might make most guys playing as a female character be tempted to give them a bust that's like a pair of weather balloons reined in by no more than a strip of fabric, and who am I to complain, some of us would like the chance to make a slight, lanky character of either gender, as opposed to the generic model of 'perfection' most people have to play at the moment.
Now before I do get to listing ideas, I feel the need to say this: If Bioware doesn't allow us to customize our co-op characters for Mass Effect 3 in terms of facial features, and that includes our Asari, Drell, Salarians, Krogans and Turians looking just the way we like down to the face-paint, I will be a little disappointed.
As for ideas, I want to see the range of customization be a little more diverse, even cartoony. Maybe I want a character who has a nose that so closely resembles a beak, he could be mistaken for an eagle.
Even delve into body-type, since I'm not sure if any game has really delved into customizing that extensively. While that might make most guys playing as a female character be tempted to give them a bust that's like a pair of weather balloons reined in by no more than a strip of fabric, and who am I to complain, some of us would like the chance to make a slight, lanky character of either gender, as opposed to the generic model of 'perfection' most people have to play at the moment.
I like having it there and have a lot of fun when I can, but it isn't a dealbreaker. When I started playing The Witcher took a brief pause as I thought "An RPG without character customisation, how odd" whereas someone I recommended it to refused to play it because you couldn't control what Captain Badass looked like, or indeed name him something like Captain Badass. I don't see the big deal since all the skills and upgrades are still yours to control, but apparently it just makes it a "casual game" if it doesn't have the appearance customisation.
Well, yeah, in say Fallout 3, giving a character a distinct look will often change my gameplay style. If I make a more broad face, I often go berserk etc. And I like that, because I can go: This'll be my "x" run, doing this and that for those and these.
Beasler, Legendary Favored Soul.
This is my crowning moment of awesomeness in character creation. There's not much you can do for male characters in DDO, but you can make some pretty hot elf chicks.
Simply put, yes. If you can make a character that is unique to you as well as determine what kind of personality and abilities then HELL YEAH!
It depends on the game obviously, some games work well with customization (Fallout, most DnD games, TES games, DA:O), yet at the same time there are games that would suck with it, particularly if the story is about an internal development that the player may or may not have, then there will be a disconnect between the player and the character they are controlling.