When you create a character...

[TZer0]

Together with a friend, we tried using the depict-yourself-function i Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. Basically, you use your webcamera to take a few pictures of yourself (trust me, you'll need a friend's help if you want to be efficient). Let me sum it up: facial hair (beard) + bad camera + bad light-conditions = victim of heavy chemical burns. We laughed.

 

[SeanthePsycho]

Mass Effect was one of the more articulate games I've played with a wide variety of tweaks to the "create your own character" games and it is honestly hard to create a decent looking character after trying to modify the original basis of Commander Shepard, the one that Bioware gives you as a model to go off of. Even then, the random option is your friend since press it enough and you get a decent choice. However, I always stuck with the generic, box art Commander Shepard.

And that can be said with any game that doesn't have generic "Face A, Face B" character mods. It is extremely difficult to get a good looking chatacter when there is a slide for everything from jawline to shoulder width. All I do is take an original design from the games premades (ie Saints Row 1 & 2 and most WWE games) and alter those templtaes slightly from making skin lighter and change hair and such.

Fallout 3 though didn't give me too much trouble even though the screen for that was dark and light was coming in from one angle, making it harder to create your future self. However, mine wasn't all too bad. Looked pretty decent.

 

[OwenWalker]

I tend to make my character look like myself in a way. I base them off myself but tweak their appearance based on the situation. For example, I gave my character a messy haircut in Fallout 3 since a waste lander probably wouldn't worry about getting regular haircuts.

 

[GeoPB]

I base all my custom made characters on the bald asian preset from KOTOR1. That guy has taken over the row twice, Kicked the shit out of Sovereign three times, controlled and destroyed the sith twice and even explored and saved the Wasteland. God, I love that guy.

 

[Diserasta]

My characters depend widely on my mood. I usually have 4-7 saves with different personalities, depending on how I feel. Sometimes I'm a stupidly evil magician (like crucifying kittens evil), or a (wo)manly badass or a guy with pecs like paving slabs, or a guy with MPD.

 

[rhyno435]

I usually try to create a character that looks like me.

Except in Mass Effect. All of my attempts failed horribly, so I just rolled with the premade guy.

Same here. And in Mass Effect, anything other than the pre-made guy looked Asian or Mexican.

That is completely true. My friend and I tried to make a character that looked like him, and we got it really close, except that none of the eyes worked. We ended up picking the closest eyes we could to his, and the character ended up looking Asian.

OT: I always try to make my characters look like me. But I never mess with the things like: Face Width and Length, Jaw Depth, Eye Seperation, Nose Length, other stuff like that.

 

[hermes]

I like to create a character that looks nothing like me... and I preffer to play with non-human races whenever I can. So, I played an elf in Oblivion, a dwarf in Dragon Age, an orc in World of Warcraft, and a hot asian girl on Fallout 3.

 

[aarontg]

I try to make a character that looks like me, I muck it up alot but I think it creates more of a sense of atachment to my character as well as more of a sense of justifacation when he dous somthing.

 

[Stitches242]

Creating a fond likeness to the Hulk or Robert Downey Jr or even some other celebrity you could think of on Soul Caliber 4 was fun. Even though seeing them actually fight was another story.

i usually look at the character styles and options and then go with whatever of my roleplaying characters i feel like being at the time. This also applies to how i play as the character. good vs evil and whatnot.

I always do the same as well, since everyones been talking about Fallout 3; I tried to keep my character at least neutral, but blowing up Megaton, killing Tempenny AND turning all the slaves in at Paradise Falls kind of turned that around.

 

[mechanixis]

Depends on the game, really. In Mass Effect, I basically made Tony Stark. In Fallout 3, I made Viggo Mortenson with a huge beard (anyone else excited for The Road??!). And in Saints Row 2, I made a morbidly obese Australian man with a lazy eye, ponytail, and neckbeard who immediately tore off all his clothing and drove cars off buildings.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I make a character that looks like me, just more Badass

Or it depends on the roleplay I'm going for

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Oblivion I made a Khajit with Glowing white hair, and red fur in the sunlight and black fur in the shade/night.

Just messing with the sliders is quite fun.

 

[mechanixis]

i usually look at the character styles and options and then go with whatever of my roleplaying characters i feel like being at the time. This also applies to how i play as the character. good vs evil and whatnot.

I always do the same as well, since everyones been talking about Fallout 3; I tried to keep my character at least neutral, but blowing up Megaton, killing Tempenny AND turning all the slaves in at Paradise Falls kind of turned that around.

What I liked about Fallout 3 was the ability to get a haircut at any time. I started out the game as a rugged desperate survivor with neutral karma, with a scraggly mop of hair and full beard. Then, as I got a better foothold in the wasteland, I became more upright and just, making a point of battling the wicked for its own sake, and I shaved off the beard and combed my hair back. But as my sense of justice became more brutal and single-minded, leading me to murder anyone who seemed at all sinful without hesitation - like storming Tenpenny Tower with a horde of ghouls - my karma actually drifted down to evil, and I buzzed off all my hair and got a Starkiller/Cole McGrath haircut.

 

[AnneSQF]

As sexy as possible.

 

[brunothepig]

Always make them look as metal as possible lol. long black hair, dark clothes etc.

 

[Socius]

I create a character that resembles to the things I want it to do, take fallout 3:

If I make a kind knightly character I make him look so
If I make a crazy canibalistic maniac with a axe fetish I make him look so
If I make a Neutral character with a daddy issue and an obsession for money I make him look so

Its that Easy.

 

[hvitulf]

I usually either go with a preset and make minor changes or try to go for a character that resembles me with a goatee or other awesome facial hair. I have recently started with a presets close to what I look like, in Fallout 3 however, I accidentally ended up playing as Yahtzee, but I didn't really realize it until I was wearing Mr. Burke's hat and suite with matching silenced pistol.

 

[melig]

I usually make a character thats a mix between Aragorn and God.
If the possibilities are too limited and he ends up looking sheit, I go for the generic Joe.

 

[Ben Legend]

I do make a ridiculous character at some point or another, but first and foremost I try to make the character look as close to me as possible. I have no idea why... I just do.

 

[hippykiller]

i try to make him look like me as much as possible.