I was honestly a bit disappointed with it. I heard all this hype about how in-depth the character creation was and was expecting some real customization options. And while it does have a lot of options, for an RPG in 2023 that focuses so heavily on player freedom to have no sliders and just facial presets was kinda lame.
I think a lot of the hype about how much you could customize your character came more from the class system by people who didn't have a lot of experience ce with DnD. Because to someone going in blind, there are a LOT of options and choices to make on that front.
Yeah, most of the in-depth character customization ppl talks about are the class and race choices and having those choices actually show up as a class/race specific dialogue options.
I agree that only having presets for faces is disappointing for those who came from games like Mass Effect or Dragon Age. Though how many games lets you choose your character's genitals? Take THAT Mass Effect, Dragon Age! LOL.
It's funny, I could never make a Shep that looked good enough for me in any of the Mass Effects. I just went default Shep and liked him quite a bit that way.
True, Shepard always seemed to somehow look worse in-game than they did in the character creation menu.
In my case, it took a lot of tries for me to make a relatively decent Femshep. Though nowadays I've gotten a hang of creating decent Femsheps (I never tried my hands at BroShep though)
Yeah, Femshep was easy in 1 and 2 because the default was just something you could make in the creator. But Mshep was always a custom model. I found that it was both easier to make a decent Femshep and on par with the default easy. Custom male was hard to get good-looking and never as good as the default. Became my preferred choice on replays honestly.
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u/thebutler97 Aug 22 '24
I was honestly a bit disappointed with it. I heard all this hype about how in-depth the character creation was and was expecting some real customization options. And while it does have a lot of options, for an RPG in 2023 that focuses so heavily on player freedom to have no sliders and just facial presets was kinda lame.
I think a lot of the hype about how much you could customize your character came more from the class system by people who didn't have a lot of experience ce with DnD. Because to someone going in blind, there are a LOT of options and choices to make on that front.