Customizing your character's appearance in games.

I spend a good deal of time on my character design. I'm going to be looking at it for hours on end so I want it to look good. In MMO's and such I often invest a good deal of money into my characters looks, sometimes I won't wear a good item because it doesn't match the rest of the outfit. Yes, it would not be a understatement to say I love customizable characters. Mayhaps its because I've studied in the field of game design*? Who knows...


*Took a few course here and there when I was younger, Animation for the most part Maya 8 and 9 etc.

I love customization in games. It gives me another form of control in the game and I utilize it to the fullest.

Appearance plays a lot into how one could enjoy a game because it's what's always in front of and what you will always see.

For me, I guess it's a way for me to reach my own personal perfection and allowing the character to manifest that increases my enjoyment level.

I'm just rambling but eh, that's all I got =\

I find it fun. It's not about being shallow or anything, but I honestly think making a character that looks good is fun. After spending an hour on it, you can look at him/her and enjoy it. Especially if it's a long RPG.

Hell, I love any game with player customization. I downloaded several mods for Dragon Age to make Lelianna hotter, and to make my character look like Malcolm from the trailer. I also spent a lot of time trying to make my female character in Fallout 3 as appealing as possible.

Although I must admit, there are times where I don't use the customizing option given. In Mass Effect 1/2, I kept my Commander Shepard the way he looked cause I thought he looked badass.

It's all a matter of perspective. Like others, if I have to spend over 30 hours looking at my character, I might as well spend that extra 30 minutes making him or her look that much better.

Exactly how I see it. I have the right to make my character look good xD

I like customizing my character's appearance. It's one of the things I like most about RPGs/MMOs.

I love it when games have good customization. Some might think it shallow, but I love personifying a video game character. I can be lame and go with a multitude of default characters, design them to look like myself, or let my imagination run wild.

I spend a great deal of time creating my own character in games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect. That said, there are a few games where the character models are either bland or hideous where I don't bother (a la Elder Scrolls or Fable games).

Soul Calibur 3, and 4.

Phantasy Star has some amazing character customizations. =]

OP seems to be the minority...



I thought the Fable personalization was stupid too, but I totally loved Oblivion's customization. Once you learn to handle the face like it is made of clay and not of marble, you can get some awesome results. I made a character that was the exact image of Aerith Gainsborough.

While I'm particularly a stickler for quality and results, customization has never been too far from my interests in essentially any game.

In games like Monster Hunter, I usually stick with clothing that gives me the best skills I can use (because survival is priority lol). Every so often I take the fashionable route when I'm fooling around with all sorts of gag clothing. Unfortunately, I found the level of fashion in that game to suffice my temptations for customization so I never really had much creativity or motivation to try out combinations. The stats gave me good reason to wear it and it just looked downright awesome (that includes the gag clothing).

That aside though, I play with customization a fair bit when I can afford the time and creativity, otherwise I stay bland and focus on my stats. >A>

I think you have missed the very concept of RPG here dude; exploration and personal character development is what those games are all about. If you dun wanna make your own char you shouldn't play RPG.



Wait, u like develop your character for Mass Effect and Dragon Age, but not for the Elder Scrolls? All the Elder Scroll games have ten times the freedom when developing characters compared to those two games, especially Dragon Age that has next to nothing?

I have always loved this feature. My first character in these games is usually a representation of myself, so it's nice to get him to look like me as well. Not spending hours on it, though, just trying to make him as similar as I can without going overboard with every little setting.



Now that is dumb, though.

Well, it is true that some equipment do look better than those with better stats, but don't equipment generally get better looking the higher level requirement gets?

This especially Monster Hunter series, Those G Class armors are so GAR. lol


regarding to the topic.

I'm more of a "functional" guy rather than a "fashionable" guy in a game, but seriously I still care on how do I look. I tend to "skip" a set of armors just because it's ugly, and then buy the next set of armors which is much "stylish"


in the end my judgment is "50-50" it all depends on the game itself.
If it has "beautiful", Cool, GAR, equips, I might just follow the fashion route, but if it's not a game that emphasize customizability, I'll stick with the functional look

I play Sims 3.

I guess I have the problem Neko-chan mentioned. Every character I try to create in Oblivion looks just horrible. I gave up long ago trying to create a decent looking character in that game.

I use this feature to its fullest. why would i play a game that will take me weeks to play if i don't like the way my character looks?