When you play a game with a character creator, do you try to

I leave it all default and just match my irl colors.

I usually can't be bothered, but on a replay I might make it look like some random celebrity or something for shits and giggles.

I make myself a pretty girl

Default. Customizing is for sissies. "Le funni" custom characters are even worse. Just play the damn game.

>>389901624
I just go with whatever the default is and name the character my first name.

>>389901624
Usually default except the hair

Makes me feel for the programmers who spent months making this customizing tool.

>>389901624
cool first playtrough, fucked up all later playtroughs

Made them funny ugly everytime, and always regret it later when I'm decked out in high level gear

I hit randomise until I'm not disgusted and go with that.

I always go for a cute girl.

First playthrough: generic cool looking guy

Subsequent playthroughs: horrific mutant monster

>>389902079

Pretty much this which takes time depending on the options or I just make my character look like Bruce Campbell.

Default appearance and name if applicable.

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Depends, if it's a male character I either go with the default face with slight alterations. If its a female character, I spend an autistic amount of time making her cute.

Pic related, its one of my Skyrim characters

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>>389901624
It really depends. FROMSOFT has, bar none, the worst character creation system of all time so I always go with the ugliest possible character I can make. Same with Oblivion. For games with legitimately good character creators like Black Desert I usually try to make something cool.

>>389901624
I always just use the default face/body

>>389902850
DS1 and Oblivion use the same head creator. http://www.facegen.com/

DS3 and Bloodborne have a pretty good one though.

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i make mine look cool

I cannot be bothered to fuck with games that use SLIDERS for creation. Fuck that shit. I don't know what half of it even does and I have no artistic ability for human anatomy. Only thing I'll tinker with is hairstyles.

Dragon's Dogma had the best character creation. Presets are the way to go and a lot faster to go through and better looking.

>>389903016
>DS3 and Bloodborne have a pretty good one though
All they did was add more stuff like beards and glasses. It still produces the same horrific shiny plastic uncanny valley monsters every single time no matter how much effort you put into it.

>>389902658
this

>>389901624
if its multiplayer im definitely making some kind of pootawn to bother people with
in single player i usually go for the self inserts

>>389903134
>All they did was add more stuff like beards and glasses. It still produces the same horrific shiny plastic uncanny valley monsters every single time no matter how much effort you put into it.
Fits perfectly well for the setting.

>>389901624
i always make my character an angry grampa with a beard
if i can't play as a grumpy old man the game's not worth playing

>>389903021
ayyy lmao

>>389903134
Someone post cute girls made in DS3 and BB

Anything with a character creator, I'm going to be doing multiple runs with different characters. I do whatever fits the current archetype I'm using as a model. Strength build with axes? Going to be a viking guy, maybe with some scars. Pure magic user? Either an old wizard or beautiful sorceress. Sneaky assassin? Some kind of ne'er-do-well with scars that looks a bit greasy. Heroic holy knight? Handsome with a nice jawline.

I've spent inordinate amounts of time doing this in Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, all three Dark Souls (although 1 is a bit limiting in this regard), Fallout, a bunch of older CRPGs, etc. Sometimes I actually play the games too.

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r8 my SL1 toon

>>389903134
>five games and they couldn't fix man shoulders for female models
>BB added giraffe necks that carried over into DS3
It was so fucking bad.

I recently made Donald Trump in Bloodborne. My roommate made Mike Pence. using the tonitrus

>>389903378
I would if they existed

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>>389903180
Esteban > pootawn

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Viking guy I beat DS3 with.

>>389903394
Ugly as sin, just like a SL1 character should be. Good job.

Make them look like someone ill-fitting, like Richard Stallman or David Foster Wallace or something, then try and imagine how they'd react to any given situation.

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I try to make them realistically ugly.
Like me

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>>389903134
>>389903464

>>389904057
How to make a waifu this cute?

>>389904057
>long face tranny

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>>389903465

>playing Dragon's Dogma
>buy Secret of Metamorphosis
>spend autistic amount of time tweaking Arisen and Pawn until they're perfect
>play game for a bit
>exit to main menu and start tweaking again

Cycles between three things for me
>Guy who looks as close to like me as possible
>kawaii girl
>full troll, silliest shit I can think of, most often it's a black guy as small as I can get him with funny features

>>389903394
>toon
>>>/lgbt/

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>>389904057
Am I being memed?

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>>389904132
I wish I knew

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>>389903394
>Toon

>>389902182
>>389902347
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>>389902930
What would you do if the default was goofy looking or ugly as sin?

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>>389901624
I usually make an old grandpa or an elderly bald man. Maybe I have a complex or something, dunno.

anyone who goes default (for the first time) is probably a really stupid boring person

>>389904454
Cover them up with a helmet.

>>389904514
I like closed helmets, why wouldn't I go default if noone is gonna see my face?

>>389904603
>He doesn't take his helmet off right before the ending

>>389901624
Someone post my shrek character so I don't have to

>>389904457
>Not wanting to be the retired grandpa/grandma strapping their armor back to go fix the problem
It's the best kind of character

>>389904603
because you are a really stupid boring person

>>389901624
I make a pretty girl because I wish I was a pretty girl

>>389902658
This.

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It really depends on the kind of character creation. If it's in-depth with body and face sliders I tend to play as a thicc (memes aside, plump or fat) girl. There's just something about a fat-ass mage wrecking actual fighters.

If the character creator sucks or is limited to simple shit like changing hairstyles and eye/skin colour, I don't really care. In those cases I tend to play as whatever is considered default, or whatever looks best with those limited options. Often a male.

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>>389901624
Character creation is more important then the main game.

>>389905531
I never like hair like the right because there's almost always horrific clipping problems.

>>389905531
This. I usually spend 2 hours making a character and then I drop the game

if it's a girl I make them look cool and if it's a guy I make them look silly

>>389905310
Thic... never mind, that's just fat holy shit.

>>389901624

If it's possible I will always make a fit tomboy with a husky voice.

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I usually try to make them look like Brendan Frasier

>>389906261
Though I think he ended up more Nathan Fillion-y

i just choose what i think looks the best and go with it

>>389901624
To further immerse myself in the story I try to make my character cool or try to make him look like he'd fit in the universe fairly well.

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>>389905696
I don't have any important clipping issues with the hair. I mean I use a female with a normal looking body lol
My main problem with hair is how shadows works in Skyrim. I don't know why the ENBs always ruin it. Also the lack of movement. I know there's HDT hair mods but all of them sucks.

I make the Chad-version of myself

If it's male I go for a 1800's manly man look and for fems I go realistic anime.

>>389907607
Also always very pale for both. Lots of eye makeup for fems and light lipstick.
Black hair for male, always.

>>389903720
The most depressing thing about this image is midwest ""cuisine""

>>389901624
I usually just go with the default, add some scars, and modify just one part of their face (like the nose or chin)

Big nose best

>>389907607
>realistic anime
how does that work?

I always made it to look like an old man.

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>>389903134

>>389903720
Where the fuck did you get this picture? That is legitimately a picture of me.

>>389901624
I used to spend hours making a character I liked the look of, fine tuning every small detail.

Now I just move around a few basic options, like overall face structure and hair colour/type, and I play the fucking game.

I still take the process seriously, and when I was pretty in depth with my character creation, I'd always try to give my character a smile, but also give them really sad looking eyes. I love that look.

>>389910817

>she will never choke and slap you during sex

>>389910817
I need the sliders right the fuck now.

>>389910817
HAHAHHA what the FUCK is THAT

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>>389910817

I try to customize, but I never stray too far from defaults. I've been fucked too many times with something that looked great in character creation only for it to have no chin or massive fucking ears or some other detail that you can't undo.

Normally I just change hairstyle, skin color, and fuck a bit with the important sliders. Trying to make a fully custom character is beyond me.

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I look up actors/models and use their faces

Pic related is my Ass Effect character made to look like Greg Finley

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>>389911434

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>Series has one of the worst character creators in gaming that makes our characters look ugly as sin
>Still has God Tier waifus made by Memezaki's secret Slut creator

How is this allowed?

>>389910915
Sorry son.

>>389901624
If I can, I make traps
if I can't, I make hot girls who have dicks in my imagination

It depends on the fetish I'm feeling lately.
But on average most of my characters end up looking like the big dude I was raped by in high school tbqh

>>389911776
>If I can, I make traps
Name me some games that allows this.

>>389901624
Depends. I either make myself, an old man, or a funny

>>389911894
dragon's dogma is the only one I was successful on
I always try my hardest on every single game with character creator, usually to no avail.

>>389901624
if default is real bad i might make very minor changes like all the fallout games, but usually it's fine, like dragons dogma or dark soul where you have a fucking helmet on anyway

>>389911894
sims 4

Eh, depends on the options and what I am in the mood to make. I generally don't try to do anything too weird or out there if the character creator is as bad as Oblivions, but I do try to put some effort into it past the defaults.

If I select a dude, I usually go for a beard with scraggly or combed back dark brown hair. In the rare times I decide to play as a chick, I usually do blonde or red hair that is short or the back of it put into a pigtail.

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>>389910817
Fuck mang I really would like to have the saucecy source on that image (and slide positions pls)

>>389901624
I'm not american so I don't even fuck with the customization.

>>389914214
>I'm not american so I don't even fuck with the customization.
what did he mean by this?
I'm not american and I always fuck with the customization.

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>>389914214
>'Murica
>beer, guns, bald eagles, and now character customization (apparently)

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>>389914735
>mfw I'm now honorary american for making skyrim waifus

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>>389901624
I like to not just make something ironically ugly but try to make my character look as inhuman as possible.

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>>389901624
I always make pretty boys.

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man if strength, woman if dex

>>389901624
Making a character look stupid is for children and insecure losers afraid to take anything seriously in their lives

>>389915176
this is the only correct choice
being a girl is gay
but looking at a manly dude is also gay

therefore, making a pretty boy who looks like a girl is the only straight choice.

Depends.

>Spend 4 hours on a face
>In an obscuring helmet 95% of the game

>>389915551
a lot of games have helmet toggle
or you can just not wear a face hiding helmet

>>389915513
But anon, being a femboy is the gayest of all

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>>389915176
Same character with black hair.

>>389915780
only if you're bottom

>>389915513
Are there any games that actually let you do that though? Ignoring japanese games of course.

>>389916121
saints row
too bad the series went into the shithole, and then started digging down

>>389915551
>not intentionally going without a helmet to show off your fashion for both aesthetics and challenge
fucking c a s u a l

>>389916445
Do you also only put the helmet on when shit gets real, viewtiful joe style?

>>389901624
I just try to make something interesting.
>heavily disfigured sole survivor with a once-attractive face under the scars
>eyeless dark elf monk wandering between daedric shrines
>balding bespectacled middle-aged courier who evolves from meek mailman to vengeful cowboy
>a character that many anons tell me resembles Glenn Danzig, Nathan Explosion, Not Important, and Krull the Barbarian all at once
its about making them look unique. idgaf about anything else

What are games with good character creators

>>389916528
Hell yeah. Good taste, anon.

>>389916528
>>389916746
my niggas I thought I was the only one that did this

>>389916637
>a character that many anons tell me resembles Glenn Danzig, Nathan Explosion, Not Important, and Krull the Barbarian all at once
Post him

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>>389901624
i randomize then just touch it up
sometimes if they look like someone or remind me of a character ill try to match the look just because but usually i dont care
i always give them nonsense names though

i dont know why so many games focus on facial customization over body customization when being able to edit their build is the most important part though
you nee to be able to visually distinguish between 6'7" 300 lbs skullrape the marauderphile and 5'2", 90 lbs twinkbutt the lithe elf, it cant just be set.characterscale 0.8, you need to actually put fucking effort into the ability to make a unique person, not just a unique floating head mounted on a generic spray-painted body

>>389916715
Soul Calibur V has the best one for all-around character creation including the costume, Black Desert Online and Dragon's Dogma are probably the best for just making a person.

>>389901624
I make something I'd have sex with. If I can't accomplish that I just mash random until something silly appears

>>389915176
nibba give me them sliders

>>389901624
I try and make a really hot chick, but one that also has her on uniqueness
You see people copying the likeness of celebrity faces a lot, in creators that allowed that amount of flexibility
However within all those nose sliders, you can bump things slightly to your own preferences which is the real freedom

>>389917871
I forgot to screenshot them sorry my man

if the default is oblivion tier, i dont even bother

>>389905531
Hold up, is that Black Viper? Very classy.

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Doesn't matter if it's male or female, I spend an ungodly amount of time making them look as good as I can.

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>>389919436

>>389905310
That thumbnail almost made me react with a >shadman

>>389903394
Wojak, I...

>>389905310
Eww

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>>389901624
99% of the time my guy has an extremely big jutting chin, eyebrows that cover his eyes, a receding hairline, a moustache and a very angry facial expression. kind of like this guy. the rest of the time i make a cute girl.

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Old guy with beard and scars

I customize the character to whatever I feel will fit with the world it's in. If the game is over the top and ridiculous I'll make a character like that, if it's serious I make a serious character.

>>389914932

>FREEDOMED

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>>389901624
I usually try to make a pre-existing character. My Venom Snake in dark souls 3 looked dope as fuck

>>389923589
Post it

Does anyone else thing character creation has gone too fucking far? I don't want to play around with mesh and sculpt my dude like a fucking plastic surgeon. Just give me a few face/body options that make sense within the setting I can mix and match to my favorite.

It's even worse in MMOs because it just ruins the immersion by allowing a bunch of super fat or muscled men with crazy skins colors to be running around

I like to make rugged ugly older guys usually. Something believable, not everyone can be too handsome.

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>>389904457
>implying it's not the best

Out of the way you whipper snappers.

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>>389903021