So I hear that DC Online has the best character customization? Or is it Champion Online? Looking for something outside the Fantasy genre. But then again Guild Wars 2 looks very promising, not sure if I'll be able to stay away.

I'd say:

Human Only - All Points Bulletin

Unique Character - City of Heroes and Champions Online

Decent Contenders - Aion and Age of Conan

Original Free to Play - Perfect World

Guild Wars 2 has a fairly good character creation, especially considering it has 5 different races, but it's still very limited compared to the above.

If you go beyond faces and body types, Hands down TSW when it come to clothing and builds. Other games give you more faces or body type, but a lot less customization.

Originally posted by bcbully

If you go beyond faces and body types, Hands down TSW when it come to clothing and builds. Other games give you more faces or body type, but a lot less customization.

Honestly there may be plenty of builds in TSW, but the viability of builds are extremely limited.  It may not be so readily apparent yet.  I actually think GW2 gives you more viable build options than TSW right now.

As far as clothing goes I think even at character creation a game like Champions Online or DCUO gives more options than TSW has currently.  There are certainly a lot of different clothings in the game (especially when you count the ones you earn through achievements), but a lack of dye option really hurts the level of customization you can get.  TSW's character creation is very disappointing too especially when you compare it to Funcom's other title: Age of Conan.

Are you talking about appearance customization or how much you can customize your stats, gear, skills, etc?

EVE and APB are the absolute best.

Character creation- APB and EVE

Clothing- Can't really figure it out right now. Proably COH.

Skill, class, whatever- Never played the older mmos, but i ear alot of SWG. Shut down. Well, probably EVE actually.

EVE.. simply amazing!

EVE Online hands down.

Well...APB is pretty darn good too.

Best character customization i ever seen is AION you can change everything and make it look like yourself but i wont reccomend the game is just too harcoregrind to gear up.

EVE is amazing, but you can't interact with anyone. I would purchase the character creator by iteself though if I could.

SecondLife has the best character customization.   No Normal MMO can compare if it wanted to just due to game mechanics.

Depends on what you consider good.

• Is it good to have limitless customization options at the price of aesthetically matching the rest of the game?
• Is it good to force all characters to look beautiful? Alternatively, is it good for them all to look realistically meh?
• Is there more character customization beyond character creation? Can you dye clothes, hair, wear a variety of options?
• From a distance, can your character be recognized apart from the crowd?

Originally posted by colddog04

Are you talking about appearance customization or how much you can customize your stats, gear, skills, etc?

What I was wondering.  Possibly anarchy online if it requires both.

Sorry for not being more clear. I meant purely on an asthetic level. EVE wins hand down imo, but then you can't actually interact with other players using your avatar, so I don't really count it.

I downloaded the TERA trial and was very impressed with its customization. I wish TSW was more like it.

EVE.

Originally posted by Magnum2103

I'd say:

Human Only - All Points Bulletin

Unique Character - City of Heroes and Champions Online

Decent Contenders - Aion and Age of Conan

Original Free to Play - Perfect World

 

Guild Wars 2 has a fairly good character creation, especially considering it has 5 different races, but it's still very limited compared to the above.

yep, definately APB :)

APB is running in an own league here. no contenders.

Guild Wars 2 has what I consider to be the best character customization for an MMORPG: with mutiple races, tons of presets, sliders and hundreds of dyes to go with a variety of gear.

However APB has the best character customization... period. Nothing can match it yet. Anyone who says otherwise needs to play APB and spend a day just making a character.

EVE character customization looks really impressive. I never played it and thought Aion was great as far as customization is concerned. EVE blows it out of the water though. Of course I'm not sure EVE renders a lot of those detailed characters on your screen and the comparison could actually be quite unfair with respect to what it would require from your system due to the games being so different.

If there are no additional requirements, would something like second life not be the best bet?