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Can't wait for this game. Well too bad I will have to wait a long time for this game tho. MMos take way too long to make

Nice I just hope the game is seamless.

wow that is crazy.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

There are a lot of games just as good if not better when it comes to character creation.  You need to get out more.

PW, Aion and City of Heros just to mention a few. 

Gameplay determines a games success, the character creation is more or less fluff and few take much time with it.

I've played all three of those, and although they do have good CC, they aren't quite as good as this... For one look at what they did with the hair, they took a basic hair model and allow for the player to grow that hair out as long/tall as they want, it even looked directional as well... In those games you mention, all you can do is pick a hair style and recolor it.

Also, I can't be 100% sure, but it looked to me like the resizing of the character wasn't slider driven, it looked mouse directional driven to me..

None of the games that you mention have that tattoo customization, even COH doesn't quit have as good of an outfit customization.... And for sure none of them have a 'mount' customization, such as what we saw with the car.

Seen this before, somtime last year. Great stuff. Wonder how much will make into the game?  I remember AoC cut a lot of CC stuff right before and even some after launch.

Hope the gameplay is worth it.

Wow, that was really nice, you could make custom clothes and even a car :D I hope this spreads to other games.

Three thoughts:

1) Looks like a fantastic character creator
2) I expect the system requirements will be sky-high or performance will be miserable (or both).
3) The guy with the accent (scottish I believe) was utterly annoying.

Originally posted by John.A.Zoid

Nice I just hope the game is seamless.

Don't think so, I could've sworn I read there will be instances.

Very impressive

Very very impressive.  I wish other games would put the effort in to creation like this.  Unfortunately for me the game doesn't really appeal to me, but I do hope to try it at some point, and maybe take away my assumptions.

That was very impressive. 

 I'm afraid that this game will go head first into the uncanny valley, because when the characters look that realistic they need just as realistic animations and facial expressions or our brains work against us and tells us something is looking fake and we get a weird feeling. I just hope they can overcome the uncanny valley, but what I've seen so far from the in game graphics the characters aren't even near what we see in this video, maybe they've scaled back the graphics from when actually playing or I saw xbox 360 footage and this is the PC version.

Originally posted by triprunner

it absolutely blew me away, as Paul said in the presentation, ull spend loads of time tweaking ur char rather than playing the game...

hopefully more devs and companies will follow the example,

That comment actually bothers me more than offering me comfort. True, the character creator is cool and everything and impressive in its own right , but I much rather play the game than tweak my character.

If I wanted to tweak my character all of the time, I would play the SIMS.

Sorry but gameplay is 100000 times more important than character creation.

Originally posted by templarga

Originally posted by triprunner

it absolutely blew me away, as Paul said in the presentation, ull spend loads of time tweaking ur char rather than playing the game...

hopefully more devs and companies will follow the example,

That comment actually bothers me more than offering me comfort. True, the character creator is cool and everything and impressive in its own right , but I much rather play the game than tweak my character.

If I wanted to tweak my character all of the time, I would play the SIMS.

Sorry but gameplay is 100000 times more important than character creation.

You talk as if they are a mutual exclusive..

mmos are about immersion - a great character creator is all about adding to that immersive atmosphere..

if the rest of the game is half as good as the character creator, then we are in for a treat..

However I still haven't read up upon the details, but I hope for something open and sandboxy that includes many playstyles and possibilities... not something zoned, instanced, linear..

Very impressive character creation but the game just isn't for me.

Originally posted by Godliest

I'm not entirely sure I would even want that much character creation. When the character creation allows for too many options I simply can't stop myself from spending my entire time just sitting and making characters. I'm an altoholic in the sense that I just want to make ever possible hawt looking combination when I play games, and with this much character customization... I don't think I'd ever actually get past the character customization.

     I've played a couple other single player games that had great character creation, and what I found was that after the first 2 or 3 characters it got old and I jsut started doing random characters......I know some people love going into extreme detail but for me the key to the game is the gameplay......Character creation to me is just fluff......Its nice to have it but it isnt something that makes me want to drop everything and buy the game......

Originally posted by Theocritus

Originally posted by Godliest

I'm not entirely sure I would even want that much character creation. When the character creation allows for too many options I simply can't stop myself from spending my entire time just sitting and making characters. I'm an altoholic in the sense that I just want to make ever possible hawt looking combination when I play games, and with this much character customization... I don't think I'd ever actually get past the character customization.

 

     I've played a couple other single player games that had great character creation, and what I found was that after the first 2 or 3 characters it got old and I jsut started doing random characters......I know some people love going into extreme detail but for me the key to the game is the gameplay......Character creation to me is just fluff......Its nice to have it but it isnt something that makes me want to drop everything and buy the game......

and to me, a game where I run into a clone of myself within the first minutes end up in the trash bin within a day.

Why? Playng a RPG, it's also about your character, you bieng unique in the world... And when there's just clones on clones on clones out there... The RPG feeling is lost.

Ofcourse, the same can be said for gear... If everyone walks around in the same 10 armors...The RPG feeling is lost too.

I think the reason the video excites so much is thinking goes something along the lines of: If the character creation process is so detailed or awesome, imagine what the rest of the game is like!

Obviously there is no indication that that line of thinking will play out to be true, but its why that vid gets people's juices flowing.

Doesn´t a such detailled customization create some lag in bigger FPS-battles?

I love the level of character customization available! I doubt anyone knows yet, but could we upload custom graphics for tattoos and such?