Very impressive, allowing normal people to get a small taste of modeling and texturing even if its all slider driven.  But in the end, an avatar creator won't keep people playing or even buy the game unless theres more to it.  The actual game seems like a bore anyway. 

Originally posted by ronan32

Did i hear paul barnetts voice on that video? If he is involved with this game i will stay well away from it, i wont be fooled twice.

That guy just spews lies.

 

APB was only just recently assigned under EA, and its more of a distributer/ advertising deal than anything. PB has litterally nothing to do with the actual development this time.... so far.

That's very well done indeed.

I'm impressed.

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.

 Get out more? Im sure the OP is well aware of those games as am I ... and i assure you i am still more impressed by the APB charracter creation so far. And while I do think this, It is my opinion just like yours that you tried to push off as a fact.

Absolutely the best character creation experience I have seen.  That really is amazing.  I thought CoH/CoV were great... APB indeed raises the bar. 

Amazing. 

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.