Alpha First Look: Video 1 - Character Creation

[DomonKasshu]

The new Character Creator looks amazing! Man I can't wait till ARR!

[Soukyuu]

Character selection looks good, but is still way behind current sophisticated character creators. Need more options regarding body proportions, hairstyles and more face customization. 12 Voices is great though, can't remember seeing that many in any game before. Good to see all models load faster, though it might be because you're running the client on the same network as the server (being cautious here)

Why would you want RGB sliders instead of a carefully handpicked color palette (which does leave a lot of freedom anyway)? So eager to see people go around with lime green skin and pink hair?
We need presets, if we care about a consistent visual style

Wrong. RGB sliders can be restricted to a certain range of hues depending on it's type, e.g. skin tones. We already have pink hair ingame, so that point is invalid.

It's really annoying seeing people assume sliders = ugly characters. The only thing sliders change is making steps smaller, allowing for more customization within the same min/max values. Sure, if done wrong it can lead to malformed proportions, but that's not a problem of sliders but of min/max values.

[Hyrist]

I wonder if they're going to make a plot explaining how the vast majority of females on Eorza wound up with a suddenly larger bust - cause you know just about everyone's going to pick that bottom option on the chest size...

[razz]

Graphics look really nice and u can actually see what "Hair 1" is before clicking on it.

BUT! They need to at a lot more options for hair! 8 different styles are too less. Need 16 or else you will always see the same hairstyles on every character

Also the build option should actually change the appearance from skinny to fat and not just change some muscle details (that u won't see when euipping armor)

[PLD_Danny1989]

I wonder if they're going to make a plot explaining how the vast majority of females on Eorza wound up with a suddenly larger bust - cause you know just about everyone's going to pick that bottom option on the chest size...

Time travel. It does crazy stuff to you. ;P

[Enyce]

[prettyinpink]

it looks amazing and i hope they we get to see more options soon

[Matsume]

I wonder if they're going to make a plot explaining how the vast majority of females on Eorza wound up with a suddenly larger bust - cause you know just about everyone's going to pick that bottom option on the chest size...

Radiation induced mutation?

[Kibo]

In order to have complicated character options and sliders (Think APB) you'd have to design the game completely around that, which XIV is not. However, there's plenty of options and variations in the XIV character creator to make your character look unique, and I personally prefer its restricted nature as it provides visual consistency across the board and makes nice-looking creations achievable even for the most novice character creator user.

I've played APB extensively, must be over 1000 hours now. You can freely change the looks of your character at any given time, and I can safely say all those sliders, however nice they are, do not add to the experience in the least. It is nice to play around with as a tool, but in the end you try to achieve results you could easily get with the "limited" options XIV provides. Or you go full -tard and try to create the ugliest creature you can think of, breaking the visual style of the game (Although APB has no such thing, XIV does). And even then it will be nigh on impossible to spot that you slightly tilted your eyes and shrunk the tip of your nose by a few millimeters.

No, the magic lies in APB's clothing customization, because that's what you and other people actually see. And that's why the XIV team has put effort into new gear rather than enabling the use of sliders in the character creator that's only relevant the first 30 minutes of the experience.

However, I'm all for more options for the existing facial features, aka more than 4 of everything. Also, my miqote needs a new hairdo. ((

[Matsume]

Soooo.... when do we get more videos?