Character Creation Options!

[buritoslicer]

They hyped this up so much, that it was going to be great etc... but really this would have been great when ffxi came out in 2002... But now almost 10 years later it sucks.

Can I please have more than 8 hairstyles to choose from?

Can I please be able to modify my ass and boob size -.-?

Can I have a slider for the height, instead of choosing weather I want to be tall/tallest/shortest etc... ?

In fact can I have sliders for everything... From face to body and everyhing in between?


Can I choose colors for my underwear? Maybe even have a couple different styles?

I know people really want the battle and content problems fixed and I'm not saying I want this to be number one priority, but I just want to point out that this area... Is severely lacking. 1 out of 8 of the same race in FFXIV has the exact same haircut. Seriously, Eorzea needs a new barber/hairstylist. . . /cry

+1 you speak for many of us when you say this!

Customization of the character may not seem a big deal... but actually it is! Perhaps even barber shops located throughout Eorzea in the future to change hairstyles for gil?

[AlphaDragoon]

I too would love some more hair options, and I'd REALLY love height and other body modifying sliders. They could do something similar to Phantasy Star Universe's body modification, which allowed for unique body types without having the ridiculously shaped characters you see in WoW or Aion.

Hair based on characters from other FF games would be interesting. Humorously enough, Aion already did have Cloud's hair (the Advent Children version) and it was awesome.

[Grimoire]

We need more beards. Long flowing beards. Perhaps not on the Lalafells though.. they might trip over themselves.

[Warm]

Guess I'll chime in since its not been mentioned yet. There is a way to change your hairstyle, and even your face through .dat modding currently. {Can even use the face options from say a Keep of the Moon, on a Seeker of the Sun} There are also over a dozen hidden hairstyle never yet released across all the races. And they look great in-game so I dunno why they're not available yet.

Anyway...here are some images: {I expect this post to get deleted quickly}

Hidden Miqo'te I
Hidden Miqo'te II

Hidden Lalafell I
Hidden Lalafell II

Image of various others...

Stop misunderstand already people those are just hair styles from other races put on another race its not new hair style
what the devs mean is that they gonna put new hair styles for races not copy and paste hair styles from other race to another

[Mudd]

As cool as it would be, I don't think its so simple as just, "Hey, lets add some sliders ;D" and might not be possible to have such an in depth character creator with this engine they are using. There's a reason every game doesn't have a character creator like EVE regardless of the games genre.
Some new hairstyles on the other hand would be cool, but I love mine so *shrugs*

[Fensfield]

Hum... count me as supporting this, I guess.

I was certainly impressed by character creation - there are MMOs of the same intended standard with worse. But that said it is far from the best in the industry, and we all had pretty low expectations after that pathetic excuse for a character creation system in XI.

So, while I was indeed overjoyed to see my face shape was no longer tied to my choice of two hairstyles with their two colours and basically nothing else.. of course greater customisability is always lovely. You can never have enough, to be honest.

That said.. I think a character re-customisation option is something I'd prefer to see added first, albeit perhaps as a premium feature.

[Dyne]

Here's Perfect World's Character Creation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPQJhYD-F20

It's so good that I managed to make my character looks almost exactly like me.

[Irana]

Ppl that know me in real life know that my miqote makes me feel really really underdeveloped in the body department...

While I find my miqote cute I want to make her more or less close to myself...which is impossible.. the lack of ppl working on -dat makes it even less possible T_T

[Preypacer]

It multiplies the customization options pretty much by ten, and I mean just the options, since the increase in combinations is exponential.
That's hardly what I would define a "bit".

It's pretty much in line with today's standards. Some cases with more options (which often lead to hideous results) hardly qualify as a "standard".

That's what I was thinking, too.. of all the MMOs I've played, only a handful of them have character creation that's *that* in depth. Aion, Perfect World, Forsaken World... and a few others come to mind. Most MMOs, by far, do not offer that much character customization. So, it's by no means "modern standard".

I think we could do well with more hair styles, voice sets, eye colors... perhaps different chest sizes for those who seem to want it in a video game (kinda creepy, IMO)... but the all-out character customization of a game like Aion, as you stated Abriael, could lead to some very, very ridiculous, often creepy-looking characters which kinda detract from the game.

I mean check out some of the samples on this page: Click Here

No thanks.

By all means, more options for each race's look/sounds, details, etc... But I think they should still resemble what they're supposed to.

[Preypacer]

I dunno who zombie bumped but I think it's completely valid to discuss this because it's still not in the game. If somebody isn't crying about bumps they cry about starting new threads with the same topic like "Give me the AH the playerbase demanded in the user-poll!"

Can't win either way.

Seems the way of it, doesn't it?

Start a new thread "There's already threads about this! Stop posting redundant threads!"
Post into an existing thread instead of starting a new one, "This thread was dead! Stop necro-bumping old threads!"

I guess once something has been discussed, some people feel it should never, ever, be discussed again. Imagine if that's how it was in real life and once a discussion had taken place, everyone was prohibited from ever bringing the topic up again? We'd have run out of topics to talk about a long time ago.

'course, there's the third type, which are the ones who don't want anyone else discussing something they're not interested in. They're characterized by people posting in the thread complaining about how they're sick and tired of people discussing the topic in question and everyone just needs to shut up and stop talking about it. It's not enough for them to choose to not click on the thread and simply ignore it. No no.. It is absolutely maddening to them that others are discussing something they don't like... and they must do their part to put an end to it.

Tolerance runs high on the internet.