Alpha First Look: Video 1 - Character Creation

[Vydos]

Firstly, the starting screen looks MUCH better than the current one. The color theme combined with the dynamic music instantly drew me in. It served well to excite me and actually want me to play the game even though I can't lol! Also it's nice to see the mouse move smoothly this time for an alpha version.

Onto the character creation. Nice fitting and soothing music. Crystal theme is always a good choice for something where the player needs to take his/her sweet time. Unfortunately, everything is in japanese but I see lots of options which is a definite plus. Ironically, I had expected the build option just to be a simple change where we would see less or more defined muscles. Which honestly for me is a definte plus. I always wanted my elezen to have more defined muscles and am glad that I can do this in the future.

Pro's:
- Viewable character in different lighting situations
- A clear overview of customization options.
- Being able to look at your character from every angle with the use of the mouse.

Cons:
- Not that many suboptions or choice of freedom for certain customization: hair, characteristics, faces (alpha version I know but with 1.0 alpha experience in mind. This slightly worries me.)
-Bewbs R not big enuff!!! (This is an obvious joke for those that don't get it!)

[Petdo]

It look very beautiful compare the the old dull one
But I think there are too few new customization options in there :P
I want to see oppai slider!

[Tetsaru]

My thoughts:

Pros:

- The opening title screen and first character creator backgrounds are MUCH better looking than the lame white "blank canvas" look that a lot of the recent FF titles have been going with lately. Doesn't have anything to do with character creation itself, though...

- The FF prelude background music is BEAUTIFUL. Props to whoever made it! Again though, nothing to do with character creation...

- Ability to toggle on/off clothes and see emotes

- Tail length for Miqotes

- More voices

- Tattoo options

Cons:

- The max bust size is still WAAAAAY too small. Being serious here.

- I would've liked to see more RGB/saturation sliders instead of swatches for all the color options.

- No "build" option for females. Also, all the existing build options for males looked muscular; no options to make "fat" or "heavy" characters.

- Not enough face or hairstyle options, including facial hair for males

- Can't adjust tattoo positions or size

- Too many preset options for various settings, not enough sliders to precisely adjust things



Overall, it's a start, but I don't see much improvement yet over what we originally had. In my opinion, Yoshi-P and his team need to take a few pointers from PSO2's character customization.

[Petdo]

My thoughts:

Pros:

- The opening title screen and first character creator backgrounds are MUCH better looking than the lame white "blank canvas" look that a lot of the recent FF titles have been going with lately. Doesn't have anything to do with character creation itself, though...

- The FF prelude background music is BEAUTIFUL. Props to whoever made it! Again though, nothing to do with character creation...

- Ability to toggle on/off clothes and see emotes

- Tail length for Miqotes

- More voices

- Tattoo options

Cons:

- The max bust size is still WAAAAAY too small. Being serious here.

- I would've liked to see more RGB/saturation sliders instead of swatches for all the color options.

- No "build" option for females. Also, all the existing build options for males looked muscular; no options to make "fat" or "heavy" characters.

- Not enough face or hairstyle options, including facial hair for males

- Can't adjust tattoo positions or size

- Too many preset options for various settings, not enough sliders to precisely adjust things



Overall, it's a start, but I don't see much improvement yet over what we originally had. In my opinion, Yoshi-P and his team need to take a few pointers from PSO2's character customization.

I think SE have limitation in character model ( eg. gear and everything ). Because all of the characters using pre-modeled wire frame for each piece of armor ( body, leg, head etc ) and some model are shared together ( Hyu female <=> Miqote female body, Hyu male <=> miqote male, lalafell male = female ).

Right now if they want to create new set of gears, they need to create model for all the races .. and I bet that's the time consuming and costly process.

And with the above design, it's impossible to let player select build option like you said...
But for me, these high-detail beautiful-modeling gears are keeping me for playing this game. ( You can see how low-detail of PSO2 gears is compare to FFXIV in you link you provided )

[Nakiamiie]

My thoughts:

Pros:

- The opening title screen and first character creator backgrounds are MUCH better looking than the lame white "blank canvas" look that a lot of the recent FF titles have been going with lately. Doesn't have anything to do with character creation itself, though...

- The FF prelude background music is BEAUTIFUL. Props to whoever made it! Again though, nothing to do with character creation...

- Ability to toggle on/off clothes and see emotes

- Tail length for Miqotes

- More voices

- Tattoo options

Cons:

- The max bust size is still WAAAAAY too small. Being serious here.

- I would've liked to see more RGB/saturation sliders instead of swatches for all the color options.

- No "build" option for females. Also, all the existing build options for males looked muscular; no options to make "fat" or "heavy" characters.

- Not enough face or hairstyle options, including facial hair for males

- Can't adjust tattoo positions or size

- Too many preset options for various settings, not enough sliders to precisely adjust things



Overall, it's a start, but I don't see much improvement yet over what we originally had. In my opinion, Yoshi-P and his team need to take a few pointers from PSO2's character customization.

I agree, the cons are really heavy in the balance of character creation.
I seriously hope they'll change for sliders and have more face/hairstyle.

The character creation have to be to par with current MMORPGs, it's a huge turn off for me when I start a new game and the character creation sucks. Imagine a new player's reaction?

[Avraym]

THANK YOU. Se this is brilliant. The design is beautiful, and has re-kindled my enthusiam and optimism for 2.0.

I know its only a video, but thank you for taking the time to make character creation such a professional and visually stimulating experience.

Excited!

[Tagihi]

game looks so much more smoother even thought this was character creation.
And yes hope they add more hairstyle w/e but its really nice product

[leomax]

It looks incredible, very smooth and fast. I just can't wait for them to release the character creator!

I hope there will be more face/hairstyles available in beta/launch though.

[Laraul]

The English labels under Pose and Attire are incorrect.

[leomax]

I still want to see the in game video settings etc, that stuff is really important to me!