It's a great marketing tool.īut how much does your painstakingly made face actually matter in the game? Not a lot. The characters looked so real! And they still do. I remember it causing a stir when people found out about it. Black Desert OnlineīDO has the best character creator I know of. A role-playing game wouldn't be the same without it.ĭon't forget to share your picks below.
The warm up, the settling in phase, the getting you ready for the adventure ahead. It's part of the ritual of the game for me. But I look forward to character creation.
Who do you want to be? It's not an easy question to answer. These days, we push bone structures around, pick multiple tones for our hair colour, and plaster ourselves in all kinds of make-up and body markings. We've come a long way from picking between a couple of different faces. So let's celebrate them.Ĭharacter creators! How long do you spend in them? Do you pick a premade face and just breeze through? Do you pick a template, tinker a bit and then settle? Or do you adjust absolutely everything, take all evening and it still doesn't look right? I feel your pain. It's only then we begin to appreciate how important they were. They're the things we take for granted while we play but then, years later, find lodged in our brains. We've discussed a diverse bunch: crowds, hubs, potions, mountains, hands. Five of the Best is a weekly series about the parts of games we overlook.
