Why is Character Creation So Bad?

"Keyboard Commando"? That's pretty funny. On second thought, that's pretty stupid. I said I didn't know what you were talking about. My post didn't attack you.

I'll aknowledge the lack of body type (height would fall under the same category) in WoW. I don't see how poly count is relevant to the conversation, tho. But, I was mostly talking about other things like hair styles, facial hair, jewelry, etc. Heck, even the /dance was race-specific. You can't do tattoos or scars in the other game, but that's not a bad thing.

But, seeing a Sith or Zabrak with hair makes me roll my eyes. Obviously, a decision like that was not thought out very well.

I just think this game could've been far better than it is. The character creation has no imagination. Simply put: it's weak.

But, this game is NOT better than the character creation from Blizzard's game.

Humans had a very different body type from Night Elves, Dwarves, Taurens, Orcs, etc. Even Forsaken (which were just undead Humans) were vastly different from Humans. But in SWTOR everyone uses the same human build with a handful of different heads. All the interesting body types (and races) are reserved for the NPCs.

...But in SWTOR everyone uses the same human build with a handful of different heads. All the interesting body types (and races) are reserved for the NPCs.

Most of the time someone complains about this, they bring up tons of single player games with deep character creation methods (elder scrolls, custom fighter games, etc). .

By the way, this argument happening over WoW's character creation, you're both correct from your respective directions. WoW had a few faces, skin color, hair types.. it was pretty limited. Way more limited than SWTOR. But WoW did a great job at making their races look different, and in that respect it was much better than SWTOR. Humans had a very different body type from Night Elves, Dwarves, Taurens, Orcs, etc. Even Forsaken (which were just undead Humans) were vastly different from Humans. But in SWTOR everyone uses the same human build with a handful of different heads. All the interesting body types (and races) are reserved for the NPCs.

More options is not always better. Honestly, I dont need to stretch out cheekbones, choose how long my nose is, choose how deep my eye sockets are, choose how many toes i have, how many eyelashes I have, how long my tongue is, and 5 hundred other random things that DONT MATTER.

The elder scrolls series has an amazing amount of choices for character customization...and most of it isnt even used by most people. When you're dealing with an online game, there IS such a thing as too much customization. Again, more is not always better.

Most of the time someone complains about this, they bring up tons of single player games with deep character creation methods (elder scrolls, custom fighter games, etc).

THIS IS NOT A SINGLE PLAYER GAME.

In a single player game, you want your character to be as unique as possible, because a major factor of the game comes from customization. This is also why in these single player games, you can generally make your character really good at almost anything you want (skyrim is another great example). The name of the game here is customization.

In a multiplayer game, every single option you change on your character then has to be rendered by every single player on the server that sees you. The more detail (and options) you throw into the mix, the more of a drain it takes on the server and your own hardware. You want to be able to look decent, and somewhat recognizable, but at the same time, you actually want to be able to PLAY the game, too.

Could it be better? sure, EVERYTHING could be better.

Does it suck? No.

The only thing i'd really like to see is maybe 1-2 more body types (maybe one between body types 1 and 2, and one between 3 and 4), and a way to seperate the eyebrows/cheekbones from the skin complexion.