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Zeus posted...

Also an issue for me, with the occasional exception of games where the name really never comes up or I just decide to go with a preset.

For me, the name always comes up, because the name shapes the character concept, which in turn shapes the character's personality, which in turn shapes what I want them to look like when I'm tweaking sliders in the character creator, and all of which plays a role in how I'm going to play them in the rest of the game (assuming it's a game where I have choices or have any power over the story at all).

Interestingly enough, I've noticed that has a few odd quirks of its own in practice. Like how, if I'm planning on doing an entirely dirtbag "Dark Side" run where I'm going to murder my way through the world and just be the nastiest asshole I can (probably to get some sort of "EVIL" achievement or to be a completionist and finish multiple paths through the story), that character will almost ALWAYS be male (and will almost always have sinister facial hair). But my default go-to first character (and most common character) for any RPG is almost always female, and I tend to play them far more good-natured and noble than I would ever actually be in their situation.

I also have a tendency to throw a pair of glasses onto characters when I'm given the option, which is about my one sole concession to putting "myself" into my characters.



Zeus posted...

Me and Skyrim, although it has some really shitty graphical elements.

I'm not sure it's actually possible to make an attractive character in Skyrim (at least unmodded). The closest I ever came was a Nord who looked vaguely Italian.

I have the same issue with ESO - pretty much every race is unattractive by default, with the Nords seemingly the only race you can really tweak actual prettiness out of.


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