Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator
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For those of you who don't have it already, the Dragon Age character creator is available for download at dragonage.bioware.com. I can't wait for this game to come out.
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Why do games let you change ever little detail on your face to ridiculous extremes but every character in the game is the same height/weight/proportions/muscle tone...
I think they have a pretty damn good idea of what they are doing, and good reasons for the choices they make.
On a selfish side note, I saw a friend from work messing around with this and some of my textures are in the character creation menus
<shameless>APB, game i work on, allows you to have fat people of any hight
Dragon Age's character creator is a lot better than the Mass Effect custom characters. Hopefully Mass Effect 2's will be even better.
It seems quite quick and painless to take one of the default templates and tweak 'em into something good.
Whilst I still maintain the opinion that this game visually looks like ass, I think I'm still willing to warrant this game a purchase as the latter trailers have been more appealing story wise.
Then again, I made my faces in the editor, using a tablet, with high-quality textures and custom races, so I can't really say anything about people who play the game stock.
Frank the Avenger
Where are my buttons?
Seriously, no independent mouth pucker/frown control, no specific tonal control, limited nose editing, no age settings, and no skin clarity. Let alone asymmetric functions such as axial twist or displacement. The hair selection is also pretty sparse.
I might be expecting too much from it after going from Oblivion with more modded content than not, but it still feels like there is a large gap where all the fun options should be. Now, if they released an SDK....
last I heard they were referring to it as 'low' fantasy, which means all the crazy fantasy shit is in the game but it's not all super crazy obvious and cheesy. the example they gave was The Song of Ice and Fire series.
Haha, perhaps that is why in the trailer the characters do 30 foot flips while shooting out magic arrows and effortlessly killing dragons. If low fantasy was what they were shooting for they failed miserably.
This is the new shit, gotten off an RPS ad mere minutes ago:
but I'm assuming they meant the way the story is presented, in a more serious tone.
but that's nothing new for games. oh well! I know it's gonna be bad ass
I will buy it anyway
10x more of everything the 'hardcore' crowd hates about bioware games (same characters every time, cliche bloodandviolenceandsexisMATURE themes, et all), and then more oldschool rpg gameplay? I think they are screwing with them.
Rest of her isn't very pretty, though. The texture on the armour is what, 128x128? I guess it's starter armour and you'll get rid of it right away but still. 99% of the art budget in this game seems to be in the heads alone. That would be fine if the game was Baldur's Gate style "camera always really far away" but it's obviously got a lot of close ups so it's really a mistake in the design, IMO.
But it's a pretty head! Or it was. When I clicked on Modify Character after saving, it had covered her face in a very dark and terrible tattoo, so that sucks?
And the whole dark/low fantasy thing is a joke. After playing The Witcher, Dragon Age is just another generic Tolkien cliche. Not that The Witcher didn't have it's share of cliches, but it never felt like I was watching a LOTR movie.
This dragon game looks amazing, man I am there. I am a great Bauldur's gate and Oblivion fan though