Originally Posted by Sordak
i said it before, but i think the cusotmization thats been planned is insufficient.
Either have sliders, or at least different presets for not just the face but parts of the face.
different noses, different eyes, different facial shapes. at the veryleast

The game zooms into your face constantly in dialogue, i dont just want to pick from preset faces.

Hoenstly one of my biggest criticism with BG3 so far is that Larian seems to have this idea that people want to play pregenerated stuff.
be it visually or from a writing standpoint
They want to make a DnD game, i hear that.
but the biggest part of playing DnD from the start is making your own character


YES. This is how I feel. If I can't have sliders, I would still like to be able to pick individual features, NOT just faces--then it feels like my creation just as when I select character portraits in tabletop. Let me pick eye shape, nose shape, and mouth shape individually; hopefully complexion as well (meaning freckles versus all one color versus flushed in the cheeks or other places). I don't at all want to go back to the 2003 days of set faces when I had to cross my fingers and hope I'd find something I liked and usually it was only one that I still wished I could tinker with, which I would then reuse on any subsequent playthroughs because I had no choice.

I understand if they want to limit things so nothing looks outrageously hideous or goofy, or--well, like this. (Profanity warning if anyone cares.) However, this is an old school roleplaying series based on tabletop, rather than being a series without set expectations. BG 1&2 offered a lot of freedom in terms of simply the ability to choose a portrait. I know they can't go that far here, but I hope they will still give us plentiful variety.

We're going to spend a lot of hours looking at our characters, on a much closer basis than in DOS2 because of the more realistic style, so ensuring we feel like it's our creation and familiar and unique rather than "oh, that's the standard drow face most people choose because it's the one that isn't ugly" is essential.

I did like what I saw so far, I could go with that cute Hill Dwarf face for sure, the drow isn't bad, the human I like, but what one can live with is not the same as what they'll love. I don't like a simple "face" option. I want to make the face and I have tremendous amounts of enjoyment from being able to do so. I like it when almost no one else's character looks exactly like my character, if anyone's, and you don't get that feeling with DOS2. It was all right for DOS2, but I'd feel disappointed in BG3. Generic isn't awesome.

I'm just always-always-always going to miss the option to choose individual features if it's not present in a game where you see the main character up close a lot. I've spent hours poring over threads where people posted what they made. That is a particular brand of nerdery in which I am heavily engaged whenever possible.

Presets are great for those who want to grab-and-go, but I'm not the impatient type. I like to create. I will sacrifice better stats on an item for a more fitting outfit. I will agonize over dialogue choices. The trimmings of RPGs all matter greatly to me.