Could not agree more!
I was planning on posting about this myself and perhaps I should have so that Larian could see that this is an issue. Don't know if they care, but they definitely should.
I waited for this game and I HAVE NOT BOUGHT IT after I saw the character creator in youtube videos, and I have played through every notable CRPG made in the past three decades. Will I ever play BG3?
Sure, one day in the forseeable future I'll buy the game once it's on discount and play it through once with a friend using one of the origin characters.
But I originally planned to make a custom character and do a total completionist run in single player. Something like I did with Pillars of Eternity that I played for over 600 hours.
I read BG3 wiki. I was planning the class I'd choose for a couple of days and then I saw a youtube video about the character creator.
To say that the character creator was a disappointment is putting it mildly. It's shockingly bare. I guess it would have been fine couple of decades ago when Neverwinter Nights came, but today? Come on!
Saint's Row did better in 2008. Dragon Age: Inquisition had one of the better character creators and people you made with it looked natural and fantastic in the cinematics. That was 2014.
My issue with BG3 faces is that they lack all personality. They are boring. Dull. Worst of all they look like modern people, very modern people, the kind you can only see post 2016 when selfies, filters and lip fillers became the norm.
Females are awful. Men are no better, they look like runaway models. Zero connection to any of them. A couple of male dwarves, halflings, half-orcs and dragonborn are passable, but none of the females are and given chance I usually play female characters. A couple of tattoos, make up or different hairstyles won't fix their faces.
Also, there are way less presets than the six per race. Same presets repeat through different races and even males and females often share the same features. Take a look at female elf 3 on the lower row and male gnome 1 on the upper row and tell me that ain't same face underneath it all.
Now I hear that the same faces even repeat in the game. So not only will I see the same people over and over again they will also look the same as my main character. Unbelievable.
So, it's origin characters or nothing.
I liked Torment and Witcher just fine, but even though the games were excellent I never had the same connection to the main characters as I did when I could create my own and that was possible with custom portraits already in the 90's when BG1 came out. Yes, Baldur's Gate 1 had a better character creator than Baldur's gate 3 that came over two decades later!
And lastly just to clarify one thing. Every character I have created over the past decades has been different from one another. I hate repetition. I don't play as "hot" chicks or want my characters to look even remotely like myself.
Yeah, I couldn't find anyone post about this here, maybe I missed them, I saw player complaint in redidt, not sure whether they check player feedback in other places so I decided to create a thread about character creation here. I was originally gonna post in regards of adding slider into the game. (E.g Silder for outer face, body wideness and other options, moving eyes, nose or mouth up or down) but I think they just won't even consider adding it into the game so I ask for more faces and body option instead, perhaps that's a more realistic bet than slider options.
