Larian Studios Forums Divinity General Discussion Attractive romance options + Better character creation

Better character creation: Possibility to create beautiful/handsome characters, more robust, more options, sliders, colors etc.. (Divinity: Original Sin 2 was IMPOSSIBLE to create a beautiful character, their faces were abominable.)

Attractive romance options: I don't like the male options in Baldur's Gate 3, Most of the men in BG3 world are ugly. The only moderate exception for me is Gale.
Come on, give me handsome men! Ex: Nathan Drake, Chris Redfield, Deacon St. John, Leon, Carlos Oliveira, Solid Snake, Cal Kestis, Cullen Rutherford etc.. (Not just humans, you could also make hot elves and lizards.)

That's some white-ass lineup you got there.

Your grindr algorithm must be really narrow.

Sorry, It's not my fault if we don't have many handsome black guys in games.

But if you want representation, I just remembered him now: Lincoln Clay

BG3 does not have conventionally attractive male presets with artificially messy hairstyles and sweaty foreheads. But all things considered, the character creator is alright.

It certainly allows for a unique feel for each character made. If you can adequately use it at least.

I made a lot of characters to have an almost 'white-ass lineup' of my own.. to share a few..

They don't look good to me.

I had to download mods to create an handsome character like I wanted.

I mean we could do the thing from bg3 and do the whole who do you dream of.

I'm not a friend of sliders for faces. In game with sliders all characters in some way look similar or grotesque on the extremes. There should be more face options and especially body options instead, with a bit more variety compared to BG3. I missed different body stature options the most.

I was a bit lucky in BG3 with the faces. I consider one male face and one female face for Half-Woodelf and one female face for Human in BG3 very attractive, which was nice because I played Half-Woodelf in my first playthroughs and currently I'm playing and will only ever play Human. Without a face I liked playing would be much less of a pleasure, so I can understand the wish for better char creation options.

The more options the better, although those metrosexual types are a big no for me. As long as character creation satisfies both ends I am happy.

It seems that you have a very specific and very narrow taste in men's faces, which doesn't align with my own tastes in men (like, AT ALL). I think if you're that picky about the way characters look, you should probably just use mods. That's what mods are for.

For the base game, I think it's more important to have a diversity of faces, rather than try to align to a very specific kind of face, because everyone has different preferences.

I could say the same to you, but in reverse: The game should have handsome faces and attractive romance options available, and you'll have to wait months to get less handsome faces as you wish (but you know that probably nobody will make those mods...) Do you understand my point?

There's a reason why there are LOTS handsome/pretty face mods to BG3, MANY players were dissatisfied with the faces the game had to offer.

Larian should think about that in the next game. Let there be more diversity, not SO MANY faces devoid of beauty.

I think for creating your own character there should be a variety of options to make every kind of appearance, from conventionally handsome to unattractive so that I can roleplay the type of character I'd like. Most important to me is that races are unique and stand out from one another so that I am not simply limited to creating a few variations of pretty human.

In terms of the world-building, companions and NPCs I think it should have a realistic representation where having pretty privilege is something that makes certain people stand out. When everyone are conventionally attractive, it's not a privilege.

I think you've missed my point. You are not the arbiter of what is attractive and what is unattractive. For example, Astarion is widely regarded as unusually handsome, yet you apparently think he's unattractive. (Astarion isn't my type, either, but I find him WAY more handsome than any of the examples you've provided here. And I'm generally pretty meh about Astarion. Wyll's face is much, much closer to my type.)

Instead of trying to adhere to just one person's tastes, Larian should strive to represent a lot of different people's tastes. Some people's preferences might not be represented, particularly if they're very picky, but offering a diversity of faces means that at least MOST people's preferences can be represented.

I really don't understand why so many people like Astorian. It's probably because of his writing, not his appearance.
He looks like a boy-band member, but over 35 years old. 😂
Extremely caricatured/exaggerated character, I don't find him attractive.

I'd rather they give me an interesting lizard companion than another Astorian. (I'm really hoping for a lizard option.)

I'm quite sure that, after what Swen said in the Reddit AMA to the "lizard romance" thing, we'll get some lizard companion options. Wasted in case of me because I neither find lizards "hot" nor do I like them otherwise and will try my best to not have one in my party, but probably fullfilling the wishes of a lot of other people. Which again shows that tastes differ. And that we need a wide variety of options.

They want to have something to generate the same kind of buzz than BEAR SEX!!!!!!!.

Just bigger bears does not work, so lizard sex it is.

I would also like to see more conventionally attractive men, especially humans and elves in traditionally masculine roles such as knights and soldiers. I was not at all fond of Baldur's Gate 3's handling of its male characters, especially when both Gale and Astarion were altered prior to the game's launch to have less muscle definition. A very strange decision in itself when Karlach was left untouched. Halsin, physically, was very much to my liking - and yet the infamous 'bear scene' combined with his sleazy approach to intimacy really put me off of him.

I'd like more of a balance. I'll begrudgingly tolerate the 'weird' options for those who truly want them, though I do not think that they should come at the expense of the timeless classics when it comes to more traditional standards of attractiveness and romance.

Halsin has a hot body, but his face prevented me from feeling any attraction to him.
He's an elf, why is his face so aged??? He looks like a bulldog with a melting face. 😩

Gortash is also described as a "handsome young man", but his model is ugly and aged, without coherence.

Why does everyone have such aged and ugly faces?
Larian, just give me some hot young men!

BG 3 did have a young, conventionally attractive, handsome male with a sword. It's literally in his name.

But somehow he apparently didn't meet the standards, I wonder what that could have been?

Yeah, honestly, Wyll is one of the best looking male characters out there.

And tbh, I don't care how characters look or if they are romanceable, just give me interesting characters with great backstories and don't dumb them down in release, because people think ' they are too mean' ( looking at you, Shadowheart and in a way, Astarion too. Bite night on the second or third longrest, even if you really haven't interacted with him?)

I really would love for Larian to tell their characters story and stop pandering to fancrowds. Shadowheart was so much more interesting in early access, it felt earned when she told you about the Shar worshipping. You could go a whole playthrough ( until Grymforge, the end of EA) without finding out about Astarion being a vampire, if you didn't follow the clues ( that boat and other things were more important back then). It felt more realistic.



Erwin: Gortash might have been a handsome young man but being a chosen of Bane changes you physically. Gortash as we meet him looks exactly how the lore describes someone, who was a chosen of the god of tyranny for a while, so that is lore accurate, the same as Orin decorating herself with flesh of her victims and Ketheric looking undead. They all show traits of their gods.