CoH/CoV had the best character customisation of the games I have played. It is fun to use the random generator to get some bizarre combinations. My first CoH toon ran around almost naked for a day before I realised I had missed some steps in character creation.
Eve Online had minimal or no character customisation when I played.
While cox has a good level of customization in terms of gear, Aion beats it hands down, the sliders are more radical than AoC's, you can make new faces, instead of just making the same face with a slightly bigger nose, and it also has more sliders, plus, the color palette is like photoshop's.
The Chinese version (which is the one a lot of people have tried over here) isn't as complete as the Korean's, where you can change your eyes color (complete pallete) and some more sliders like legs/arms height, armpit space, etc, now the dwarves look even more dwarvish than before, you can make even gorilla-like people lol.
And then, to beat CoX, there are a lot of systems in place to customize your gear, even swapping armors skins to get the stats of one with the appareance of another, so, it will be impossible to see 2 chars looking the same unless people get lazy and choose a default one.
These two for letting you change your avatar after creation as often as you like.
City of Heroes has a nice character costume creator. But I dont remember if there is a way to change the characters after you logged in the first time with your new toon.
While cox has a good level of customization in terms of gear, Aion beats it hands down, the sliders are more radical than AoC's, you can make new faces, instead of just making the same face with a slightly bigger nose, and it also has more sliders, plus, the color palette is like photoshop's. The Chinese version (which is the one a lot of people have tried over here) isn't as complete as the Korean's, where you can change your eyes color (complete pallete) and some more sliders like legs/arms height, armpit space, etc, now the dwarves look even more dwarvish than before, you can make even gorilla-like people lol. And then, to beat CoX, there are a lot of systems in place to customize your gear, even swapping armors skins to get the stats of one with the appareance of another, so, it will be impossible to see 2 chars looking the same unless people get lazy and choose a default one.
thanks for info I wanna shorten my arm next time there is not that option in china anyway i am waiting EU Aion already
I would have to say that Aion is the best I've seen. CoH is good for what it can do in relation to the game.
Vanguard isn't very good in my opinion. It suffers from the same thing that AoC and Everquest 2 does. By that I mean, everybody still ends up looking like everyone else, but just different enough where you would think they were very closely related.
But in games like Vanguard and EQ II, sometimes moving the slider only gives you an effect that is slightly noticeable but not enough where a change can really be said to be made.
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I would have to say that Aion is the best I've seen. CoH is good for what it can do in relation to the game.
Vanguard isn't very good in my opinion. It suffers from the same thing that AoC and Everquest 2 does. By that I mean, everybody still ends up looking like everyone else, but just different enough where you would think they were very closely related.
But in games like Vanguard and EQ II, sometimes moving the slider only gives you an effect that is slightly noticeable but not enough where a change can really be said to be made.
I'm so happy I have something new to add to this thread.
I happen to love the character customization is Project Entropia (Entropia Universe). It's great. You can come very close to making real life image in game; even has "girth" sliders so you can get that beer belly I know many of us have (me included).
Aion is great but I was kind of disappointed I couldn't make a "fat" character. But, given that that is my only gripe, I'd have to say it's still overall pretty awesome.
Chronicles of Spellborn's customizer is good (even though there's only 2 base races)... but it is the games only saving grace. Gameplay is clumbsy and boring. Avoid! Avoid! I repeat, Avoid!!! Feels like it was thrown together in a few hours by high school students.
Champions Online looks promising, well with all the body shapes and size and emission choices for where you power comes from. But I have seen some goofy looking character. Just got to www.champions-online.com , participate in Rate My Hero and you'll see all the fugliness you could ever hope for.
On the other hand of the same genre being... DC Universe looks like customization is going to be absolutely amazing. Like Champions, it has all the options you could ever hope for to make your hero/villain as close to your imaginations vision as possible. And... the big difference... It seems impossible to make a stupid looking character. Just compare Champions screenshots to DCU and you'll see what I mean. In DCU every character, in every scene, is absolutely breathtaking!
I'd disagree with Perfect World being a nominee. It might be impressive for those who haven't played a lot of other MMOs, but to me the customization feels limited, and the finite details are too subtle to make a difference for me. Really, who is gonna notice the width of your jaw is slightly different then theirs when your swinging a color-trail emitting polearm at a Wandering Flame. And customization is extremely limited for the beastkind race, which is really disappointing. However, I still play.... just don't think the customization is something "to write home about".
I wish Spore were an MMO. That would take the cake!
released is by far age of conan. I haven't played/head of another mmo where you can customise your body, not just scale/height. All points bulletin looks like its pretty much the most advanced thing in any game...
In Aion you can also customize your body and it has much more variety/possibilities.
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1- Aion
2-Age of Conan
3-Everquest2
4-SWG
5-TCoSB
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fair enough. but aion isn't out yet and apb will beat it. theres probably not a "less girly/anime" slider in aion which makes me a sad panda.
Well, it is out in Asia...
Can you tell me if this is "less girly/anime" enough?
That's not only "less girly/anime" .... thats BAD@$$ ! Can't wait for this to hit the states.
I've heard good stuff about the character creation in Second Life but it doesn't really seem like a traditional MMORPG to me (well, maybe the MMORP part but not necessarily the G in my opinion!).
Released games: CoX has the best I've personally used.
Not-yet-released: Champions Online (of course, it's made by the Cryptic folks so this is their opportunity to one-up their original work. However, if you find the cel shading as repugnant as I do, you might want to steer away)
I wish there was a non-superheo/non-anime game out that appealed to me that provided a whole lot of avatar options.
Dungeons and Dragons online has a fairly indepth charachter creation with stats and skills, however the looks of the charachters are not quite as customizable, they have about 6-7 features that have about 15 options each.
Dunno why people say CoH cause you can't change your character once you're in the game, can't even change your clothes. Everquest 2 you can't even change your weight and theres just lots of restrictive features. Age of Conan is in depth but theres only Humans and again you can't change once in game.
Still SWG has the best all round character creation, just a shame the game sucks now.
Chronicles of Spellborn's customizer is good (even though there's only 2 base races)... but it is the games only saving grace. Gameplay is clumbsy and boring. Avoid! Avoid! I repeat, Avoid!!! Feels like it was thrown together in a few hours by high school students.
I strongly disagree with this, and am honestly shocked to see anyone write such a thing about Spellborn. It's a brilliant, innovative, and finely-crafted game. Contrary to this poster's opinion, I would say that it feels like it was lovingly and carefully designed over a long period of time by a team of truly creative professionals.
It is very European though, and very much "outside the box" in its design principles and its gameplay. So not everyone will like it, I grant that. But personal preferences aside, the above poster's comments ring very false to me.
Originally posted by Wighty
It's like the latest batch of MMO's are like a f'n Kevin Costner movie... <think Waterworld, the Postman, etc> they cost a FORTUNE, they sound like they may be good but then you just realized you sat around for 3 hours of WTF...
Dunno why people say CoH cause you can't change your character once you're in the game, can't even change your clothes.
You've never been to one of the tailor shops? There's only one in every other zone. You can't hardly move without tripping over an Icon store. You can change everything but body type and basic size, and have up to five costume slots for saved designs if you want to do a quick-change in the field.
Dunno why people say CoH cause you can't change your character once you're in the game, can't even change your clothes. Everquest 2 you can't even change your weight and theres just lots of restrictive features. Age of Conan is in depth but theres only Humans and again you can't change once in game.
Still SWG has the best all round character creation, just a shame the game sucks now.
You must have never played CoH....not only can you get up to 5 different costumes for one character, you can change anyone of them if you have the influence/infamy (money in-game) to do so, anytime.
More examples of one of Aion's "girly" male characters:
Originally posted by Wighty
It's like the latest batch of MMO's are like a f'n Kevin Costner movie... <think Waterworld, the Postman, etc> they cost a FORTUNE, they sound like they may be good but then you just realized you sat around for 3 hours of WTF...
COH didn't work for me, while it had a lot of features there were just a lot of ways you couldn't make your characters, like a thin female with small "features" for one thing, it looked like Jenna Jameson made the breast slider.
It was ok but not the best. Still it was the part I liked best about COH.
AoC and EQ2 is better in my opinion. Never tried Aion but it looks very good also.
Not only does Perfect World come with a lot of customization (the only thing you can't change is height--you're stuck with that) but you can use notepad to change attributes past the sliders. Don't do that on PWI (the US service) though since they consider it bannable. It is allowed on the malaysia and europe franchises (maybe more).
So far the only game I know of that allows you to completely customize the avatar after creation is PW. You have 2 days to fiddle with the avatar, after that you have to use scrolls (you get one free from a quest around level 30, otherwise bought from cash shop/players). The other franchises have 'advanced' scrolls that allow even more customization (left/right differences, mostly).
Age of Conan gives a lot of sliders, but what you can adjust with each one is only a small amount (especially compared to PW's). AoC does have kudos for a decent height slider... though the height range seems to be 'average to really tall'. Even then you're still limited to just a few choices for those things that are most immediately noticeable: hair, eye and skin color.
Aion looks like it'll be the hands-down winner for a while when it's eventually released.
Heck, they could release just the character designer as a separate product or a gateway to the game.
If we are going to include games that aren't even released yet like Aion, then I'm pretty confident that Champion's Online's character creator will blow them all out of the water.
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My favourite would EVE's. But Perfect World has more options
Perfect World and Aion are pretty close.
Compared AoC is pretty bad.
CoH/CoV had the best character customisation of the games I have played. It is fun to use the random generator to get some bizarre combinations. My first CoH toon ran around almost naked for a day before I realised I had missed some steps in character creation.
Eve Online had minimal or no character customisation when I played.
While cox has a good level of customization in terms of gear, Aion beats it hands down, the sliders are more radical than AoC's, you can make new faces, instead of just making the same face with a slightly bigger nose, and it also has more sliders, plus, the color palette is like photoshop's.
The Chinese version (which is the one a lot of people have tried over here) isn't as complete as the Korean's, where you can change your eyes color (complete pallete) and some more sliders like legs/arms height, armpit space, etc, now the dwarves look even more dwarvish than before, you can make even gorilla-like people lol.
And then, to beat CoX, there are a lot of systems in place to customize your gear, even swapping armors skins to get the stats of one with the appareance of another, so, it will be impossible to see 2 chars looking the same unless people get lazy and choose a default one.
I would say Vanguard and SWG.
These two for letting you change your avatar after creation as often as you like.
City of Heroes has a nice character costume creator. But I dont remember if there is a way to change the characters after you logged in the first time with your new toon.
thanks for info I wanna shorten my arm next time
there is not that option in china anyway i am waiting EU Aion already 
Based on ammount of customization -> FACT
1. City of heroes
2. Aion
3. AoC
SWG
I have not tryed another with better avatar creator so far. You could choose age and make them really ugly, or young and beatuful or whatever : )
I have to watch AoC and Aion.
1. City of Heroes/Villains
2. Everquest 2
3. Vanguard
4. SWG
5. Perfect World has much too, best Character Creator in a free MMO
I would have to say that Aion is the best I've seen. CoH is good for what it can do in relation to the game.
Vanguard isn't very good in my opinion. It suffers from the same thing that AoC and Everquest 2 does. By that I mean, everybody still ends up looking like everyone else, but just different enough where you would think they were very closely related.
But in games like Vanguard and EQ II, sometimes moving the slider only gives you an effect that is slightly noticeable but not enough where a change can really be said to be made.
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Second Life is that an MMORPG? I thought it was like Sims online.
I would have to say that Aion is the best I've seen. CoH is good for what it can do in relation to the game.
Vanguard isn't very good in my opinion. It suffers from the same thing that AoC and Everquest 2 does. By that I mean, everybody still ends up looking like everyone else, but just different enough where you would think they were very closely related.
But in games like Vanguard and EQ II, sometimes moving the slider only gives you an effect that is slightly noticeable but not enough where a change can really be said to be made.
I didnot mean it is the best you may be right
I'm so happy I have something new to add to this thread.
I happen to love the character customization is Project Entropia (Entropia Universe). It's great. You can come very close to making real life image in game; even has "girth" sliders so you can get that beer belly I know many of us have (me included).
Aion is great but I was kind of disappointed I couldn't make a "fat" character. But, given that that is my only gripe, I'd have to say it's still overall pretty awesome.
Chronicles of Spellborn's customizer is good (even though there's only 2 base races)... but it is the games only saving grace. Gameplay is clumbsy and boring. Avoid! Avoid! I repeat, Avoid!!! Feels like it was thrown together in a few hours by high school students.
Champions Online looks promising, well with all the body shapes and size and emission choices for where you power comes from. But I have seen some goofy looking character. Just got to www.champions-online.com , participate in Rate My Hero and you'll see all the fugliness you could ever hope for.
On the other hand of the same genre being... DC Universe looks like customization is going to be absolutely amazing. Like Champions, it has all the options you could ever hope for to make your hero/villain as close to your imaginations vision as possible. And... the big difference... It seems impossible to make a stupid looking character. Just compare Champions screenshots to DCU and you'll see what I mean. In DCU every character, in every scene, is absolutely breathtaking!
I'd disagree with Perfect World being a nominee. It might be impressive for those who haven't played a lot of other MMOs, but to me the customization feels limited, and the finite details are too subtle to make a difference for me. Really, who is gonna notice the width of your jaw is slightly different then theirs when your swinging a color-trail emitting polearm at a Wandering Flame. And customization is extremely limited for the beastkind race, which is really disappointing. However, I still play.... just don't think the customization is something "to write home about".
I wish Spore were an MMO. That would take the cake!
In Aion you can also customize your body and it has much more variety/possibilities.
...
1- Aion
2-Age of Conan
3-Everquest2
4-SWG
5-TCoSB
...
fair enough. but aion isn't out yet and apb will beat it. theres probably not a "less girly/anime" slider in aion which makes me a sad panda.
Well, it is out in Asia...
Can you tell me if this is "less girly/anime" enough?
That's not only "less girly/anime" .... thats BAD@$$ ! Can't wait for this to hit the states.
I've heard good stuff about the character creation in Second Life but it doesn't really seem like a traditional MMORPG to me (well, maybe the MMORP part but not necessarily the G in my opinion!).
Released games: CoX has the best I've personally used.
Not-yet-released: Champions Online (of course, it's made by the Cryptic folks so this is their opportunity to one-up their original work. However, if you find the cel shading as repugnant as I do, you might want to steer away)
I wish there was a non-superheo/non-anime game out that appealed to me that provided a whole lot of avatar options.
Dungeons and Dragons online has a fairly indepth charachter creation with stats and skills, however the looks of the charachters are not quite as customizable, they have about 6-7 features that have about 15 options each.
Dunno why people say CoH cause you can't change your character once you're in the game, can't even change your clothes. Everquest 2 you can't even change your weight and theres just lots of restrictive features. Age of Conan is in depth but theres only Humans and again you can't change once in game.
Still SWG has the best all round character creation, just a shame the game sucks now.
I strongly disagree with this, and am honestly shocked to see anyone write such a thing about Spellborn. It's a brilliant, innovative, and finely-crafted game. Contrary to this poster's opinion, I would say that it feels like it was lovingly and carefully designed over a long period of time by a team of truly creative professionals.
It is very European though, and very much "outside the box" in its design principles and its gameplay. So not everyone will like it, I grant that. But personal preferences aside, the above poster's comments ring very false to me.
Originally posted by Wighty
It's like the latest batch of MMO's are like a f'n Kevin Costner movie... <think Waterworld, the Postman, etc> they cost a FORTUNE, they sound like they may be good but then you just realized you sat around for 3 hours of WTF...
You've never been to one of the tailor shops? There's only one in every other zone. You can't hardly move without tripping over an Icon store. You can change everything but body type and basic size, and have up to five costume slots for saved designs if you want to do a quick-change in the field.
You must have never played CoH....not only can you get up to 5 different costumes for one character, you can change anyone of them if you have the influence/infamy (money in-game) to do so, anytime.
More examples of one of Aion's "girly" male characters:
Originally posted by Wighty
It's like the latest batch of MMO's are like a f'n Kevin Costner movie... <think Waterworld, the Postman, etc> they cost a FORTUNE, they sound like they may be good but then you just realized you sat around for 3 hours of WTF...
COH didn't work for me, while it had a lot of features there were just a lot of ways you couldn't make your characters, like a thin female with small "features" for one thing, it looked like Jenna Jameson made the breast slider.
It was ok but not the best. Still it was the part I liked best about COH.
AoC and EQ2 is better in my opinion. Never tried Aion but it looks very good also.
Not only does Perfect World come with a lot of customization (the only thing you can't change is height--you're stuck with that) but you can use notepad to change attributes past the sliders. Don't do that on PWI (the US service) though since they consider it bannable. It is allowed on the malaysia and europe franchises (maybe more).
So far the only game I know of that allows you to completely customize the avatar after creation is PW. You have 2 days to fiddle with the avatar, after that you have to use scrolls (you get one free from a quest around level 30, otherwise bought from cash shop/players). The other franchises have 'advanced' scrolls that allow even more customization (left/right differences, mostly).
Age of Conan gives a lot of sliders, but what you can adjust with each one is only a small amount (especially compared to PW's). AoC does have kudos for a decent height slider... though the height range seems to be 'average to really tall'. Even then you're still limited to just a few choices for those things that are most immediately noticeable: hair, eye and skin color.
Aion looks like it'll be the hands-down winner for a while when it's eventually released.
Heck, they could release just the character designer as a separate product or a gateway to the game.
-w
More examples:
If we are going to include games that aren't even released yet like Aion, then I'm pretty confident that Champion's Online's character creator will blow them all out of the water.