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Cool idea. I definitely don't want to play as a female though. Since I'm a man in rl, I tend to just stick with playing males; a portrayal of myself if you will. So, I would definitely want to pick my gender.
I sugested this before, mostly for the appearance of your character... but ethnicity(religion), gender, and location should be a choice you make.
I know many guys that would never want to play on a female character (and the other way around)
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I don't actually have a problem with the gender randomness. I know many guys don't like playing female and vice-versa, but still. Same for religion, etnicity and location... Might actually be a different concept that breaks away from both "choose all" and "gender-locked-stuff". What some might contest now, might actually be a strong point down the road... Dunno. Just seems like a curious idea, that you can end up being a woman living in a dark corner of the world, or a guy living in the castle as a prince... Has a certain "fate" and "gamble" to it ^^ Maybe even have your life deeds ponder towards what ur reincarnation would be like :3
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I know it sounds harsh but I was just going with the hardcore mentality.
Perhaps some features should be pre-determined but overall I enjoy the concept of randomized uncertainties.
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I don't, whenever a topic of disucssion revolving immersion is brought up, there are two things that always have grey lines attached to the conversation
I understand that this game wishes to be the most immersive MMO, and will, so far with the development decisions there are reasons to believe that the world will be quite dynamic.
But onto the your point and why those two points were brought up, is that, that's aiming for too realistic, too limiting, and is just something the developers won't do. Caspian stated in the DJ3 that if you're going to be playing with a character, you'd want to see dynamic effects on your character as they go out on adventures, age, die exc. I don't think he would take away your ability to:
I understand people want the game to be a little hardcore, probably much more so than the actual developers, even though the developers have something of a more hardcore slate to start with, given what it's advertising.
But character creation is something, in an MMO, that is the FIRST THING a player will do, it's always the FIRST THING that critics and people who review video games judge, and is crucial for marketing and for the success of the game that it have some kind of character creation.
Very true, i normally spend hours creating my characters and always try to give them an unique look.
for most mmos i even spend more time creating the character than actually playing the game (i normally get bored around the 3rd npc telling you go kill 10 rats)
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But the beauty of this character creation could be the soul and not necessarily the body =3
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Down the road as Lou (sorry, thats your nickname now Luccheno) said it will be a massive + to the game.
There is already a random nature to character creation. We already know we can not choose the following:
I am not sure what actual benefit there is behind not allowing players to customise their characters. It to me feels like a gimic, something that sounds interesting and edgy but ultimate has no real impact. Well apart from a negative one for those that really enjoy that part of the creation.
mostly true
the big + will be that there are not 5000 clones of pince charming running around
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Then again it makes sense to make limitations based on there parents.
This isn't a traditional MMORPG so I took the liberty of pushing character creation to its limits.
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Did you not see today's developer journal? Prince charming is soon going to have the charm modified abit if he ends up going on a spirit walk. But adding the aging and scaring on top of our character creations there will inherently be some diversity.
Though I imagine this is the type of game that attracts those interested in making a more rugged character so it might be everyone goes out looking for scars!
"This isn't a traditional MMORPG so I took the liberty of pushing character creation to its limits."
For me it has taken away the 'creation' aspect entirely.