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I don’t want to make this black specific problem all about me, a white guy, but does anyone feel like hair choices in games are just getting worse in general?
I play old RPGs and always find a hairstyle I like, but now I’m playing Dragon Age Inquisition and there’s like 10 variations of “bald” and no good hairstyles at all. I just want a damn Pixie cut, it’s not even a rare haircut and it wouldn’t look too out of place.
Also if you tie hair and beard to a single choice you burn forever in game designer hell.
The best character creator I’ve personally seen was Star Trek Online. Fallout 4 was pretty decent too, but again lacking for hair options.
I’m gonna edit to clarify, it’s bad normally and it’s even worse for black characters.
I’ve noticed that, yeah. The 90s hairstyles are no longer represented in games, when they used to be.
Makes sense. The higher the fidelity, the more dev time it takes for each player option, so when you’re looking for features to cut during crunch time it’s easy to see character customization options as a waste of time.
I think I’ve come to associate graphical fidelity with bland gameplay and storytelling. All of the best looking games out there are by Ubisoft or EA or one of these other big game companies, and every single one of them has so much money dumped into it that it becomes “too big to fail” and that means that the choices made by the game designers are extremely conservative. Can’t take any chances and risk making the game fun, just make it like every other game in its genre so that it makes its money back.
G*mers are already pissed off at Elden Ring for not recognizing gender so they might as well double down
I pirated it, installed it, laughed my ass off creating the most fucked up character possible in the character creator, played for five minutes then thought “what the fuck am I doing? I hate souls games” then uninstalled it
10/10 character creation, but I forgot that souls-like games are not my thing… will be seeding for a while though, while I wait for the inevitable Monster Factory video to watch while high
You might be waiting a long time unfortunately. Rumor is they ended the series bc they were worried someone might potentially look like a character they created and feel bad.
Man, I used to fucking LOVE monster factory and the McElroy family. I also hate souls games, the extreme difficulty and losing over and over just isn’t fun to me.
An old gf got the first dark souls for me as a birthday gift like ten years ago, and I felt bad because I played it for two hours, hated it, and never turned it on again.
