Has any MMO ever...

UltimaJoe777 · December 2015

Tors wrote: »

Why do people keep talking about the barbour shop as if its a must have?

Noone can see your charactrer anyway, can you recognise any of your mates from their Avatar alone?

Maybe the armour or the colours of the armour, but not the face.

In Cryodil you know its worse, this beautiful game is being played at resolutions that would make a game from 1980 cry

How exactly do you come to this conclusion? And RPers for one are especially needy when it comes to looks and showing off!

UrQuan · December 2015

Tors wrote: »

Why do people keep talking about the barbour shop as if its a must have?

Noone can see your charactrer anyway,

I can see my character the entire time I'm playing.

Tors wrote: »

can you recognise any of your mates from their Avatar alone?

Yes, I absolutely can for a number of friends who I often run content with. Off the top of my head I can think of about a dozen other players' characters who I recognize the instant I see them, and many more who I can recognize if I take a moment to try to remember. I often run group dungeon events in my guild, and I have a terrible time remembering most people's character names, so when I'm trying to figure out which character goes with which player (because guild chat shows player names and group shows character names), I usually have an easier time figuring it out by looking at the avatars.

Tors wrote: »

Maybe the armour or the colours of the armour, but not the face.

Completely false. I can only recognize other people's characters from their faces. Gear gets swapped out and dyes changed far too often for me to try to recognize people by their armour.

SantieClaws · December 2015

If I recall correctly LOTRO had/has a barbershop. It is literally just that though. You go up to a guy in a tavern who will change your hairstyle.

TheShadowScout · December 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

The thing that struck me about AoC (I've been trying other MMOs since I started ESO to see how they are) was the underwater swimming at the VERY beginning of the game and the fact that armor and clothes are ON the character and not body replacements. It really made those two things even more lacking in ESO for me. Their omission is so hard to ignore now.

Gotta agree with that one... even though the underwater stuff in AoC was pretty basic, it still was neat to have! And I always liked the clothing options there... it had some pretty good points, for all that it is rather dated by now...

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

How exactly do you come to this conclusion? And RPers for one are especially needy when it comes to looks and showing off!

I could imagine ways how someone might arrive at that conclusion, but I can't post them without getting scolded by the forum mods (again)...

And yes, we are rather needy concerning more options to get our character looks -just right-
More importantly from ZOS point of view, we are prepared to pay good crowns for it.

MornaBaine · December 2015

Gidorick wrote: »

TheShadowScout wrote: »

AoC was pretty similar to ESO as I recall. Some differences, but the basic "tringle - sliders" system was the same. Of course... it had other things to go for it as well... and some things against it too...

The thing that struck me about AoC (I've been trying other MMOs since I started ESO to see how they are) was the underwater swimming at the VERY beginning of the game and the fact that armor and clothes are ON the character and not body replacements. It really made those two things even more lacking in ESO for me. Their omission is so hard to ignore now.

AoC suckered me in when they promised LONG "dynamic movement" hair. That, sadly, was a lie. But yes, as someone else pointed out, their character creation was similar. Down to the lack of hairstyle and makeup choices. I really expected ESO, being a much newer game, to have gone leaps and bounds beyond but no, it has the same limited color choices and bad lighting even! LOL The whole process is VERY similar to ESO. Take a look.
AoC char gen

What I was really expecting of char gen with ESO was something more like EVE:

EVE

Sure, the art style is different but look at the CHOICES! YEARS older than ESO and yet still LIGHT YEARS ahead of ESO. If ESO had done char gen like this I don't think I could ever see myself playing anything else. As it is, I'm on the lookout for the game that will replace ESO for me eventually.

And here's another game with char gen akin to what I EXPECTED to see in ESO:

Black Desert

How is it so many, much poorer games, get this absolutely right and ESO completely dropped the ball after they designed such awesome base character models???

I would DEARLY LOVE to see ESO do a full on revamp of character generation, to be honest.

Tors · December 2015

During Beta, I seem to remember that the character generator in ESO had far more options than it does now.

I know it took me a lot longer to get my breasts and derriere ready to go during beta than when the game actually went live

Gidorick · December 2015

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

ESO: lots of sliders yet somehow you always get very similar results.

Isn't this the truth. You think you make something cool and unique and the first NPC you talk to looks exactly like you.

Merry · December 2015

Vyle_Byte wrote: »

Merry wrote: »

Eso char creation is far from the best. I actually rank it in the bottom of the barrel.
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Oh really? Do tell then, what MMOs are far superior to ESO's character creation?

Pretty much every game I have played actually. And I have played a lot. ESO might have a lot of options to choose from but they either dont make any difference that matters or they are just horrible looking.
Remember this topic is all just opinions.

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Wolfshead · December 2015

@Gidorick

WoW and SWTOR have also so call "barbershop" and those have been add after the game have been out for while i think WoW add there barbershop in Lich king expansion and SWTOR add there just few years ago as well.

And both of them have there hairstyle and face feature also add to char creator as well and SWTOR sell there hairstyle and other face feature in there ingame shops and when you have buy it work on both new char and the one you already have in game.

Only thing that is sad is those feature take long time to get new thing add to them WoW is one that slow if i compare to SWTOR i think last update gave there barbershop was half way throw Cata expansion and in MoP if i reminder the did not gave anything new hairstyle or face feature at all.

SWTOR on other way just sneak them in so you have keep look out for them

i just hope ZoS well gave there barbershop faster update when it come hairstyle and other customize maybe every 6 month or so would be total ok for me that way i think it will keep char and char creator fresh.