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[General TSAR]

Just select the default and go. 

[simpatikool]

I spend a lot of time on character creation, usually 45 minutes, trying to get a specific look. I also spend inordinate amount of time (Hours and Hours) deliberating skill progression, and equipment choices. (To me, that is part of character creation) and finally, I spend the most time on trying on different outfits for said characters trying to get that perfect look. Generally, it is not about the stats, but about how the character looks, and he/she has to look marvelous! (Good ole Billy Crystal)

[Wulfram]

Quite a while.  Particularly if I decide I need to restart after I see them in game.

[Nefla]

I don't spend THAT long per character. As picky as I am, I'm really efficient at getting characters how I want them. I do however restart as many times as it takes to fix some issue that doesn't show up in the CC (dreaded gaunt cheeks/razor cheekbones for example). ME2 totally traumatized me since it had better graphics and an improved CC from ME1 I wanted to remake all my Sheps (and there were a lot) but that 25 minute unskippable intro cutscene...*shudders* I had to see that SO many times! The mirror of transformation in DA2 was the perfect solution, I'm sad that we won't have it again T_T

[Dabrikishaw]

30 seconds.

[JEMEDAOME2]

Knowing me a long time  then I'll start the game find out there is a something about my 1st character I don't like and restart till I get the look I want, 

[Saberchic]

I can easily spend an hour in the CC, adjusting and messing around with the settings. The average time for me is probably around 40-60 minutes because I never use the default. It just depends on how intensive the CC is.

[Navasha]

I take my time making my characters.    I will say though that I no longer take as much time as I used to do.    Primarily I think that is because after spending countless hours in character creators, I now know exactly what sort of features I like and which ones I don't.   

 

Knowing exactly what I am looking for rather than just trying out different things has helped reduce the creation time immensely.

[Heimdall]

It's probably take me all of ten minutes to conjure up a backstory(Or an attitude towards the given backstory) and personality for my character, then I'll agonize for an hour in the character creator as I try to nail down an appearance and settle on a name.

[Myala]

My ex spent ten hours recreating my face in ME 1

[Gingin]

30 mins at most 

[panamakira]

Well for me the actual character creation can take up to an hour but then I'm like 10-15min into the game and I don't like face from a certain angle and back to square one redoing the avatar.

I find it fun except when a few times I've been a few hours into the game, and I just felt like makin changes. Things that have helped, in DA2 for example, having the option of changing your face from within the game.

[TheJediSaint]

Until I am satisfied/bored.

[AmRMa]

FIrst time in character creator will take me around two hours going through all the options and creating my first person. The other characters take less time because I know most of the options.

[Devtek]

How much time will you be spending creating your character?

 

Well...just over another month more than I was going to yesterday

[PlasmaCheese]

As long as it takes. I will restart a game over and over. I will even delay playing it if I get frustrated, just to try and create them again. That happened in White Knight Chronicles. My character's head wasn't "acorn" shaped, and her eyes didn't compliment the rest of the team's. Srs. And it happened in ME3. My Shep looked so different than in the previous games (ME2 being the best) that I kept replaying the part with her and Anderson over and over. It took about 3 days before I finally got a look I could stand the entire game.

Yes, the CC is *that* serious to me. I literally cannot enjoy the game until I have the proper look. I will refuse to play it. And in games like DA and ME where I can be a different person *every* playthrough....yea.... Srs bidness.

Edit: OH, and the only reason I enjoyed WKC/WKC2 half as much as I did is because I could create a character. Your character isn't on-screen for 2 continuous minutes and has NO input in the story at all for the entire 40-60 hours, and I *still* had to get it right (I was never interested in the online mode). BUT, the CC is great. You can tweak just about everything, although you can only look like an anime character.

[CENIC]

Dragon's Dogma released their character creator along with a short gameplay demo a few weeks before the game launch. I literally spent those weeks tweaking my character and main pawn, and even now, years after starting the game, I will still hop into the character creation screen and tweak things!

 

I blame that on how awesome Dragon's Dogma's character creation is, though. I never felt that inspired by Dragon Age Origin or Dragon Age 2's character creation. In DA2, I downloaded a mod that allows you to make changes to the default/iconic Hawke preset, but even then I didn't change much besides hair/eye/skin color. I thought default/iconic female Hawke was way more gorgeous than anything I could have created myself.

 

If Inquisition has defaults as attractive as Hawke, I will probably stick with those, though I would definitely appreciate the ability to make small changes to them.

[Lady Luminous]

I typically spend about an hour in CC, not just figuring out looks but determining who and what kind of a person my character is and their name.

 

I find it all comes to me much more organically when I'm facing my character and plotting it all out before I even get the game downloaded. 

[Freedheart]

My first fem Shep...omg, I had to re-start because she had total duck face! I just couldn't continue...the horror!  Strangely, I found default guy shep so hot I didn't change him a bit.  Maybe because I'm female, I am pickier about their faces, idk.

 

Hair is always an issue for me.  DAO had nicer choices, I thought...I don't know what was going on in Lothering, but Hawke's choices both male & female were just...no,no, no!  Pretty much everyone ended up with a braided ponytail lol  And yes, the Black Emporium mirror saved a lot of hours where I didn't have to restart my game   Give whoever thought that up a raise!

 

As much as I would like to see longer hair, I would also like to lobby for curly hair...we have almost no representation *sad face surrounded by luscious curls lol*

[BraveVesperia]

I have to explore all the options first, so in a game like DA2, maybe 30min to an hour. It took longer than it should because I didn't like how chubby her face was. I prefer angular faces - sharp cheekbones, chins, etc. I couldn't get that with DA2.

 

In a game with lots of races like Skyrim, it can take a good few hours. Different races, facial structures, hair, tattoos, etc.

[zambingo]

As long as it takes to make this...



Quizzy: Dorian, come here. I mustache you a question.

Quizzy: We are the Inqwishishon. Fear ush.

Quizzy: Lyrium? Yesh, of corsh. Shayken. Not shhirred.

Quizzy: I found the cure for tranqwillity and then I losht it!

Quizzy: Sharah. Sharah? Why doesh thish woman never heed me?

[andy6915]

I don't spend THAT long per character. As picky as I am, I'm really efficient at getting characters how I want them. I do however restart as many times as it takes to fix some issue that doesn't show up in the CC (dreaded gaunt cheeks/razor cheekbones for example). ME2 totally traumatized me since it had better graphics and an improved CC from ME1 I wanted to remake all my Sheps (and there were a lot) but that 25 minute unskippable intro cutscene...*shudders* I had to see that SO many times! The mirror of transformation in DA2 was the perfect solution, I'm sad that we won't have it again T_T

 

As long as it takes. I will restart a game over and over. I will even delay playing it if I get frustrated, just to try and create them again. That happened in White Knight Chronicles. My character's head wasn't "acorn" shaped, and her eyes didn't compliment the rest of the team's. Srs. And it happened in ME3. My Shep looked so different than in the previous games (ME2 being the best) that I kept replaying the part with her and Anderson over and over. It took about 3 days before I finally got a look I could stand the entire game.

Yes, the CC is *that* serious to me. I literally cannot enjoy the game until I have the proper look. I will refuse to play it. And in games like DA and ME where I can be a different person *every* playthrough....yea.... Srs bidness.

Edit: OH, and the only reason I enjoyed WKC/WKC2 half as much as I did is because I could create a character. Your character isn't on-screen for 2 continuous minutes and has NO input in the story at all for the entire 40-60 hours, and I *still* had to get it right (I was never interested in the online mode). BUT, the CC is great. You can tweak just about everything, although you can only look like an anime character.

 

It's things like this that make me just copy other people's Shepard faces. I use this site-

 

http://www.masseffect2faces.com/

 

Sure I could design them myself, but they never look great, and there's always a chance that you character will look bad and require going through 20 minutes of BS over and over to fix it. Much simpler to just make a detailed search for the gender and eye color and hair color and skin color I want and search by rating and find exactly how to make an amazing face than it is to do it the hard way by yourself. ME2 face codes translate into the face sliders in ME1, so you can take faces from that site and make a ME1 Shepard to carry through the trilogy just fine.

 

I do honor those I use the face code of though. I use the name the creator on that site gave their Shepard. My Alma and Sarah Shepard's faces came from that site, and those are the names the uploaders on the website gave them. It's a minor thing, but I feel like it's my way of paying respect to the people who uploaded their amazingly attractive faces. Speaking of which, here's their pages.

 

Alma (interesting in that she's a rare case of a realistic Asian Shepard, and the uploader said he himself has Korean descent and was trying to make a Shepard of his own race) -

 

http://mass-effect-2...1988cc168b45cb/

 

Sarah-

 

http://mass-effect-2...1988cd168b4767/

[KC_Prototype]

If they don't release a CC stand alone, then 30 minutes or less but if they do, then an hour or so.

[Hrungr]

Gobs of time - right down to the perfect cheekbones and ear position.

 

Then bask in it's glory in-game.

 

See the Cro-Magnon brow I gave him.

 

Beat my head against the keyboard.

 

[Repeatedly.]

 

Then go back and do it all over again.