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[livewire144volts]

The Inquisition Character Creator is great. Playing Inquisition and then playing Origins again, I noticed the stark differences in the Character Creators. Inquisition Character Creator has sooo many more options available. More noses, more face shapes, more eyes, more ear positions, being able to change lip shapes (and DA2 was even more limited with lips than Origins was - or, at least, if felt like it), more skin tones, more eyebrows, more hair colours, being able to change the colour of your eye lashes and lotsa other stuff. And the PC can have scars. And freckles. Very cool. In Inquisition, I did, however, miss being able to change the colour of the PCs eyebrows. Not being about to change the colour of the PCs eyebrows separately from their hair didn't bother me so much with the darker hairstyles, but it did annoy me a tad when choosing blonde as a hair colour.

 

I understand that creating hairstyles is a real pain in the neck, especially when moving to a new engine. There were a few hairstyles I rather liked in Origins, although some of them were a bit weird. I did think it was great that DA2 had the Origins hairstyles AND new ones for DA2. I do remember being frustrated with the colour range of hair in DA2. It was due to the change in colour palette, I think. There being colours I remembered liking in Origins that I couldn't really replicate in DA2 given that the colour palette was a tad brighter. I actually I kinda think my level of liking the hairstyles in Inquisition was similar to my first playthrough of Origins. It was a bit like "I like that one, that one, and that one. These couple not so much, and that one there is really weird." And then later on, some of them grow on you, like a fungus.

What I think is really great is that the hairstyles are the same for both male and female characters. I remember really liking the hairstyle Zevran and King Cailan, among others, wear but being a bit disappointed my female Warden couldn't have that hairstyle, too. That being said, I do miss a fair few of the hairstyles from Origins. And DA2 had a couple of really cool ones, too.

I did miss having more braids options in Inquisition. There seemed to be heaps of braids in Origins, the new hairstyles in DA2 didn't have a lot of braids available either, and only a small amount in Inquisition. I was way happy the were braid options in the Dwarven beards in Inquisition. I really like braids, I think they're great and they look cool. Also, with a fair amount of hairstyles with braids available in Origins (and DA2), braids feel "Dragon Age-ish" to me.

[PunchFaceReporter]

Hopefully. Too many masculine haircuts and receding hairlines in DAI.

[Asha'bellanar]

DA:I is the land of the fivehead (i.e., a forehead plus) with all those horrible receding hairlines. And the women have sideburns! Ugh. The hair choices in DA:I are horrible, and there's no way for modders to add MORE hairstyles, only to make creations that override the originals (so everyone in your game now has that hairstyle instead).

 

I'm hoping the next game will have 1) better hair choices to begin with and 2) ways for modders to add stuff to the CC, and not just overwrite existing content. (I don't know much about the Frostbite engine, so maybe the second thing is not that do-able, but I hope they do include some GOOD hairstyles for the next game so I don't have to mod my game from here to next week just to keep my player character from looking like a complete dork.).

 

It would also be fantastic to get a colour wheel for hair, and not just for eyes. THAT can't be that difficult, can it? Even in Frostbite? 

 

[Edited to change "Inquisitor" to "player character" since we have zero clue who the new protagonist will be, and it certainly won't be an Inquisitor.]

[PunchFaceReporter]

DA:I is the land of the fivehead (i.e., a forehead plus) with all those horrible receding hairlines. And the women have sideburns! Ugh. The hair choices in DA:I are horrible, and there's no way for modders to add MORE hairstyles, only to make creations that override the originals (so everyone in your game now has that hairstyle instead).
 
I'm hoping the next game will have 1) better hair choices to begin with and 2) ways for modders to add stuff to the CC, and not just overwrite existing content. (I don't know much about the Frostbite engine, so maybe the second thing is not that do-able, but I hope they do include some GOOD hairstyles for the next game so I don't have to mod my game from here to next week just to keep my Inquisitor from looking like a complete dork.).
 
It would also be fantastic to get a colour wheel for hair, and not just for eyes. THAT can't be that difficult, can it? Even in Frostbite?

The female protagonist from the MEA trailer gives me hope when it comes to the hair. Unless they decided to give the default male and female cool, unique hair.

Hopefully custom characters won't get bland DAI hair. *fingers crossed*

[QueenPurpleScrap]

I certainly don't want my female whatever to have a billion different options for bald, lol.

 

That said, I think a lot of hairstyles lend themselves to both male and females while others, imo, look better on one gender than the other. However, while a hairstyle may be available to both genders it should be modified so that the women don't have a masculine hairline or sideburns. Lace Harding springs to mind . . .

 

Also, why are ponytails so skimpy in Thedas? One thing I like about ponytails is they imply longer hair without getting into a lot of clipping issues. I totally get that and understand why short to medium hair is much easier to work with (kind of like rl). I just ask that the ponytails be fuller, implying a full head of hair. The Tallis design from MotA did this nicely.

 

And can we have a unique hairstyle available to us? Josephine, Sera, and others have their own style. Let our person be able to choose a style that's not going to be on a hundred other people. They are at least as important as anybody else.

[VivainaDX]

I'd like a long waist-length braid with cute bangs.

[DeathScepter]

I'd like a long waist-length braid with cute bangs.

 

 

don't we all

[animedreamer]

To be fair they were just learning how to use the Frostbite 3 engine in DAI, as we've seen from Andromeda they've atleast gotten to the point they now know how to code ponytails. So I think come DA4 they'll have as many if not more hairstyles than before, and im sure the majority of them will be feminine.