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Posted by: trooper.3489

trooper.3489

So I have noticed this and it kind of bugs me, is that the characters custom designs are not very good. And I have heard a lot of people complain about this, yes I know that they added 3 new hair and face designs if you buy it. But I feel that they could have done better. Because lets be honest. Some of them are not that good, and I’m not trying to be mean. But like for the female norn, I was very excited to see new hair designs, but was very disappointed when I saw them. I haven’t played the other races much yet, but for the Norn I know that historically they are very viking like (If not just a taller version of them) but couldn’t they just go for a simple braid like hair. The Sylvari also, they could have done SO many cool things with them, but I was disappointed again. So I hope they do something like this again.

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Posted by: RoyalPredator.9163

RoyalPredator.9163

Yes, we’re quite unhappy with character customizaiton.
That is why we cover our faces with paperbags and
Facepalm.

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Posted by: Inimicus.7162

Inimicus.7162

So many of the hair issues for me would be fixed by simply binding the long, flowing ones who clip CLEAR THROUGH YOUR CHARACTER MODEL onto the back the way a few styles seem to have been done, it isn’t as pretty as they should be, but then again, it beats clipping issues.

Norn females have issues with shoulder armors… Clearly the skins wrap around something that probably looks a lot like a norn male. On females the shoulders sit WAY HIGH off the visible shoulder, and are frequently needlessly gigantic..item preview CoF light armor shoulders on norn female for one of the very worst if you don’t believe me…. for others the “stately” shoulders sit misplaced, the Norn T2 heavy shoulder (yes, 1 sided… asymmetry is another huge complaint i have with whoever designs their armors, they keep making the differences way too big).

As to Sylvari, the basic issue for me is that they took the concept art and corrupted it into some kind of ugly. From flowing leaves in place of hair, and smooth surfaces for skin (in the concept art) to some kind of twisted, twiggy mess… Lest we forget that the Sylvari female cultural armor replaces your body model with some stock model when you put it on (so if you wear it, body customization becomes a moot point anyway). More smooth leaves, more like Caithe and other concept arts from loading screens, frankly…and fewer weird twigs and twisted faces. Fixing the cultural armors to appear for chosen body type would be good too.

Funny thing is that I’m sure if someone necro’d up all my other gripe threads about armor/character designs since launch, they would all contain basically identical themes, if not the exact same gripes :P