Pigeonholing Hairstyles
My male human ele is black (I’m not irl, I’m white, if it matters) and he’s a faithful recreation of my Krytan GW1 Prophecies character, which had.. a limited facial and hair selection, honestly. So he has very dark skin, straight hair, and anglo bone structure. No problems in the character creator with this, which lead me to believe it would be fairly easy to create non-caucasian characters in GW2.
Then I tried to make a second engineer, a black woman. I envisioned an Elonian with dreadlocks, dark skin, and the appropriate corresponding bone structure. I had spent over an hour in the character creator and only got as far as the attached second image when I just gave up. The hair had a bit of curl but just wasn’t what I wanted at all, and I absolutely had to obsess over the face sliders to get that far. I wanted to create a woman who looked more like Danai Gurira in The Walking Dead than what I wound up with. She’s a gorgeous woman and I’d just really like to have a character that resembles her at least a little, but it was impossible.
Meanwhile, my Asura ranger has nice cornrows and as soon as I get a hair kit I’m switching him over to the new dreadlocks.. wtf. Why aren’t these human options, too? It’s very unfortunate, I would love to have more humans (I’m an altaholic) but my only real option is “super white barbie/ken doll.” The humans also conform hard to western standards of beauty aesthetics, have you ever tried to make a human, male or female, with a hooked beak of a nose? It’s pretty much impossible.
Suffice to say that I’m very sorry and I hope this changes soon. When I saw that just about every race aside from human got dreads, I felt immensely let down. I can’t imagine how disappointed you must feel.
I will agree this seems like an oversight. I would love more urban options for humans as well.
It’s a medical condition, they say its terminal….
It would be nice to see some variety in the human faces in my opinion. There is no reason we can’t have more Canthan and Elonan faces available to choose from.
It would be nice to see some variety in the human faces in my opinion. There is no reason we can’t have more Canthan and Elonan faces available to choose from.
Absolutely, the last pack of faces was a disappointment as well. We have characters like Mai Trin, and Marjory, why no options for at least the Canthan ones, let alone the Elonian? Maybe they would feel awkward putting them in as a pack lol. I suppose it is fairly easy to offend if they did it the wrong way, but with all of the customizable options, there is plenty of wiggle room. Rather that, than to not have any choice at all.
My male human ele is black (I’m not irl, I’m white, if it matters) and he’s a faithful recreation of my Krytan GW1 Prophecies character, which had.. a limited facial and hair selection, honestly. So he has very dark skin, straight hair, and anglo bone structure. No problems in the character creator with this, which lead me to believe it would be fairly easy to create non-caucasian characters in GW2.
Then I tried to make a second engineer, a black woman. I envisioned an Elonian with dreadlocks, dark skin, and the appropriate corresponding bone structure. I had spent over an hour in the character creator and only got as far as the attached second image when I just gave up. The hair had a bit of curl but just wasn’t what I wanted at all, and I absolutely had to obsess over the face sliders to get that far. I wanted to create a woman who looked more like Danai Gurira in The Walking Dead than what I wound up with. She’s a gorgeous woman and I’d just really like to have a character that resembles her at least a little, but it was impossible.
Meanwhile, my Asura ranger has nice cornrows and as soon as I get a hair kit I’m switching him over to the new dreadlocks.. wtf. Why aren’t these human options, too? It’s very unfortunate, I would love to have more humans (I’m an altaholic) but my only real option is “super white barbie/ken doll.” The humans also conform hard to western standards of beauty aesthetics, have you ever tried to make a human, male or female, with a hooked beak of a nose? It’s pretty much impossible.
Suffice to say that I’m very sorry and I hope this changes soon. When I saw that just about every race aside from human got dreads, I felt immensely let down. I can’t imagine how disappointed you must feel.
She still looks awesome! Just it would be amazing to make Michonne lol so I know what you mean.
And I understand the type of place Divinity’s Reach is, so I’m not asking for nappy dreds, I think styles like these would not be out of place there at all:
Male:
Brandon Jay McLaren for example, would not be a norn. But throughout his career, from power rangers to graceland, hes always had neat dreds. http://www.celebs101.com/gallery/Brandon_Jay_McLaren/476062/Brandon_Jay_McLaren_Picture.jpg
or even this random dude, this would be awesome, as they are as thin as mine
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/ff/30/32/ff303234630f5361d2d1e403026a14ba.jpg
or this random guy, who has them wavy from being braided: http://thirstyroots.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Long-Black-Dreads.jpg
or even shorter like this: http://loccessories.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Mens-Dreadlock-Styles_med.png
Indeed. The current faces are rather disappointing. For one, there is little variety; they all look very ‘Anglo’ to me. I liked having my characters all look unique from another in GW1. I enjoyed armor collecting a lot and liked having characters of different genders and ethnicities . I realize not everyone really cares about this, but it would be nice to see some more variety.
Another thing is that even among the ‘Anglo’ faces, it seems like only 3-4 of them see mass use. A large portion are very awkward, especially for males.
Agreed – not only are most of the human faces shockingly similar (all very barbie-like, VERY young looking due to large eyes set pretty low in the facial structure) and caucasian, but the hair…well, it IS all very straight, shiny and ‘stylish’ (from a Euro/Anglo point of view).
I was pretty disappointed upon release to find that my favourite faces from the beta were not included.
More diversity, please!
Indeed. The current faces are rather disappointing. For one, there is little variety; they all look very ‘Anglo’ to me. I liked having my characters all look unique from another in GW1. I enjoyed armor collecting a lot and liked having characters of different genders and ethnicities . I realize not everyone really cares about this, but it would be nice to see some more variety.
Another thing is that even among the ‘Anglo’ faces, it seems like only 3-4 of them see mass use. A large portion are very awkward, especially for males.
LOL especially the cherub looking one and the sunken forehead one from the newer set. super awkward