Now I do agree Skyrim's customization is worlds more realistic than Oblivion's customization. But it feels like Bethseda will always have an issue with male models. It happened in Fallout 3 your character was suppose to be 19 years old and all the presets and the models made you looked about 40 years old instead. I mean if your character is suppose to be 19, why are they even giving you balding hair as an option?

In Skyrim they seem to have a similar issue. I have compared male and female for a long time. The females it seems easier to create what you please. For some reason their faces seem less how do I put...less flawed. And it's easy to make a woman in her early twenties. The men, however, it is very hard to even get them to look any young than late twenties early thirties.

And this is where I think Oblivion was superior. Yes, Oblivion was not the most realistic thing in the world very cartoony. But I wish we had an age slider still. Complexion doesn't do much. Makes the character look older really. I am nineteen and would like to make a character that I have drawn over and over in my head named Elliot.

Problem is Elliot is 19, males in Skyrim don't look 19 you cannot even get them to look 19 at all. You can get the females. But not the males. It's a bit frustrating. Deimos is my mage character. And it took me about a few hours to get him remotely close to twenty-two and even then he looks twenty-five.

This is more of a personal vent. This thread isn't here to say Skyrim is bad or customization is bad. It's a great improvement to Oblivion's cartoony look. However, I wish I had more character options. And before anyone says, well why would you want to create a 19 year old character? Well one it has to do with my age too and secondly of all it's fun.

Since Skyrim is built based on the skills you're learning, not the skils you predict to know like class systems, a 19 year old would make sense. Because he is learning. Someone is his 30s I'd expect him to know a thing or two.

I think the customization is simply amazing.

lol

i think you should just make your elliot a cross dresser.

In Oblivion I was able to make around a eighteen year old mage. The only issue was he an advlt males six pack, like everyone in Oblivion. lol.


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What?

make a gender confused female named elliot. now there is an opportunity to role play..

In Skyrim I wanted to make a character named Rothion Silvhil. Originally it was going to be Rashir and Rothion as my main characters. Rothion was framed for murder and fled to Skyrim as far away from his homeland. He was also a mage character. He was philosophical and curious. He was not dragonborn, however, he was much like an archeologist and liked to learn different cultures. He decided in his time in Skryim that he would collect information about the ancient Nordic world. Fascinated by burial rights by the Nords themselves, etc. A powerful mage and phiilosoper he was also a writer.

This was my http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m507/Dream_Sequencer/RS-2.jpg. Now I do not like to try to make the character look exactly like the picture. But the age kind of has to be correct. None which I could do properly. I gave up in frustration cause none of the version turned out like I envisioned him.

Clothes turn into dresses for the girls. No Oblivion mix and match to give pants and shirts. This character would be a sort of assassin Breton character.

I prefer Oblivion's character creator, presets can only get you so far. At least Males can get away with a facial feature being off a little bit, females can't unfortunately, if there's one thing off it ruins the face.

Agreed.

It's just I wish they would have kept some stuff. I was never really a friend of preset customization. I miss having all the sliders to bend to my whim.

Something that would be interesting to implement (if even possible) is some sort of in-game aging mechanic where your character can die of old age. It would a selectable difficulty of course because not everyone would want to play that way. But it would give the game a little more "authenticity."

the Breton female wrinkles are horrible even If I do make my character look young I end up with a young looking character with wrinkles

Is there really a noticable difference between 25 and 22, or 22 and 19?

I don't make any females for this very fact. All the wrinkles are weird. Nords have wrinkled noses, I'm like "are they pugs?"


The thing my brother is trying to say is this. My brother is 19, but everyone thinks he's younger than that. There are people out there with young boyish faces. That's what he's trying to expres, he wants a young boyish style.

OP is your brother?

Yes we're brothers. I'm the eldest and he's the youngest.

Yes we're brothers and we've gotten into Skyrim arguments.

I'm the other way around...I much prefer working off a preset and have a lot of luck with it. With Oblivion's character creator, well...I start with a lumpy face that looks like a potato that's been run through a blender, and that's always what I end up with. Extremely annoying, especially when you're creating a character who's supposed to have sharper facial features.

At least in Skyrim my characters have cheekbones and a chin, is all I'm saying.

Never actually thought about the age thing; i've always looked mature, even when i was 22 so I didn't bat an eye with my character looking a bit..weathered, shall we say. I just thought as Skyrim is a hard place, people look older than they actually are.

I hate when people sya this.

Cause they say this

"You from High Rock Breton"

So obviously it could be that your Breton is from High Rock so they wouldn't live the rugged lifestyle of Skyrim.

I liked Oblivion because at least each race had their appearance. Bretons were pale skinned, younger than what they their actual age were. They were thin skinned, small and short. They were much more "elven" and human.

In Oblivion Wood Elves were generally smaller sized than most people.

I only see the rugged lifetsyle fitting

Nords and Dark Elves

But the other species, there is inclination that they come from somewhere else.