Woah.... After reading the thread I have come to realize a lot of people feel similarly. Sorry.

As a Nord i started over a few times and i always pick one of the presets... The model with the shaved head. I then make no adjustments except eye color, longer hair and hair color. Once i started over because the hair looked too reddish and i was aiming for blonde. Other than that i have an OCD obsession where if i die or come very close to dying (like couple hit points) i must start over. So now i play on second to easiest difficulty because i hate even having to play 10 mins that i lost if i was killed.

After trying to make my character look as cool as possible on 11.11.11, accidentally hit B during the naming phase and my character was named Prisoner. I'm almost 200 hours in now, and regret not changing the name immediately almost every time the game refers to my character as Prisoner.

I did the same in Fallout NV. Character was called Courier.

On pc, console type showracemenu. Don't change anything but your name or it may bug you depending.

OK! Nah, just kidding.


Had a friend like you once. It took him weeks and even months to settle on a character. He`d be one type then the other extreme type. then he`d try to be everything. i`d say, "Just pick one!" and giv him a few pointers, but a week later he`s retarted 50 times again.

Never did figure him out. All I can say is you have got to figure yourself out.

I just make all my characters look ugly as hell, which is pretty easy to do...
how my ugly bastards find a spouse is beyond me, they look like [censored] monster people, I guess looks arent important in skyrim.

lul some of you peeps are taking this far to serious than the OP and those who posted similar him are. its called having a preference

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I swear, 90% of the faces in Oblivion's creation system were completely immersion-breaking from an RPG point of view, and their mothers would have drowned the ugly things in Lake Rumare the day they were born, thus making them never able to appear full-grown advlts in my creation screen... Almost every single one looked to be an inbred mess of mismatched facial proportions. I found that it took me a minimum of about 30-45 minutes for me to mold one of the random faces into something I considered passable, which meant 30-45 minutes I wasn't actually playing the game.

In Skyrim, you can click the random button a few times, and probably find a face that can be considered "good enough". If you really want to find-tune, then at least you have a much easier time finding a "pretty close" face to use as a starting point...

haha, yes. i like this.

I have this problem as well. I must have started at least 5 characters this week at least before finally sticking with my high elf archer/conjurer. I always have this problem with any character creators and even though I hardly see the character it just something I can't stop thinking about, e.g. i will pick out a hairstyle think it looks good and then 2 hours later i think it looks out of place or the colour is wrong

I wish there was an area that had neutral lighting and no shadows and darkness so you could see your character. I also wish you could turn them all the way around, so you could actually see them. I have messed up a character before because their entire skin tone was terrible. I do generally get them right the first time tho. I spend a lot if time to make them look perfect.

I used to be like this when playing Oblivion. That's just because Oblivion characters looked so utterly [censored] that it was hard to make a good looking one. Don't have this problem with Skyrim though.

lol, so true

I hardly ever look at my character anyways. And, considering that I've pretty much been making the same sneaky/archer/mage Khajiit since Morrowind, I'm happy with my character.

I keep restarting but not because of the how my character looks, but because I cant decide whether I want to be argonian or orc or nord etc. I love the argonian's water breathing ability, but I like how orcs are powerful, and I love the back story of elves and how they relate to the nord population of skyrim. In short, I just cant decide which is better.