I am opening myself up for all sorts of ridicule, here, so go ahead and make fun of me.

I am just hoping to get some support here, because I have owned this game since 11.11.11, and I keep starting over because I am never satisfied with my character.

I always get to Riverwood, and then look at my character from all angles, and realize that I don't like the smallest things, such as eyeliner not being at the proper setting, skin tone on the cheeks, etc.

I am a male Nord, and just wondering if anyone else out there has this addiction?

You only get one chance to create a character that looks perfect. I know that I will be playing this game for 1000 hours, easily over the course of a couple of years, so I just need to get this right, but I can't!!

Your not the only one if one thing looks wrong on my nord I always go back and change it.

It doesn't help that they removed RGB from character creation, and age.

i have the habbit of looking at my khajiit while im like 60 hours in and like " naw i wanna change that, time to delete and start again " or " man i wanna play a argonian, delete and start again " then it reverses and cycles lol

Same.. I play even through the first dragon kill and then i change everything.. I wish there was a way to go pass the hole introduction Helgen thing..

There's always the console command "showracemenu". That way you don't have to restart all the time.

Same, I'm always changing and still realize I STILLD DON'T LIKE IT, doesnt help how drastic the different light sources change the look, the massive culprit is the Noon sun on a clear day.

If I don't like my character I'd restart after about 2 or 3 hours, but wouldn't restart if I've played more than 10 or 15 hours. If I've played more than a couple hours I'm fine with my character. Little things don't bother me that much as I don't usually go that in depth with the character creation, but I wish non PC users could edit the character after making one,

Nope not a problem for me. I make a character that's reasonably decent looking and move on. I do spend some time on it at the start but after that I don't look back. I rarely look at him anyway but if I do he's better looking than me already and that's good enough in my book. I don't want him to be a super stud anyway. He's from a rugged land and hasn't had the easiest of lives. Why should he look like a magazine cover boy?

Same. Just recently when I remade my Nord did I get his "look" down that I wanted. I am the same way bro.. if hair doesn't fall on your ear right, eyebrows not matching your skull line around your eyes, etc. SO many things I see.. my lil bro doesn't understand how I see what I see.. I just take things down to the tiny microbe detail.. can't help it lol.

Hell, I'm remaking my Dark Elf I just remade cause I realized his skin was WAY too light (I got a new 1080p TV, definately saw it right away). He had THE lightest skin tone. How am I gonna be a DARK Elf with LIGHT skin? lmfao... ooh boy.

One problem is they refuse to have the creation in a neutral lit area.

Oblivion had the dark tunnel messing stuff up.
Fallout 3 had that incredibly bad staticy monitor thing.
Skyrim has heavy shadows across half your dude, even though you can tilt the head around.

The main thing I hit is that my hair ends up clipping out of my chosen headgear. Overall I have trouble with bags under the eyes and the skin seeming aged (which could be console texture, but some of the NPCs have smoother/youthful skin)

This has always been my main problem with male characters. I am very not-happy with my Skyrim males and would love to edit them afterwards but unlike Fallout in Skyrim using "ShowRaceMenu" console command messes up your skills, so it's not really an option.
Only once ever I've been content with a custom-made male character, and that's the Fallout character appearing in my avatar.

Females I am much less critical with. As long as they look hot, I'm cool with them. Cosmetic mods help a lot with this.

(Looks back at Oblivion's character creation, then looks at Skyrim's)

Nope, I'm quite happy here. In Oblivion, there was nothing like hitting the "Ugly (random face)" button for 30+ minutes just to get a decent face to start with.

The way I see it, Skyrim's land and theme is rugged and unforgiving. I feel that my character should reflect these qualities in which the character creation system is quite adequate in doing.

I despise that almost every hairstyle available clips out of the sides of helmets. The iron helmet is the first helmet that does it. If you zoom out in 3rd person view, it is even more terrible. I went with a balding hairstyle just to avoid it. That is absolutely pathetic that they couldn't even get this right. It was the same in Oblivion.

How am I supposed to take the game seriously when my hair is bursting through the metal of my helmet?

I have started over allot of times.

And I definitely agree with the above reply about the noon day sun. It causes the eyes on any human character to be black, giving them "raccoon eyes"

I am going to be recreating my Nord when I get off work. He has light skin, second to the lightest.

I am going to be giving him a look with the darkest color tone forehead, dark nose, and lips.

This will be the first time that I have chosen dark lip tone. Not the black lipstick, but the second to darkest lips.

Has anyone else chosen this lip color on a male human and not liked it?

Restarting your game after fiddling with ~showracemenu reinstates the lost racial abilities, skills should be and aren't affected in my game.

The vanilla males actually look really good and very man-like as they're supposed to be, the women look like altered-ego monsters someone at Beth somehow got the thumbs-up for though.

Amazing, ... how your character develops or acts in the game has nothing to do with the minor subleties of makeup/appearance. Make a choice and stick by it, means more than restarting over cosmetics.

I started 6 or 7 times (didn't know the console command back then), spending hours in the creator, and was never satisfied. The vanilla male characters via creator are all too ugly/old imho. Then I used some texture and face mods and was satisfied from that time onwards. Now I use the console sometimes just to change my paint of war. PC for the win.

I just might sound a tad conceited here but I probably have you all beat when it comes to restarting due to cosmetics in ES games especially Skyrim.

Just today I restarted my lv 30 Archer due to the fact his eyes I put a tad to close together. When I got home from the midnight release I spent the first 2 hours of my Skyrim experience in character creation before finally settling on my Dunmer male, but even then I would get the dragon stone or be a quarter through the main plot before restarting that character as well. Most likely at very least 25 to 30 restarts before being satisfied with my now lv 79 main.
Not proud of it by any means but I don't play ugly characters.

I can understand you, Daijin, but should you not invest in a PC in the longer run?

Most people who play in 3rd person see the back of their character 99% of the time those who play in 1st person never see their character. What the hell does it matter if you don't have the perfect face?

I'm sorry you need to restart your game after staring at your imperfect avatar and deciding you don't like how it looks. The face generator svcks, so you will have a hard time making one that looks decent anyway. Just play the game, you look fine.

I enjoy panning the camera around in 3rd person and looking at myself.

thats called ocd,, you wont notice the subtleties later on w/ armor

Funny thing is I have a comp perfectly capable of running Skyrim smoothly yet I prefer vanilla ES, why exactly? I don't know but it's most likely due partly because I know if i had access to mods for a game I already spend to much time with I might as well call it quits for real life all together. lol

You are not alone, man. I have restarted a character after several hours because of the smallest thing wrong with the face, such as the angle of the nose connected at the bridge and the forehead not being exactly how I want it... It is awful that we don't get a chance to edit before finishing the tutorial