16th July 2006, 3:14 PM
It's a common problem, actually. I remember constantly struggling with Bioware/Black Isle's RPGs trying to find decent character portraits and voice sets... most are awful or compeletely wrong for the character I'm trying to create... for Baldur's Gate II I actually ended up using a voice set and character portrait I found online for my main character. None of the built-in ones were good enough...
Wizardry VI does okay, though it only has to do like 16x16 pixel pictures... :D
Pools of Radiance (the original)... um... you can make female characters, but most of the sprites you can choose from are not female looking... and plus, the dock female characters without any benefits -- all female characters have lower strength limits, and they have no other stats boosted to compensate... (Wizardry does a "-2 strength, +1 personality (charisma) and +1 karma (luck, kind of)" thing to try to balance it) The game also has much lower level limits for non-humans than humans in almost all classes (only Elven mages and theives of all races are equal when nonhuman). So basically if you want the easiest time you want all human males, except perhaps your mages.
As for Morrowind, while the Better Bodies mod fixes the characters themselves, it doesn't help with the clothing and stuff (and the clothes really stick out as ugly once you upgrade the character models) unless you add on user-created clothing/armor packs, and those are usually a pain to access... but everything in that game is a pain to access, so that's nothing special. :)
That they do do well, though. The world of TES is about as good as it gets on the issues of world creation and believability (how convingingly real the gameworld seems to be)...
Wizardry VI does okay, though it only has to do like 16x16 pixel pictures... :D
Pools of Radiance (the original)... um... you can make female characters, but most of the sprites you can choose from are not female looking... and plus, the dock female characters without any benefits -- all female characters have lower strength limits, and they have no other stats boosted to compensate... (Wizardry does a "-2 strength, +1 personality (charisma) and +1 karma (luck, kind of)" thing to try to balance it) The game also has much lower level limits for non-humans than humans in almost all classes (only Elven mages and theives of all races are equal when nonhuman). So basically if you want the easiest time you want all human males, except perhaps your mages.
As for Morrowind, while the Better Bodies mod fixes the characters themselves, it doesn't help with the clothing and stuff (and the clothes really stick out as ugly once you upgrade the character models) unless you add on user-created clothing/armor packs, and those are usually a pain to access... but everything in that game is a pain to access, so that's nothing special. :)
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That they do do well, though. The world of TES is about as good as it gets on the issues of world creation and believability (how convingingly real the gameworld seems to be)...
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