FromSoftware has always let you go to town with its character creators. From the gorgeous to the ghastly, you've been able to create pretty much whatever your heart desires. However, with Elden Ring, it looks like the studio has stepped things up yet another gear. A YouTube video hit the internet over the weekend that claims to show off the game's character creation screen, and it very much looks like the real deal.
The feature appears incomplete in the video, with the descriptors of what you're actually editing missing on the left-hand side, but you can still see their effects on the character model. The video begins by going through some fairly handsome pre-sets, but it's not too long before the more abstract face manipulations start.
You can contort your character's face in all manner of ways — give them gigantic eyes or an elongated nose — and then dramatically change the colour of their skin. The video ends with a green-skinned human with red marks on their chest, arms, and legs. You know, the usual FromSoftware stuff.
One other takeaway is how good the character models actually look, even if you try to do the opposite. These all look of particularly high quality, ensuring you'll look just as good as the environments and enemies. Elden Ring is out on 25th February 2022 for PlayStation 5 and PS4, and you can read our latest thoughts based on the somewhat recent Closed Network Test through the link.
Will you make your Elden Ring character look normal or weird? Decide in the comments below.
[source youtube.com, via gamesradar.com]
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Tsk dunno but I've always preferred default, preset character created by the dev itself. There's always something bland and soulless about your created character, maybe cause their usually mute. I liked how Fallout 4's was voiced though.
So many options. Fantastic, however I won't dabble too much the first go though as I'll be too excited to jump into gameplay.
As you cannot actually see your characters face 90% of the time it is not THAT important. I hope the multiplayer characters are not covered in paint like in the other from software games.
I always go for bald generic white man with no extraordinary features. Just like me.
I like that they were cycling though different hair options and then just IMMEDIATELY started creating Finchy...
@kyleforrester87 Me in 10 years time.
I was pretty impressed with Demon’s Souls character creator, but this looks even more elaborate.
floating eyeballs looks great, a shame it can't be a floating penis
Looking forward to making generic man with goatee.. Like the Lidl edition of Gordon Freeman that I am...
There's two types of people in the world
Despite being a creative i'm firmly in the later camp but respect both.
Though for the life of me i'll never understand people spending a lot of time creating a custom character in FIRST person games like the Elder Scrolls. You basically never see your character and for the couple of seconds you might they are usually completely covered in armour.
@lolwhatno to be fair, last week I went for my first long ride since finishing that and my legs nearly fell off.
@lolwhatno hey I'm fully aware of that, it's other people who don't understand.
I always play as a woman, high cheek bones with a scar, green eyes and white hair. Skin colour variable depending on what's on offer. In Nioh 2 she's brilliant white with luminescent script tattoos.
She's always called Tiamat. She's middle-aged, lean and taller than the average man.
@Integrity Swap for red hair and you have my second playthrough angry "renegade" I usually play as.
First playthrough: overly good, people pleasing paragon.
Second playthrough: Angry red haired fire maiden who just loves to piss the world off at EVERY opportunity. Affectionally titled "She-b!tch"
Never got too into that. They always end up looking goofy just pick a default and stick a helmet on anyway; who cares
Looks fun, though I tend not to use 'em much!
If I do use one, I usually just try to make myself - tall slim old white guy with a mohawk. I try and avoid grey hair - just as I do when I look in the mirror and pretend I cant see it xD
@themightyant 😁 nice! Red hair, green eyes, perfect combination real life.
My renegade lady is all black hair, black eyes, heavy tan, sinewy, lithe, sexy and mysterious, looks like Claudia Winkleman or Claudia Black, both of whom I would cut my arm off to go through their wash basket.
I refuse to wear helmets and never will, so I will spend a lot of time making my character look nice.
@Sanctanox There are plenty of us who choose not to wear headgear.
Looks good. I always find extreme caricatures not very original because everyone does it. Subtle changes to character models I prefer.
Yes you can see it in game.
@lolwhatno did you not get the memo? Its self deprecating day today! lols
Will end up looking at the back of a helmet, so picking the class is all the creation i'll do.
That being said, this creator do inspire me to have some fun with it before I start my journey.
At least character customization makes more sense for third person view then first person view like Cyberpunk 2077. And while you mostly play from “behind” you also have the possibility to circle around and see the front.
Oh, hell no! Keep that... "thing"... away from me.
If I begin fiddling with it, i won't put it down for another 30-45 minutes at least 🤦♂️ ... no way in hell i'm gonna use it.
Gonna go with the default option for the class i'm gonna choose, and won't look back.
@themightyant You forgot type three:
Spends almost an hour creating what looks like a perfect character from the angles shown in the creator, only to get to the first cutscene where you see your character, and realise you've created a misshapen monster with a nose and mouth never seen on land. This is now you. You must play as this character for hundreds of hours, else restart and pick Generic McPlainface, either way living in shame with the understanding that you have no idea what humans actually look like, despite seeing yourself in the mirror every day along with anyone you live with...
I was looking a post about someone that created a char in The Sims 4 that looked 'exactly' like Christ Hemsworth, the Thor from MCU. It will be cool to see the characters players will create in Elden Ring.
@theheadofabroom MHW i took over 45 minutes to find out she didnt look good in the shadows so i had to start over after a few hours of gameplay.... ☹️
My character will look pretty ordinary I think.
Making a femboy as usual
@theheadofabroom Haha! THAT is one of the reasons why I sidestep the character creators other than some basic changes like hair/eye colour. Never comes out looking that great imo. Maybe we're just more judgmental because it's our own worl.
@Flaming_Kaiser I can understand that sentiment. Did that in Morrowind, if you're not happy and it's going to irk probably better to go back!
@kyleforrester87 We could be unremarkable twins! Bald is beautiful mate 🤣
@themightyant First you try to make yourself think its ok and after another few hours you know you made a mistake the coolest thing would be if you can change your character ingame later.
@Flaming_Kaiser @themightyant This was me in Fallout 4. I don't see how anyone trusted my character, it was evidently a synth
@Flaming_Kaiser I've never understood why you can't change later in games. Isn't that the point of playing a game, to be able to change things. This is the sort of RDR2 realism that needs to stop. Just let us play, have fun and change things later.
@themightyant As if they cant make something for that in games like Dark Souls/Demon Souls. 🤔
@Flaming_Kaiser Exactly it's one more menu item "Edit character". Never understand why this is fixed it's not even THAT realistic.
I can go get a haircut, dye my hair, get a tan, tattoo etc. or even become a gym bunny or be a slob. My appearance wasn't entirely fixed at birth IRL why should it be in games that have a creator. Madness!
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