Dragon's Dogma 2 becomes more real every day, and Capcom's robust RPG is starting an all-new journey on PS5 from 22nd March. But before that grand adventure can begin, players must overcome that most consistently enduring of all roleplaying challenges: character creation.
As part of IGN's ongoing First coverage of the game, we got a detailed look at the system, which players can manipulate to painstakingly differentiate their character and an AI Pawn companion. Or to create nightmarish monsters, whichever you prefer. This was achieved by adding two body types per race, nine base bodies per type, and countless head variations from more than 100 human head scans.

Like Dark Souls and Fallout, individual parameters for increasingly specific stuff like "traps size" and "torso length" can be further tweaked. The artists who worked on the game insisted on the system's complexity, which allows for customization beyond what was possible in the original.
For those that prefer their characters covered in fur, the Beastren race has been added. Capcom apparently studied felines' fur patterns and features to get the most realistic fluff, claws, and fangs into the game. This was something director Hideaki Itsuno wanted to get into the original, but hardware limitations at the time prevented players from playing as big cats, which won't be an issue this time around, thanks to the processing power of the PS5.
What do you think of Dragon's Dogma 2's character creator? Do you prefer this more granular style of tweaking, or would you rather run with something preset? Will you be playing as a big cat? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Sounds like they really went all out with it, DD2 sounding more and more promising!
This is rather remarkable. As someone that played Skyrim for the first time as a khajit, this is interesting…
Sounds great to me
The more granular the better. I won’t always tweak everything of course, but as long as I can create a certain body type without restriction I’m happy. We really should be able to create any type of body type that naturally exists, without restriction, as a minimum. Additional cat like options always welcome.
@somnambulance as a cat lover, I also went khajit in Skyrim… i’ll be going full-blown Panthro in Dragons Dogma 2 for sure!
Not a fan of beast races in anything. Even less so in DD. It had just the right mix of fantasy without them.
I'm very curious whether this is DD2, an enhanced remake of DD, or something in between. I'm pretty sure it's the latter because everything announced and shown is either extremely gorgeous modern updates of the original DD or features the developers have said they wish they'd time/tech to do back in the day.
It doesn't matter though because it looks amazing. The first game was great despite obvious flaws and with the original team back on it with the gorgeous RE engine I cannot wait
I hope this game turns out as good as it looks because I'm pretty excited for it.
Games with premade characters are so much better. But still cool of course
N.i.c.e. dragon dogma 2 is going to be amazing just like dragon dogma dark arisen.a mage/sorcerer is the best way to play dragon dogma.word up son
Having the radial face generator where it gives you similar faces to rapidly tune what you're looking for is going to be a great way to cut down the time needed in character gen.
Hopefully they keep these tools for Monster Hunter Wilds
Really hope its good! I was pretty on point with deluxe edition preorders lately woth Bg3 and Alan Wake 2. Hope im right this time too!
I liked the cat-like beastmen barbarians from Champions of Norrath, so maybe I'll make Khimari, from FFX, and not do him dirty by classing him a useless blue mage.
Just as well I pre-ordered it on my SG account so I can play it 8 hours before the UK release time... so that means 8 hours of character creation before playing!!! 😋😋
I'll try like every game with a in depth creator to make a cool character. I'm sure it will look like crap once I see it in game or I'll have major regrets after 2 hours of playing then start the game over because I'm not feeling the character lol
@Terra_Custodes Yup!! Character creation for me is one of the best things about gaming 😁 And having seen the updated DD2 character editor, I know I'll be spending a LOT of time getting my character ready for the holy grail that is DD2. We've been waiting 10 years for this!!! 😅😅
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