Anyone else spend a little too much time sitting there trying to customize your character appearance? With Demon's Souls, I sunk close to 2 hours creating my character, finally just accepting what I created so I could play the damn game. I don't know why I become so obsessed with the creation process. I remember making a character I was happy with in Demon's Souls. Last night, starting Dark Souls, I spent a lot of time with the character creation process. While definitely feeling the same as Demon's Souls, I can't get my character in Dark Souls to not look like a nuclear fallout victim. I find changing one thing totally messes up another. It's like a trap for sick people that obsess over stuff like this.

I remember there was guides online for creating certain looks in Demon's Souls. It's actually quite surprising how good a lot of people made their characters look in comparison to the hideous presets.

It was almost impossible to make a good looking character in Demon's Souls, so not much time was spent on my part. You never really get to see them up close anyhow, and my guy wore a armored helmet all the time.

What difference does it even make? You almost never actually see what your character looks like!

the faces in demons souls were terrible. good job i wore a helmet for the entire game

I always spend WAY to much time at character creation in games, even with something as simple as picking a name. I solved that problem recently though by just making a list of cool sounding names I like. One of them,"Remn", I've started using for males in a lot of fantasy based games, starting with my character in Dragon Age, and I intend to use it for my Dark Souls character if I make a male.

As for appearence I intend to look through the pre-sets and maybe shift some things around. Waste of time really, but I can't help myself.

I tend to spend a lot of time with character creators, yeah...

Well, he is going to like like a Ghoul when you start the actual game anyway and probably for a good portion of the game, soo...

I just randomize the face, pick a cool hairstyle and then start playing. I usually never see the face since I almost always wear a helmet.

@doobie said:

the faces in demons souls were terrible.

Yeah, the presets were, but there's some people that really put some work into their characters. Some result in pretty good looking character models.

I love the character creation in Demon's Souls, it is insane how weird and how many options you have in it. It doesn't make much sense why I would spend anytime making a character since they are usually covered up. I'm gonna make something BA when I finally play Dark Souls.

I had found a guide that allowed you to make very nice looking female characters in Demon's Souls, but I can't remember where it is. Using that, it was easy making nice female characters in that game. One of the big tips I remember was to use random until you find a decent looking base, then modify it from there. And turn up eye-liner for females. If I can find the link, I'll edit and post it. Maybe it'll be useful to you.

eh...I knew my character would be using a helmet for most of the game, so I just chose the preset face I liked the most. Didn't really even bother tweeking it, seeing as how i'll never see the damn thing anyways.

@RuneseekerMireille said:

I had found a guide that allowed you to make very nice looking female characters in Demon's Souls, but I can't remember where it is.

That's likely one of the guides I referred to in the OP. I remember it being very helpful when I created my Royal. I can't seem to find anything now. It was quite a while back, so they're either no longer out there, or I'm just using poor search terms.

Here's the one I used: http://tyw214.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/demons-soul-female-character-creation-guide/

Hopefully this helps people looking to make a decent female face! Males are way more difficult though. Here's an image of one of his finished characters:

I just randomize the face, pick a cool hairstyle and then start playing. I usually never see the face since I almost always wear a helmet.

@RuneseekerMireille:

The character result looks very doll-like. The guide I used resulted in a more mature looking female character. However, I will use this guide, then tweek the character from there. Thank you for the link.

@uniform: That's true; I did tweak his methods a little bit for my own taste, and they don't come out looking quite as doll-like, but his basic tips are, at least in my opinion, pretty solid.