I understand it’s a lot of work to include a character creation/customization, but when I found out that not only am I locked to a male character, I can’t even change his face, I was disappointed. Is this at all planned to change? Could there be included an option to be whomever you want? I’ll take silent protagonist and talking NPC’s if it means I can look how I want.
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From the kickstarter:
“A first-person, open world, realistic RPG that will take you to Medieval Europe in a time of great upheaval and strife. A humble, young blacksmith loses everything to war.”
And from this webpage:
Start your adventure as the humble son of a blacksmith…
It have been clear from day one that we would be playing a specific male character with a specific backstory.
And allowing customization is just a lot of work for no real gain.
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To be clear though, it does say “humble” but you could make him act like a proud douche if you want:P
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Id rather a more reactive world and more quest branching than some tools to tweak my nose
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Because the game is first person perspective, I do not even see Henry all that much, so I guess I am fine with him as he is now, although…
I do hope they will brighten up his eyes a bit. It looks like they tried to give him blue eyes, but they are dead looking–like dead fish eyes. Reminds me of a king mackerel about two hours after it has been caught. Give those eyes a splash of some blue color.
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Current look is placeholder
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The decision for a specific character, in this case Henry, was made so that NPCs can use your name. Whether that is more desirable than creating your own character is debatable, but that’s why the decision was made. There’s also the fact that it’s slightly less effort to create a single character than a character creation setup, but it seems to me as though this was a fairly minor factor.
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Humble is about his background not how he behaves…
It takes a lot more work if you allow for more character setups.
For every single NPC you need two sets of recordings if you allow us to select between two names,
If you allow 50 different names, then then you need 50 lines for every single NPC.
And if you want to the how Henry looks, well that is a lot of extra work also… work that really don’t add much to the game experience.
Having a specific main character allow for a much more personal story… something I find much more interesting that the genetic one we get in a game like skyrim.
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In witcher you can be only geralt too and its hell of a good rpg.
But KCD is just better :))
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Em, roleplaying (RPG) is actually more about making meaningful choices that shape the world around you in small / big ways.
If you want a perfect example of a solid RPG, check Planetescape Torment, Witcher 1 / 2 / 3, Baldur’s Gate, etc.
I assume KCD is aiming for that - to have you make significant decisions that will shape the world and people’s lives to a different scale every time.
Customizing your nose, adding some teddy bear ears isn’t a sign of a good RPG. IIRC, TES started this bullshit with immense character customizing somehow related to the whole RPG “experience”.
Although Fallout allows it too to some extent, FNV, in particular, was an exceptionally well-written piece of work. FO3 and FO4 are crap compared to it. There, I said it.
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Because fallout runs on same engine as TES since F3. Since then when i played fallout or TES i have baaad feeling that i play same game just in different scenery so i dont play it at all
No, it really doesn’t. It does require some work though.
No. You don’t use any name. One recording.
Customizing the character is in no way mutually exclusive with their personal story.
I find it difficult to understand how someone can be so absolutely wrong about so many things in one post.
Anyway, the decision has been made, and it won’t be changing. So any discussion about it is irrelevant.
Can you please somehow prove your statements? I have feeling that you’re talking of Fallout/TES type of a game, while this game is heading a bit more story specific way (as ThomasAagaard said, more personalized way).
Character creation is already implemented. It’s not public, but they already have a way to customize characters. Every peasant and Cuman is not being captured from photos and individually sculpted. It would not be too difficult to add something for the end user to customize if the desire was there.
Customizing the name and appearance of the main character does not mean you need to change anything about his story.
Or was there something else I said you didn’t quite understand?
So basically you want a shallow blank sheet custom-face character with no backstory? So you can say that it’s absolutely “yours” with almost no story influence from the game?
A little backstory depending on what class / gender you choose is a perfect way to spice up your imagination. FNV didn’t nail this, but it was one of the exciting narrative RPG rides in games history.
That’s partially true, TBH. However, the two franchises aren’t such shallow gameplay clones of each other as the new Far Cry games coming out recently.
FC: Primal had a complete scenery change, but all the mechanics / UI / gameplay features are a shallow copy of FC3 / FC4. Ubisoft fucked things up again.
No face customization is not implemented and every face is scaned or modeled.
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Quote me where I said I wanted anything. I simply stated what was possible. I expressed no personal desire one way or the other. I also SPECIFICALLY, and let me say it AGAIN, that the appearance of the character, and the name of the character, have NOTHING to do with the story of the character.
There is already character customization. It would take very little to change what is happening in this video to a player character customization option. To say say that is a lot of work is ridiculous.
“There is really no limit of the appearance of any character in the game.” Except limits imposed by design choice, obviously.
I think that what the original poster meant is this:
“Okay, I can accept that I cannot change the character’s gender, name and backstory, but why the heck does he have to look like Sean Penn?”
And then he started to express his wish to be able to change his (the main character’s) name and the rest too.
So, his main complaint is about the character Henry’s appearance/face/looks, not his gender, not his name, not his backstory, though he bickered a bit about those too. 
Measure twice, cut once. (I.e., read twice before replying.)
Edit: The original poster could also be a she.