Fallout3 have the best conception of a character creation process ever invented. I cried when I saw it the first time. Simply brilliant.
Oblivions sliders allow far better control over the outcome, but I agree on hair, facial hair, even body hair (and length control for all).
But somehow I fell in love with the Eve system too, if I read it correctly and you can just drag stuff on the active setting. Very intuitive.

Oblivions shortcoming is the limited resolution, mesh and/or texture, and to a certain extent skin material. Oh, and lighting svcks.
I loved how in Eve you can create an awesome avatar picture of your character, by adjusting pose and lights. And sliders for bodily attributes.

So I would love to have at least one Photoshop/Paintshop in Skyrim, where you get to control where you look, pose, and lights, and have a snapshot exported in high quality Can think of a few cool quests related to this as well. We've been inside paintings and inside some weird movie. Time to take it to the previous level?

However, this only deals with the character looks creation, the avatar. No new ideas on how to do stats, skills, and custom class creation. As much as I loved the Fallout3 process (growing up), I doubt it would work very well in Skyrim. Maybe you are born. But the how you will look thing comes later, maybe in relation to a dream working as an omen of the future. Then you play with some kids and boink boink - guess where you wake up? Naturally with a lost memory In prison you will learn about the world and given the world map. Then you break out, and one of the quests will be to find back to your roots. Maybe the dream was from the breakout? Bah, carried away again...

I think I actually want some good old fashioned dice rolling as well as assigning remaining points. Also, luck should be a separate stat that you cannot advance in. You can influence your luck with spells and potions etc, but I think luck is something that should follow you.

No to Aion, but the Dragon Age thing looked goo.

Anyway, to be honest, I really don't care much about character creation. I'd rather just have a really amazing graphical world & environment than a really good graphical character.

I want a detailed, easy to use character creator with a lot of options for everything. I want to be able to change both face and body.
EVE and APB's creators look really awesome.

When I played Aion the character creator itself was much more fun than the actual game.

I don't think we can hope for too much, but hoping for a lot is something we can confidently do with Bethesda.

Any way guys, also thanks a lot for posting.

In my humble opinion, APB is a bit too far for most game developers to handle. The character creation alone would take excessive amounts of time. It'd be nice, but I don't know if it's possible given the circumstances.

What I want, personally, is to be able to draw/imagine a character and make something that at least looks remotely like them. I understand that there are limits when it comes to hairstyles, and other things, but they could expand so much on what they had in Fallout 3 to make character creation even better.

For instance, an "eye color" slider would have been relatively easy to implement once they understood that they could do multiple Skin sliders and Hair sliders.

Tattoos and woad are a must, personally. What are Nords without woad? And Dark Elves, Wood Elves, Redguards, and Orcs need tattoos, IMO. Especially the Dunmer Ashlander I want to play.

Wow. I had no idea the character creator in APB was that incredible. If the game was still playable I would buy it just for that!

I'm all for more options when it comes to customization. They should have a regular mode, then a "advanced" mode for those of us who want to really get in there and spend hours and the facial detail. If I recall correctly I think saint's row2 did that. ( I would check but a friend has my copy )

I'd like to have a more advanced Character creation, but I'm not too worried about it. As long as I can make a decently good looking Character then I'm happy.

What I do want is more voice actors. When they had practically two voice actors for every elf in the game it got annoying.

Ooh, that'd be cool.
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I'd like to see the Elven voice actress come back as a few Dunmer women. Her voice suits them well.

Hopefully they'll have many more voice actors, they know that's a common complaint, but I agree completely.

If they have tons of actors, maybe we can edit our own character's voices for grunts and shouts with a pitch slider on some different options.

I liked Oblvions facial generator. I want more hair options though,im a hair guy, haha.I would love APBs custom hairstlye type of customization for hairstyles. would be fun