I just dike around and tweak his looks (I never play female. It's just not for me.) until I find a right setting to where I think he's 'handsome' enough.

I used to spend an hour or two creating my character, getting the look just right, tweaking this and adjusting that. Then I play the game in First Person and never see my character. Now, I hit randomize a couple of times, spend 5 minutes on a quick tweak, and load them up.

I do spend time on SPECIAL and things like that.

I just fired up Fallout-3 last night ---- still crashing since I have like 94 mods running and haven't yet 'balanced' them all --- and as poor as the character creator was, I still spent a lot of time tinkering.

I can never get a face to look LIKE someone, either myself or some celebrity. Best I can hope for is 'reasonably attracive'. Part of the problem is understanding what all the sliders DO. In FO3, for example, you can adjust the "jut" of the chin, but doing so also adjusts some other slider... or you tweak the jaw projection and then the jaw width and it alters your first selection. Getting all the sliders to work together is tricky.

With FO4's manually-distorted features, I'm even LESS sure what kind of character I can create. It'll be fun to try, though. I hope that there's some way to, like, manually enter a code that'll configure a character, so that if someone manages to make an attractive character I can just get the code they used online and somehow use that to shape MY character's appearance.

I just take a preset and edit it to my liking depending on six. Males i usualy make grizly old but tough guys, while females are made atleast as pretty as the game allows me to get it. I avoid bodybuilder, superman or scrawny kid looks like a plague though.

Same. Also, if there's a random button I often use it. 99,99999% of the results are awful, but occasionally I get one that looks great and that I might not have come up with myself.

I just mess with the character creator until I end up with something I like.

As I mentioned earlier I chose a preset face. Its the hair and eyes that takes me forever to get right.

Aesthetically the eyes are the only thing that has really bothered me with Bethesda characters. They always look opaque, like they are starting to get cataracts. If they don't look clear and realistic, that will probably be the first mod I get.

I usually get mods that deal with hairstyles and eyes. I want realistic looking deep blue eyes for my character.

I usually just go by how I want them to look. in fallout I never make myself I always make a women but up until now I've never done one with red hair because in fallout & other games I haven't seen red hair that actually looks red they look more brown then red. so I hope red hair is actually red in this so I can make a redhead. weird thing to kinda bring up/complain about if you think it sounds like that but I don't know I have never seen a game get that one small thing right.

You know, I don't know if I've ever made a blonde male character. Even in Skyrim I think all my nord men had red or brown hair. Maybe I just don't see many blondes IRL.

My first character in Fallout 3 I made to look like me, mostly just to see if I could, but apparently there's some kind of taboo against that here. I wasn't necessarily playing it as myself, since I also play the first character roughly with the canon background, but I do tend to make their decisions based on what I would do had I lived their life. It was just amusing to have an avatar that really was an avatar of me.

I RPed that my NV character was an amnesia suffering missing-person of my first character, since they fit into the same chronology and the courier's background was vague enough to do that. Maybe the Fallout 4 one will have to be some ancestral cousin of my Fallout 3 character.

I couldn't make anything look remotely like me in Skyrim because none of them really had my jaw or nose (nobody ever really has my nose, except maybe the DA:O dwarves) . However in the E3 video I did see them cycle through several faces that had similar component parts to my face, and no doubt I will be able to sculpt the nose into the necessary shape too.

Other characters are more a roleplay and their looks will usually reflect some aspect of their character, but on top of that a lot of it does go down to personal taste. Which is probably why I have barely any blonde characters.

I try to make a character that makes my wife feel uncomfortable. From what I've seen with chargen, it's going to be quite easy.

I'll probably spend a half an hour or more, since the game is voiced it's even more important that the face is 99% perfect. Not sure what I'm going to go with for Fallout 4, I usually make Blonde Haired Females, I may go differently this time, we'll see.

I usually just muck around with the settings until I find something I like. At the moment in F3 I think I look a little punk - like Lisbeth Salander, only with pink hair. I can't remember my look in New Vegas.

For Oblivion I selected Khajiit. I don't think I did much with facial features though; I was more interested in Class and Birthsign.

Depends on what I'm trying to roleplay.

Bearded with long hair normally. Not a big deal since I spend 10 min in 300 hrs actually looking at myself.

Look in the mirror, model my character, realize I still look like I'm 16, despite being 22, then try to age my character to what he should look like at 22.

I use one of the presets that resemble my face and edit it from there.

Depends on what I'm going for, job wise. Then when I've made up my mind, I just play with the settings until I get a character that looks like how I imagine someone in that job would look.

I play female characters. I try to make them slim and pleasent looking to give the impression that she is thrust out in the wasteland on a seconds notice and forced to make a living for herself.

My very first character I always try to make look like myself, after that I go with a concept, like Nefla and broder.