Avowed Players Want A Way To Change Their Appearance

Avowed Players Want A Way To Change Their Appearance

From TheGamer (Written by Jack Coleman) on | OpenCritic

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Obsidian Entertainment has bucked a trend we've seen in recent triple-A role-playing game releases: the ability to change your character's appearance after you exit the character creator. In fairness to Obsidian, Avowed does explicitly warn you that there's no changing your character as you're about to exit the character creator, so you can't say you weren't informed.

However, sometimes your tastes change, or perhaps you aren't happy with how your character looks in alternate lighting. This topic was raised in a Reddit thread from ArtificialInelegance, who admits they became so fixated on their character's appearance that they restarted Avowed after 25 hours rather than powering through with a character they weren't happy with.

While that's certainly an extreme response to your "godlike bits" not being "godlike enough", I can sympathise with being unhappy with a custom character's appearance. During my first stint in Grand Theft Auto Online in 2013, I made a character that looked half-decent in the poorly-lit character creator, but upon entering the sun-dappled streets of Los Santos, his unsightly visage was revealed. This is actually also a problem in Avowed, where the character creator's lighting doesn't necessarily account for all the lighting variations your character...

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