User blog:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S3E9: Character Creation.

Hello everyone, Madman97, coming to give you another episode of Wabbajack Grinding, and finally bringing a long awaited subject to the table to rant about. Without further ado, let's dive in.

Ever since the birth of the idea of creating your own character hit the shelves in gaming companies, it had become essential to the fantasy genre. Why? Because you could be anything you want! Inside the game's limits of course, unless you were playing Dungeons and Dragons or something...ya Nerd. (Just kidding. I play it too(Just kidding, I don't play that sh*t, you f*cking nerd)(Lawls. Just kidding again)...(Not really). ANYWHO.

It's a pivotal, essential, other words with the same meaning. Important. Yeah, that's good. I think you get the point. And when it comes to the Elder Scrolls, Character creation has been up for a lot of rage in the years it has gone full on 3D. In fact, this has probably been on the list for most requested rant subjects on this show for a long while, since the shows creation I think. In all honesty, I never had a real problem with it. I created my character, a Nord with red hair named Leif, based on the old Viking explorer of the same name, just fine. I never made another for Skyrim. I liked my first perfectly fine. I had no real desire to go through all the trouble creating another. In Oblivion, which I admit, played after I played Skyrim for the first time, I went with the familiar character and went with a Nord again. No problem. But my good friend Dave had some real beef with it, and he explained it to me in full. After really delving into it, I started to see the concerns of the people, even if I hadn't noticed before, but after really looking at it, I think it's starting to make me mad too.

One of the main gripes people can have about it is that you don't even see your characters face for most of the time, as you start out with first person, and while you can do third person, it's in the "Your doing it wrong" category. Seriously, who actually fights someone in third person? It's bloody difficult! Sure, if you want to see yourself look awesome every now and again, but chances are, you are spending the majority of your time in first person, and if not, and you do play through the game in third person, props to you, but you will probably want something to compensate for your difficutly when playing, like heavy armor, with a helmet. Eliminates all purpose of seeing your face regardless. Plus, designing your face is kind of difficult, getting it exactly right. I think a lot of people stick with the default settings, simply changin the hair style or eye color to match their own to create familiarity, not really giving a sh*t about nose length unless you just wanted to make the ugliest character to laugh at the idea of a deformed fat guy kicking the p*ss outta dragons. Plus, I don't think most of us are not experts on 3D modeling. I'm pretty sure here at Yale they have a couple classes on 3D images, but I'm also sure most of you don't go to Yale. I've never seen someone who could create a perfectly unique face that looked like a normal human face. All the people I have seen create their own character usually only change a couple settings to give the character their own distinct look, but still has enough of the default that it still looks kind of like the default character they are given. This isn't really a ran against the lack of skill players can have, but how weird the character looks if we do try and have fun with creating our character. Really, our default characters, if we want a normal looking person, ARE our chracters we play as. We are limited to them. I can't create a perfect likeness of myself on Skyrim any more than you guys can, unless you are the models they used to create the faces or you are actually the Dragonborn...or you really do look like the ugly character you created. God help you buddy.

And let's not get started on the haircuts. NOT THE HAIRCUTS!!!! I'm pretty sure medieval people didn't have a lot of hair stylists then, but there were still ways to style one's hair, even dye it. That aside, even a natural hairdo would look better than the ones given to us, which can sometimes look like the lovechild of spaghetti and the straw you get in a barn. Plus the styles arn't exactly what a normal person would have on them. More like Professor Snape or Smeagol. After surfing through all the haircuts, I found only one that actually seemed to resemble a normal human being. Sure, go wild with Orcs or Argonians, if they even have hair, but when it comes to a person, I would rather not look like a bandit or serial killer.

And that's it for the last episode of Wabbajack Grinding before the Season 3 finale! Remember to tune in, and I will see you their for the largest event on this wiki to happen since C0DA, but you already know how I feel about that (Troll Smile here), and I will see you there. Stay Ranty!