:geordi-no: Players Shaming Devs

:geordi-yes: Devs Shaming Players

>make white human male the default in every CC screen of every game

>never question why this is considered the default

>people impatient to play click through menus and don't customize their character thinking "I'll do it later" or "I'll do it next time"

>the analytics system picks up on this

god what a horrible creature... a white man

w my hot purple tiefling

If nothing else, this shows that the average gamer is not a min-maxer because humans in BG3 are just fucking trash. So many of the other races come with incredible power and the added benefit of not looking like their name is fucking John.

I prefer to be a plain jane human because I like my character to be the mundane yardstick to which all fantastical things around me can be judged. This is exactly how most main characters in movies and books are structured, so I imagine a lot of other people do this too.

Playing starfield i accidentally made a guy that basically looks like obi wan kenobi was portrayed by ewan macgregor

I mean I always just make myself in the character creator for any RPG, the most adventurous I get is going half-elf, never full elf.

Acting like this isn't their fault for not including tabaxi in the base game

Give the furries an option and they will come (double entendre only somewhat intended)

Ah yes, John Baldursgate.

Not sure this necessarily means that everyone is just rolling Default 1990s CRPG Character. You could have a bunch of interesting builds that still end up with this as the combination of the most popular choices

I think there's a pretty clear disconnect between the power levels of the implied background of the PC and the backgrounds for the other party members. Like okay I'm a Paladin/Warlock who was apparently a Guild Artisan and there are occasionally dialogue options based on these, but generally I'm a blank slate normal guy; the perfect example of a level 1 character background.

Every single one of them (except arguably Shadowheart) are way too powerful in-setting to be a level 1 character in D&D.

There is a sort of charm to "bland generic fighter" templates especially in a game trying to go out of its way to not do that on its premade story characters.

That said, the no-selections default is better off showing anything but what the typical gater would expect from his yet-another-grizzled-cishet-white-man-avenging-fridged-wife-and/or-rescuing/protecting-le-sexy-daughter-figure-from-otherfied-subhumans-totally-nonpolitically slop.

Solution: Should have made it so that there were no plain white guy options

I thought the most popular choice was half elf and the least popular class was cleric.

Generic things are generic for a reason. They're popular.

i always play a human or very close sort, because i am very bad at sliders to begin with and the more complicated the face structure the harder it is to make me hot

what's most important in a character creator (idk how BG3 is on this) is just real-life diversity, you couldn't make an east asian face in skyrim without mods, even though you can be a lizard person

Okay but my boring white guy is a half elf with sick face tattoos but I did want him to look generally like me