I am an individual!

Have you noticed with this current trend of MMOs that…

everyone looks the same?

Seriously, look around.  There’s like one body type per race nowadays, and only five or six races.  Perhaps I’m a bit spoiled with EQ and DAoC (for number of character races), SWG pre-NGE (for customization) and various MUDs (see previous) but when you’re just like everyone else the character itself loses its flavour.  Apparently it’s British flavour, imported.

I’ve always been more willing to play a character that I crafted more than a character I just slapped together.  Five faces,one body type just isn’t cutting it for me anymore.  This goes double for more of the Korean-style MMOs where you’re playing a character with this backstory, that everyone else can pick from.  It’s like a cloning machine went amok!  And that just screams “hey, you could play NWN2 and make a better character” to me.

If I’m going to play an MMO, I want a character that is *different*, and not just in mannerisms.  Heck, most of my early MMOing I made friends with people by starting conversations with “Wow, that is an awesome [loot item here], it makes you look sharp!  What is it?”.  Note that I have no problem with one item looking the same way, but if you can have five “fighters” standing in line, all be relatively the same effectiveness and look completely different then you have a winner.

I WANT TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL!

POR FAVOR NOOOOO!

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