Character creation

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I usually make a guy who usually who uses magic of some sort, dark or black clothes, does the morally correct thing, and perhaps somewhat manipulative. Basically a version of myself.

And I like to do another run as an alternate reality, a girl who is a bit of an assassin, does bad things to get what she wants.

I think that my favourite game I used with these characters was KoTOR,(1 or 2) a good guy who uses force choke, and a pretty young lady corrupted, with a rebreather mask.

In Skyrim I chose the first to be a highelf with magic, especially illusion, but I chose the second to be a female Orc who just wants to smash everything. But I ended up creating also creating a male Kajhit after a character I was writing, he was a somewhat honorable assassin who was fun with a bow. Also created, but not far yet, a breton female summoner I modeled after a character called Lucy from the anime Fairy Tail, if only I could give pink hair and have skills in fists I could do Natsu from the same show, his title from that is a dragon slayer, for similar reasons, I was annoyed at not being able to make red hair for an Erza Scarlet.

I like the idea makeing characters in games from shows like Fairy Tail.

No doubt Saints Row 3 is getting most people's votes on Character Customising but there could be more to add to it.
I dunno if that's because I'm on a console and everyone else is on PC with mods but I personally think it could do more with customising.
I do like the game, just wish there was more.

The first game that I played with a character customization requirement was back on Phantasy Star Online I & II for Gamecube. I was a Humar with the height cranked all the way to the bottom, the black suit color choice, and a green mohawk head option. I would often use the huge, slow, sword type weapon, which made my character look even smaller. A friend found it hilarious. I guess that's why today when I make a weapon choice, it's always the large/two-handed sword.

Let's see... In games like ME, I usually make the character somewhat resemble myself. In games with options of different races, I pick whichever race I see fit... For example, a Kahjit rogue or a wood elf hunter. Same goes for WoW, my main(Death Knight) is a male orc, since I see Orcs and Tauren as the 'warrior' horde race. My warlock is an Undead and all my healers are female. I don't make any female 'offensive' characters either, since that just seems... wrong, to me. Female warriors just don't make any kind of sense. Female mages are OK, I guess, but I still prefer male character for 'combat' roles. Stuff like Belf/Undead/Troll/Goblin warriors/pallies/DKs also seems wrong to me... Why would anyone want a 3 feet tall goblin DK and not a 9 feet tall tauren warrior?

Hands down, the best character creator I've ever used is the one in Champions Online, a superhero MMORPG. Even just playing for free (which is practical - you can play clear to the level cap without ever giving the company a dime), there's such a bewildering array of possible looks for your character that they recently started blocking some of the costume options until your first character reaches 10th level (which only takes a couple of hours anyway).

I recently started a new character on my secondary account (the one I haven't spent anything on, just to prove what can be done). He's an undead archer (Marksman Archetype), using the Zombie flesh appearance wherever possible, named Deadeye.

(He used to be the living hero Bowshot, back in the Nineties. Then in 1992, Dr. Destroyer tried to hold the world hostage with his Meteor Attractor. All the heroes who could go to space went there to stop the incoming asteroids; all the rest went to fight Dr. D in his hideout in Detroit. Turned out Dr. D was a bad loser - his "final" act was to trigger his Orbital Cannon, which fired on Detroit, killing tens of thousands of civilians and dozens of superheroes, including Bowshot.

Then, in 2010, a necromancer named Takofanes used the mystical Blood Moon ritual to summon up the zombified bodies of the dead heroes, to battle the new heroes in the rebuilt Detroit, now called Millennium City. This happened every full moon until October of 2011, when the heroes finally defeated Takofanes himself. The necromancer was forced from this plane - but the late Bowshot remained. Regaining his self-awareness, he renamed himself Deadeye and set out to assist the heroes he had been forced to fight...)

My favorite is the one I use to create Chitheria Tempus characters. Look below to see one I designed:

I play females nearly all the time. In The Elder Scrolls if I'm an Argonian or Khajit I have to be male, the girls... Their chests bother me.

My characters tend to be stealthy. I just love sneaking around. One character in particular I can tell you about. She's from Skyrim, her name is Ro, and she's a Redguard. She is a Dark Brotherhood assassin. So one of the most important events in her lifetime was when she came back from a kill and (SPOILER) found the sanctuary on fire, and nearly all her family dead. (END SPOILER) And another important event was when she married Marcurio. She suffers from a lot of guilt due to a terrible disaster years ago and has since had a drinking problem...

I've put a lot of thought into her since she's the first character I created in The Elder Scrolls, but I'll stop.