Customization options are a feature that can get a lot of players excited about a new game. Gameplay and story are not as important to them as how they can create their own experience. By modern gaming standards, most character creation modes have pretty standard features, from different hairstyles to colors to clothing in certain circumstances.
Then there are games that go over the top with their selection to an almost wild degree that no one would attempt. It's great to see different options, so today let's celebrate the games with the most diverse and wild character customization options, plus some options that change the way players experience these games.
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios puts a lot of emphasis on customization
Baldur's Gate 3 is a deep RPG with many branching story paths, making it one of the few games that makes it worth playing multiple times. From the start, players can customize two characters, the second is secret, and the options stretch between body types, races, classes, and more.
Even stranger is the fact that players can take on the role of one of the party members, such as Astarion, who becomes a silent protagonist in the campaign. There aren't many games that give players control over pre-made characters.
Heroes 3D Dot Game
Choose your own protagonist
Heroes 3D Dot Game it is an honor The Legend of Zelda on the NES, complete with a similar-looking world map and dungeon layout. The key difference is that everything is presented in voxels, so everything looks like LEGO bricks.
Players can choose from pre-made character models for their hero, or create one of their own, brick by brick. When the game launched on PS3 in 2010 in North America, players shared some of their more ridiculous designs from various animals to Cloud from Final Fantasy VII.
Saints Row 4
Talk Like A Zombie Day
Saints Row 4 it allows players to create a gang boss with a good selection of characters who also becomes the president. One of the weirdest sliders will help female characters with their chests, while male characters can adjust their trunks to ridiculous degrees too large for either gender to control.
The most fun part of the character creator allows players to choose a voice with options that will change the course of the story. For example, players could choose Nolan North in a sort of fourth-wall-breaking role and in the previous game Saints Row The Thirdplayers might sound like a brain-hungry zombie.
Elden Ring
Regardless of your customization choices, you will die
Elden Ring is a crowning achievement for FromSoftware as it was their first open world game. Like most of their Soulslike games, players can create their character, including appearance and class. Classes start players with a set of equipment and skills, but unlike other RPGs, they are not assigned to set classes that cannot be changed.
As players explore, kill bosses and level up, they can increase their stats in any direction and create hybrids like a warrior gifted in magic. Play alone or with two other friends online, and then just lose yourself in the world's misery.
LittleBigPlanet 2
Out of costume
LittleBigPlanet 2 had an unfair advantage over most because the game is split into two modes. The campaign had a number of levels where players could unlock costumes for their Sackboys that could be combined to create wild looks.
There was a lot of crossover DLC that expanded the options, including dressing up Final Fantasy VII characters or DC characters. LittleBigPlanet 2 it also had a game creation mode that allowed players to create their own experiences, from multiple platformers to something more out of the box like a top-down racing game or an old-school arcade experience.
Cyberpunk 2077
Customize your cyborg body in a city where style comes first
Cyberpunk 2077 has a similar size customization option for characters as Saints Row 4only in coarser details. This is a minor option to begin with, but what's great about the game as a whole is that players can choose to be more or less human depending on what cybernetics they get.
However, it's best to go into the game as someone who wants to go full cyborg, as it opens up a lot of gameplay options, from spotting enemies from afar to hacking computers. There's also a whole range of fashion options for V and stores to shop for the perfect outfit. It is a cyberpunk fantasy created directly in an open world environment.
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness
An endless RPG
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is the first game in a tactical RPG series that already had a lot of customization options, but the remaster, Disgaea 1 completeboasts an even larger selection. Named characters like Laharl and Etna can't be adjusted visually, but how their characters progress in terms of weapon positions can.
Players can also create party members from different classes, styles, and there are even monsters that work at different levels. Characters can also be reincarnated an infinite number of times to add to their stats, and weapons can be upgraded through compact dungeons, so this really is a game with almost infinite possibilities.
Monster Hunter Wilds
Hunt your way and in style
Monster Hunter Wildsand the series as a whole gives players a lot of choice when it comes to hunting monsters for sport and protection. Players can choose between one of fourteen weapon types, such as a bow or insect, and if that weapon doesn't feel right, players can switch as they wish throughout the campaign.
Based on materials and monster parts collected in the world, players can craft new weapons and armor that will eventually unlock transmogrification and fully open up customization. Players can also design their character and their Palico before and after launch.
Skylanders: Imaginators
Diablo Babies
Skylanders: Imaginators is the last major console game in the popular toys-to-life series. The series went out with a bang, to say the least, because while it still used figures that players had to buy in stores, once they were added to the game, their appearance could change. It is also notable for the addition of Crash Bandicoot characters in the series.
Players could swap almost any body part imaginable or change their aspects, and it was a loot-based game like Diablotoo, so the gear kept dropping. It was the perfect top-down action RPG for newer or younger players to help them get into the genre.
The Sims 4
Customize everything to create the Sim you want
The Sims started with many ways for players to live their virtual lives, whether they wanted to start a family or be the weird killer that lured into the neighborhood. The Sims 4 is the latest major entry in the series with even more options for players to live out their fantasies.
The goal isn't to murder people, of course, but it's fun to watch the characters get stuck in rooms and babble weird Simlish. Dark thoughts aside, from character creation to side hustle to home building, The Sims 4 has options and DLC packs for days. Basically, it's the ultimate customized game.
