It's not his fault really, he's entitled to his opinion. If you could choose your hair colour, male/female and whatnot in a Final Fantasy game, would that really expand the role-playing options? Not really.Д®dit: You know, it's interesting that these threads always seem to go down the route of 'But Sand!'. I think that's what's really important about making your own character. As long as you have lots of dialogue options to choose from, different ways of influencing the world, and different skills to define your character with. PS:T) and I really don't think it's a game-breaker at all it's really semantic. While I agree that more choice is often better, this is not always possible (e.g. Because of the times we live in, anyway, male/female changes basically *nothing* in the RPGs, except for often shallow romance options. (I wouldn't want to play, say, whatever Bioware might have thought of for a NWN1 OC hero.)ДЄt the end of the day, I believe extensive dialogue and world interaction options by which you define your character, and a varied character development system, is really what is important in roelplaying and defining your own, not whether you can choosem ale or female, Twi'lek or Human, white hair or blonde hair. While I play both female and male genders, and customise quite heavily when I can to try all sorts of different appearances and types, I'm equally happy to play a preset character, if that character is well defined and well written. Though some of you might remember it as Indigo Prophecy. The dialogue mechanics remind me awfully much of a game called Fahrenheit. I would also prefer to 'create' my character in- game, through choices and actions, not pre- game. Torment did not have the option to choose gender or appearance, so for me any game that can compensate with story does not need to have a that intricate character creation process. If that's the case, then good ol' Mike's every word will be recorded by a voice actor and there can't really be any choice of voice set, I guess. Some of the unofficial info leaked in the Game Informer article suggested that you'd be choosing your 'manner' in dialogue trees (aggressive, cautious etc.) rather than reading and selecting actual lines of dialogue in a Kotor2 style.

If you're going to close off the choice of playing as a female character, in order to give greater depth to the male character's story, then the story really has to deliver in order to compensate. I like to be able to customise as much as possible, and it will be a shame not to be able to choose gender, certainly.

Deus ex character creation