Agreed. Monster Hunter has always been terrible about this (for classic games you needed a save editor, for 5th gen onward you need to buy a char editing ticket with real money) while pretty mudh every other game in this space lets you change appearance for free at any time.
This is a big one for me too. It doesn't help that sometimes characters end up looking different between static character creation and gameplay due to lighting.
And dont forget Minecraft, the 3d Fallout games and the Elder Scrolls games
In Xenoblade X, after you've made a certain amount of progress in the game, you can find a guy who gives you a mission to help him set up a new business. If you finish it, he creates a back alley body shop. Basically, you can pay him to reopen the character creator.
Some games do this, like the recent Legend of Zelda games.
I'm surprised no gang member has realized that the ultimate weapon in that world is a super soaker.
A lot of improvement hacks for the series make a point of fixing this issue.
I only play them after beating the vanilla game (and most if not all improvement rom hacks arent in spanish anyways)
What you describe is fair, but not necessarily the only scenario where respeccing would be useful. It would mean respecting the player's time, ultimately.
*Etrian Odyssey 1 chopping ten levels in the slowest leveling game of the saga PTSD intensifies*
This, so much this. The PRs infuriate me for discarding the extras.
THIS this this, for me this applies for every type of media.
Anything over 3 seconds is already bordering too much outside of first time loads/shader compilations if you ask me.
That sucks man, all that grinding because of the load times
I've played a fair share of those. My avatar is sort of proof of that. Different in this however is how the character is seen throughout the game. (He's the male protag from SRW30, btw). I usually have my characters be anything BUT human, they can look like one but never seen AS one. I'm the type that prefers to believe I'm beyond 'human' because what I have is anything that's remotely human. So yeah, I don't being the outcast, it reflects how I see myself in reality.
This was part of the computer gaming experience way back when. Pop a disk in your disk drive, or a tape in your tape deck if you had that, and then load up a game and just wait. I had a Commodore 64 and there were games you could potentially boot up and go take a shower before the game was ready. I had a graphic adventure that was probably 45-60 seconds between individual static screens, but it was still fun.
