For me, rolling a new character in Warcraft is something I approach with a mixture of both anticipation and a little anxiety.
Firstly, of course, there is the anticipation of the adventures ahead, mixed in with some little concern that I have done it so many times before that I might well lose interest.
Well, of course I want to. I could wait for all the changes that will come with Cataclysm of course, this will refresh the early levelling process no end.
Then something else strikes me. As I’m rolling the character I remember just how limited the choices are for the appearance.
How dull and uninspired the preset character faces and styles are.
Humans in particular are a very weird looking bunch. The lack of real facial customization apart from the adornments of hair and piercing means they all end up looking pretty much the same. A look I would describe as “very 2005″.
There were good reasons for the paucity of detail in 2005. Computers were less able and the internet connection most people enjoyed was far slower, meaning that the time to load and cache a lot of different facial detail would have been a hurdle.
