'Please begin by inputting your race, gender, and most crippling source of regret.' Character Creator is a five minute hate letter to RPGs, and all the nonsense they put us.
This application will help you create a character for use in the Spectrum Role-Playing System (2nd Edition). It also obviously benefited from the strong D&D base. 'Welcome to the Spectrum Character Creator. Creating the characters and the customization was fun as hell.and even with the games problems, was easily worth the price for that part alone. I think a good example of a game like this, that I know got some bad press, was The Temple of Elemental Evil. So outside the obvious choices, I am looking for smaller, even independent hidden gems on steam that fit this.
I also don't like games that eventually you unlock everything so one character is not that much different than another. I don't like games that leveling up and taking one path over another has very little impact on combat and your experience. I also love when the game really diverges as you level up and you can spend countless hours stressing over paths you take in skill trees and trying to find a way to "break" the game. I still pop in Icewind Dale from time to time and spend an hour or so creating characters. I love games that can take hours trying to roll the perfect team. The next 90 levels come from grinding for barely higher level equipment over and over again.I guess it goes back to playing D&D as a kid, but part of my favorite thing about any RPG is the character creation (not the way they look but the stats) and the leveling up of characters. Once you reach level 30 there are no new powers or mechanics or skills your character gains. Just the same high-level raids over and over hoping you don't keep getting the exact same gear you did before. Sorry for bashing but I got to level 100 in that game and I still think it sucks. There are tons of choices though, which makes it fun. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has one of the best character creation differences with the different clans, but the cosmetic customization is just a choice in sex.
They have had the same level cap and same powers and same raids for like 3 years now. The character creation isnt as fleshed out in KotOR I and II, but they are still really good. There's very little to min/maxing, customization, crafting, etc., except for grinding raids over and over.
So many people download the game play 5 levels and then quit. They're like rabid animals, I have never had a good convo on DCUO, and can't form a good League to save my life. I got kicked and they kept tweedle-dee who probably couldn't even read. The community sucks on PS4, I got kicked from a match once because I had a shit teammate (someone I don't know randomly added to our team) and I was for apologizing for their behavior (there are certain requirements to beat certain bosses, like you all have to press a button at the same time, and some people are too stupid to understand or read the directions), but the team just assumed it was my fault since I actually apologized for once. It literally is about pressing the same button combos over and over for DPS regardless of the situation and the metagame is about always switching to whatever power is flavor of the month due to the various nerf and buff patches they're constantly releasing due to the constant massive amounts of whining from the community about how unfair it all seems. DCU online takes less skill than any game I have ever played.