This is one feature I absolutely love in games.
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From the early days of pro wrestling games. WWF War Zone. for today's standard is pitiful but for PS1 and N64 fifteen years ago it was breakout and cutting edge. I'd had some level of customization in WCW NWO Revenge but it was lacking. Then taking the cue from WWF, WCW responded in kind with backstage assault and mayhem.
Then once WWF became WWE, they started on the Smackdown series. Smackdown Shut Your Mouth was the first game I'd ever played that really allowed me to make various characters. Including myself. I have SmackDown Here Comes the Pain. I'd also gotten Smackdown SvR 2009 and 2010 but I hear after 2007 they started taking away from it. I don't know as I haven't really played my PS2 in some time.
I know these aren't "best" anymore as they've long been dethroned. But at one point they all were.
I did help my roommate with Saints Row 4. He wanted to make his "token black guy". At first he made it of Obama but wasn't feeling it. Then when I recited lines from Big Money Hustlas, he remembered Dolemite. Rudy Ray Moore. I made the face as close as the engine would possibly allow and it looked...okay perhaps. Wasn't a dead ringer but it was as close as you got.
I wish they would have allowed something like that on GTA 3 era games. Though I would not change Tommy's face (RL model Johnathan Sale) for anything on vice city. But I liked the era and it would have been nice to have a game, then, of the genre with that level of customization, that's all I'm saying. It wasn't whacky like saint's row, but it was a still half-believable goofy realism era. It was fun to play. Though I liked GTA4, the magic ended there for me for a number of reasons.
I was curious about TERA and am curious about FF14. I seriously doubt I will get any more into MMO games, though.
Will look into APB, now that I am seeing a bit about it.