Cryptic's Bill Roper appears in a recent video on GameSpy titled "How To: Create a Character", and shows us some of the character customization available in the game. There are a flat out dizzying number of options here, and I'm sure this video doesn't show it all in depth. I remember when City of Heroes was new that I loved making characters. It was easy to get lost in coming up with a cool theme then, and it looks like Champions Online will do the same and much more. Check out the video below:



It looks very, very deep in terms of the breadth of options available for customization. It appears that power customization is one of the first things that would be different from how things were back when I played CoH, where you can even choose the color/style of your blasts and such to go along with your outfit/theme.

The customization craziness just gets bigger from there, and makes me wonder if too much customization could possibly be bad? Will it intimidate new users or wind up being one of the better parts of the game like it was in City of Heroes (CoH)? Speaking of CoH, I'm still wondering if Champions Online is different enough to set itself apart from City of Heroes/Villains. I keep asking myself that very question, and other than curiosity I can't really come up with a solid answer as to why I'd want to play.

What do you think about the insane depth in CO's character customization? Too much? Right on? Not enough?