I'm a fan of character creators in games. So I was pleased to hear that Black Desert Online has released a free, standalone version of its. So I'm in the creator and just a heads up on anybody else who wants to try this: You have to create a Black Desert Online account. The creator is free, but you still have to do the initial set up.
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The Steam version of Black Desert Online requires the purchase of the game from Steam as well as the creation of a new Black Desert Online account. Pre-existing Black Desert Online accounts created from methods other than Steam will not be able to play via Steam.
Black Desert Online is a sandbox, living-world MMORPG. Experience fast-paced, action-packed combat, hunt monsters and huge bosses, fight with friends in a guild to siege nodes and region castles, train your life skills such as fishing, trading, crafting, cooking, and much more! Players will enjoy jaw-dropping graphics, intuitive skill-based combat, and an immersive story encased in our expansive world that’s just waiting to be explored. Accompanied by a Black Spirit, a companion whose destiny is intertwined with their own, players will discover the secret of the Black Stones and the history of their corrupting effects. CLASSES: FEATURES
Never has there been a better excuse for grown men to play dress up with dolls. The Black Desert Online character creator is out as a free standalone thing you can download. People with a lot of time on their hands, and the desire to manipulate a dozen facial muscles, are in heaven right now. Anything you make in the character creator can be imported to the final game—an MMO in a world that no longer sees many MMOs.
There's an official video from Black Desert, but Let's Make Friends goes further with the concept. So I'll post the one from Let's Make Friends. The stock characters you can make in there are beautiful. Just absolutely gorgeous men and women. But Korea (Black Desert is Korean) has always been able to do this. It's hard to top Korea if you want artistic renditions of good-looking people. You can get funky, too, though. Push a character creator with this many sliders too far, and you'll come up with some heinous-looking faces. Ugly is easy. Beauty is hard.
Around the three-minute mark, Let's Make Friends starts crafting characters to resemble Hollywood folks. Otherwise, you can even stiffen and pose character's hair in freakish ways. Like, full-can-of-Aquanet-in-the-1980s ways. Not to mention posing their bodies. I've never seen a character creator let you pose your character in such wacky ways before. And the smiling is creepy. Crafting a natural-looking smile must be the final hurdle of believable character animation. Well, come to think of it, I hate my own smile, so who knows. Maybe smiling is just a creepy thing in general.
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Black Desert Online heads into Closed Beta Test #2 on PC in one month, February 18. We recently sent Travis Huinker into the first closed beta, and, if Gaming Nexus Slack chat is to be believed, we're attempting to send him in again. You can pre-order Black Desert on the official website. Packages start at $29.99 and go up to $99.99. It will be buy once, play forever, like Guild Wars, but there's obviously a structure in place to spend plenty of money in-game.
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