Honestly, I have to strongly disagree because I played skyrim way way too much, and played games with sliders way too much. I can't succeed at fully emphasizing just how awful sliders are, and If you look up videos of character creation in skyrim, you can see that it was all sliders, and you could never tell which "notch" the slider was on, which unfortunately would force the player to base what "notch" they thought the slider was based on by the amount of times they clicked (completely lost and without reference points) other than/away from the extreme end of the slider. so basically O------------------------------
*listen carefully*
---O---------------------------- *Click click click!*
"what am I on?" *intense feeling of false hope*
*click... click?*
------------O------------------------ "How many away from the left was that? Oh goshh!!!!! ahhhhhhhhh!"
*Start over*
and that was for every single individual slider.
and then my character would look, well... not how I planned.
It was extremely tedious, and I had to play with that character for the rest of the game, and I never felt like it was "okay", as I never reached that level of satisfaction in the character creator.
In contrast, I really like what
CDProjektRed has done so far (those screen shots people posted of the early character creation stuff) with many large lines of "PRESET BARS" not sliders.
Sliders (Bad) = O--------------------------
Preset Bars (Good) = [1]-[2]-[3]-[4]-[5]-[6]-[7]-[8]-[9]-[10] (and lots of them! wow!
) The preset bars are so good because they are little buttons that can be clicked, and they are clearly marked and numbered so that the player knows exactly what setting they are clicking, and they know exactly where the setting remains, hopefully remaining highlighted after selection, and additionally, it allows players to remember and even write down specific presets that are their favorites, and save them for later, or even share those specific numbers with other players like "hey friend, I love your character!" "Thanks! Here's the code! try your self!" *1 for nose, 2 for eyes, etc.* "Wow thanks! amazing!"
I
hope CDProjektRed's recent "Mystery" changes are a strong enhancement and expansion of those preset bars and options and customization ability and variety. Maybe CDProjektRed has noticed that people really REALLY love customization and maybe decided "hey what we already have is good, but lets put the customization into CYBER-DRIVE!" improving it even more? This is just a guess, and a hope of mine.