Self-Insertion in Space

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I finally bought Mass Effect: Andromeda a couple days ago because I was salty at the DAI character creator and also it was $9 on Origin so at that point why not? I've gotten as far as the Nexus, which is not very far. But the CC is very unique - allowing you to stretch and squish but not really... alter the faces. That makes more coherent looking faces than DAI and lets the family match up well, at the price of flexibility.

Which is nice and all but holy crap there were two different East Asian presets with a matching badass dad and honestly all I want out of video games is to be able to make a face that looks like mine without fighting the game itself every step of the way and I got that. So flexibility can go fuck itself.

Standing there on the bridge with my dad and Captain Dunn felt... strange, but amazing. Just, being able to say "this is me" (with contact lenses) and I'm not alone in looking like that, in the first ten minutes of a game that isn't something like Jade goddamn Empire. I get to be in space with my dinky pistol and a broken helmet shooting aliens in the face. And it feels good.