10 Video Game Problems That Piss EVERYONE Off
2. Character Creation Screens With Their Own Lighting
One of the biggest demands people frequently have after a game is released is a way to change your character's appearance. Too often we spend way too much time meticulously altering every little detail of our character's face, only to find that we somehow look like a mutant in the actual game world.
Almost always that's because the character creation screen has its own, unique lighting that doesn't represent lighting you'll see anywhere in the actual game. So in the light of day, suddenly there are shadows where there were no shadows before, blemishes that weren't visible, and your makeup makes you look like a clown.
Final Fantasy 14 brilliantly and easily manages to avoid this problem by letting you change the time of day during character creation, so you can see yourself as it will actually look throughout the entire game, day or night. It's the simplest, most obvious solution to the problem.
But considering how few games do this, it feels like a wholly unique stroke of staggering brilliance that the FF14 devs thought, "Hey, what if we make the character creation look like the game they're playing?"