Red Dead Online: 7 MAJOR Issues Rockstar Must Address
7. Once You've Picked Your Character, That's It
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GTA Online's character creator may not have been the most robust tool out there, but it was easy enough to get to grips with. Then, even if you weren't happy with your character, you could create another all over again, and have multiple characters to select from at a given time.
Red Dead Online differs here, sadly. Once you've picked your character, that's it - and if you aren't content with how they look, you have to delete them and start from the very beginning, which means replaying that tedious opening all over again.
Online's customisation options are pretty nifty, with the ability to choose your own body-type a particular highlight, but there's something uncanny about most of the faces players can create. Maybe Rockstar should've brought back the ancestry system from GTA?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
