why no "white" skin color in GWN?

Boy I have a feeling that I will get called a racist and all sorts of things but I simply does not understand this concept.


Im a white guy and I like to make characters that look similiar to my apperance as much as possible.


GW had both white and black skin color tones... so there was something for everybody.

I don't understand why this can not be the case with Nightfall??

Im very well aware that the game is inspired by north africa, but lets be honest. there is no egypt or morroco or africa in Tyria.


I dont even remember if GWF had a wide selection of skin color but it should have IMO. there should be equalness in this. something for everybody.

just seems silly to me to only make dark skinned characters.


sorry if anyone feel this is offensive or racistic. I just would like to see a wider arrange of skin colors...

eh, there probably will be more skin tones to choose from, we only had 3 over an event so far before the actual release of the game, we have no idea what's what yet.

Extremely pale gal here - I too like to create a character that has similar characteristics to myself.

That being said though, I don't think there was enough dark skinned choices in Tyria (not sure about Factions)

Given the facial features of the Elonans, it would look very very strange if they didn't have dark skin tones.

I dont know where your getting your info from but in the PVP beta, I had a white Paragon with pale blue eyes.... Skin tones havent changed much since GWP. So.....

I wish I hadnt deleted my preview paragon, but i didnt need him after trying it and his name was stupid. "Paragon Skybane" so stupid. But he was definitely white. So I wouldn't count your chickens before the fat lady sings.. wait...

Being a person of color, I am disappointed with teh GW selections.
Sure, they have dark skin shades, but one looks to me as if it's just a white person with a good tan and the other is just way too dark.

That's not the only issue, the hair choices and facial features don't vibe.
All of the hairstyles are long and straight or short and straight. My hair doesn't look like that. The only way to get something accurate is to make a bald-headed character...I HAVE HAIR, and then the facial features are off.

I can go on and on and name game after game where this is the case.
So I feel your pain...or better yet...YOU feel my pain.

"African"

I'm with gene on this one.

Note that some classes did, in fact, have light skn tone options as well some caucasian face options. I would expect that these selections will be expanded upon release to be similar to the offerings in Factions. Having said that, you will almost certainly see more African-esque models and skin tones in Nightfall, just as you had more Asian models in Factions.

sorry about the K in african... but I didn't check the facials features. I just think they will not give caucasian color.

I hope the Black person features doesnt hinder my chances at making a Arabic looking person, because its what I want!

Go aztec and have your character look yellowish :P

I'm sure they would, there wern't many character faces or haristyles either, so expect to see more^^

There will be A White,Brownish,and a Dark

There always is

wrong as they will give the same color choices as the first two chapters.

they had black for european/asian as options didnt they?

Did anyone try using an old trial-key from the Factions preview for the Nightfall preview? If you did, you could see the Nightfall faces and flesh tones they have planned for all of the professions, and not just for the dervish and paragon. Most were black-looking, but not all. There was an 80's style flat-top for male mesmers, and a huge frizzy 70's afro for male ele's that both made me laugh.

The odd thing is that most North africans - Egyptians, Moroccans, etc, don't look black at all - mostly a mixture of european white and arab olive-skinned.

They weren't that brownish. I think the default color was pretty good. And about the white people... would you want to see a white african? I was pretty annoyed with the brown Asian and I really don't want to see another bad coloring job. If you want to play as a person who looks European just wait until the full release and make your Prophecies character go to Elona

I really don't understand the OP.

This doesn't look white to you:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/gallery...649&fullsize=1

As to Gene's and others comments about facial features and hair matching skin tones:

Factions had "Asian" faces, so I see no reason to doubt Nightfall will have "African" features.

There was no male dervish, and there was no female paragon. There was what, 3 skin tones for these 2 professions? I think ANet is gonna add more.

Im gonna have to go against you on this one. The image that Mordokai showed looked like my skin color.

Come to think of it, I created a pale paragon.


But deverish is what I like.


You see, I have always loved melee classes but was always annoyed that warriors are sort of fat and overly steroid muscle build, while Assassins was totally pansy and skinny.

I thought Deverish looked uber cool because their body type was sort of normal.. but was just sad to see that there where none in "my" color.




And I will admit this - I never gave this a single thought until it was "my" skin color I felt was missing. And I think this goes across in most games which is wrong. The only "big" commercial game I remember having a black lead character was C.J from San Andreas. A cool character I might at. But that the majority is white is wrong.
Lately I noticed while playing Prey, that the main character was native american. I sort of digged that.

I maybe should put myself in african american peoples position when I make these thread.



I agree that people from egypt and morroco dont really look typical african. They really just look more like spanish and Italians. Like a mixture of all.

I know that factions had a asian theme but what was wrong with having dark skin colors for that game? Is it not in Indonesia that there are very dark skinned asians? And cambodia?



I mean, GW: Prophercies was also supposed to be based in europe in the middleages but that game had also dark skinned people which was highly uncommon back there(beyond as slaves, I belive).

I wanna see Indian and south african and latino type characters in this game as well...


When Nightfall comes out im guying to buy a new slot, just so I can make my own Mr. T warrior from nightfall


It would just be neat if we could get a pale deverish.

I hope that when Nightfall comes out, we can have a broad choice of skin tones, hair, and different facial types. Ideally, what I'd like to see is all the choices from past games, and the new types. Shouldn't be too hard to do, and slider bars are wonderful things. *hint, hint, Anet*