How long does it take you to make your characters to look perfect in your own image..?

I never make them look like myself :P

Few hours, but at least its possible, not like that stupid face I see every morning in bathrooms mirror.

I was very surprised when I first learned that some people make the RPG characters look like them.

I used to tweak every little slider, but as the character creators became more complicated recently, I just spend the minimal amount of time needed to make the character look unique and not ugly.

I'm a big tall human in reality but I like to play as big muscular dwarves and half-orcs so I never make my hero look like me. I make him how I would like to look as a dwarf or a half-orc.

I like my character to be as different from me as possible.

I don't play many horror games so I don't see a need to be photorealistic.....😱. That said I have probably spent too long in some Bethesda games trying to produce a character who doesn't look like one of the mannequins you see in game that I can vaguely live with. Fortunately in most Bethesda game you never see the PC face that much. In games where you do see it more I sometimes put a bit more effort but often those kinds of games have simpler customisation options.

I almost always use the default character. Sratch that - I always use the default character.

I think I used to play around the character creator years ago. I think in Skyrim on my first playthrough. But in no other game. Maybe change hair and beard if default looks stupid, but overall dont care about other sliders or choices. Hell - even in Sims when I used to play it, I used default or random characters only.

when its possible i always make the hair blonde with green eyes and female like myself, idk many games with many options except for skyrim+racemenu mod

I usually just use a default

I will tell you when I finish.

character creation screen of games is to hard, tens of thousands of hours and barely any progress.

Depending on the game its either going to be default or if I really like the game... a few hours...

I just use the default (or a default) and change hairstyle, beard, eye color, scars, tattoos, facepaint etc. The easy stuff. If I use any of the sliders, the end result is a monster.

Also, I don't want the character looks like me.

I used to try and make the characters look like me, but at some point I stopped and just started to have fun making them look kinda outlandish but cool.

Man, I remember the crazy Mass Effect character creator and how much fun I had on it.
But no, I don't make characters look like myself. Where's the fun in that?

Most of the time I wouldn't make the character look like myself. If anything, it'd be a better version of myself I'd like to look like, you know what I mean?
Either way... "How long does it take you" is not the right question. The question should be "do you ever succeed at making it perfectly what you want it to look like", to which the answer is "no, absolutely not". 😆

While on this topic I'll also add a one-sentence rant about how the GTA Online character creator is absolutely awful and possibly the worst I've ever tried/used.

Only time I did that was in the Sims 2 and 3. But basically I don't like to look at me while playing, so I usually choose something completely different (and it takes usually 5-10 minutes)

It depends on the game. In some cases I've gone through a lot of game time and tweaks to make my character look like me. Other times I spend some time in the character creator to make someone likeable yet not myself. And other times if there are multiple races and weird things, I try to make something original, and fun or weird. Since each game is different in how much and when you can customize your character, giving even an approximate amount of time is not possible. Sometimes 1-2 minutes, sometimes weeks (in one case, years, because they updated the avatars look and I had to redo mine).

What a depressing idea

Usually I don't make characters look like myself, but that doesnt mean I don't spend hours in character creator lol.

Couldn't care less about looks of my chars.

If there is a randomize button I keep hitting that until it generates something I like. Otherwise I do not usually bother with it.

umm... a few mins? i either go by default (yes, even if it's just using plain clothes) or press the randomize button once

I spend maybe a minute on appearance and then 30 minutes to an hour on stats. I probably spend about a third of my time in the level up menu and tinkering with equipment. This is a major appeal to d&d mechanics. Sometimes the mechanics are just broken. I remember having a mounted paladin with a lance, a few traits relating to lances and mounted combat and investing most of my points to boost mounted combat with a lance. I just went around basically one shotting everything and stayed away from dungeons or areas that might negate mounted combat.

Depends on the game really o.o

I play with the options for about 5-10 minutes and then I'm done. I never have the ambition to make it look "perfect".