Besties Battle Bracket: Best Character Creator
Added 2025-12-02 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
The Besties Battle Bracket returns... and so does Monster Factory! To celebrate our favorite show about the pleasures and terror of character creation, and to honor the vote in our listener poll, we're selecting the best character creator in video games.

The Rubric
Which game has the most robust character creation tools?
Which game gives you the most ownership of the character you made?
Which had the better Monster Factory end result?

The Contenders
Fallout 4
Skyrim
Tony Hawk’s Underground
Everybody's Golf
Dragon's Dogma
Elden Ring
WWE 2K
Soul Calibur 5
Spore
The Sims 4
Champions Online
Star Trek Online
Monster Hunter World
Saints Row 4
Second Life
Baldur's Gate 3
Comments
As an AEW fan and someone who is consistently disappointed in WWE, I reject this decision. 😝
Little Mel
2025-12-07 00:20:18 +0000 UTCSo that’s why future DadSon looks like Trash Hulk!
Mickey Sheridan
2025-12-06 21:12:07 +0000 UTC“He fucks like a broken train” for knife daddy is one of the funniest fucking sentences ever.
Michael Cummings
2025-12-06 00:56:21 +0000 UTCI run a Conan Exiles community on PC and I would be honored for Monster Factory to use my server to remake my favorite episode
Garfunkel Horseman
2025-12-04 21:22:52 +0000 UTCGonna be that, "well actually" guy and take us back to 2008 when the spore character creator launched as a standalone before the game came out. Years before Saints Row did it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_Creature_Creator
Travis
2025-12-04 02:56:17 +0000 UTCWhenever a game let's me make a character, i will always try to make "Man with Two Dragons souls in his body fighting for control" which Monster Hunter World let me do very very very well. Or i make a leather daddy like i did in City Of Heros, Daddy Jacko the Pumpkin Headed Leather Daddy
BassToad
2025-12-02 19:12:17 +0000 UTCHaven't even gotten to the Spore talk yet but just going off of the rubric Spore should take this entire thing. Spore is an infinity machine when it comes to robustness of the creator. As far as the second part of the rubric goes you are evolving your creature throughout the game to excel in what you want to do in the game.
Lance Hayes
2025-12-02 15:19:57 +0000 UTCSo nice they published it twice
Phillip Martin
2025-12-02 12:36:38 +0000 UTCI think Kenshi would have gone pretty deep in this bracket.
Zachary Martel
2025-12-02 09:17:18 +0000 UTCTruly my greatest achievement in life was suggesting this topic! Thank you boys, I can’t wait to listen to this ❤️
lilylittlelamb
2025-12-02 08:39:06 +0000 UTC