Why would people hate this, I think you mean something in vein of NWN2 , and I must say I liked it , but if this is meant to be a isometric point of view than I think portraits would be better overall, althoug I won't lie is my pure nostalgia for infinity engine games.
yeah maybe, I mean I always loved putting my own spin on the main character of role playing games, I never use the default head, and I love tinkering with the sliders and I thought a way that could be possible in this game would be in the portraits.
Now secondly, I am curious, seeing as this is Isometric would something like different body shapes for the characters not be more feasible than for instance in a full 3d, rotate around HD game?
Would be nice to have some choices in that regard, like: thin, medium, medium buff, really buff.