Is it me or is violence toned down from Mass Effect 3?

It for sure seems toned down compared to ME3, it might be around the same as ME2 but the art style isn't as realistic I guess either. I don;t know if it was a intentional choice or if it was just something that wasn't added due to time. Personally I kind of like this level for this type of game. If the game has a more horror feel sure increase it, but space opera RPG doesn't need graphic depictions of heads exploding IMO. I'm not bothered by it if its in, but I feel it doesn't fit the tone.

Cannibalism, genetic experimentation on unwilling subjects, brainwashed people, mass kidnapping, plenty of murders and other criminal activities, mind controlling experimentation, terrorism...

Cartoonish? What are you smoking?

Pretty much what was said already. Violence and gore are still there (looking around Kadara makes this very obvious), but since MEA is more about exploration to make colonization viable in the Heleus cluster instead of a galactic wide war against a race bent on exterminate every other advanced species its tone is indeed more light than ME3.

I hope they have the possibility for a darker ryder in terms of renegade route or have some darker humor with it.

Jesus, I remember replying to this thread and it was almost 2 years ago. Time is just moving so fast for me now.

People have a nasty habit of doing that don't they?

Hey I wouldn't have noticed it if it hadn't beenon the front page.

I know this is an old thread but, in all honesty, this is the first game in what is likely going to be another trilogy. There wasn't nearly as much violence in 1 as there was in 3. More than Andromeda still, but as someone else pointed out, the original trilogy was a war story.
When you consider ME:A has the possibility of the Jardaan coming back finding US on their turf, an empire of Kett lingering outside the galaxy still hellbent on exhalting the cluster, and not to mention MORE settlers (Quarians, Drell, Hanar, etc) all coming to settle Andromeda and potentially disturb the peace we have worked so hard to achieve... there is bound to be tension and, yes, possibly war. Which will mean increased violence and loss. It will be our job to try to stop that, or if necessary, act as the spearhead in the war effort.

I'm game. No pun intended.