Has anyone else noticed that the facial animations during the Cora romance scene, is drastically bet

There was a thread about animations recently. The upshot was the hat the design approach was apparently to do a bunch of procedural basic animations and hand-tune the refinements later.

This is exactly the sort of thing we'd expect to see.

You're just fooling yourself. To have 'dozens, if not hundreds artists handcrafting virtually every scene in the game' you'd have to practically cut everything else and get only MEA movie. 

MEA's budget is estimated to be about 40 million. If that's true, that's less than 1/4 of your average Hollywood blockbuster 1,5 hour movie. And you have to divide that budget between hundreds of hours of content and many supporting gameplay systems.

I mean, heck - Horizon Zero Dawn was about two times shorter and had a fixed, uncustomizable protagonist and mo-capped facial animations, and even their animations were criticized at times.

And I'm not saying that there's no room for improvement when it comes to MEA animations - heck, there's a lot of it - but you seem to have ideas about game development that are far away from reality.

Yup.

Sex scenes>all

The non-sex scene is better.

Really.

Its really sweet.

Their romance fans are primarily straight dudes? Huh. And here we've been told over and over again that it was ladies and GLBT folk demanding romances catered to them that was taking attention away from "the important stuff" and ruining BW. 

Also, come on, dude. Their motivation for creating a game that clocks in at over 50 hours of content wasn't romances, which probably comprises less than an hour of that total and is handled primarily through standard dialogues and emails. 

You paid $60 for a game (that's what maybe 2 hours of work with an entry level job out of college?) that gives you 60+ hours at a miniumum of very detailed and gorgeous open world RPG gameplay. Some games cost the same and are over in 10-15 hours. If a few bad facial animations really ruins an experience where you play a dollar per hour, I would hate to know exactly how shallow and petty you with real life things and experiences.