PSA; A new video comparison shows criticism WORKS.

Quote system could use some work, yeah.

I and the female gamers I know prefer to be able to make pretty characters too.  It's a wish fulfillment thing, probably

I swear that femRyder somehow got reverted to an earlier version.  Considering some of the other bugs, this wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Individuals do have different tastes and preferences. I prefer media characters who aren't sexualized.



Well, aren't you special? I think we've just hit a new low, berating real life VAs not for their performance, but their appearance.

I suppose it's possible that he meant face model rather than actor.

Even so, female appearance always seems to be much more heavily scrutinized than that of males.  I think Sara looks great, and always has resembled her face model just as much as Scott does his.

Well - you said actor instead of model, so I thought you were berating Fryda Wolff.  I'm glad you clarified.

But I disagree about the in-game resemblance to the model.  The images of models you see always feature perfect make-up, lighting, setting, facial expression, etc. and are heavily photoshopped.  The actual people in those images look quite different IRL.  Catch anyone in bad lighting or mid-expression, and they'll look odd.



Well, since we're talking about looks, it would be visual media - film, TV, ads, games, etc.

Again - I disagree. I think both of them resemble their models to roughly the same degree. People do scrutinize women's looks much more than men's.


I appreciate sexy, but not sexualized - and certainly not to the point where the world's lore is broken and/or verisimilitude lost. There is a difference.

People have different tastes, after all.

I liked Sara much, much, much better before the patch. That lipstick - ugh. She was perfectly fine, looking innocent and cute

Oh boo hoo about these offended posters who go "Pssh" over the "SJW" label.

I'm not that stuck up about the whole Sara Ryder "ugly stick" issue as most seem to be but it's clear as day nonetheless that the reason she looks un-ideal is because of SJW-ism, aka "We didn't want to promote a man's sexually ideal look of a woman. We want to empower the un-empowered kinds of women". Why the hell would she look like this dorkly schlubby hispanic otherwise? I think there's also a distinction. They wanted to make a slightly less-than-ideal female protagonist default but they screwed up because they are already so-so at 3D sculpting and their cyberscan tech is only so accurate, so their less-than-ideal face came out as even lesser than less-ideal making it look completely ugly so even other very white-knight kinds of people go "Ugh, she is UGLY!" on reaction-streams.

I don't fault the "SJWs" here, i'm just tired of people making it sound like SJW is some kind of made-up concept that doesn't exist because it totally does. In my head I keep thinking that others assume that when people say "SJW" they mean something like "Those snide people who are in it to ruin it for us!", but what I really think when I say "SJW" or when others (some others!) say "SJW" is "the kinds of people who try too hard to do things for social equality; who compromise too much between artistic intent vs identity politics". They're cucks. that's also a thing. Not made up. It's not a boogeyman. "Boogeyman" is a word people use to frame "SJW" as a term in a negative light implying that we're seeing ghosts and that the stereotype does not exist. Well, it does. It's just a rather blunt thing to say "SJW" and you're aiming so wide that you'll probably throw a lot of innocent into the same saliva.

Y'know...i thought EDI was the sexy Fembot around these parts....2B is puttin' that a$$ to shame....

Er literally no game has ever released in a state that it should be at launch. Unfortunately, people do pay to beta test games because it's quite impossible to find every single bug in software of this scope in a decent time frame. The point is to give some leeway for initial bugs, rather than expecting a perfect experience on round 1.

Regardless, the bugs that remained were not gamebreaking, and a lot of the complaints were based on issues like animations and story that have nothing to do with beta testing.

Stop throwing the money deal. The game is fine and perfectly playable. It just had some issues. You still own it til the end of time. It's only been 2 months and most of the complaints have been addressed. Feel free to sell the game.

If your first impression was truly shit, then I'm sorry for you and your taste. MEA is a good game overall. It was just a hot mess at times. It's quite fucking hilarious how so many people look fondly at games like DAO and ME1 which had and still have hilarious bugs that are only fixed through custom content. 

Honestly. Just move on with your lives if you truly don't like the game anymore. Stop shitting on BioWare for at least trying to make it right for those who do want to give it another go.

Are you joking right now?  Because the bugs that remained, and STILL remain, are indeed gamebreaking.  A LOT of them.  Or do you not call crashing every time you try to go to the Nexus not game breaking?
Infinite falling?
Soft locks?
CTD on Kadara?
Crash every time you talk to certain squadmates?
Unable to extract to Tempest on h-047c?
Conversations or quest items not spawning?
Enemies getting stuck and preventing progression?
Doing things in the wrong order causing the entire quest to glitch out?

Not game breaking.  Sheesh.