Regarding the Asari Face Clone problem...

Regarding the sameface, maybe the Asari just have less genetic diversity when it comes to physical appearance than humans do? That's why Morinth and Samara have the same face, even to the extent that Morinth can replace Samara in ME2 and no-one even seems to notice.

It's a handwave and yeah, MEA should have given more variety to the face models, but it didn't really bother me all that much. To be honest, I didn't even notice it was a thing until I saw that people were complaining on the forums about it.

Besides, the Inquisition forces in DAI seems to be made up entirely of clones of "Jim", so repeating NPCs isn't a new thing.

I never said the asari had the same faces in the OT. You are pulling that one out of thin air.

Regardless, it isn't a major issue. A major issue would be "my game crashes" or "quests are glitched."

I cited it because it is true. If Loltaku is to be trusted, then development was a nightmare. That would be the reason they didn't replicate that effort.

Samara and Morinth are mother and daughter and both characters are modeled from the same woman. The whole look-alike thing was done for the b-story to actually work. Don't even get me started on General Harding and the clone army.

It's a pretty big issue for a major race to be so blindingly obviously the same. Back in the days of KOTOR, with the limited resources the platforms could handle, it was understandable. Nowdays it's pretty much at the basics level, not much beyond having models instead of sprites for them. It doesn't break the game but it really does make it look very, very lazy and an AAA game that can't manage such things really isn't up to scratch these days.

Providing gay players with a squadmate romance is higher priority than fixing the wank bait race and I'm saying this as someone who isn't really a Jaal fan

The angara have more human-looking faces than them, so it's rather more obvious, more so than the asari IMO because you see more angara in the same place more often than you do asari.

I don't mind recycling assets like faces in some situations. What made the Asari stand out so terribly in this game was that characters that you interacted with had the same face. Lexi and Keri should not have the same face, and I think the Asari pathfinder had the same face as well. That's what just made it unacceptable to me.

People keep saying they recycled models in other games, but in ME:1 for example the Asari counselor didn't have the same face as the Asari consort, or Shiala. The characters you actually interacted with had different faces. The dancers had the same model for example, that kind of thing I really don't care about.

Lexi was a crew member, how she doesn't get her own character model is beyond me.

Read it the first time. Still no excuse that they couldn't be arsed to create four or five distinct (human) faces to slap on some blue paint and tentacles on top. For the four or five quest relevant Asaris.

People did this same thing with DA:2, I thought it was fine for only having 18 months of development.  Personally, I don't handicap.  AAA developer, full price tag, I grade games on the same scale regardless of if the game was in development for ten years or two, or what went on behind the scenes.