Now is the time to come back to ME:A or play it for the 1st time!

Question: Do all asari (except for PeeBee) still look like Dr. Lexi twins?

If yes, now is not the time to come back to Andromeda.

I think the story had laziness involved, to be sure. In terms of character development? I thought there was some good character development involved.

I think that was a major downside of Andromeda, the first hour was really awkward as some of the worst qualities popped up.
"I think I may have made that guy me. Maybe it's because I just shot him in the face."
Kill me now......

YMMV, agreed on Cora though (Yes Cora, we know you served with asari commandos, just shut up about it!). In terms of the lack of urgency and the watered down experience, others have pointed out that it's more of a Mass Effect Andromeda problem on the whole, that it was extremely risk-averse, kind of an ironic problem really.

this is the deal breaker? of all the things this massive game does right you have a problem with how asari look?
Jesus you are all spoiled.

Let me quote the OP in the thread title:



The post is a call to action. I denied it. It isn't personal.

This is pure gold. And who exactly said that I think there is nothing wrong with it in the first place? That is actually good to know. Once again I found out stuff about myself that I was unaware of.

But seriously now, every game has its flaws and MEA is no exception. I just didn ´ t allow these flaws to affect my entire experience in game. We will clearly never have same opinion about this, so I think it ´ s best to just leave it alone.
Have a good day.

The impression I got was that he was suggesting the gaming websites with the earliest reviews didn't actually review the game in its entirety, due to the pressure of getting the review out.

I actually think he made a fair point - I personally felt that the game found it's feet around the mid-point and it took off from there, which I don't recall ever being mentioned to any great degree in any of the reviews (kadara's arc, the memories etc) and EA's choice to drip-feed the first 10 hours in a game where the weakest part is the roughly 5 hours was a turkey decision.

I'm inclined to think that the decision to make them all look alike has a story purpose... that of re-introducing the notion from ME2 that the asari are indeed able to alter their appearance to suit what the viewer wants to see as ideal.  Since an individual's perception was what an ideal face doesn't change, if the asari are sending out signals that alter their appearance to please the person seeing them, they would all appear essentially the same.  They would all appear differently to different individuals but we only ever see them through Ryder's eyes.  PeeBee appears different because she wants to be perceived as someone different from the average asari, so she's sending out a different signal.  The bottom line is that we don't really know what asari actually look like... which is something that may be revealed in a later game.  Also, in reality, they don't all look exactly alike... they sport different facial paint patterns and as I worked my way through the game, I really stopped noticing the repeated facial structure and started seeing them more individuals based on their facial markings.  That said, I even think they have been tweeking the shaders on some of them to make those differences seem more obvious and give some appearance of a little variation in the facial structures as well.

Was that a good decision on the part of Bioware?  Obviously not... the fans have reacted badly to it and, more importantly, if I am right about it, it should have been explained somewhere in the game... effectively - a repeat of bachelor party scene in the ilium bar somewhere in the game.  So, you can certainly let it prevent you from trying out the game a second time... that is your prerogative for sure.  Personally, I'm quite happy overlooking it.

Um....No. They were placeholders that should have been replaced but weren't either because of time constraints or cash. Either way, this was an appalling error on BW's part and personally is the most jarring aspect of the game visually as it's not a bug, it's a decision.

If all human males or females looked alike nobody would be giving it a pass. Actually, that's not true. I'm sure the usual suspects would be queuing up to justify it.

Fine... they were placeholders to you.  Have they actually said that, do you have proof... or is that just your "superior" opinion?  It's a way I can head canon around it and I do not find it as jarring as you do.  Also, please note... with the patches, I do think that, while they are not radically changing their appearance, they are working to make each appear a little more differently than the other.  It's also pretty clear that is all we're going to get out of them in the way of changes (I'm not really expecting another major patch to drop).  They aren't going to all of a sudden roll over to your complaints and put completely new faces on all the asari.

You can hold onto your bug-bear about it forever or learn to overlook it... Your choice.  Go ahead... Live your life in a constant state of dissatisfaction and "grudge" over a game.  That's also your choice that you are very free to make.  I don't care.  It doesn't bother me.  I'm over it.  That you can't get over it is completely your problem.

Furthermore... I will gladly continue to "queue up along with the usual suspects" to state my opinions (which do happen to differ from yours)... regardless of what you think about it.

This comment isn't even close to fair. Asari were my least favorite alien race of the ME trilogy and I didn't care about Liara like most other people did and yet even I'M really bothered by the the Asari clones in Andromeda. This game actually made me miss Liara and the other Asari from the original trilogy, I didn't even think that was possible.