Elephant in the Room

After looking at the body model for Ryder, I don't see any sort of "uglification" from the real person to the cgi rendering. The only thing I see is that she looks so different because the cgi isn't wearing much, if any makeup. Those who want to don the tinfoil hat can soothe the hurt by going in the character editor ingame and slap all the rouge, eyeliner, lipgloss, etc. on her and there ya go!

Why is no one up in arms about how the Asari look now? Even in ME 1-3 they all looked alike (with a few exceptions) but they looked very exotic in their beauty. In this game they look very ordinary and unmemorable in the face, except for the lone variant PeeBee who's really cute. If any characters may have been victims of uglification on purpose it was the Asari.

The Asari are victims of cost-cutting, lol. Maybe that's a microcosm of the entire game, including human facial appearances.

Ew...

I agree.

I would love to have that facial structure

Standards for the beauty that you define as pretty are wrong -IF you plan on including everyone in the world.
Standards never are the same from nation to nation -they are different in each society -unless you think society is a stagnant cess pool.
No matter if SJW is thrown my way in a sort of insult -which if it is thank you -for it just proves the invalidity of stating that there is only a single standard for beauty.


Really?
Ever hear the phrase: "There is someone for everyone"?.
Depending on the culture the lines for beauty that you claim as "universal" do indeed change.
For beginning instance -some Asian cultures HATE tans and don't tell me that most models -in America at least don't have a tan.
Yes it is wrong even in Asia to say a pretty model would be seen the same as one in America per se:


Again Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and beholdee.
As now I was forced to prove the statures of beauty you claim as stone in societies around the world are NOT THE SAME EVERYWHERE!

Also I don't understand how a LI that in your opinion is seen as ugly would be needed to be made pretty by your definition...
Just to make someone comfortable in their own body image... unless they believe in themselves so little that a game will change them.
Still seriously though in either case would it not just de-affirm it instead of conforming it?

Makes sense, but why not just leave the Asari appearance as close as possible to the original trilogy for the sake of continuity? I'm not seeing the thought process behind the blah-faced Asari.

bshep suggested the different engine.  I'm not well versed with the inner-workings of game development.  I'd think textures and models can be moved to another engine, but maybe it also depends on whether there's proprietary software involved or not.  Either way you got a bunch of clones, and it's hard for me to see that cost-cutting wasn't involved.    

I imagine the plan was to start with piefaced nobodies, and do individual faces later for the important ones.

It seems you haven't traveled much.  I grew up traveling for my parents job and currently have a job which allows me to travel wherever I please.  Standards of beauty vary slightly from country to country, but the general overarching standards are the same everywhere.  Sorry to burst your extreme leftist bubble. 

Let's use Miranda, BioWare's most attractive character, and Sera, their least attractive character, as examples.  You take these two characters and ask everyone who is the attractive and who is the ugly one, you're going to get the same answers 95% of the time.  The last 5% are people with ugly fetishes or Americans trying to make political statements.

Sorry, life does not function the way you want it to, and you need to stop demonizing people for not buying into your distorted view. 

Clever trying to put words into my mouth for I am not demonizing anyone nor am I someone who cares about politics -who should ever -its ruined anyway.
I am simply stating that not everyone believes the same bloody standards for beauty -which you now confirm thank you.

Nor the fact that beauty is all external but is also internal and an intellectual level.
Can you say what goes on in the minds or what it is that actual attracts people beyond the physical?

If you are saying that just since I don't have the same view as you on beauty that I am an extreme leftist or an ugly fetish...
Well the same can be said of you having an extreme over abundance of flesh fetish if Miranda is your most attractive character.
All I see is a character who someone designed to be "genetically perfect" -someone else had similar ideas -only they were realized -horribly.
With a track record like that there is no way I can see that character as a beauty.

Nevertheless life functions one way or the other.
Also since I realize I have been trolled all along:


Bet your happy now.
Peace.

Vivenne would be Bioware best looking character if she had hair.