Should Bioware attract these types of gamers?

Should male companions be pornstars too?

If that's the design the developers want to use, fine. If the developers want to use a different design, that's fine too.

The "solution" for this kind of things would be at least on PC mods, then people could customize to his/her liking.

I'm not saying that BioWare games have to be like Fallout or Elder Scrolls in that regard but at least more friendly to modding.

Depends on the game....for Mass effect tho? While i'm not expecting super-model drop dead gorgeous vixens, i don't mind character models that are pleasing to the eye. And for the Mass Effect series...eh, i'm kinda expecting that....ultra-modern high tech sci-fi drama.....nobody is expecting character models that look like Jaba-the hut or fat stubby folks........but nice looking character models that look good in their high end armor and space suits.





Playing "The Evil Within 2" i'm not expecting to play the Calvin Klein model stud, on a twisted journey into the depths of hell....The main character fit that atmosphere perfectly for the journey required of him and his background complemented his history of alcohol abuse due to his history of losing his daughter in a fire.



Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but eh...i don't think there is nothing wrong with looking at a character and saying that it's a fugly looking character.....it might have more to do with the artists rendering of the character itself (like what clearly happened with Sara)....Sara's not ugly mind you, but she had a bit of a derp - de derp look to her facial animations when she first surfaced and while that derpyness is still there, it's nothing on the level that it was when the game first dropped.

Fine with me if they do.   Almost all their teeth missing, but they're packing a massive package.   

I'd agree with that, but given how much these games cost to make I can't think a face model would effect that much.  But maybe it would, I'm always shocked when I find out someone wants to charge me to fix a whats it at my house. Then I' usually, sure I got the money, but I also have access to instructional videos on youtube and Wednesdays off. This might be the same thing.  Sure, they got the money but they might have a better use for it.

Which guy was this? I don't remember seeing him




There's an upcoming Conan game that allows you to select dong size

Depends on how the face model is rendered in game. Chobot looked awful in-game, IMO Dragon Age Inquisition had better faces and they didn't use face models

Insensitive jerk. He suffered from cryo-bloat and was living in shame ever since. 

That reminds me of a line in a fic I read (this fic if anyone is interested, it's Vetra/FRyder archiveofourown.org/works/10507122/chapters/23184747 )


Vetra approached the desk, nodding at Addison but trying to avoid eye contact. There was something weirdly off-putting about the Director, as if the muscles of her face were still cryo-frozen and her eyes were trying their best to get away.

I don't care about inclusivity or PC, and admittedly BioWare has made a 180 degree turn in their philosophy to making 3D characters for their companions lately where you have your Sara Ryders, Seras, arguably even Coras where they're not photomodels in appearance in contrast to Miranda of ME2 and 3, EDI, Ashley in ME3 or some characters in DA2.

It's a shame it couldn't hit a middle road so nobody complains about this shit and preferrably I hope the design-process going into characters is more like "what would this gal look like?" than "Would it be okay if she looks like a hot model?" or "We can't make her look too top-model, it feeds into our patriarchal society and self-esteem issues of teenage girls" etc.

All things considered I don't really mind Sara Ryder's look too much or Sera's. In fact, I love the face they gave Sera it's so cutely piggish and ugly but also kinda attractive at the same time. With Sara it's just a failed attempt and as has been documented they used their facescan technology via outsourcing and did not touch up the faces after that process. It's that or EA outsource places just kinda suck at doing the facescan thing properly because Sara DOES look weird even outside of the broken animations, and it's not because her face actress looks weird, it's because the model didn't get the proper proportions or the proper idle look to it. Even Miranda in ME2 looks kinda wonky as idle, like, too fat and bulky compared to Yvonne IRL, and don't get me started on that professor in Leviathan DLC who looked absolutely disgusting in their attempt to make a character look more realistic.

So yeah. There's a mandate, or there has been, internally, that "we can't make these characters look too sexy because it's not realistic" according to Liam Robertson (Is he fitting something to a personal narrative or is he impartial? We don't know, don't get into this) and knowing the social issues that often get debated on social media, in some of my circles and former high school friends, and in the media... you can't fuckin' deny there's a push for oversensitive creativity in corporate filmmaking and games these days. It's a matter of finding a better middle road and daring to be honest as creators with big financial and arguably social responsibilities to what sort of moral messages their work contains on a subliminal level.

It's weird. It's all those live-action elements. Motion capture has also been awful since ME1 with the stunt actors overacting the reused gestures for conversation, action scene choreography etc. There's so few scenes outside of some parts of ME2 and the ending of ME3 where I actually didn't feel distracted by motion capture. I really wish they'd get better at that stuff.