What's your view on the Elf design in DA4

I liked DAI's design the best - especially for the female elves. They're clearly distinguishable from the humans but not too alien or weird looking like the elves in DA2.

I hope we can customize our characters body in DA4. Like how tall and heavy they are. If not sliders then 4 different body types for each race: skinny, slim/athletic, muscular, fat. Also wish there was an option for body tattoos, scarring, etc.

I prefer the amended look of DA2/DAI to that of Origins.

Personally I want the Elves to resemble the more Ancient variety of Elves, like the Sentinels or Solas, they are clearly still Elves just different to the more modern Elves.

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Body type customization would be great. One of my big objections to the design of elves in DAI is that, if you play an elf pc, you have to have an ultraskinny body type, which I don't like at all for my pc. This is for female elves as well. I don't mind slender, but not as skinny as they were in DAI.

While body customization would fix the issues that people have with a pre-determined body type, I don’t see it happening unless we have only a human protagonist. They’re not going to have four different playable races with body customization, and I do think that with the aumont of work that race options require, I don’t think it’s a primary issue in the case we’ll get race options. If we’ll have the latter, I’d rather prefer that they focus on better hair/beard options, and the quality of the textures, then body customization.


That said, I hope that the elf body type gets slightly tweaked. I don’t mind at all the fact that they want to make elves different in terms of physique from humans, with less muscolar tone...but not having them being bulky doesn’t mean that they have to make them have noodle arms. And it’s even worse when they design the elven companions with bulkier, less ridicolous build. Solas and Sera both have arms (and I think shoulders) that are bigger then the rest of the elves in the games, including the MC, and I figure that it has to do with making them more appealing.

Does Sera use the human body type, or does she have a custom design? I would be fine with being able to select the human body type for my elf pc. That shouldn't create much more work because they are using it anyways for humans.

Sera apparently has a human body model with an "elven" head. Easily visible when pre-viewing the antaam-saar on her and Cassandra (only difference is skin tone) as opposed to a FemLavellan.

I'm fine with either - Frostbite X enhanced of course - Dragon Age Origins or Inquisition elves.

Please no, to DA2 elves.

Cassandra's bio info shared in the game seems to contradict that. Even her romance contains mention of her previous relationship with the mage from the movie.

I mean, yeah? But they never incorporate the interesting stuff from the ancillary media into the games in any kind of meaningful way. It's all just coddx shit or minor references in dialogue that the player has to dig for.

"Oh hey, we have this character who has a unique magical gift never before seen in our series (called DRAGON AGE) that lets her talk to and control DRAGONS. How about we put her in DAI, but make her Tranquil, and her only function is to provide some minor worldbuilding and then die."