What's your view on the Elf design in DA4

It’s rather easy to make beautiful lady elves, but I’ve seen very few handsome male elves in DAI.

And no, Nosferatu (ie. Solas) doesn’t count.

I like the DAI elves the most, but I'd prefer less skinny body types. Expecially the male bodyes had definitely problems. I'm all for slim man, but DAI elf man were one step from malnutrition.

I'd like for elves to have shiny eyes like cats as books had mentioned.

I'm still happy as long as we don't get DA2 elves. I still find them creepy after all this time.

Origina elf design was horrible, just a tad shorter human with pointy ears, DA2 went a bit too far but liked it more. DAI definitely looked the best but yeah the body especially for the male elves was dreadful. For females it was ok but was too skinny.

I just want them to have proportional bodies. DAI elves have a giant head on top of a tiny torso.

Jesus Christ, you're the third one. I wish I had as much passion for ANYTHING as people on this forum apparently do for proving me wrong about elves. Lol

A very far cry. Also since one of the derogatory terms for elves in Thedas is "rabbit" the ears may be deliberate. Mind you there is a reference to Tilda's "leaf-eared lover" in the old Avvar poem, so clearly they see elf ears as leaf-like. 

I think that there should be a difference between Dalish elves, who are generally live a healthier if still a hard lifestyle, compared with the city elves. Of course that would mean they would have to have three variants: Ancient, Dalish and City, and with male and female that would result in six body types for essentially one race. So I'd settle for having lithe but not anorexic modern elves.

I used to dislike the DA2 facial model but I have to admit that the Evanuris look so strange in the mosaics of them that giving the elves an alien look actually made sense.

On the whole, though, I think I'd rather just go back to the DAO look, with slightly larger eyes because everyone mentions that as well as the ears. In DAI Sera looked okay, as did Briala, and both were meant to have been city elves originally, so it is clear that it is possible to program a decent body for female elves using Frostbite.

As for male elves why not use this model, as found in the Core Rule Book?

It would make sense to play as a buff elf in DA4. It fits with the theme of old Elven power returning.

Lmao, it's needed tbh.

I hope they go back to DAO version - smaller, but still well-proportioned, fit when they need to be (Zev is RIPPED), and pudgy in some cases (they all have one body model, but some have rounder faces). Elves in later games don't look like they can lift anything heavier than a flower crown, much less a weapon. And please, please give them back their shoes, "barefeet elves" is the dumbest retcon in the games. There's an argument that DAO elf design isn't "distinct" enough, but personally, I never had a problem with telling them apart from humans, both by face and silhouette.

I usually dislike this type of topics because people use a lot of words to say one thing:

"I want the people in my game to look pretty"

But honestly, should anyone be pretty ? Why ? What benefit does that bring to turn everyone into eye candy ?

I'd rather have an improved version of the DA2 elves. It's silly to think that two completely different species would look and behave so similarly. The DAO elves are humans in every single way but the pointy ears.

Oh right, they're generally shorter as well

I'd rather have the elves look alien, strange, different and diverse. Sure, some elves can be pretty and others can be horrific to even look at. It brings an element of functioning realism when people don't look like a Deviant Art gallery.