Mass Effect Legendary Edition is such an enormous missed opportunity

It’s a good thing it didn’t make us do anything dumb like try to solve the problem of it causing stars to die out early. 

I'm pretty sure the phenomenon predates Snyder.

"Og miss opportunity when put buffalo in cave painting and not mammoth!"

I just remember all the complaining around Mass Effect 1 and how everyone looked the same and boring.  Now I think the lack of proper helmets were a dumb idea, but again I find BioWare to be too reactionary to complaints instead of really thinking about those that liked what was there.

Hey, when I unlock or purchase a special skin, I damn well expect to see it in every single scene.

Ideally for me they would have kept the helmets but just relied on a toggle in settings for removing them in conversations. But, like I said given time I saw the value of seeing faces in a RPG. When they game came out I ranted about it quite a bit though.

Honestly that feels almost as bad to me. A fragile helmet is basically the same as saying mass effect fields maintain atmosphere for me. The whole jacks clothing, mirandas cat suit that bothered me was in the setting the mass effect fields were part of your defense in combat and sure the biggest part, but the armor mattered as well. Miranda I could sort of rationalize as basically being light armor but with better graphics it looks like that as opposed to the ME1 light armor. But Jacks I didn't like the look as armor was supposed to mean something in the game. Samaras cleavage opening same. Have on ship, in fight outfits, in fights, you have armor. I mean I guess its better than nothing, but it still disrupts the visual of seeing the face and its only barely better than a mass effect field excuse for me.

MEA used those helmets for plot contrivance, but we shouldn’t forget that *real* space suits use full-face visors so astronauts have a full unobstructed view of their environment, and they’re not fragile. They use multiple layers of strengthened polycarbonate, so they aren’t some fishbowl glass that can just easily crack at any impact. It’s similar to what motorcycle helmets use, just a smidge more expensive. There’s no good reason why people in the Mass Effect universe couldn’t use this. Shepard’s standard N7 helmet wouldn’t be any less protective if it had a full face view over the eye slot, and Shep would have a much better view. A projectile would go through any part of the helmet without electronically-assisted shielding just as easily as it’ll go through that visor slot.

I’d say this is a matter of BioWare simply being unable or unwilling to really make the most of its assets. Garrus got to use his own helmet, but for some reason, Mordin never got one despite salarians having their own design as of ME1. Asari could have been designed with really cool sleek helmets to conform to their fringes, but they never bothered. Jack could have used a suit that she customized to look like fucking Tank Girl in space so her personality shined through even when she was protected from the vacuum of space, but nuts to that, gotta have our bare torso tatted psycho in any element. 

I'll disagree with that assessment. I'm assuming there is a reason the armor is thick. A clear face plate may be tough material but it would not be in the same league as the actual armor parts. You'd just have a visual display inside a thick armor face plate. And sure, they could have done better, I am not a artist though and I am not creating piles and piles of assets.  Like I said it bothered me when it came out, but with time I can see why they did it even if sure maybe there would have been a better way to accomplish their goal.

I don't know why but whenever I see this style I get sort of a space horror vibe.

OK, but to go back to the initial point, there's a happy medium where we can acknowledge that people in the Mass Effect universe require fully-sealed suits to operate in hazardous environments and the vacuum of space while being able to put our characters' faces on display for cutscenes and dialogue, but BioWare opted to swing way too far off on the rule of cool spectrum.