Cora Harper (Official Thread)

It's possiblre you might be able to make your Ryder into something like that if you want but obviously we won't know until the CC is revealed. I'm certainly hoping for at least a couple of shoulder length options for my Ryder to go alongside that ponytail we already have anyway but we won't know until we get a look at the CC. There masy also be other ladies that aren't part of your team too that have a moer feminine look. Fact is we don't know. I do remember seeing during the couple of playthroughs of the FIFA17 journey I've playeda couple of longer haired ladies so it is possible. Whether it's done to an extent in MEA I don't know it's possible but knowing Bioware's past I wouldn't count 100% on it.

The ponytail was pretty short, and while different both icons are closer to her final look then the ponytail.

Yea I didn't see anything wrong with her DA2 face. Just because she was a somewhat aged warrior doesn't mean they had to make her more...well the concept art showed what they were trying to do.


Dawn of the Seeker Cass also followed this design to a point. Didn't see why they needed to change it.



Still had a great romance though and her looks didn't warrant the pitchforks and torches that were raised after her DAI reveal.

In my opinion though, Cora looks great. She really stands out especially being our first blond squadmate. They didn't try too hard to make her rough nor did they give her the ME3 Ashley treatment.

She'd need longer hair, a DD-chest, six inch stilletto heals, and an outfit that was spraypainted on before some would (grudgingly) admit she didn't look mannish.  

Yeah but that's not as much "lol internet" as you might think. Remember how I keep saying certain hair styles suit certain facial features? Behold:



Besides bonus points for being a different Quorra (and I did secretly hope this Cora would have at least some similarities, by pure coincidence if nothing else) Olivia Wilde's a great example because she has a more prominent jaw line:



As you can see here, the hair (merely pulled back) accentuates that. Now factor in less then perfect mocaping:



With the wrong hair style that jawline would far less forgiving when stacked with the other imperfections inherent to recreating her face in a video game and animating it. But here, the hair works in her favor, rather than against it.

Miranda (Yvonne Strahovski) is in a similar boat:

In real life, these women are gorgeous and since both beauty and femininity are the sum of many parts and then some, they can do all sorts of things with their look and still be damn sexy. But in a game, where you already have so many problems capturing that in an animated model? The last thing you should be doing is giving them a do that doesn't complement their features. If anything I think part of the problem with capturing likeness for games in general is attempting to get it exact. Even if you succeed the natural imperfections in the face will be distorted and made so much worse when compounded with the imperfections of the capture, engine and animation. Devs should probably strive to airbrush and enhance the shit out of them so as to cancel out these compounding errors. Maybe they already do and the tech simply isn't there yet, or there's so many hours/dollars they're willing to spend on this. Only someone in the biz would know for sure. Point is, hair matters in these cases.

Sorry there's not enough mindless gushing or... wait, what exactly where you expecting again?

You have a point there.

She reminds me of Cassandra personally, in the sense that she's more positioned for advancement than the protagonist, and yet she's presumably standing back to watch someone else take the reigns. I'll be interested to see if she has the same ultra practical, no nonsense personality on the surface.

I think some of these characters will (hopefully) look better in motion. I kept watching the parts of the trailer where she was moving and she looks better there than she does in a still or a screenshot.

Who is Scott modeled after? His VA? They look nothing alike.

Yeah lots of ultra mindless fucking whining. 

I find it pretty offensive when people who make a negative point of view get taken to task and immediately accuse people of being mindless fan boys or fan girls, like you just did.

Some people are fine with the way certain characters if you don't like it gfy and get off your high horse as if any negative comment is useful feedback and any positive comment is mindless gushing.

I feel the same way lmao.

I can't wait to romance Cora I hope she's as bad ass as Cassandra and Ashley in the fighting department.