Peebee (Official Thread)

I think this is why some people are kind of iffy about her design. If she was human, I think it wouldn't be a problem. I hope at least. But because she is Asari people are judging her more  . Yet, every race has different looking people. Not every Asari has to look like Liara to fit into race. I understand people saying she should look "better", but maybe they tried to make her look teenager-ish and to show, through her features, her character more. Distinct look creates character that stands out more. I think they wanted to make her look less bland and I doubt they will change Asari general design.

More typical Asari would probably look more like : 


Is it better? I think it's all opinions after all. Not everyone has to look like a model to be considered pretty. She has her own charm, so I think we are fine here. 

I can see how not everyone thinks the new Asari is super beautiful but ugly is taking it too far, at worst her face is average or plain.

I would prefer it if she doesn't have eyebrows but it's not a deal-breaker for me - I actually like her racoon stripe. I can't really tell if she has eyebrows or not. The first image we received it does look like she has them but in the new video it looks more like they face-paint gives the illusion of eyebrows.

It gets a bit annoying that it seems like female characters in game have to be able to qualify among the top 1% beautiful people to not be considered ugly or "a man". While women like attractive LI too, the male characters rarely have to put up with the same level of scrutiny.

They are. But it's debatable whether this is due to any attempt to appeal to women or simply playing into a male fantasy of being a badass hot dude.

And I mean, not to say that it doesn't go both ways, I like to play as an attractive badass lady if I can help it.

A lot are, but there is more variety and when they aren't outstandingly attractive there isn't the same level of outcry - the amount of threads and comments about Cassandra, Sera and now this Asari... is there any male character that's suffered as much blowback because they're not handsome enough? Some people didn't like that Solas was bald or that the Iron Bull had weird proportions but it didn't escalate to the level of vitrol as with the previously mentioned female characters. I love Solas and Iron Bull but neither are what I would call conventionally attractive,  Blackwall with his beard isn't really conventionally attractive either (though people can still find them attractive because taste is subjective). I've seen a lot of people mention they found Leliana beautiful in DAO but I remember reading a comment by Gaider that people complained about her appearance, too - said she had "fish lips"- so this is hardly new.

It's fine if you don't think Cassandra, Sera or the new Asari attractive or beautiful. I just dislike it when people go 'not attractive to me=looks like a man' and spew vitrol over it - it gets tiring really quick.

Didn't a research showed about 40% os bioware players were female?

I think "male gamers tend to complain more about this" would be more correct.

This thread was started by a female complaining about people complaining about new Asari. It's a lot of complaining by everyone. 

Also if we are taking Inquisition for an example here, well I have to say that ladies had more variety in that game. Thus the complaints from male gamers. 
I'm not saying we are not whining too much, but I can understand why people do that. It's like telling someone to shut up about hairstyles in Mass Effect.

Personally, I was ok with her in the last ps4 pro trailer and I hope that she will be an interesting charachter both as LI and as a crew member. 
But there were people on official BW forum who saw the appearence of this asari as a sign of total redesign of their race and "getting rid of stupid fanservice space babes"- that's the issue which concerns me. 

The variety is the same to either male or female character. That is no reason to do it.

Sondergaard i was trying to be polite...

There are plenty of sexy female video game characters out there. Just look at video game trailer and/or box art. Plenty of sexy women.    

Because Asari are hung up on the past and Salarians are more in the now?

Forget about the face for a moment

They did a great job on her style. She LOOKS adventurous. Perfect for this game