Facial animations and hair concerns

I think many people don't realize that we all look awkward while jogging. The movement animation was fine and realistic.

The facial movements could be improved but they weren't that bad. 

I was actually quite pleased for the most part, although I was expecting more of a live demo. I still liked what I saw, the facial animations looked really off don't you think?

I think these are valid criticisms as well. The facial animations were terrible and it really stood out in the trailer. I don't think OP is being a "negative nancy". Is anyone who makes valid but "negative" criticisms seen as one?

Well, I will say that Ryder's smile looked a bit stiff, especially when she was disarming the Turian.


I have no expectations as far as hair goes, lol, so I can't be disappointed.  Plus, I only ever play as a male protag, so short buzzcut type styles are fine with me. 

I wouldn't worry about the facial animations just yet. Yes, they seemed a bit off (I thought the stream was lagging), but considering it's on the same engine as DA:I, and DA:I was a huge improvement for facial animations over previous Bioware games, I expect that at launch, ME:A's will be at least up to par.

I'm not sure what looked so bad about the hair in that trailer, other than the wacky do of the raider worrying me that ME:A might follow DA:I's lead with unconventional styles and buzzcuts making up the majority of options. Hopefully not.

And I thought the jogging animation was actually an improvement, simply because the ridiculous female hip-sway of past games was toned down a lot.

Well, lucky for me I planned on my Ryders wearing a helmet most of the time anyway, so if they don't fix this it won't be too big an issue.

Wacky? They're braids. Pretty average, considering the diverse range of natural Black hairstyles. 

If anything, hairstyles like that give me hope that my black Ryder will have a decent amount of options to choose from for once.

Let them delay it, in fact I would wait another extra few months to play a more polished game... We've already waited 5 years...

Everything in the game looks great in the current state (I boldly assume this level of quality spans accross vast majority of the game already).

The only thing that is average is the facial animations you people complain about.
So BioWare has now ~3 months to improve facial animations.
3 months to concentrate mostly on that.

That is a wooping amount of time to get this done people, so if they delay the game simply because of the reaction to facial animations I will be disappointed.

I agree about the hair of course, but you really thought DA:I didn't have good faces? Do you mean expressions, or graphics? Because either way, I contest that point and will simply post these as to why:


Sorry for the image spam, but it goes to show there are a lot of good facial expressions! And good faces. I thought, anyway.

Expressions. DA:I had horrid expressions in my book. DA2 had such better ones. In DA:I it always felt like the expressions never reached the characters' faces.