GameDev on MEA facial animations & expressions.

You shouldn't be so quick to settle for lesser quality...that's the type of attitude that gives rise to substandard games.  Once a company allows that mindset to pervade, it ends up effecting all the aspects...including gameplay.  Push for excellence in all facets so that when they fall short (inevitably and often they do) you end up with merely a good game.  If you're willing to accept merely good or just average and fall short...well, you get the idea.

I do care for excellency, I want gameplay excellency, I want the game to feel polished and responding to my inputs, I want the skills to be unique and interesting, this is the stuff that makes me replay a game over and over and over, this is why I love Overwatch or Starcraft 2 or Unreal Tournament 99, this is why ME3 is probably my most replayed in Shepard's trilogy. This is why I'm very positive about the gameplay trailer as I fully ignored the animations, I love that the game gets more fast paced in terms of combat, this is why I'm worried about pee shooter Revenant more than some wierd smile from SisRyder. Probably this is an opinion not shared by most BSN but I don't care. 

It's funny how they mentioned the eyes because that's exactly what I was looking at the first time. Completely inexpressive in the entire scene.
She arrives, talks and steals the gun with the same expression which is very unnatural.

I remember how they said ages ago how much of an improvement in facial expression they achieved compared to previous games, and that was not the case in this particular video.
However, that's definitely not the final product and it's a thing they'll surely at least want to fix/improve.

And I still don't buy it. I had no problems with eyebrowless asari in trilogy. There is much more problems with SisRyder besides dead eyebrows. Parts which do move, move like plasticine.

You would think.

There was a lot of mapping of facial expressions in the World of Warcraft movie (I saw a BTS on it) and the facial proportions of the orcs were certainly pretty far from their real faces so I guess the tech exists now. At least in the movie world, if not the gaming world!

The problem is they already said they cannot do mo cap because of the many different faces the Ryders can have.

You've been watching too much Cinema Sins.