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Even though her hair is the thing that gets pointed out, I don't really think that's the reason people think she looks boyish.  I think it has to do with her facial features being not traditionally feminine.  There's something... off... about her face for me.  I have a feeling once her face model is revealed, we'll see how off it is.  I bet her face model is gorgeous and it's just not translating well in-game.  

I do agree that if Cora had a ponytail or bun that might change things.  Aveline has masculine facial features but she has that long hair that softens her look and makes her look feminine. Cora, right now, is like Aveline but with nothing to soften her look.   It doesn't bother me too much because I'm a straight female, but for men who are attracted to women who look feminine, I can see how that would be a problem.  *shrug*

Agreed she doesn't look masculine at all, if her hair was longer no one would say she looks boyish. 

IDK people seem obsessed with this idea that Bioware panders to SJW's. ME3 had a lot of "good looking" people. I think some people have it in their minds that Bioware is an SJW company and nothing the do will change that.

Yes.  This shot in particular from the Andromeda Initiative video really highlights the jaw thing.


Versus the cinematic trailer where she looks much more feminine:

Yeah, I can see that. Of course that first image is the one they're focusing on, like all the 'PeeBee is ugly' people who keep posting that one old unflattering image of her as 'proof.' Everyone's going to look a little weird at certain angles, in certain light. Take stills from any movie, and the most beautiful actor or actress is going to look funny somewhere. That's doubly so in games since these are animated meshes, not actual skin and bone, yet we're comparing their overall attractiveness to that of actual human beings.

I actually have a rather strong jawline for a woman too, and there's some photos of me where I'm like 'oh god, I look really awful there!' but, going by how often I get hit on, I'm considered reasonably attractive to men in real life. The length of my hair never seemed to factor into that. Plenty of female models and actresses have more square face shapes too (and short hair!), and they're considered beautiful. I think men just tend to judge women in video games by a different standard for some reason. And those standards get harsher as game characters become more lifelike, versus the simpler, more cartoon-like designs of past games.

I'm pretty sure that's just a Duke Nukem game, though admittedly that's a series that used to be aware of how ridiculous it was and was poking fun at the whole "80s action hero" trope.

I think the short hair gets a bad reputation these days because so much of your stereotypical Tumblr posting SJW has that hairstyle now.

I also think that BioWare has is worse because the fanbase has put romances at the forefront of their games, whether they like it or not. That means the extreme "anti-SJW" crowd views anything as "shoving it down our throats"(insert Archer phrasing meme here).

Of course they also attacked Blizzard for having a female character get kissed by her girlfriend in a single panel of a comic that wasn't even in the game, so I don't know.

(The hair need replace with blonde!)

I think she looks better in the initiative video.

Yeah, it's a little bit like the Uncanny Valley situation where the more lifelike we try to be, the harder it gets to try to make it look realistic.  It takes really good design skills to lift artificial humans (whether it's animated or robotic) out of the uncanny valley and into actual realism.  To me, Cora seems to still be a little bit in the valley.  At least, in the AI video she is.  It's not even just one still. It's the entire video she looks off. In the cinematic trailer, though, she looks beautiful.  

I wonder if the AI video was taken at an earlier time and they've since changed her in-game model to look more like the cinematic trailer style.  The trailer says everything is captured in-game so we're not looking at CG there.  I know they've been working on other character models too so maybe this is the case with Cora.  

Jack didn't *just* jump on Shepard. She was testing him to see if he was only interested in Sex. Which given her history in that Prison and with Cerberus, is perfectly understandable.

To the OP. I expect to see nothing but arse shot's of female squad mates backsides, and the Asari's breasts to get larger with each installement, thus ensuring wet dreams for Male gamers.....since that's what happened in the trilogy!

I'm not a big fan of this idea.  I can see what you are saying by stating that it's no-harm, no-foul in a SP title.  But I like having the characters have a set appearance.  If someone isn't to my liking, I just deal with it.  I didn't find either Anders or Fenris to be my "type" in DA2, but it's just a game and it wasn't the end of the world. 

I liked in SWTOR because it stopped there from being hundreds of the same image on screen at a time. 

It is sarcasm, I really do not get the hair discourse but than again I did something similar to my hair sometime ago, it could be that.