You know....the constant complaining towards Sara's face is getting to be kinda offensive.

Do you want something more serious and less "What's Up Doc?"



It works ok for me as it expresses personality. There may have been a tweet this was being changed. Reminds me of this video.

That's a reasonable stance, I have no problem with it and partly agree. I think it's mostly the eyes, to be honest. Somehow Bioware isn't very good at them, so especially in stills they enhance the uncanny valley. That, and the sometimes overly glossy skin. It looks better in motion, but in screenies and .gifs it tends to look mediocre at best.

However, there has been a vocal number of people who go beyond ''I don't like the face/faces'' into ''lol biower only does ugly gurls cause feminist agenda''. I think the OP was targeted more at these people, even if they did paint with too broad a brush initially.

Ok firstly her face looks totally uncanny valley, I'm not saying ugly, I'm saying it looks entirely off. Also who the hell thinks it's a good idea to shove a gun in someone's face like that? They were built as ranged weapons you know...

I think a large part of why people are finding her unattractive is the weird animations. The quality of the facial animations in this game appear to be rather bad, and for whatever reason it seems worse with Sara than Scott. I can't recall any clips yet where Scott has had a weird or unsettling expression, but we've now seen several with Sara, including in the recent gameplay trailer. I think the realistic face paired with animations that are 'off' is triggering uncanny valley.

It reminds me of some of the reaction to Miranda in ME2. Hardly anyone would argue that Yvonne Strahovski isn't a beautiful woman, but there were moments in ME2 were Miranda suffered from uncanny valley. As a result there were some players who found her unattractive and were quite vocal about it.

I suspect you did not really read all those "hate" posts (why bother, haters are going hate, right?). Let me break it down for you with bullet points:

• BW took a gorgeous supermodel as Sara's face-model. Here goes your argument about "BW is trying to mimic RL and totally not obsessed with the looks".
  
• In game the resulting face looks like an insulting caricature of the original model.
  
• That horror has a complementary unnatural animation.
  
• Yet, in some light (character skill selection, or what was that screen in the first combat demonstration video) she does resembles original model and looks good.
  
• HENCE BW for years is unable to get normal lighting for their cut-scenes and GUILTY of transforming beautiful faces into unnatural caricatures.
  
• Once again - BW takes beautiful faces (choosing fully conscious beauty over "every day face") and unable to duplicate that beauty, making caricature look instead of natural or beautiful.
  
• People do hate unprofessional-ism and have all the rights to compare scanned faces in BW game with not scanned but hand-made, like Leliana, for example, where "magically" lighting become normal and faces do look natural.
  
• Logical question - why scan super models and pay them big money if you are incapable to duplicate their faces anyway and only waste money and upset gamers?
  

Again and again - that "hate" is about inability of BW to handle ingame visuals, nothing else. And the point of "make your own protagonist" is mute, since whatever you make with CC will look horrible with ingame lighting, yet, there is no such thing as "magic mirror" or "Black Emporium" in ME. So, people foresight hours of reloading with re-watching introduction (always the case in BW games) only to get a decent looking protagonist and have every reason to be upset about it.

It's because we've seen only Scott in cinematics and he looks good there. If they show him in game footage I'm pretty sure there will be complaining too.
I like how Sara looks.
And what is this about with gun scene. You talk like it's only her behaviour and Scott will not have the option to act like this.
And as far I can remember when we play we can choose what to do, so I don't see why the hate on poor female character.

To be fair, Sara and Scott both look a bit shit.

Lucky for us, character creation is a thing

I think what makes her look extra bad is the animation. I was just watching the latest combat trailer, and it had a bit of footage with Sara, and the facial animation is just so bad. It makes all the characters look weird, and her especially.

I don't have exceptionally high standards, but I think she does look bad. Same as with femshep in ME3. Femshep looks fantastic in the concept art, but in game her face is just wrong.

As for Ryder, I really, really do understand what people mean when they say she looks derpy. Because she really, really does. But I feel like it's mostly the animation. The model of her face reacts in a weird way to the sub-par facial animation. She looks weird in every single second of footage I've seen.

None of the character models look fantastic, but Sara really is the weirdest of what we've seen.

I don't understand how Bioware can be failing at this, since there have been such great facial models in the trilogy, (though ME3 femshep was really bad), but the facial animation seems to have become worse instead of better.

Not that I really care all that much, because I always make a custom character anyway, but I really do understand all the complaints.

It's a bit different. They brought Mark Vanderloo after that and the demo shown where he had that face.

Well they did a good job finding a face model (Mark) to look like their original design!  Still, i think it's safe to say the game looks absolutely incredible compared to when the series first debuted.

Caleston, otherwise known as Therum.. And Ashley.. dat voice. haha