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

It's not that she does look awful, but she looks good in the wrong kind of way (!). At least that's my beef with her!

What do I mean by that you ask?

She kind of looks like she's had tons of plastic surgery and botox, not to mention makeup (soldiers IMHO don't wear that in combat!) and other beauty enhancing stuff etc. (she reminds me of ME3 Ashley after they prettied her up (also known as "Pimp my Ashley"!) and dolled her up etc. (she no longer is a soldier in ME3, she simply doesn't look the part! She looks like she ran away from a Miss Universe Contest! No, I am not saying soldiers can't be hot (most fit women are hot IMHO, even body building women if they aren't extreme body-builders who use steroids etc.), but most of them don't look like they've just left the plastic surgeon's office and have stopped at the beauty palace on the way out! That's exactly the same for Sara IMHO - sadly! I thought I'd play a run with the original configuration (note: Are there tallness sliders? I'd like my Sara (after I am done "remodelling" in the character creator) to be as tall as her brother is!)...same for my male Ryder, but it seems like I am going to spend an awful lot of time in the character creator again first

Of course that's only my beef with Sara's original model in the game (I'd like it if you sent me some of those "offensive" comments (I'd love to read them and judge for myself!))

greetings LAX

Offensive towards WHOM exactly? A computer generated character doesn't have feelings. Sorry, but she looks unattractive and creepy in a few of the animations she's been featured in. That's an almost universally accepted fact. In other images or scenes she looks passable. If anyone should be offended it's the face model who lent her likeness... can you imagine how she must have felt when Bioware was like "tah-da!" and she was like "OH DEAR GOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?" Poor girl...

Still missing the point. The model is irrelevant. The terrible, un-lifelike rendering is the issue (for those who find it terrible). No one cares if Sara actually looks like Jayde. They just want her to look human, like Scott, Cora and Liam do. I provided the image of Jayde to shut down the "BioWare doesn't promote unrealistic images of beauty" tripe.

My reaction to this thread:


Other than that, different people have pretty much stated what I'd have to say. But I will say:

Telling people to "just grow thicker skin"? Screw that. (I'm speaking about that statement in general, not specifically about this thread)

What an incredibly backwards, callous, unempathetic thing to say. And I do mean backwards, because as someone else astutely pointed out, that's not solving anything, it's simply ignoring the problem. Why don't we stop blaming the victim for having actual feelings, huh? If you take that idea to the logical extreme, you're basically telling people they shouldn't have principles or feel "bad" about anything, just grow an infinitely thicker skin.

I don't think that's healthy. It's completely understandable that someone would feel insulted at an insult. Some people can truly brush it off, but others can't and they shouldn't have to, because that's looking at the problem backwards. How about we instead try to improve society by having people behave in a more polite, compassionate way?

Moreover, by saying that, you're telling someone that how they feel is invalid, and that you know how they should feel better than they do. What could possibly be more arrogant? Especially when you say it to a stranger (like here on this forum). You don't know who they are, or what they've been through. Instead of transposing your own experiences onto them and making a quick judgement, try seeing things from their perspective. Even if you can't, you could at least be courteous enough to diminish your attempted sphere of influence enough that it doesn't include what other people feel.

Cheerio

Just to be clear, in the part you highlighted, I was referring to the Actress I mentioned.....not Sarah.
Also, I'm not offended in the least by people disliking how Sarah looks. That is their opinion and they're entitled to it. However, there is a constuctive way of expressing such opinion's, as someone else has pointed out.
Personally, I think Sarah is fairly average looking, whether she's based on a Supermodel or not. As you say....to each their own.

Is this the famous 'elephant man'?
Pictures with such 'shock value' should at least be put in spoiler tags, I think.

I liked a bit of Cass too. Great character.

I don't get it if you don't like her make yourself custom character.

Where are the imperfections?  I haven't been able to look at her face yet.