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

I think it has maybe something to do with the Rachni Queen, I saw someone on the forum speculating about that.

No.

This article is conspiratorial bullshit.

But will I?

To me it has nothing to do with how she looks, at least to me that was never the problem, it was the really bad animations that made her look unnatural. This has nothing to do with how she looks, attractiveness is subjective, but her animations look wonky.

Or maybe some people just don't share your opinion? Most people want to enjoy this game to the utmost.

I've always enjoyed your posts in other threads, but you seem to be being intentionally obtuse in this case. Offering criticism isn't always a sign of "likes to complain," or "disrespects women" (the other popular choice on this topic, essentially). Criticism often has positive results. The new character kits are one immediate and relevant example, in this case.

This particular debate about Sara goes all the way back to the crappy animations we saw in December. The immediate criticism at that time, which was somewhat unanimous and less controversial, resulted in an immediate promise to clean-up the animations.

I'm glad some are feeling better about her present state. I'm not, but I am confident that the animation issues affecting default Sara won't "bleed through" the CC. They seem to be linked to the specific character model.

When you read 'ugly' just translate that to 'unattractive'. This is the way of thinking from internet crowd. They don't tend to see spectrum, only +, - and 'meh'. And for them to express their opinion in a heavy exaggerated way is like to make 'a stronger point'. Like:
"She is ok."
"What?!" Thinks that she is definitely not ok and tries to show that to his opponent with exaggeration. "Just look, she is ugly!".

It's kinda stupidly badly worded but opinion itself is still there.

And I did find her face unpleasant too. "So what?" someone can say. Like this:

Here's why.
People want this game because they want to live through that epic space adventure. Want to feel the awe, to interact with interesting extraordinary people, to survive against impossible odds. And main characters is someone they can relate to. If I may put that that way, main character is just a platform for player to project himself into fictional reality. And this is kinda hard thing to do is you find that platform unpleasant. Saying that those who criticize femRyder's look demand her to be hot space babe is exactly the same as saying that she is ugly - both extremes are wrong. People just want to have positive impression of her, not immediate errection. It doesn't necessary have to do anything with gender politics of gender prejudice etc. Let's take, I don't know, NFS Underground game for example. Player has basic cars and as the progression goes he can decorate the hell out of them. Does he do that because he ehh... hates basic cars because of their looks and his harmful philosophy? I would think that he just wants to drive a cool car - in game!
As for being able to customize femRyder looks - people hype and invest their feelings in the game already.  Siblings faces in promotional videos are faces of ME:A. And if unpleasant protagonist is already associated with future playthroughs there sure will be exaggerated outcry.

And since this game is promising us great adventure, why not make it easier to relate ? To teach a lesson about patriarchal mentality? My god, this is AAA game about exploration, isn't it?
I can not say anything about Bioware and their intentions. But you, DragonEffect, precisely want to shoehorn your 'enlightenment' down people throat at the expense of their enjoyment. And since shoehorning never works naturally or gracefully, at the expense of the story writing too.


Now this ^
This looks fine for me too. I find her looks actually pleasant here. Hope all those camera angles or lighting or animations won't crush that impression in next instant.

Problem is that I liked femShep face in first two games so much that never even wanted to try character creator with her. Whatever angles and lightnings were, I liked her face - except creepy 'rape-face' smile in several instances of course
Something is wrong if you need carefully rotate character and set very specific lighting to make her look good.

Now that I have seen more comparison pics,she does look significantly different. It 's like they decided to modify the facial scan a bit tooooo much and the animations aren't helping at all.

I understand and I like the more relatable approach, but I am not talking about make up and cosmetic enhancements ,I was talking about how they transferred\translated the face models face to Sara. I am talking about purely the facial structure and it is obvious Sara 's face is very different from Jayde Rossi's face and it is more obvious they modified it a lot.

Perhaps. That hasn't really been the tone here, since the first couple of pages, but maybe it has been in other threads or in other places.

I don't like divisive threads like this. They inspire normally chummy people to take sides on (non) issues that shouldn't have sides, like this one.