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

My current favourite video game character, this version of Crofty.

Yeah, the occasional attempts to compare BioWare games to Uncharted, Tomb Raider and the like, always ring hollow. Apples and oranges.

Still, it's important that we let them know when we see something hinky. The immediate gripes about Sara's animations in December elicited prompt promises of improvements. The reaction to her dead-eye, corpsified character kit image got us new character kit images, and explanations as to why the initial effort kinda sucked.

Tactful criticism, as most has been on this BSN, is vital.

You're missing out. The plot is bobbins but as a game it's fantastic; looks (on pc anyway) incredible.

played the intital Tomb Raider reboot, and came away thinking that it had the best action gameplay mechanics I'd ever encountered. I repeatedly referenced it when members here expressed concern about MEA's new cover mechanics. I can imagine everything only got smoother. I know the visuals certainly look incredible.

I wish MEA featured a bit more scrambling (TR style), and a bit less jet-packing, to be honest. They have to compete with popular shooter titles though, so I get it.

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.

...and Scott Ryder doesn't suffer from the same shortcomings (appearance-wise or technical)? Except for the weird smile, which while it may not be the greatest rendered smile I've ever seen, I like it better than the really disturbing, and very few, Shepard smiles we got. Shepard was a stern, stick in the mud. Sara has exhibited more personality in a few brief trailers than Shepard did in an entire 3 game series.

They're not the most colorful or exotic designs at first glance, but that's not what makes a character or an individual anyway. I imagine in the long run I will like Sara better than I did Shepard, if the voice acting isn't too terrible.

Nothing like a pedo smile to brighten up your day XD. 


I don't have a problem with her either. She looks like a real person. Real people have flaws, imagined or otherwise. Nothing wrong with that.