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

You know this whole argument could be stoped if Bioware simply gave us the choice to have either a realistic character or a fantastical one. So the ones for it can get their girl next door look, and everyone else can get their sexy bombshell. I'll be getting the mods for the double D's.

So does BioWare. They redesigned her face, though they kept the eyebrows. I suspect those are important to PeeBee's story.

A lot of the reasons why BioWare couldn't make modding tools has to do with the engine and it being on DICE to actually support modding tools, as well as probably on EA for approving it in the first place.

Is Bioware simply that inept?
No, I don't believe that. They seem to be struggling with new technology but there is undeniable trend with their character design, starting from DAI and continuing here. You can love that fact, you can hate it, but they intentionally go for diversity and in my opinion they go out of proportions with it. Yes, you can go out on street and see that not all women look like super-models. Far from it indeed. But I don't think you can say this about any of Bioware game either, even before DAI.
People with distinct unconventional looks do happen here and there. Not everywhere. Why without plot reason en masse create characters who probably will be perceived as unattractive or worse by common standards? That seems unintuitive for AAA title.

So I do think that there is "agenda" in what they are doing. I just don't think that this is about shoehorning as it is and more about their belief that this is a important thing to do.
It becomes interesting how far they will go with it. Who knows, may be we will get something like this in the future? I would love to see how someone will say "What's wrong, you sexist pig? Reevaluate your standards, there is nothing wrong with her, she is perfect!".

Leliana in DAO, DA2 and DAI
Isabela in DA2
Morrigan in DAO and DAI
Yennefer in Witcher 3, well as far as I remeber Witcher 3 all girls are beautiful, even Cerys the "viking lady" is prettier than Sarah
And so on...

I would date even a Krogan, I don't date people on their appearances, never did, it is not even a factor for sexual excitement for me, but when I play videogames, an audio visual experience, you can be damn sure I am 101% about aesthetics and they better do everything pretty, even the rocks, so yeah, Sarah is ugly as hell

Wow, ok... short version? The US banks and universities are highly dependent on student loans.

Yup, and every normal human being knows that... problem is: Gaming - like any multi billion dollar industry - has attracted a whole bunch of crazies over the years, and people have not yet learned to ignore them, like any other industry does.

Can't lie. I can never quite remember what Nathan Drake looks like. I just keep imagining poor man's Malcolm Reynolds. 

Again, I think we shouldn't exclude a third possibility here. Namely, that Bio is simply not very interested in working much on attractiveness, rather than being opposed to it or unable to achieve it. Even the companions who are based on real people are made things, and you can expend the man-hours doing that making in different ways.

Like I said upthread, the DAI artists came across as being not very interested in high levels of attractiveness. They were looking for OK, and got to OK.

This means that Gay Tony's asking the wrong question. Rather than Bio pandering to people who want low attractiveness, it's just that Bio isn't pandering to people who want high attractiveness, and the question is whether they should pander. Elsariel, I believe, is saying yes to that, depending on where we draw the attractiveness/unattractiveness line. (We really shouldn't use a binary here.)

The only thing about this is that they went and used models for the face scan. If you aren't after attractiveness, then why go out of your way to hire people who literally have a job description of being attractive?

On top of that they got Scott's face scan spot on compared to Steven Brewis, the model they used for him. Meanwhile Sara looks almost nothing like Jayde Rossi.

That suggests that either they intentionally modified Sara after doing the facial scan, or that something went wrong in the facial scan they couldn't correct. In either case the two outcomes are that either A. they're opposed to it or B. They're unable to achieve it.

@ Cyonan: Case A strikes me as incoherent; if you are positively opposed to attractiveness, why start with attractive? It can still work if the staff really has incoherent goals, though.