Aesthetics V3

He looks funny, not threatening. He makes me laugh, like he just flew out of Liberace's butt onto a disco floor, he's just to fabulous for his minions to handle.

Put me on the "Love everything except the faces" train.

I'm not sure what it is -- I thought DAI did a fantastic job with faces, when you consider two genders and four species -- but something's a bit wonky. They seem fine outside, but in what seems to be the neutral ship lighting or the Nexus lighting, they're a wee bit off. It's better when they're animation, but stills make me feel like I'm looking at under-detailed clay masks. Something about the eyes and not quite enough texture on the skin. I'll blame it partially on lighting, and honestly, it's not a HUGE deal for me. But it is a wee bit vexing.

The scenery looks great, the interiors look great, the armor looks fantastic and so do the guns. And to be fair, I have minimal grief with the faces in most animated shots or with more natural lighting. I'll probably get used to it.

Big Bad above has a weird babyface and is shorter than his guards...he gives me some Dark Helmet vibes.

Generally, the surroundings look gorgeous, the arks and the Nexus are majestic. Facial animations could do with a few iterations though, and eyes sometimes look like completely flat textures. Some guns, especially the alien ones, look very low detail on the loadout screens, like something right out of a kinder surprise egg.

Overall, however, I still find it a visually very appealing game.

Napoleon too, maybe that's what they are going for. lol

So, he's gonna be the big bad of this game... but then when he's done there's proabably going to be some "oh no the Remnant overlords are out there." or something. I really hope they stay away from doing an ME1-retelling in another skin.

Sure. I found 3. Not sure which one you were referring to.

What. the. fuck. is that guy making the blonde character doing?

There are 11 female hairs and one is quite nice (and almost long) the others are meh but not awful (the shape I mean; the textures are bad again). There's 1 male hair that I like too so all is not lost. Also they are apparently patching extra option like highlights on Day 1.

The hair options are better then DAI. At least the females don't have sideburns and the wavy bob is cute. It looks like long hair is restricted to Sara's ponytail and buns again.

Here is all the hair for both genders in full rotation.

I know there are other threads out there for it, but feel free to post your creations from the CC in here, too. I'm looking forward to seeing what people are doing.

the opening missions reminds me a lot of Halo 4's first few levels