All asari have the same face

Mar 25, 2017 11:53:09 GMT geoffreyomega said:

It's always been the case in every game, the difference being, they didn't have the face of one of the main character.
Liara was singular and so was Samara. They were then two differents face models for every hundred asari which with unique skin could either give Matriarch, very young Asari, soldier badass looking etc.
The point being, they didn't all have Samara's head which would have felt weird because she's in your team and you expect her to look singular.

They made the mistake in Mass Effect andromeda to have all the Asari's face based on Lexi.
So whenever you see an Asari, your brain can't help to notice how weird it feels.
If it was just a generic face that neither pebee nor Lexi had, it would have been fine, but since you're constantly reminded that all Asari looks like Lexi, it feels very disturbing, especially when they went really soft with Asari's tattoos and colors in this one.

There were multiple asari faces in the original trilogy. Asari are basically human in terms of design. You can get away with having the same face and different paintjobs with salarians, turians, krogan and other "true aliens", but not with near-humans like asari or unmasked quarians. No, it would not be acceptable if they used a different face than Lexi's. It would be very noticeable if every single asari you interacted with had the same base model. We're not just talking background dressing characters that are just there to make the place look populated, but NPCs you actually interact with.

Imagine if Emily Wong, Chloe Michel, Khalisah al-Jilani, Gianna Parisini and Mako Matsuo all had the same face with a skin and hairstyle/color swapped about. And that includes every female character either just walking around or with sidequest interactions on Noveria, The Citadel and Feros all sharing that single face model as well.