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Post by Hexxagone on Mar 31, 2017 9:29:06 GMT
Seriously what did they spend 5 years doing?
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 9:51:16 GMT
Perfecting sex scenes, if the gossip is anything to go by
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 31, 2017 10:04:56 GMT
"Polishing"... at least for the last 6-8 months.
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Post by aoibhealfae on Mar 31, 2017 10:27:24 GMT
Pretty sure the actual development period of MEA is between 2015-2016.... they don't start until after Inquisition.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 10:29:17 GMT
Every damn Asari has Dr. Lexi's face and it's driving me crazy. To top it off it's also one of the most un-asari faces I've seen. Well all except the one in the nightclub for some unknown reason.
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Post by Dekibra on Mar 31, 2017 10:38:21 GMT
Every damn Asari has Dr. Lexi's face and it's driving me crazy. To top it off it's also one of the most un-asari faces I've seen. Well all except the one in the nightclub for some unknown reason. exactly! ... I always need to read the name over and over to know which Asari I am actually talking to now and in MP it is even worse: I just call them the Asari-Clones: all asari-kits have the same head-model, just different tattoo and color variants
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 10:40:26 GMT
Every damn Asari has Dr. Lexi's face and it's driving me crazy. To top it off it's also one of the most un-asari faces I've seen. Well all except the one in the nightclub for some unknown reason. Theres one on Voeld as well an Ice runner. I was like: She's actually got a different face!! *Stops to talk about ice running.*
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Post by FireAndBlood on Mar 31, 2017 11:11:22 GMT
So all aliens look the same to you huh?
You humans are all racist!
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Post by Cyan_Griffonclaw on Mar 31, 2017 11:21:56 GMT
So all aliens look the same to you huh? You humans are all racist! Awesome. Book em' Garrus.
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 31, 2017 11:22:41 GMT
So all aliens look the same to you huh? You humans are all racist! Speciesist...
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Post by brownfinger on Mar 31, 2017 11:36:44 GMT
Every damn Asari has Dr. Lexi's face and it's driving me crazy. To top it off it's also one of the most un-asari faces I've seen. Well all except the one in the nightclub for some unknown reason. I know my priorities are askew, but this is by far the most disappointing thing in the game for me. Asari with today's game visual potential should have been glorious! Instead we got weird high bulbous noses on an endless parade of the same face again and again. I can see them when I close my eyes, and it's not good. Blurg.
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 11:56:23 GMT
So all aliens look the same to you huh? You humans are all racist! Speciesist... Oh, you.
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Post by Warrick on Mar 31, 2017 12:07:25 GMT
Does anyone know why they would do this? In the old EA Godfather game they filled New York with clones out of memory consumption concerns. And people blamed some of the issues with DA:I on last-gen consoles. But memory isn't a problem in next-gen consoles right?
I'm not even disappointed, just baffled.
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Post by nickles on Mar 31, 2017 12:11:21 GMT
More jarring than the Asari are the Turians with all white faces or those random Krogan who's skin and armor are solid black.
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 31, 2017 12:16:48 GMT
More jarring than the Asari are the Turians with all white faces or those random Krogan who's skin and armor are solid black. True... remember how colorful and unique every Turian was in the trilogy? It seams they just moved the face paint over to the Asari now, to cover up the samy faces...
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Post by mordrek on Mar 31, 2017 12:21:36 GMT
Seriously what did they spend 5 years doing? You clearly didn't read the press releases, 1200 unique characters! Each and every character you meet in ME:A is UNIQUE! Now I need a shower.
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Post by nickles on Mar 31, 2017 12:21:44 GMT
More jarring than the Asari are the Turians with all white faces or those random Krogan who's skin and armor are solid black. True... remember how colorful and unique every Turian was in the trilogy? It seams they just moved the face paint over to the Asari now, to cover up the samy faces... Weirdly, during Alec's memories when he's conversing with you-know-who, one of the faces that comes up IS a Turian with not only a blue face, but one that showed the spackling of different colors/shades we became used to in the trilogy. As far as I can recall, that's the ONLY instance of a Turian who didn't have a white face. It was especially weird because a lot of female Turians had really pinkish skin, so I was getting a bone and brain vibe whenever I looked at them.
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 31, 2017 12:26:09 GMT
True... remember how colorful and unique every Turian was in the trilogy? It seams they just moved the face paint over to the Asari now, to cover up the samy faces... Weirdly, during Alec's memories when he's conversing with you-know-who, one of the faces that comes up IS a Turian with not only a blue face, but one that showed the spackling of different colors/shades we became used to in the trilogy. As far as I can recall, that's the ONLY instance of a Turian who didn't have a white face. It was especially weird because a lot of female Turians had really pinkish skin, so I was getting a bone and brain vibe whenever I looked at them. Which is especially stupid since their plates are metal, not bone... I really don't know what they did to this game during "polishing". Did they go back and make stuff worse? "My face is tired" Addison does look much better as a hologram too... I'm pretty sure that not the same face model then her regular face.
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Post by Sondergaard on Mar 31, 2017 12:27:03 GMT
More jarring than the Asari are the Turians with all white faces or those random Krogan who's skin and armor are solid black. True... remember how colorful and unique every Turian was in the trilogy? It seams they just moved the face paint over to the Asari now, to cover up the samy faces... Didn't work. The 'asari-clone' effect is one of the most jarring in the game. Far worse than some dodgy facial animations for me. Beggars belief that they let what I assume are placeholders through to the final product.
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 31, 2017 12:28:49 GMT
True... remember how colorful and unique every Turian was in the trilogy? It seams they just moved the face paint over to the Asari now, to cover up the samy faces... Didn't work. The 'asari-clone' effect is one of the most jarring in the game. Far worse than some dodgy facial animations for me. Beggars belief that they let what I assume are placeholders through to the final product. To be fair, not the only placeholders... there are many.
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Post by Warrick on Mar 31, 2017 12:29:19 GMT
Someone altered the bodies of male elves in Inquisition to make their arms and shoulders less wrong. So if people can tweak meshes (not just textures), do you think it is possible that faces could be tweaked also?
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Post by warbaby2 on Mar 31, 2017 12:36:19 GMT
Someone altered the bodies of male elves in Inquisition to make their arms and shoulders less wrong. So if people can tweak meshes (not just textures), do you think it is possible that faces could be tweaked also? IF it's possible, it would be QUITE a job...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 12:39:55 GMT
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Post by ShadowAngel on Mar 31, 2017 12:44:46 GMT
They need more presets for them. A few more would help make it not as noticeable.
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Post by Petroshenko on Mar 31, 2017 12:56:13 GMT
Seriously what did they spend 5 years doing? Legit question when it comes to animation team and NPC/facial design team. When you look at crafting for example, you can totally see how they spent 5 years. In fact, they should've been stopped at year 4 'cause they just kept going and going making crafting UI more and more convulted adding more materials, resources etc. But you can't say it lacks content/depth. Same goes for side quest writers. You can definitely argue that they should've done less side quests but make them longer and more branching, but it's clear how much writing overall is in the game. Level designers clearly worked hard for 5 years too, huge explorable maps mixed with lots of smaller levels and all of it unique without repeating the mistake of ME1 copy+paste locations. But the animations, human/asari faces, dead eyes, character creator options, awful hair? It literally looks like they had 6 months to do all of this, absymal showing after FIVE YEARS
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