Jaal. Jaal, everywhere.

Nope. Each of the species actually feature great variety in the variety of their colors and markings. It was a bit jarring, at first, on turians, but I grew to appreciate it.

The irony is that it is lore established that humans have a hard time telling one turian from another. Except for eye color and tattoos...I kinda agree.

I think the point of that scene is that it is the same turian, and he's a racist prick. Still, it's playing upon truth. Our brains rapidly sort and process features when they're on a face of the sort we are used to seeing. The process slows when we are exposed to new sets of features. I can only imagine how amplified this would be with aliens!

I guess... But at least some different bony growths or something!!! Like the older the chosen the more bone formations or something.

Although, with so many of the Angarans looking alike, I guess I can't really complain about the kett looking alike as well...

What I found strange about the Krogan specifically was that their head plates were the same as their skin colour and texture, where in the OT the head plate was always a darker red or green, and skin was yellowish, or some other lighter colour.

Pibbi isn't even Asari, she's a human girl teenager who likes to paint herself blue.

People are saying it was the same in the OT. If that's the case, I think ME1 did a fantastic job hiding it. I may be blind but Pallin's mandibles look different to me somehow. I'm pretty sure his nose is thinner than Nihlus' nose also. I would swear Lorik from Noveria has smaller eye sockets. And so on.

Whatever the reason, they look distinct.

Same for asari. I can't tell if the consort has the same face as nassana dantius, but somehow you can definitely tell one from the other.

We get nothing but clones in MEA.

It was all creative color usage. Carapace color, paint variety, and whether they filled in the eye sockets, or not. (Qi'in's sockets were black, if I recall correctly.)

The turians aren't very well done, in my opinion, in MEA. With a few exceptions, they are drab and unvaried, aside from the occasional colorful carapace. I could see many turians of the Initiative deciding to remove their colony markings. If this were to be the case, though, it should've been mentioned. Instead, they just look bland and unimaginative.

Makes me wonder if that large scarred flesh with the chunk of skin missing from Jaal's head was a way of knowing it was him when he isn't wearing his usual clothing. Sometimes in my game he doesn't even wear his monocle.

It's Li! I hope he survived the Reaper War. He seemed like a cool dude.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just good texturing, colors, etc... There is Saren, Garrus and every other turian, from what I'm seeing. That's only if I examine it, though. A little bit of visual variety and solid characterization is all I need to see NPCs as individuals.