BioWare Wants Fan Input on Sexy Anime-Style Mass Effect Statue

[Kargathia]

No, as in NO, as in NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

The strength of Mass Effect is that it has actual characters, as opposed to the oh so commonplace cardboard cutouts with tits.

I'd certainly appreciate if they'd kept it that way - and leave the overt sexualisation to the fanfic department.

 

[epikAXE]

This is not the Liara I know. She has more respect for herself than this, at least in the other games. But lest we not forget that this could become a story element in ME3, for example she comes under serious stress and dispar during her time working as *spiler alert* : the shadow broker, cauing her to turn to promiscuity? Or maybe not...

 

[ultimateownage]

Bioware fans hating a character being sexed up and generally being altered without their knowledge or fan-girlish approval.

Surely you Jest!

I was pretty surprised Bioware fans objected to the boobs. That community is full of perverts.

O.T. They might as well have cut to the chase and made a statue of a massive pair of alien boobs.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Just something else fox news is gonna ***** about

 

[Roofstone]

Ehh...

Cute, but not really Liara. Still cute though. <3

 

[Vaccine]

Bioware's been going full retard since DA2, idfk what they're thinking lately.

DA2 wasn't well received, TOR looks like a goddamn Mass Effect game with a different setting and shittier combat, and this makes me wonder what they're doing with Mass Effect.

Bioderp.

 

[Bobic]

I'm sorry to say this but, grow the hell up bioware. Isn't Mass Effect meant to be a deep, mature epic space adventure. Immature 'sexy' statues with boobs pushed up just do not fit.

 

[Something Amyss]

Why does Bioware keep pissing all over their own work?

Well, they were already paralleling Star Wars. Maybe they assumed the next logical step was to parallel Lucas.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

What the bloody bollocks is that, whilst being a big fan of anime and all that Japanese nonsense this thing looks terrifying. Mainly due to the face, the hell is going on there.
Not only does it look nothing like her it's just plain creepy.

Not sure what's going on with the giant rack either but that's easier to overlook...well you know what I mean.

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Is it juvenile and cheesecakey?
Well yeah of course it is but no more or less so than the various and sundry Bishoujo statuettes already in existence (Particularly the Ame-Comi line)

Maybe it's just me being an old fart but I can't bring myself to really get riled up about this.

 

[UnderCoverGuest]

OH GOD, WHAT THE HELL. I turn to Mass Effect when I want a space adventure that doesn't involve Japanese fads marketed to a western consumer base. How western of an RPG can you get, but nooo, now we have an actual sta--

Wait, why am I even typing here, I should be watching Zero Punctuation and doing course work or something.

 

[dyre]

What has EA done to you, Bioware? At least they ask the fanbase before going through with these horrendously retarded actions...

 

[GeorgW]

Yeah, I don't like it. It's completely out of character and pretty childish. I would have preferred if someone like Garrus would have gotten this treatment, at least then some gender roles would have been reversed and it would have at least been in character for the fan version of him...

 

[AceTrilby]

'Bish&#333;jo is a Japanese term used to refer to young and pretty girls, usually below university age.' - from Wikipedia.

There is a reason that Liara looks young in this statue. A little too young, maybe, but if they fix the face I see nothing wrong with a Bish&#333;jo statue with gigantic bazongas, it's just the style of the art. Look up any of Kotobukiya's DC statuettes, they all take liberties with the characters' design - it is, in a way, their own interpretation.

Much like a cover song, it is the covering artist's interpretation of the original - people who don't like don't have to listen. You don't have to buy this statue. I'm not going to buy it, but that doesn't mean I'm condemning the product itself.

(I do, however, agree, that it's the wrong character for making a statue out of. Miranda would have been a better candidate for the art style, just like Cat and Wonder Woman, whose personalities matched the image better.)

 

[CommanderKirov]

Cannot the make like... A normal statue?

That... you know... resembles characters from the game without the need to give them face that just screams "Apply baseball bat to forehead".

Or is it just too much to ask?

 

[Deathfish15]

I must say her boobs are disproportionate and too large as well. Other than that, love the rest of the statue.