When pics are coming out comparing the supermodel's images used as the basis to the default male and female Mass Effect characters, and only the female looks noticeably off while it's the same story for virtually all the female models in the game, even making asari remind people of Fiona's ogre form in Shrek, of course it's going to cause a controversy. It's actually
quite blatant. Tracer's butt getting a taunt altered caused a noticeable outrage, which is nothing compared to this. Tracer's butt got fixed
so fast, whilst Mass Effect: Andromeda is an entirely "finished" triple-A game and they can't just redo all the character models.
It also seems to insultingly defy logic. Why pay many thousands of dollars to use the supermodel's image just to jack it up on purpose when you could have pulled any plane-Jane from outside the office and do her face for far less? Expect to hear a lot more of this in the days ahead. The game isn't even out yet.
American Tanker said:
The Lunatic said:
*Manveer Heir being a racist shitbag*
The one thing I want to know is why this man was never called out by his employers for being a racist shitbag.
Because they actually
literally are on board with him speaking his mind. 2 of the top-tier boss guys that is. Meanwhile if he changed any of those references to say "blacks" or "jews," we wouldn't have heard of this guy much before he got
so fired.
Captain Marvelous said:
Meh. I find that comment section pretty tame compared to Middle Earth: Shadow of War's announcement trailer's. A black dude shows up for all of 2 seconds and the comment section's filled with people complaining about lore in a game that took massive liberties in the first place.
I was there for those threads, and while people did kick a stink, everyone else was quick to shut it down rightfully saying for multiple reasons it was entirely possible a single black guy could end up in Mordor. The reasons I had posted there were because Nurn had a very active port industry where presumably people from all over the world could end up. Also some of the mercenary army in Return of The King had the Persian-inspired forces complete with giant elephants, Persians being essentially "brown people" right there on the big screen.
Zhukov said:
Besides, you know you can have a female character without them automatically looking like a supermodel, right? It's allowed to happen.
Of course, but Dr. Michel and Emily Wong look like the modelers took a pat of clay, sculpted it a bit with a spoon, and the result is fetal alcohol syndrome. Combined with phenomenal animations and that patented Bioware lip-syncing I bet that's going to look
real nice coming off the screen being churned out by everyone's GTX 1060 cards.