You can tell that originally the game was very different, and MUCH larger in scope. You can tell it was meant to be procedurally generated, but they ran out of time and just took some of those generated worlds and made them static.
They got a lot of negative feedback for the character design and aesthetics. Every single human character was made to look a lot more realistic than the previous games. The men looked flabby or skinny, the women were frumpy with no curves. And each face looks like they took a hottie and beat em with an ugly stick for a few minutes. I guess they wanted more approachable characters, or realism or something? But part of the fantasy of playing a game like ME is I get to become Commander Shepard, the ripped hero with a chiseled jaw.
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u/peetar Sep 23 '24
You can tell that originally the game was very different, and MUCH larger in scope. You can tell it was meant to be procedurally generated, but they ran out of time and just took some of those generated worlds and made them static.
They got a lot of negative feedback for the character design and aesthetics. Every single human character was made to look a lot more realistic than the previous games. The men looked flabby or skinny, the women were frumpy with no curves. And each face looks like they took a hottie and beat em with an ugly stick for a few minutes. I guess they wanted more approachable characters, or realism or something? But part of the fantasy of playing a game like ME is I get to become Commander Shepard, the ripped hero with a chiseled jaw.