Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...
Why did they want to move away from that for elves, when elves are supposed be deemed beautiful by humans? The Antivan Crows, according to Zevran, prefer to recruit elves because 'humans find them attractive'.
I know beauty is subjective, but the majority of people here seem to either not like the new elf design or think it's just 'not bad', at least where NPCs who have dialogue are concerned. The remarkable beauty and allure of elves as a species seems to have gone walkabout.
Beautiful to humans, sure, but not beautiful humans with pointy ears. You can have a race that humans find attractive without making them basically humans. There is always the exotic factor, after all. People find Twi'leks attractive and they are blue skinned people with head tentacals.
Now, I agree that the non-speaking NPCs were horrid, due to lack of design resources probably, and the voiced NPCs were hit or miss. I liked some of them, but others did have issues. Now, if Bioware put more resources into the face morph, perhaps making them more like the good NPC designs or, heaven forbid, the companion characters, then the current elf design would be perfect.
As for why Bioware made the change, it probably has something to do with the "generic fantasy" charges that DA:O received, along with a desire to create a unique look for the DA series and to differentiate the races from each other (I.E. Qunari as tall humans, dwarves as short humans, elves as pointy-eared humans, werewolves as hairy humans, darkspawn as undead humans, mabari as dog-like humans, etc).
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Streamlined implies less work. Changing the elves would have required more effort than leaving the design the same (even the vallaslin were updated).
