Erode_The_Soul wrote...
All this talk of practicality seems a tad silly to me. The points about Femshep being unable to see properly fall into "it's a game" territory for me. I control Femshep and neither her hair, nor mine impedes my ability to aim. As for the NPCs, practicality hasn't really been present the entire time for them either. Need I remind you of Jack? I mean, I know she's not military or anything but she still goes out into the middle of firefights in leggings and a nipple belt; hardly what you would call practical. Miranda runs around the battlefield with long hair and in heels, of all things; not super practical either.
I don't know. I get immersion and everything, but this strikes me as a bit nitpicky.
It's probably because you never played ME1. ME2 made the jump from
practical, believable heroes to a band of comic book titans wearing super-duper tights and lipstick.
ME2, in no way, represents the Mass Effect "look" for me. It just threw the universe out of whack with all of its weird inconsistencies and lazy cover-ups.