Captain Arty wrote...
I have spent A LOT of time on femshep faces.
I'll even confess to statistically analyzing the faces of masseffect2faces.com.
The bottom line. The faces in ME3 look terrible, or at least, the facial settings that looked good in ME2 now look terrible.
-- Eye heights and shapes for a given setting are different. Eyes are lower in ME3, but eyes in ME2 were typically near their lowest setting to look normal. Doing that in ME3 looks bizarre.
-- Lip shapes have changed. Lip shape 1 (7) looked good in ME2, in ME3, lip shape 8 looks better.
-- ME3 uses bleach bypass effects in a lot of scenes to make it look more gritty. The result is pastier looking faces. But one whole stop on the skin tone slider overcorrects.
-- Faces are fuller in the neck, so your lean, mean fighting femshep looks... a little soft around the edges, or at least around the chin.
-- But by far the biggest negative is the hair. Hair in ME3 looks terrible, plain and simple. The textures are awful, and the only explanation I can com up with is that they were rushed, as was the character creator in general.
Thanks for the details…it's great if we can quantify this better. The ‘softness’ is definitely an issue for me. As is obvious, my particular template does indeed look like a teenage version of herself, with some extra asian features thrown in.
The hair is also a big thing. As you see, I had the tight bun* (it's just impossible to actually fight with loose hair, it'll get caught immediately), and in ME3 all those styles have been considerably loosened. Even though I don't like the short curly hair as much as I did in ME2 overall, using it seems to be a slight improvement because it cuts down on the extra puffiness.
* Yes, all my ME/ME2 characters look mostly the same, different hair, eye colour, but the basic facial structure is the same for the most part…Eevy is my favourite character, though.
Modifié par lillitheris, 07 avril 2012 - 03:01 .