Cthulhu42 wrote...
Bioware decided at some point that some characters "needed to be sexier" and gave them all boob jobs and other assorted bodily changes. Thankfully they left Tali and Jack alone.
Really, their tendency as of late to oversexualize everything has gotten rather out of hand. Liara's not so bad aprt from the fact that they felt she needed to be changed in the first place (really she was fine already), but Miranda and EDI take things a little far.
I think it was more about doing more than reusing the same female body for every character. In Mass Effect 2 they were able to do more than they did with ME1. They probably wanted to differentiate the characters a bit more. In ME1, Liara, Ashley and FemShep all have the same body. Same boobs, same hips, everything. Their look only varies due to the armor and clothing they wear. But if you put them all in the same armor, they look the same. In the sex scene they actually really just change everyone's heads. That's it.
In ME2, Miranda and Samara each have their own body, as does Liara, Jack and others. Dr. Chawkwas largely retains her model from ME1 as do most of the background females. I think they cleaned up her textures a bit though. Interesting to note that while Liara was changed, they left Ashley alone. In fact her model and textures look exactly as they did in ME1. Of course it made no sense to give her an updated model for what is literally a cameo. And if you look at the first two pics of Liara in the above photos, it looks like the Liara in the office may in fact be her ME1 model, albeit with new textures and changes to lighting. But her face geometry is the same. However, in her armored outfit, she appears to be almost an entirely new model. New textures, updated gemetry, etc. This is why she has less of a baby face once you start LOtSB.
For whatever reason, she is a retextured version of her ME1 body again when she's brought over for the tour, though she's got new animations and I think they cut and pasted her head from the armored Liara model onto that original body.