In all, I really don’t care for the revamp of elves in Dragon Age II (though it's grown on me since DA2 was released, I suppose), and I’d be really worried to see what my Surana, Tabris, and Mahariel elves would look like with the new revamp… And quite honestly, if my Warden was to ever make a comeback without their face covered, I’d really hope that they would let me about to tweak her face in the game – like when you import saves, if it sees you have a DA:O/DA:A save, it would be “Would you like to tweak your warden’s face for this game?” it will let you do that. Wishful thinking, I suppose, but one can hope, right?
But back to the revamp… I’m pretty “meh” on it. I didn’t like it all that much at first, though it’s slowly started to grow on me. Though, the elves in DA2 have far too long of necks – they really should be shortened by uhm… a few in-game inches – and the ears are a bit, as people have said, droopy. Elves in DA2 are also far, far too thin, and I hated the whole “no shoe” things. That really bothered me. I can see maybe Merrill running around without shoes on, but Fenris, Athenril, and… well, really, any city elf?
It really doesn’t make sense.
I do like the eyes though; I know they’re pretty remnisint of the Na’vi eyes, but I really do like the irises. When you take some of the features of the DAII elves and put them onto the DA:O elves, they look great!
I’m new to the Bioware forums, so if this doesn’t post correctly, I apologize in advance… The following picture I’m going to post is NOT mine, however! You can find it on the following topic, though:
http://social.biowar...ndex/7566177/19(
tmp7704 posted it)
As far as elves in DA2 that I thought looked good, there is Merrill, Fenris, Cora (Prostitute in The Blooming Rose ahaha), Athenril, Marethari, Ilen and I thought Lia (the little girl you can save) was pretty adorable, if a bit on the plain side. As for a lot of “furniture/background elves” …Yes, I lot of them where just plain awful. x__x There was one elven woman walking around Kirkwall’s alienage, and I want to say that I thought she was quite lovely, but she’s probably one of the few “elven fodder” that didn’t look like some weird alien/orc hybrid.
As far as Orana is concerned, I feel bad for her. :c Poor girl always shows up on “DA2 elves are ugly.” I can understand why, I mean, egad… that makeup and those shrunken-in cheeks, but everyone always uses the same, super bad shot of her – honestly, if you get her as a servant/slave, and talk to her in the Hawke estate, she really doesn’t look that bad: I think the biggest issue is her makeup and lack of eyebrows. Change that, and she is bound to look x10 better.
As Maclimes posted quite a few pages back, there is this comparison of elves
from Origins and their counterparts in DAII:
http://i.imgur.com/5cyKF.jpg%3C/a%3E In my opinion, Marethari looks far better (though that might also have to do with the hairstyle she used in origins and how it framed her face, too). Zevran could have been much worse, though I think they should have put much more care into his face – more so when he was a love interest in Origins. As for Merrill… I’d much preferred if they kept her gorgeous bright blue eyes and her darker skin complexion, though no love was lost for the Origins Merrill
otherwise, really. XD
But despite all of this, I don’t really see elves in DAII looking “sexy” or “desirable”: I saw much more beautiful elven NPCs in Origins, such as Shianni, Mithra, Iona, Nelaros, Tamlen, Marin, and the list goes on.
Though, with the new elves, it’s really hard for me to imagine them… seducing someone. Zevran mentions how the Crows like to have elven assassins, Leliana mentions how nobility in Orlais like elven servants, so we can all agree that in general elves are suppose to be relatively beautiful and exotic, yes? Even though I’ve romanced both Fenris and Merrill, I didn’t really find either or “seductive,” persay… Though to be totally fair, neither of them are exactly seductive characters. Ah, well…
There was no reason Sketch should have went from this:
to this:
Everyone talks about how Zevran’s was so bad, but IMO, Sketch got it the worst.
;___;
I think that BioWare should take a step back, and do some tweaking on them: Keep some of the features of them found in DAII like the irises and the nose bridges, but go back to the roots a bit more:
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Again, another one of tmp7704’s pics… can’t find theexactly page, but it’s from this thread:
http://social.biowar...ndex/7566177/18)
Still
recognizable, and still rather
attractive if I do say so myself. Something I can see being sexy much easier then the adorable deer-people.
At the end of the day, though, to be fair, Dragon Age II was rushed, and there are certain concepts that sound pretty freaking amazing that really didn’t show up in the end game with all sorts of different face shapes and stuff. If I can find it, I’ll edit my post.
And to be totally honest,
I think the elves in Skyrim are butt-ugly, and Bioware shouldn’t take any “tips” from them. Just… no. e__e
Modifié par Cerah, 14 août 2012 - 05:08 .
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Sadly no, I just modified them a little bit. 
Lol, I noticed that a while ago when I posted it. Did you watch the video?
(Sorry 'bout that - it's a pet peeve)
^ Ok design 
^ Keep that design away from the elves...
