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[Hanako Ikezawa]

Han Shot First wrote...

Beaker! While I disagree with you on the elf design issue, this picture made my day.

[h0neanias]

highcastle wrote...

Not all the elven NPCs were bad. Jethann, Marethari, Huon, etc. were all distinctive and didn't look deformed. The elves are now differentiated from humans and I fail to see how that's a bad thing. No where in the lore does it say they are supernaturally attractive; that's something people tend to assume given the treatment of elves in other media. But the elves of the DA universe have fallen to second class citizens in much of Thedas. They live in squalor, and probably aren't fantastically attractive if only due to lack of access to decent nutrition, supplies, etc.

There were absolutely some really low resolution and rather disturbing looking elven NPCs in DA2. There were also a bunch of low resolution and disturbing looking human NPCs floating around in the background, too. I think it came down to time constraints. But that doesn't mean the redesign is a bad idea. The elves are further distinguished from humans. They are a bit more unique and less in the Tolkien model.

Funny thing, but those you named were some of the ugliest ones for me. DA elves are lore-defined as aesthetically pleasing (statistically speaking), on which front DA2 failed miserably. To be honest, those background elves were about the only ones I liked besides Fenris. Again I'd like to mention that it's not in the redesign itself, but in the way it was implemented into the actual game look. While their faces were horrible enough (Zevran, my poor beloved Zevran, why oh why), what was most off-putting were their blocky, malnourished, 13-year-old-like bodies.

Compare with the concept art and cry.

Modifié par h0neanias, 10 octobre 2012 - 04:55 .