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[Bugsie]

 

 

 

How's that? Still looks like a TES: Oblivion NPC to me.

LOL.  I take it you haven't played Oblivion in a while.

 

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[WildOrchid]

So in nutshell, women who don't suit to your tastes alone, are "barely humans". K.

[Ynqve]

Hate to break it to you OP, but good character design does not mean that every character is attractive. It means that they have a design that enhance their personality and story. Some will be attractive, some won't be. As someone who read Asunder, I think Cole's design is perfect for what he's supposed to be. I would have hated it if he showed up looking like Alistair. 

 

As for the art style, I like it a lot! But that's subjective, if you don't like it that's fine. I'm just happy we won't get fifty shades of brown again. 

[Felya87]

...I would love to be surrounded by so many "barely humans" guys...just sayng...

[Giant ambush beetle]

OP, what are you even blathering about... 

 

 

[Panda]

So if I understand right the problem is design of the characters?

 

I think BW went to more variable looks than traditionally attractive. I like this choice, I found unconventionally attractive people prettier than traditionally so, much more intresting that way.

[NoForgiveness]

Oh i get it. This thread is for blind players...




(If you actually know blind people, then I'm sorry to associate them with people in this thread.)

[Giant ambush beetle]

I think BW went to more variable looks than traditionally attractive. I like this choice, I found unconventionally attractive people prettier than traditionally so, much more interesting that way.

I couldn't agree with you more.

[Shapeshifter777]

Man you people have high standards.  I think everyone but Sera looks gorgeous.  Cassandra would look better if she didn't have a feminist's haircut, but that's just my opinion.  Leliana is beautiful.  10/10.  All of the dudes, look great, spare the ones who are supposed to look rough and beat up like Iron Bull and black wall.  Cole is not SUPPOSED to look attractive.

[syllogi]

I'm not even planning romance playthroughs for them, but Blackwall and Dorian seem pretty conventionally attractive, on the dude side of things.

 

Sera and Cassandra are both more realistic looking than characters we've seen in DA:O or DA2, but I don't get it when people call them ugly.  Maybe they're both not your type, but if I saw them walking down the street, I would think they are attractive.  Of course people are entitled to their opinions, but the amount of hate they've gotten is baffling to me.  Vivienne and Josephine are also very good looking, from what I've seen of screenshots.  The rest, IDK, maybe not my type, or maybe I'll find their characters attractive once I get to know them in game.  That's actually part of the fun for me, personally.

 

I have barely played the Witcher games, but I did notice that when Yennefer's cosplay guide was put out, over on the Witcher site, there were TONS of complaints and photoshop edits trying to make her look "better", even though she looked fine to me.  Triss, not as much, but there were grumblings.  Again, I just don't get it.

[Eri]

Man you people have high standards.  I think everyone but Sera looks gorgeous.  Cassandra would look better if she didn't have a feminist's haircut, but that's just my opinion.  Leliana is beautiful.  10/10.  All of the dudes, look great, spare the ones who are supposed to look rough and beat up like Iron Bull and black wall.  Cole is not SUPPOSED to look attractive.

And they look the best of all.

[10K]

I get that beauty is in the eye of the beholder or whatever, but given the immense dislike of the characters' appearance, I think its safe to say that they went the wrong direction.

 

Were you on the Bioware boards when Dragon Age: Origins came out? Did you make a topic on how the characters were "too darn attracive"? If not, it probably wasn't a problem for you. I doubt you even gave their appearance a second thought. Meanwhile, there's tons of us who hate these character designs. What does that tell you?

 

Really? Flotsam bored you, but not the endless cut-and-paste dungeons and waves and waves of samey enemies in every area of DA2? We have very different tastes indeed.

 

If you think it's too darn uncanny that your companions could be all normal-looking people without alien features, then I think your biggest problem with this game would be how uncanny it is how your party of 6 has evenly divided straight, gay, and bisexual members. That's a pretty amazing statistical phenomenon, you know.

It tells me people hate change, simple as that. Character design isn't the only thing people on this forum got there panties in a bunch about, nor is it the biggest.

[Lieutenant Kurin]

And they look the best of all.

Oh Blackwall , how I adore thee. (He's very conventionally attractive to me, just bearded). And as for Cassandra, she's a strikingly handsome woman. And that totally suits her personality. If she was 'pretty', she'd look nothing like what her character is supposed to be, same complaint as Dawn of the Seeker for me. As for her DA2 appearance, it seems bland and generic to me.

[XMissWooX]

I get that beauty is in the eye of the beholder or whatever, but given the immense dislike of the characters' appearance, I think its safe to say that they went the wrong direction.

Were you on the Bioware boards when Dragon Age: Origins came out? Did you make a topic on how the characters were "too darn attracive"? If not, it probably wasn't a big deal to you. I doubt you even gave their appearance a second thought.

No, I've never really had an issue with the way companions have looked in past games. But seeing DAO and DA2 companions alongside DAI's companions, I can honestly say that I much prefer the latter's appearances.
And I don't think it's wrong for people to think the companions are 'unattractive', I just don't see why they should *need* to be 'attractive'.

Really? Flotsam bored you, but not the endless cut-and-paste dungeons and waves and waves of samey enemies in every area of DA2? We have very different tastes indeed.

I think that when I played the Witcher 2, I experienced 3 pitfalls:
1) When I got to Flotsam I found myself wondering what to do next. I did some Witcher bounties, did some side quests, contemplated going after the Kayran or visiting Loredo, but ultimately I just found myself putting the controller down and doing something else. Might have to try giving it another go and see if I feel any better.
2) I just couldn't bring myself to care about the characters. I talked to them, remembered their names and faces, but just couldn't find it in me to care if they lived or died, or suffered a horrible fate. Compare that to DA2 where I immediately felt the need to get my family out of Lothering alive, felt a mixture of sympathy and respect for Aveline as she killed Wesley, and couldn't decide between thinking Varric was a slimy sleazeball or my new best friend.
3) And of course, the reason why I replayed DA2 several times was because I played a different Hawke each time. With the Witcher, I'm always going to be playing Geralt, so I can't get that that sense of 'who shall I be this time?'

So my point is - yes, it does come down to different tastes. And that's why I can't definitively tell everyone that DA is better than Witcher, and no one can definitively tell me that Witcher is better than DA. Yet, time and again, they do so love to try.

[Lieutenant Kurin]

I think that when I played the Witcher 2, I experienced 3 pitfalls:
1) When I got to Flotsam I found myself wondering what to do next. I did some Witcher bounties, did some side quests, contemplated going after the Kayran or visiting Loredo, but ultimately I just found myself putting the controller down and doing something else. Might have to try giving it another go and see if I feel any better.
2) I just couldn't bring myself to care about the characters. I talked to them, remembered their names and faces, but just couldn't find it in me to care if they lived or died, or suffered a horrible fate. Compare that to DA2 where I immediately felt the need to get my family out of Lothering alive, felt a mixture of sympathy and respect for Aveline as she killed Wesley, and couldn't decide between thinking Varric was a slimy sleazeball or my new best friend.
3) And of course, the reason why I replayed DA2 several times was because I played a different Hawke each time. With the Witcher, I'm always going to be playing Geralt, so I can't get that that sense of 'who shall I be this time?'

So my point is - yes, it does come down or different tastes. And that's why I can't definitely tell everyone that DA is better than Witcher, and no one can definitely tell me that Witcher is better than DA. Yet, time and again, they do so love to try.

 

We are of the same mind . I liked the personal storyline for all those family touches, and I loved how they take the 'fleeing tropes', (a fleeing family, a fleeing couple that are madly in love), and utilize them in a way that made me care about them. When I saw Aveline and Wesley, seeing them made sense for one, a lone person might have not, and already I realized the tragedy to come. The fact I learned that I couldn't save him just made the effect more powerful in future playthroughs.

 

And Leandra... poor Leandra. I will always feel like I failed her. Not even as a character, but as a player. I feel (despite how unrealistic the feeling is), that had I done something different, I could have saved her.

[Lieutenant Kurin]

This Just sounds like another. ' Wahh I didnt get my obligatory anatomicly perfect sex object in the game.' And of course it's under the guise of 'all the companions are ugly'.

have an E for effort.

 

That's being nice. The argument is derivative, and the examples given to support it are not objectively based at all. Some content even seems to reek of plagiarism. If none is plagiarized... perhaps a 45%. That's a fail grade. Take this home and get your parents to sign it.

[Vapaa]

Cassandra would look better if she didn't have a feminist's haircut,

 

wat

[themikefest]

I don't have a problem with the way they look.

[Panda]

The comment that current companions don't look humans is very odd to me since I think BW went more in the realism way with their looks (except Iron Bull but he's not supposed to look like humans). There is lot of people IRL who have same traits as Cass, Sera, Varric, Josie.. everyone of the companions. Wide jaws, different types of noses, scars, freckles and moles. Our companions look very human to me.

[Vox Draco]

Cassandra would look better if she didn't have a feminist's haircut, but that's just my opinion.

You mean her short hair, which she probably cropped short because its more practical and easier to take care of due to her being a kind of soldiery-soldier-warriory-fighterey-womany-kinda female that doesn't want to spend most of her battle-time in front of a mirrir to keep a mass of black hair somehow in check ? I don't think she has much time to invent something like feminism in Thedas, mostly because Thedas doesn't seem to have much problems with misogyny anyway...Thank you, Andraste!

[Felya87]

Cassandra would look better if she didn't have a feminist's haircut

 

That's insulting and idiotic.

[Who Knows]

Lol another mention of the Witcher.