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The Mass Effect Community Thread
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Poodlestrike
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Hey, at least he's not white! One part of the bald white space marine trinity broken.
The Artisan
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DAI had great looking faces, especially for a cross gen game. Competitive for best customizer. Though the lip syncing was wild. And I loved the skin effects despite people saying they were shiny.
The Artisan
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prescanned faces?
Default male Shepard was a scanned face.
DOWN
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Default shepherd was literally a scanned male model and that's why he looked better than any of the custom characters or female shepard
The Artisan
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Oh I see. Yeah, I don't care either way if they base Ryder's likeness on a real life actor/model or not.
I thought you meant scanning your own face into the game like in 2K
The Artisan
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well they did say that there's no loading screens right? just seamless transitions? so this would make sense.
That was posted last year I believe? Just forgot about it :]
Glam wouldn't make it up. That was the plan at the time, but it was a while back.
The Lamonster
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basically that ^
But anyway guys, who cares about the bald default dude. Are you seriously not going FemRyder?
But anyway guys, who cares about the bald default dude. Are you seriously not going FemRyder?
Depends on the VO. I liked Hale in 1, but Meer was amazing in 3 IMO. Either way I lean to making a character that resembles me a bit.
SliChillax
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Poodlestrike
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Seeing him in actual photos always freaks me the hell out.
In that metrosexual fashion get-up, sure.
The Artisan
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we established this =]
why?
Poodlestrike
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No, I mostly just start wondering if we've got a Ring situation on our hands and people are crawling out of my television.
HE'S NOT SUPPPOSED TO BE REAL
To this day I still don't understand how Bioware copied default Shepard's face model so perfectly and yet fucked up Miranda's.
How do you fuck up this:
Bioware how?
In those short pre rendered movie clips they showed pre-ME2 when they were building up each new character her face actually looked good, I have no idea what happened when they transitioned it to the in game engine.
How do you fuck up this:
Bioware how?
In those short pre rendered movie clips they showed pre-ME2 when they were building up each new character her face actually looked good, I have no idea what happened when they transitioned it to the in game engine.
The Artisan
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huh? if you ask me they did a better job with her than with shep.
The Lamonster
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I think they did a fine job:
Looks like Miranda to me.
Looks like Miranda to me.
The Artisan
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that first image looks like a doll
The Lamonster
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a hot doll
The Artisan
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if you say so buddy. if it is a doll, it's so lifelike lookin it kinda creeps me out
The Artisan
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what is she all dressed up for anyway
Some secret mission for Cerberus probably.
The Artisan
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it's kinda funny how she was okay with all the fucked up shit they were doing but drew the line at the human reaper.
Mediking
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Y'all are delusional. Miranda is the fugliest scanned game model I've ever seen. Actual they did an awful job on her and on Jessica Chobot. Both looked far lower quality than Male Shep. They were pale women with droopy dark eyelids and unrealistic gross hair. I never imagined two beautiful real women getting so fucked up in translation. Nobody would know the model for Miranda is incredibly beautiful if they looked at her model in game only. Where as Shepard totally looks like a hot male model and translated very well.
The Artisan
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huh? she's my wife tho
maybe the real problem is that the graphics just wasn't the strongsuit for this series.Y'all are delusional. Miranda is the fugliest scanned game model I've ever seen. Actual they did an awful job on her and on Jessica Chobot. Both looked far lower quality than Male Shep. They were pale women with droopy dark eyelids and unrealistic gross hair. I never imagined two beautiful real women getting so fucked up in translation. Nobody would know the model for Miranda is incredibly beautiful if they looked at her model in game only. Where as Shepard totally looks like a hot male model and translated very well.
Mediking
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Y'all are delusional. Miranda is the fugliest scanned game model I've ever seen. Actual they did an awful job on her and on Jessica Chobot. Both looked far lower quality than Male Shep. They were pale women with droopy dark eyelids and unrealistic gross hair. I never imagined two beautiful real women getting so fucked up in translation. Nobody would know the model for Miranda is incredibly beautiful if they looked at her model in game only. Where as Shepard totally looks like a hot male model and translated very well.
Ummmm.... Miranda is INCREDIBLY high on the popularity list. She's like one of the top waifu in the series.... You say her game model is ugly but there's tons of people who would disagree with you on that..... Heh....
huh? she's my wife tho
maybe the real problem is that the graphics just wasn't the strongsuit for this series.
So you understand how I feel when I say I want a Miranda Lawson spiritual successor. I want another gorgeous, well written, tsundere.
The Artisan
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possibly the second highest romanced character
yeah bro. we will get that, it'll be fresh and new and will have its own merit. i'm sure of it
Mediking
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The Artisan
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I have to admit,You have good taste in women!
back in 2010 when this game was still a 360 console exclusive, and knew like nothing about the game,
I went on youtube to look up the sex scene between her and shep...
prag16
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Yeah, the Vanderloo scan is damn near impeccable.
For poor Yvonne... yeah they definitely butchered her. As one of the most beautiful women on the planet, it's almost unconscionable how this could happen.
That said, Miranda definitely doesn't look "bad". It's just such a downgrade from the source material that it sticks out for anyone familiar with the real deal, especially compared to Shepard, where they basically nailed it.
For poor Yvonne... yeah they definitely butchered her. As one of the most beautiful women on the planet, it's almost unconscionable how this could happen.
That said, Miranda definitely doesn't look "bad". It's just such a downgrade from the source material that it sticks out for anyone familiar with the real deal, especially compared to Shepard, where they basically nailed it.
The Artisan
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I wasn't super impressed by like, any of the character models in the ME games. As great as those games were, the graphics weren't really the best part.
KoroEunectes
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I didn't expect the gap between first & second place to be so big. I expected Tali to be second place but it is nice to see Miranda there <3
The Artisan
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keep in mind the survey group. it's men aged 18-34, and only 1,000+ of them. it's not representative of the millions' group of people who's played ME.
Also the lighting in many scenes is weird. The faces mostly look OK when lit at the right angle.
The Artisan
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the character in models in general imo aren't the game's strongsuits. them smiling always looked pretty weird.
Yeah the face lighting was fucked in ME, something was off and it may be a reason why everything was made darker in ME3, but it was still weird at times.
Same with the weird looking facial expression's, like The Artisan said the smiles were strange.
This shit still makes me facepalm to this day, as does that entire ending, it made no sense. The
"Not just any Reaper--a Human Reaper"
line has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious piece of dialogue in the game.
Same with the weird looking facial expression's, like The Artisan said the smiles were strange.
This shit still makes me facepalm to this day, as does that entire ending, it made no sense. The
"Not just any Reaper--a Human Reaper"
line has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious piece of dialogue in the game.
The Artisan
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looks like you didn't finish what you were trying to say. what is your complete thought?
FML. I had typed out another few sentences but it seems only a couple of words showed up.
I think I was going to say something about how Miranda going from defending TIM and making excuses for the things that happened to Jack and making excuses for the things Cerberus did in ME1(Cerberus Cells have a natural disposition to go rouge it seems lol), to suddenly leaving Cerberus even if you saved the base, has got to be one of the most nonsensical heel turns I've ever seen.
Of all the things to tip Miranda over and question her loyalty in Cerberus it just happened to be what was probably the most logical and defensible thing that Cerberus had ever done? Not the Jack experiments? Not killing Kahoku? Not unleashing crazed Rachni in some parts of the galaxy and turning people into Creepers? Not what happened to David Archer?
Bioware please.
Smiles and laughter in general for the majority of last-gen games was absolutely shithouse. Inquisition did better with smiles but the laughter animations were bizarre as fuck though I wouldn't be surprised if that was due to a combination of a first pass at using Frostbite and having the game be designed for the PS3/360.
The Artisan
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lol
FML. I had typed out another few sentences but it seems only a couple of words showed up.
I think I was going to say something about how Miranda going from defending TIM and making excuses for the things that happened to Jack and making excuses for the things Cerberus did in ME1(Cerberus Cells have a natural disposition to go rouge it seems lol), to suddenly leaving Cerberus even if you saved the base, has got to be one of the most nonsensical heel turns I've ever seen.
Of all the things to tip Miranda over and question her loyalty in Cerberus it just happened to be what was probably the most logical and defensible thing that Cerberus had ever done? Not the Jack experiments? Not killing Kahoku? Not unleashing Rachni and turning people into Creepers? Not what happened to David Archer?
Bioware please.
I think by the end of Me2 they wanted to think of some sort of reason for her to betray him. because he pretty much is the main antagonist of Me3, that's one of the things that bothered me about that game...
like, first of all, Illusive's actions confirms and proves all the suspicions everyone was telling Shepard, and Cerberus just seemed to be the main threat to directly deal with in the game while the reapers in the background were essentially an (on literally a large ass galactic scale) environmental hazard.
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