it would seem bioware has finally started caring as little about quality and creativity as its fans. a picture is a very minor thing, but leave it to bioware to put it in the worst, most offensively uncaring context imaginable.
why did it have to specifically be tali? if your going to just photoshop a virtually random photo, why just have it be of "a" quarian, so we would know what they look like, instead of the MAJOR CHARACTER WHOSE APPEARANCE WAS THE SUBJECT OF THOUSANDS OF FORUM THREADS AND YOUR OWN POLL.
this is kind of like the phantom menace. under normal circumstances you could just write it off as a below average sci-fi flick, but circumstances were far from normal. given the immense cultural impact of star wars and how everything that was loved about it was so obvious by that point, you had every right to look at that "meh" movie and be fucking disgusted at how little they considered the circumstance.
im sorry, but context matters. you cant praise something for all the good in it in whatever way you please, then when it comes to flaws suddenly start treating it like a laboratory experiment isolated from all other factors. bioware knew how delicate the revelation would be, anyone who fucking took an english lit. class would know that. yet instead of treating it appropriately, they just fucking shopped a stock image. the most pervasive mystery of the whole fucking series is answered with a fucking stock image. if that doesnt offend you, then you are a doormat.
christ, this whole series has become a bad fanfic of itself. theyve pandered to their fans so much that all that remains is the zealots and the unpleasable trolls.
