I'm all for diversity and such. But some people's alarms are going off when they notice things like besides the default white-guy Rhyder they can put on all the promotional material, there are not really any white character presets. And there being no attractive female presets. And all this with the slimmest character creation options in a Mass Effect game to date. They added a ton of face tattoos to make your character look sufficiently like a clown for those people that like their characters outrageous, but people are noting it's very difficult to make the women look attractive. However, character customization I couldn't give a crap about. Your character gets a helmet anyway, who cares.
What concerns me is them making all the main female characters less attractive. Yes, there's always some accounting for tastes in what you think is attractive, but when they're making women across-the-board look very different than in other Mass Effect games, and they're replacing some revealing clothing with more armor, something is up. They're even making the Asari look worse. The Asari essentially being a sexy alien trope like from Star Trek where the only purpose they have on stage is to give Capt Kirk a love interest to lust over all episode. The entire race is made up of only females, so they're obviously a male fantasy. They're designed to all be very attractive, and the way they reproduce is to literally have sex with any alien species, including shaping their own bodies to fit the genitals of other races in order to re-sequence their DNA for viable reproduction. It's actually discouraged for them to mate among themselves, so they're supposed to sleep around with men of many races, and some women. But in Andromeda they made the Asari companion, Peebee look more like Shrek. There was never an Asari in any previous Mass-Effect that wasn't attractive, even when they were taken over by grotesque parasites and zombified in ME1.
Yes, things change, ugly women in games are possible. But some of that is what made Mass Effect great to many players. It's become obvious to many people that there is a strong "SJW" influence just for its own sake.
