Mass effect gets hi-res tex- wait...zomg Tali's face!

[boag]

Not going to start a whole thread on this, but I figured I'd post it here, as it is Mass Effect related.

IGN Girrrrrl Gamer is now a ship mate in Mass Effect 3.

Good to know that IGN's review will be wholly fair and completely unbiased.

Also, consider the following:

Bioware didn't have the money to hire back Mordin or Miranda's voice actor.
But they DID make money to hire IGN's poster girl.
Classy act from Bioware, as always.....

Is it just me, or does her face look ... off? It's in uncanny valley territory for me. The same with Miranda's face.

Just looks... ugh.

It looks really fugly, The main reason is that they are facial scans, it doesnt fit the art direction of the game at all.

 

[gideonkain]

Has nobody been able to extract the 3D models or the textures from one of the games and just "peel back the layers"?

 

[hermes]

Has nobody been able to extract the 3D models or the textures from one of the games and just "peel back the layers"?

There are no layers. There is nothing to render behind her face. In fact, her helmet IS her face...

 

[=Frost=]

The only female I could really like was Miranda. Jack was annoy as shit, with her overactive hatred for everything. Tali was alright but come on, she's an engineer. Samara sounded like she was too far up her own ass to really be taken seriously. Maybe I liked Miranda so much was because she reminded me the most of Ashley. Now with those two both in my squad (hopefully for ME3) I smell a threeway.

 

[Versuvius]

Don't do game romances. Tali is pretty cool. But then, i'm a Legion and Zaeed fan.

HEAR THAT BIOWARE?! ZAEED AND LEGION!

 

[DracoSuave]

Bioware didn't have the money to hire back Mordin or Miranda's voice actor.

Yvonne Strahovski is under a non-disclosure agreement not to tell people she is or is not in Mass Effect 3. Meaning... she is under contract.

Mordin Solus's voice actor was doing a lot of voice work for SWTOR. For someone bioware 'doesn't have the money to hire back', seems to still be doing current work for them.

 

[Abbo]

Not going to start a whole thread on this, but I figured I'd post it here, as it is Mass Effect related.

IGN Girrrrrl Gamer is now a ship mate in Mass Effect 3.

Good to know that IGN's review will be wholly fair and completely unbiased.

Also, consider the following:

Bioware didn't have the money to hire back Mordin or Miranda's voice actor.
But they DID make money to hire IGN's poster girl.
Classy act from Bioware, as always.....

Is it just me, or does her face look ... off? It's in uncanny valley territory for me. The same with Miranda's face.

Just looks... ugh.

You are not alone brah, Miranda is what we call in the Dutch Eastern dialects A PLORK which is an acronym for: a Prachtig Lichaam, Onmeunige RotKop translated it would be something like Beautiful body, incredibly ugly muck.
In allot of scenes she reminds me of someone suffering from Down syndrome
I dont understand how that happened though, the actress that Miranda was copied from is one beautiful woman, maybe bioware has to hire different people for the scanning.


I like Tali as a crewmate with an interesting background and fun personality, never as a love interest +when there are no bots around she slows things down by having crappy skills in ME2.

My favorite squadmembers in me1 are mid-high level Kaidan and Liara not for the personalities but for general lols to be had using lift, throw and singularity making most enemies encountered a joke on insanity.

The only crew member in me2 that i almost always take everywhere is Miranda, overload, warp and boosting my damage on top of that is a solid choice for insanity runs.
Although i am growing fond of running Kazumi besides her as a solid damage dealer using her shadowstrike vs all protection types.

 

[Irridium]

And I bring you Exhibit B:

Spoiler

All this is odd, since Bioware CAN make good faces. I mean, look at Jack. They managed to pull off a "crying face" with her without plunging her into the uncanny valley. And they even managed to pull of the "almost crying face" with her. Something I still believe they pulled off through wizardry.

Spoiler: Here's an example

Bioware can do faces. Guess they just need to stop trying to make the in-game characters look like their real-life counterparts.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

And I bring you Exhibit B:

Spoiler

All this is odd, since Bioware CAN make good faces. I mean, look at Jack. They managed to pull off a "crying face" with her without plunging her into the uncanny valley. And they even managed to pull of the "almost crying face" with her. Something I still believe they pulled off through wizardry.

Spoiler: Here's an example

Bioware can do faces. Guess they just need to stop trying to make the in-game characters look like their real-life counterparts.

I think the biggest mistake they make, is trying to make characters modeled after real people. It just doesn't translate very well.

 

[JeanLuc761]

Yvonne Strahovksi is back? You don't happen to remember where you saw that confirmed do you?
The leaked script suggested otherwise. Though an amendment could be possible.
I can't link you (I've long lost it) but I believe they said Mordin's voice actor is officially changed in a Twitter/Forum post after getting bugged about it.

Here you go. [http://ea.gamespress.com/release.asp?i=1716]

Also, Michael Beattie did a lot of work on The Old Republic, so I don't see a reason for him NOT to return.

 

[Atmos Duality]

i like Tali as a character, she's my main romance option, followed closely by Liara, but apparently that makes me in the minority on this thread.

Actually, I too, loved Tali's character from the first game onward.

She has great dialog, an interest that is more "independent" than the other female NPCs [sub](less blatant than Liara or Ashley...both of whom I feel comes across as pandering rather than as a strong character)[/sub] and she acts as a window into one of the more interesting cultures in the Mass Effect universe.

 

[xvbones]

(Samara. Samara is the answer. Because she is feared, respected, honored, can rip open a bulkhead with her mind and handle a fucking assault rifle. *starryeyes*)

Definitely. Oh and also for being an incredibly thick-headed and nearly morally bankrupt person which is unable to think for herself and who will not budge from her beliefs in the slightest, no matter how horrifying the consequences of her actions may be.

Because it's all about how well you can perform in combat. Badass >>> Every other characteristic you could ever think of.

DAMN RIGHT.

Well, actually, as of around page 2-ish I've abandoned Samara for TEAM KELLY

FOR
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VER

 

[boag]

(Samara. Samara is the answer. Because she is feared, respected, honored, can rip open a bulkhead with her mind and handle a fucking assault rifle. *starryeyes*)

Definitely. Oh and also for being an incredibly thick-headed and nearly morally bankrupt person which is unable to think for herself and who will not budge from her beliefs in the slightest, no matter how horrifying the consequences of her actions may be.

Because it's all about how well you can perform in combat. Badass >>> Every other characteristic you could ever think of.

How is she morally bankrupt?

She took the difficult choice of becoming a Justicar, so she could stop her daughter from going on murdering trips.

From the information that was given on Justicars the decision is not as easy as "lol imma be a justicar nao"

 

[kael013]

i like Tali as a character, she's my main romance option, followed closely by Liara, but apparently that makes me in the minority on this thread.

Lucky. My romance options are Ashley and Jack so I'm in the minority on [i/]every[/i] thread (ME3 love triangle is gonna be... interesting). I never really understood the hate these characters get.

OT: It's another high-res texture mod. Why is this so important? Oh, the artist put in his interpretation of what a quarian looks like. Big deal, Mass Effect fanart is riddled with that.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

I never got how the Quarians ended up with no immune system in the first place...

I mean, okay sure, they live in suits, that would do it. But why do they live in suits? Because they have no immune systems... Because they live in ships? How the how does that work, how would the mass exodus of a population in overcrowded ships result in a sterile environment? If anything it should be the opposite...

It doesn't have to make sense if it happened in the past. It's a general rule in mass effect.

 

[AnotherAvatar]

Seems like an odd mod. I mean I know Mass Effect is old, but it still looks absurdly good.

Also, fuck the very fact that there will be an IGN girl in ME3. Bioware, when I was tossing you money in your youth I didn't realize it would turn you into a whore...

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

Not going to start a whole thread on this, but I figured I'd post it here, as it is Mass Effect related.

IGN Girrrrrl Gamer is now a ship mate in Mass Effect 3.

Good to know that IGN's review will be wholly fair and completely unbiased.

Also, consider the following:

Bioware didn't have the money to hire back Mordin or Miranda's voice actor.
But they DID make money to hire IGN's poster girl.
Classy act from Bioware, as always.....

Strange because an article the escapist published all of an hour says otherwise, at least in Miranda's case.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Seems like an odd mod. I mean I know Mass Effect is old, but it still looks absurdly good.

Also, fuck the very fact that there will be an IGN girl in ME3. Bioware, when I was tossing you money in your youth I didn't realize it would turn you into a whore...

It doesn't help that her in-game face looks weird.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Magic?

It's magic right?

I fucking knew it.

Sci-fi my arse.

Yep, magic is my explanation for everything I don't understand.

Either that or . . .

Spoiler

magic aliens? o.o ....

that just makes it sound like we'd be more fucked ....