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They should have had a little trollface.jpg covering up the face when it finally got revealed. Who really cares? A completely artificial image could have wound up looking almost exactly the same. | |
I think this is just one of the many details that pissed pre EA Bioware fans (Such as meself) are trying to hold down a disappointing game for, and in my opinion, it's perfectly fair for people to be upset. Tali's face was a topic of very fervent discussion amongst a big portion of Mass Effect's fanbase, and although I never cared much for her or what she looked like, pissing on an important concept like that is just downright stupid. Mass Effect 3 took every possible opportunity to take the player out of the experience, from the choice that isn't really choice to the bad pacing of the story and the lazy writing that you can tell didn't have as much thought put into it as the game's predecesor, let alone the first Mass Effect game. | |
Holy shit that picture is creepy. I suddenly want to wipe out the quarians. | |
Big fucking deal... Yea I said it. I know some people are finding reasons to be pants-shittingly mad about this, but really... this is utterly insignificant to anything, EVER. | |
yet important enough to make a post cussing out the people that do find it important? and the hand that has more knuckles than fingers and looks like a butcher shop accident still is what bothers me the most...other than they thought that revealing an entire race and main character of three games with a bad photo shop with an old stock photo would be a good way to do it also that Mona quarian was hilarious...and better done than the one from the game | |
Wow. I know I cried. Real hard. Hot salty cry-baby tears. What the hell has happened to our gaming community? | |
It's lazy and unprofessional and looks like a 12 year old Photoshopped it. If you say different it's because you're a Bio-Drone, and Yes I'd say it does ruin the game a bit. This however is peanuts in comparison of how the blatantly ripped off Deus EX's ending except you know Deus EX's endings made sense with the rest of the game and were good. | |
Ah yes, the old "if you're not Opinion-X, then you are Y". Did you run a PR campaign for the americans during the Iraq war by any chance? Because that sounds like some pretty familiar bullshit. This does not affect my gameplay experience in the slightest. I romanced Tali in ME2 and thought she was the best damn character in the game alongside Garrus (Mordrin coming up as a close second place) and was really looking forward to the possibility of seeing her face in the third game. So they ended up doing it with a photo like this? Oh well. I wouldn't have recognized the picture as a stock photo anyway if it wasn't for this article. Lazy? Sure. I'll be over here, enjoying ME3. You folks keep arguing about parts of a FINISHED AND RELEASED GAME. I'm sure there's still time to change them :D | |
It's not the picture itself that's the issue here for me. It's the lazy design on a loved character. I agree that she should never have had her face shown at all but if she did have to, they should have put more effort into it. | |
That's not really Tali. It's just one of the other crewmembers playing a practical joke, switching the pictures. Probably Traynor, the jealous ****. | |
I may be wrong, but I think you get that option!
Exactly. Just enjoy the game, people. You waited long enough for it. Now you get to finally wrap up this story. | |
...So? I fail to see the big deal here. The only bad thing about this is that the quality of the altered pic is abysmal compared to the original. | |
I would've laughed this off the fucking stage, as I did almost every piece of "Tali's face" fanart... But then, this isn't fanart. *SIGH* She just seems I find the idea of multiple equal-sized humanoid alien races pretty silly to begin with, but at least the asari, the turians, the krogan, and the salarians had a distinct look. This is so lazy it should get an award. | |
I'm just curious about something. How do we know that it's Tali in the photograph? I haven't seen it in my game and I'm just wondering. | |
Because she tells Shepard she left something in his room. | |
The best part about this is that it pretty much perfectly exemplifies bioware's alien design, which is pretty much just 'take humans and add some alien-y shit' | |
eh they had some inventiveness with salarian/krogan/turian types, dont know what happened to the quarians | |
Yet another case of people getting their panties in a twist over something that really doesn't matter. Does it affect your enjoyment of the game to know that they used a stock photo for its intended purpose? Really? It shouldn't because it's literally a trivial concern. It doesn't affect gameplay, and until someone pointed it out, you didn't even know. This isn't BioWare doing anything wrong, this is people on the Internet looking for something to be upset about. And it's stupid. Note: the "you" in this post refers to the people who think this is a big deal, not to you the reader. Just in case that wasn't clear. | |
As far as the picture goes, yeah, it's a bit lazy. It doesn't bother me, because I never would've even known it was a stock image if I'd not seen it. Here's my thing. I'm seventeen, and I've taken half a PhotoShop class... I could make something like this in an hour or so, maybe less... How about it BioWare? You guys looking for some new artists? | |
Not to sound like a jerk, but you should really read later posts. I've explained like 3 times. Once again, I have never had cable/satellite in my life, so I don't watch TV much. | |
How is that any better or worse then any other image Bioware could have used? Who cares if it's a stock photo? If it looks right, it looks right. They could have crafted an image from scratch that was a thousand times worse, or found another stock photo that was a thousand times better. The origin of the image doesn't actually effect the quality, especially in this case. | |
Love Bioware, love their games. Hate their "fans." | |
After giving it some thought, it doesn't bother me that its constructed off of an existing real photo. What doesn't quite sit right with me is that Tali has been the "cute nerdy girl" and that's just not what I'm seeing in the picture. | |
It was probably done because the trailer premiered on the Walking Dead, so it makes sense to make it look similar to the show poster | |
While it certainly felt lazy and lame, it isn't going to ruin anything for me. I still just picture her as the character in-game, rather than that picture. It is kind of lame Bioware cut corners so bad. The way the game is, it feels like it was made by some people who gave a damn and others who didn't give two shits. The difference in quality is jarring sometimes. | |
I have finished Mass Effect 3 and I like how it ended. While I have other endings to see, I am far from disappointed in what has become one of my favorite video game series. In light of seeing what they crafted here, one photoshopped stock photo that is easily missed and is in no way important to the story, is completely irrelevant. Any hate or betrayal by this is simply stupid. | |
God I don't know how people defend this garbage. The death of creativity. Bioware can import the model and voice of a "journalist" into the game but they relegate the design of a whole race to a photoshop of a stock image. | |
im glad im not the only one who noticed that. they did rip those endings off | |
We need dlc to make tali's unmasking on Rannoch a high quality cutscene. ( something that we can save before) | |
I want to believe, 5ilver. | |
It's funny because everytime I see someone defend some of the really bad design decisions made in this game (e.g. quest journal, endings, this, etc.) I just cannot get over that Allers character. How many lines of dialog does that complete waste of a character get? Stupid premise, horrible design (what is that outfit), and acting so wooden I am surprised branches aren't growing out of her ass. I am sure Biodrones will jump to point out how many different teams work on the game, but I really do wonder what things people actually care about could have been improved if that stupid character weren't in the game. | |
Meh. She looked exactly how I imagined her, and it's not like she unmasks every time you see her. I don't see why people are upset over this. | |
^biodrones gonna be biodrones as always anyone defending or supporting such practices is downright retarded, there are no other words for it they make a full 3D model of jessica chobot (fucking useless character in ME3) in the game, but tali? nah, 2 minute photoshop and we're good | |
This. I hope you like your pile of money Bioware... Down the slope of quality we go! Seriously, after Dragon Age 2, I'm not surprised. | |
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If you think this is a question of aesthetics over BioWare's short sightedness in revealing a major character, kindly pull down your pants the next time you're at the mall and start slapping your ass wildly on a table in the food court. If you're going to be retarded on a forum, you may as well be retarded everywhere else.