Shadow on 7/3/2012 at 03:45
Spoilers ahead, maties. If you actually care about this game, you may not want to click the linky below.Luckily for all of us, in this exciting installment of the Mass Effect series we get to see what Tali looks like. Apparently, (
http://i41.tinypic.com/30t02er.jpg) she's a stock photo from off the internet.
DDL on 7/3/2012 at 10:10
Hah, holy fuck. Also, peeps (assuming geniune image), they've also plastered giant plot spoilers there too, for no apparent reason.
Dresden on 7/3/2012 at 11:12
Yes it's a genuine image. I've seen the gameplay vid where Shepard looks at the photo on YouTube.
Bioware's laziness is now legendary.
Pemptus on 7/3/2012 at 11:20
Haha, oh wow. Do they somehow assume people won't find out these things? I don't get it.
DDL on 7/3/2012 at 11:25
At the very least they could've picked a stock photo with some sideboob. :joke:
Yakoob on 7/3/2012 at 19:11
Wait. I honestly do not understand what the outrage is about. They needed a photo of a woman to photoshop, so they bought a photo of a woman and photoshoped it... it completely escapes me what is "lazy" about this. Would you guys be happier if they hired a professional model, photographer and a camera package and paid some 20x the cost?
Eldron on 7/3/2012 at 19:17
Quote Posted by Yakoob
Wait. I honestly do not understand what the outrage is about. They needed a photo of a woman to photoshop, so they bought a photo of a woman and photoshoped it... it completely escapes me what is "lazy" about this. Would you guys be happier if they hired a professional model, photographer and a camera package and paid some 20x the cost?
No, you take one of the several dozen illustrators, character or texture artists and have them spend 2-4 hours to create the portrait, from scratch, from his/hers imagination.
It is very lazy considering what it is, and considering what most professional artists can speedpaint without any reference.
Malf on 8/3/2012 at 00:13
I think it comes down to the fact that Tali's appearance has been a mystery throughout the series. To have that mystery brushed away with a cheap photochop of a stock photo and conform to tradtional human standards of beauty is lazy at best, dismissive of your audience at worst.
Dresden on 8/3/2012 at 01:51
Real spoilers:
Just found out that
Joker and EDI date each other. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXnK7XjO13Y) Clip here. Holy. Fucking. Shit. What have they done to the plot? This series started as nice respectable sci-fi. Not entirely original but at least the plot made sense and you could immerse yourself in the universe. Now it's on fanfic levels.
june gloom on 8/3/2012 at 05:23
That's not really spoilered.
