Quote Originally Posted by TheDruidOcelot View Post
i've mentioned it before, i'll mention it again. if it actually took them 2 years to make everyone look like smoothed over potatoes, then they shouldn't have bothered boasting about how "we don't want your characters to look like different people" and then take a pneumatic sander to the models removing things like m! elezen cheekbones, keeper miqo fangs, eyebrows on anyone with a hair color lighter than DARK BROWN, made a huge mess of dark skinned characters with an absurdly grey undertone, made everyone's skin look like the waxy texture of an embalmed corpse, killed the lighting from the eyes of races that had bright, nigh glowing eyes (miqote).

it looks like they used blender's smoothing tool after using an ai to increase polygon count.

the only things that actually look redone are clothing/armor textures. the actual bodies look SO MUCH WORSE. like a bad ai upscale.
This. This is the thing that bothers me the most. My character(sea wolf femroe) came out looking decent, but so many of my friends have just had their cheekbones deleted. All these arbitrary changes are just... has it not occurred to anyone at Square Enix that some people might want those options? why take that away from people who clearly like the feature, instead of making it available in higher quality? I really don't like this direction of removing desired customization options and calling it an improvement.