Bioware is a bunch of raaacists

Soooo unlike most of the world, I just started the ME trilogy within the past year.  This means I have not had to wait one second for each subsequent game, or all of the DLC from the first two.  It means, basically, that I have had nearly seemless gameplay.

This also means any problems with character import translations have been that much more annoying to me.  The transition from ME1 to ME2 wasn't terrible.  Yejny Shepard seems to have gotten some rosier lips.  I can deal with that.  Cerberus fucked up and injected red paint or something.  Especially where half of the game I was sporting some intense renegade scars, it even kinda fit in.

Yejny kicking it old school

Yejny well after the peak of her renegade scars, since I had run out of room to renegade grow, while every paragon action made her heal.

Yejny after scar surgery

All in all, not bad I'd say.  She's got mostly a pan-southeast asian look to her (I think).  The bronze skin, asian eyes, high cheekbones and wide-ish head, thin wide lips.  Her nose is not asian of course, but this is the 22nd century, I'm sure she's got some weird European ancestor somewhere there.

So yesterday I finally get to import my ME2 Yejny to ME3.  This is what they gave me:

Bioware says: no pan-southeast asian for you!  You get, what, a black haired irish girl?

Who the fuck is that person Bioware?  I don't know her.  Her lips have all of a sudden become pouty, and how do you translate brown eyes to aquamarine?  What the hell happened to her skin?  She been playing a lot of video games in her mom's basement lately, not seeing the sun?

I did what I could to customize her as much as possible to approximate who she really is.  I'm completely not satisfied with the result:

If this picture were on ME2 Yenjy's passport, she would not be allowed to board a plane.

This is the absolute best I could to and you know what?  it still sucks.  Why?  Two major reasons and a small minor one:

1) skin color
2) eye shape
Minor) lack of prior large forehead

The problem is that the skin color and eye shape options no longer exist.  Bioware helpfully included every possible european white skin tone under the sun, and one, and only one, other skin color that approximates one of those whiteys getting hit in the face with a sack of charcoal ash.  I think that is their version of a black person.  Not sure.

Any Mexicans, Egyptians, Vietnamese, forget about making a character that looks like you.  That was Yejny's skin color, and now it is GONE.  Not to mention anyone from India or Sub-saharan Africa.

Then we have the eyes.  They have a couple of strange diagonal eyes which basically are reminiscent of a Picasso work of art, but otherwise, 100% Caucasian.  They gave Yejny these huge eyes, and really the closest thing I could get was just to make those eyes smaller.  Look at ME1 and ME2 again, those very distinct almost sideways teardrop eyes.  They go from wider to thinner as they approach the outside of the face.  This eye shape was no longer an option in ME3.

What the hell bioware.

The lack of forehead I can only assume was a design change as a whole.  ME1 gave larger foreheads in general.  Not to mention that with each successive ME, Bioware felt Shepard would be using a hair dryer more and more often (I assume) since hair keeps getting puffier and puffier.  I'm not hugely complaining about that, and if that were the only issue, I'd get over it quickly.  Developers have a right to augment style, and lets face it, ME1 Yejny did kinda look like she plastered her hair to her head.

But the lack of options that let you make Shepard anything other than Caucasian is the reason why Bioware is a bunch of racists.