#they've been heralded for their dialogue but don't think facial rigging/animation needs an update?

[muddiestpath]

There's something in bioware's character animation in conversations... It feels a combination of reused animation from 2 generations ago & the Frostbite engine screaming. Some of the clips really look like a FIFA game in the facial animations (i.e not the focus of the game) yet it's Bioware the RPG™ studio. It looks jarring.

The graphics & model are good, the battle animations look great, but Bioware consistently falls at the conversations animation, either from engine/cost/management limitations or that they really think their old stuff is still usable.