Seriously? People are picking apart a game characters facial features? Also.. *Geee.. sure is weird that it's the female companion that everyone is focused on*.... "I was up for hours staring at her face and i found a bunch of flaws... I think."

Exactly. She's no ravishing beauty, but she doesn't have a unibrow, and she's attractive.

Have any of you who think she is ugly stepped out of the house recently? Seen a person in real life before Photoshop or Hollywood casting happens?

I'm just excited to see NPCs gesturing and using body language as they talk. Skyrim was an improvement in that NPCs could still do things while talking to you, but they still fell into the "stare awkwardly straight ahead at you" dead-eyed conversation of Fallout 3's NPCs when not moving around.

She doesn't have a unibrow, and she looks better than moria brown so i have no issue.

I think she is cute. Beside Nora and Serana I think she is the best looking Bethesda character.

Lol one of the tags is ghoul

I see much prettier girls than Piper just walking down the street. But then I'm not really concerned with her attractiveness, just her alien mouth.

I like the look of piper, not overly sixualized at all. Only thing I don't like is that hat but that's personal preference.

Something about her fits into the uncanny valley for me. Her mouth is *slightly* too big (and unsynced), and her eyes look...too intense, maybe? I don't know.

Wait, I figured it out I think. It's her eyebrows, they don't move. Between going through different emotions (annoyance, questioning, possibly some attraction) her eyebrows and other parts of her face never move. They stay static.

Its like a virgin hive in here, huh?

She got a mouth made for all the sixual tricks you can do in fallout 4. Bioware romance ain't got nothin' on Bethesda now!

You just nailed what was bothering me about her. I wasn't quite sure what exactly put me off about her at first but now after reading your post I can see that she really isn't that ugly but just gives off that uncanny valley feel.

My heart still belongs to Codsworth.

I know, right? It makes me worry that we'll find other characters that will fit in there. Like the wife, for example. She looks normal with her default face...but what about when we change it?

Haha I totally agree, the mouth is just horrible. It reminds me of http://img.loveitsomuch.com/uploads/201407/21/ru/ruth%20wilson%20layered%20razor%20cut%20-%202014%20short%20hairstyles-t59454.jpg http://24.media.tumblr.com/9029cc49ff7afa6f752d38320441b439/tumblr_mmeuarHjBw1rrlordo1_500.gif http://31.media.tumblr.com/652f32548e756ce52fe92ad1468249a6/tumblr_ml8t6zcOl91qa9qc7o1_500.gif

I kind of like her so far...

Edit:
Now I can see the uncanny valley... Her face doesn't keep up with her frantic arm movements.

Uncanny-ness i can see.
apparently uncanny dudes look nervous.
Uncanny chicks look ugly.

The Vault-Tec salesman? Ya...he looks off as well.

Oh boy, a pattern is emerging, and it worries me a little bit...

Sadly, and trying to pass off fallout 4 as a cinematic experience is only going to compound Bethesda's awful facial animations.

Seems fine to me. Perhaps a little cliche of the news reporter type, but other than that I have no complaints about her appearance.

I'm just not seeing it. Maybe I'm some casul shmuck, maybe my glasses are out of wack, but she still seems perfectly fine to me.

Try looking at certain, individual facial features. They don't move. It gives off kind of a creepy vibe because she looks human, but there's something...different, I guess?

Meh... People will complain about anything these days it seems. I'm with you in that I see now thing wrong. Especially when you compare to what NPC's looked like in F3/NV.
But hey, in the end it just means people like us will have more fun with the game since we're not criticizing every little detail lol.

The silver lining here is that at least the facial animations in TES 6 will be a lot better than Skyrim.

Yeah but with this game, I'm fairy confident Bethesda isn't using facial capture in their character creation. It's a bit more forgivable in Fallout than in something like Halo or MGS.

Of course, I won't deny the character looks odd when you really try and dissect the details, but then I don't think animations, facial or body features have ever been good in a Bethesda game.

I think they've said that the body animations are all mo-cap (and they do a lot of canned movements they reuse across different NPCs, which is pretty standard), and the facial animations are done procedurally. I think it looks fine, or at least only as uncanny as Mass Effect was. I mean, video game animations in general are uncanny valley af, we only didn't notice it as much in older games because their appearance was in the uncanny valley.

I agree with you on the facial capture with most (or all) of the characters, as well as Bethesda's track record with it. I think the issue is more pronounced because Piper looks more human, but there's still that "stiffness" there. If Fallout 4's characters looked even more realistic than they do now, I'd bet that the issue would become even more pronounced (unless they fixed the facial expressions).