Wasn't MEA the project of Bioware's Edmonton studio? Namely, the one that hadn't produced anything before? 
The animation shortcomings were a bit of a surprise to me, given that I've been playing through DAI and the animations are really well-done. And DAI was released about 3 years ago. Perhaps they had less time to work on MEA (relative to the other ME titles). It wouldn't be the first time Bioware has pushed something out [i]really[/i] quickly. 

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larger [b]conspiracy of Bioware to employ women, gays and feminists regardless of animating ability to appease tumblr[/b].
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Bioware has been super progressive since the beginning. I mean, [i]interspecial romances[/i], come on.