Crusader Kings II: Iberian Portraits DLC

I don't have a rational reason for purchasing these dlc packs, so I'm afraid that I cannot provide you with one. I sincerely apologize. If you are interested, the burblings of my subconscious desires that caused me to purchase went something like this: "ughcollectlittlemenwantSfullydEtailedandeXtremelygeekyStuffdEmandalleXcellentcollectingmugh"

A must. Unique late-Visigothic + western Mediterranean + mixed-race Berber/Arab/Iberian portraits.

Basque kings, counts and dukes are from Iberian culture but they still have the default egg-faces (some of them have a really weird beard) and default kids. With this DLC, almost all men have the same face with different beards and haircuts (sometimes), same problem with women (but without beard, of course).

Finally fixed those horrible faces, look pretty have decent now. Actually quite like them on viking types, good beards.

The female portraits are pretty good but the male ones kinda suck. Their facial hair looks way too cartoonish. OH ALSO IT DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE REAL PORTUGUESE/SPANISH PEOPLE AND THAT IS COMING FROM A HALF PORTUGUESE PERSON!

Very good portraits. Frankly speaking I like them so much that I want to spread Italian faces all over the world, because they just look so much better than the standard Germanic ones. But then that wouldn't be historic, eh? Could we have a DLC that improves the standard portraits, as well, please? Because these double-chins as well as many of the male haircuts are absolutely hideous. Edit: By the way, Patch 2.5.2 changes the Iberian portraits as in their skin colour has been brightened. I personally had to get used to this first, but now I think that this is definitely an improvement. Still, Paradox, I would prefer it, if you mentioned this on the DLC's site, because as it stands now a customer of this DLC will not exactly get what he sees...

Nice visual DLC, but it does replace some Mediterranean portraits. I primarily play in Iberia/Spain so it doesn't bother me too much. So just a heads up, if you have the Mediterranean Portraits DLC, this will overwrite some cultures.

I really like it! Suddenly a spanish king could look mush like a real "Ferdinand"! (muchas gracias señor!) Want I dont understand is that everyone who then should look mediterranean suddenly looks different as well! My byzantine greeks and ashkenazi jews look much better, yet not like iberians.. I simply cannot find the old mediterranean portraits anywhere, and I THANK GOD for it - really, they looked like sh**!

Clearly the paradox interactive team have never met a spanish or portugese person, in addition it replaces the italian portraits which we already had to pay for wtf!

Don't know what Paradox has against Iberian people, but with two awfully innaccurate dlcs about the Iberian and Italian folk I can only assume they either don't care or hold contempt towards both Iberians and Italians. All and all this dlc is a disgrace in multiple fronts: - It devalued the Mediterranean Portraits dlc by half that still misinforms the consumer about both the portraits ( that are now only grey greeks ) and the region it incompasses. - It misrepresents the Iberians as greyish light-brown people with the facial features of beady eyed romanticised versions of persians. The iberian kings during medieval time were quite pale since they remained inside their holdings most of the time and at most they would have a slight orange tan that was characteristic of the area. - It gives the wrong headwear and garbs to several kings, dukes and counts including for some reason a garb with the symbol of leon and castille to severral non-castille and non-leonese kings. - It has the most ridiculous beards and hair that I have ever seen in the game that range from funny but beliveable to a disney level of pointy evil beard cliché. Now I mean no disrespect towards Paradox or to the creator of this dlc, for he or she did have quite a lot of work put into it, but overall it just gives the feeling that no research was made and I hope that this portraits will be fixed soon but until then I can't advise people to buy it.