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[JnEricsonx]

Gotta be hard to hold a gun that way.

[Ablaz3d]

One thumb to hold the gun, one finger to keep it balanced, and one finger to fire.

[Ninniach Lina]

Because if they had more fingers then us we would be less superior.



Asari have there mind powers, Turians their... military brain? Salarian's there hyperactivity and brains, and Krogan... Krogan got da beef man.



Humans get 2 extra fingers. I believe we win.

[Tlazolteotl]

Same reason humans have an extremely low strength to mass ratio ... 'cos it's not necessary.

[Agent_Dark_]

3 fingers = easier to animate. I'm just surprised there's not an abundance of moustaches in the ME universe... ;o

[Ray Joel Oh]

Simpler character design?

Modifié par Ray Joel Oh, 24 avril 2010 - 10:52 .

[Keltoris]

Why do most humans have 5 fingers?

[Zaisha_temp]

Salarian/Turian poster on the Citadel gaming forum:



Why do Humans and Asari have five fingers? Don't all those extra digits get tangled up when trying to type or when handeling something small?



Even a lot of old-style Human computing interfaces (mouses, mice?) seem designed for three fingers. (one finger to hold/steer, two for the buttons)

[Mondo47]

I remember reading something when I was a kid in one of my dad's old-fashioned paper issues of OMNI magazine (look it up if you've never heard of it... I'm prehistoric) that talked about how man might evolve as a species over the next couple of million years, and one of the things theorised was that we have two digits that we don't use anymore - they're just part of us needed a spatulate, broad hand from being arboreal and not descended from oddball treeclimbers like sloths. As our technology becomes smaller, more easily manipulated, the onus on the two 'spare' digits will reduce. Less stress on the hand, less load to bear... the theorised outcome would be a taller, willowy human with more pronounced thumbs, primary and secondary digits... give it another forty generations or so, and the last two digits could fade away to nothing.

Or hey, it looks alien without making extraterrestrial technology impractical to handle with five fingers - you choose

[LiquidGrape]

Three fingers is all you need.

Y'all know what I'm talking about.

[Habelo]

Zaisha_temp wrote...

Salarian/Turian poster on the Citadel gaming forum:

Why do Humans and Asari have five fingers? Don't all those extra digits get tangled up when trying to type or when handeling something small?

Even a lot of old-style Human computing interfaces (mouses, mice?) seem designed for three fingers. (one finger to hold/steer, two for the buttons)

so what you are saying is.. that aliens with 3 fingers would have 0 skillz in comp games? Ironic that they are in one.

[legbamel]

Agent_Dark_ wrote...

3 fingers = easier to animate. I'm just surprised there's not an abundance of moustaches in the ME universe... ;o

[pictures Garrus with a moustache] 

[Thundertactics]

1. To make them more alien
2. Because hands are hard to make and animate properly, so if they don't have the default shape, it's hard to mess up
3. Because they're hardly necessary. (There aren't many actions where more than 3 fingers are required)

Modifié par Thundertactics, 24 avril 2010 - 12:32 .

[Mondo47]

LiquidGrape wrote...

Three fingers is all you need.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.

Bowling?

[Yxiomel]

Mondo47 wrote...

I remember reading something when I was a kid in one of my dad's old-fashioned paper issues of OMNI magazine (look it up if you've never heard of it... I'm prehistoric) that talked about how man might evolve as a species over the next couple of million years, and one of the things theorised was that we have two digits that we don't use anymore - they're just part of us needed a spatulate, broad hand from being arboreal and not descended from oddball treeclimbers like sloths. As our technology becomes smaller, more easily manipulated, the onus on the two 'spare' digits will reduce. Less stress on the hand, less load to bear... the theorised outcome would be a taller, willowy human with more pronounced thumbs, primary and secondary digits... give it another forty generations or so, and the last two digits could fade away to nothing.

Or hey, it looks alien without making extraterrestrial technology impractical to handle with five fingers - you choose

Probably not though (and 2000 years is a rather shortt ime frame, evolution-wise) becasue while there is no pressure to have 5 fingers, there is no pressure to lose them either - a 3-fingered human is not going to be more successful at passing on his or her genes, so there is no reason for a three-fingered mutation to out compete the existing 5. This reasoning is why, for example, the majority of animals that live in very dark locations are blind rather than eye-less: the eyes atrophy, but there isn't actually enough environmental pressure to actually get rid of them, an eyeless version of the creature desn't do well enough to replace his eye'd kin.

[A1ANDY]

To make them look more alien.

[Zaisha_temp]

Habelo wrote...

Zaisha_temp wrote...

Salarian/Turian poster on the Citadel gaming forum:

Why do Humans and Asari have five fingers? Don't all those extra digits get tangled up when trying to type or when handeling something small?

Even a lot of old-style Human computing interfaces (mouses, mice?) seem designed for three fingers. (one finger to hold/steer, two for the buttons)

so what you are saying is.. that aliens with 3 fingers would have 0 skillz in comp games? Ironic that they are in one.

Ehm, I'm saying the exact opposite. I'm insinuating that a three-fingered species might see having five fingers as a liability.

Also, my current mouse looks like Mordin, Tali or Garrus would be perfectly comfortable using it. (you grip it on the left side with your thumb and your palm on the back/top/right and there are two nicely large buttons on the top. With two buttons on the "thumb" side and a mouse-wheel between the buttons) Maybe Logitech employs Salarians?

[gotrekfirebeard]

Three fingers... easier to hold a beer can.

[LiquidGrape]

Mondo47 wrote...

LiquidGrape wrote...

Three fingers is all you need.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.

Bowling?

Precisely.
Boweling.

[Mondo47]

LiquidGrape wrote...

Mondo47 wrote...

LiquidGrape wrote...

Three fingers is all you need.
Y'all know what I'm talking about.

Bowling?

Precisely.
Boweling.

And to think I held back on a fisting gag... you're a very bad girl

[xI extremist Ix]

Keltoris wrote...

Why do most humans have 5 fingers?

Funny thing is the gene for six fingers is dominant in human, but it has been pretty much bred out of society. A few cases pop up here and there.

[Habelo]

Zaisha_temp wrote...

Habelo wrote...

Zaisha_temp wrote...

Salarian/Turian poster on the Citadel gaming forum:

Why do Humans and Asari have five fingers? Don't all those extra digits get tangled up when trying to type or when handeling something small?

Even a lot of old-style Human computing interfaces (mouses, mice?) seem designed for three fingers. (one finger to hold/steer, two for the buttons)

so what you are saying is.. that aliens with 3 fingers would have 0 skillz in comp games? Ironic that they are in one.

Ehm, I'm saying the exact opposite. I'm insinuating that a three-fingered species might see having five fingers as a liability.

Also, my current mouse looks like Mordin, Tali or Garrus would be perfectly comfortable using it. (you grip it on the left side with your thumb and your palm on the back/top/right and there are two nicely large buttons on the top. With two buttons on the "thumb" side and a mouse-wheel between the buttons) Maybe Logitech employs Salarians?

true gamers have lots of buttons on their mouse and need more fingers.

I could never imagine doing something like arena with only 3 fingers- so many binds and to little fingers at it is! 

[Napalm Jim]

Can't activate the air machine on Mars unless ya have at least four fingers.

[Tlazolteotl]

Habelo wrote...

true gamers have lots of buttons on their mouse and need more fingers.

I could never imagine doing something like arena with only 3 fingers- so many binds and to little fingers at it is! 

This.
Mass Effect 2 is an extremely simplistic game, 'cos 8 hotkeys can't possibly be enough for a 1337 gamer.

[DPSSOC]

It's actually quite simple



1 Finger - nub, useless. alternately tentacle, more useful but impractical

2 Fingers - Lobster, difficult to hold things

3 Fingers - Enough fingers to resemble a human hand while being sufficiently alien, can easily grasp and operate fire arms

4 Fingers - Simpsons did it

5 Fingers - Too Human

6 Fingers - Would look silly.



So by process of elimination Bioware gave most aliens 3 fingers.