Lucy_Glitter wrote...
I get thingy when I see it in all the aliens, I guess that's my gripe. The lack of diversity in the alien bodies. I should have been more clear, apologies, everyone.
As much as I love the Mass Effect games, there are a few real big things that irritate me:
Firstly, why do all the aliens have arms and legs? Why do they look like humans with animal features? For all the interesting biological features (such as Drell with their vocal chords and Asari with their mind abilities) it still comes down to appearance in a large degree to me. All their faces are symmetrical, they all wear clothing like ours, they all dance like us, they all have mouths... so on, so fourth. They aren't real aliens to me. It felt like the writers didn't spread their minds far enough. Why couldn't one of the alien species be some kind of gas particles we could only see with special implants? They did certainly not think outside the box, not at all. Don't even get me started on the Asari. I love their species, I really do. The only difference is, though, their long lives, blue skin and hair... thing. I mean, even their friggin city looks like a human city, albeit a bit more shiny.
Ok, Liara's apartment in LotSB. She has wine glasses, bread boards... KNIVES. Didn't Asari have their own cutlery? Did they even have cutlery?? WHATT?!?!?
Was it their project lead that said all aliens need to be more human like? I understand the whole love interest needing to look humanish to appeal to the mass crowds and so on, okay, I get that, one or two races maybe need to look appealing, cool. But every one? That throws me off my immersion completely. I never EVER stop thinking about it when playing ME2, I never stop being irritated about what could have been.
The argument would be, of course, well why can't they be like us? Uh, well Jimmy, the chance of having another completely different species on an entirely different planet evolve in the exact same way as us is... 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (etc.) to one chance. It's pretty slim. For a whole lot of species? Um, yeah. No.
Now, not only do I dislike that, but you know what really gets me? A number of times in ME2, I come across aliens saying how AMAZING humans are. They really make human out to be the best. Samara is one. Yep, I said it. Humans, even in space, amidst a crapload of other species, are supposed to be new and innovative and passionate and diverse...
I think one line from Samara is: ""Yours is a very interesting species. For example, if there are three humans in a room, there will be six opinions." o_o Now, I am all for the cool "alien" thing with humans being their opinion, sure, but... couldn't you have picked something else? Our sex drive? Our hair? Our dancing?? I felt like, we have this whole big universe full of interesting aliens, and apparently humans are really awesome and superior... it feels almost like old school white supremacy flicks, in a really surreal kind of way. I dislike that humans are supposedly so interesting. Why can't every species be equally cool in their own way? Nooo, not according to everyone in the ME universe. Humans are the most controversial, the most attention-grabbing, the most... the most everything. Every other race is limited to: Turians are militaristic. Asari are wise old soul... things, Krogans are battlehungry, Salarians are nerdy.
In terms of the most interesting species, i'd give that one to the Salarians. Save the obvious human shape they have, I like the idea that they get over things more quickly, that their brains work faster than others due to their short life span. I think that's one really cool idea ME has going there.
To wrap this one up, i'd just like to say, I wish I could have gone through the games, believing them. I really didn't.
Modifié par Lucy_Glitter, 14 octobre 2010 - 02:51 .
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