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[Collider]

What if instead of being "feminine", the asari were all male/"masculine"? How would that change the perception of the asari by players?

For the purpose of this question, do not factor in individual asari characters like Liara or Samara. Just the asari in general.

[Keltoris]

Snoresville I'd expect.

[Slayer299]

People would pay more attention to the Salarians or the Krogan than a "male" Asari as you suggest.

[AdmiralCheez]

[Ramirez Wolfen]

NO. It would have come of as ******-erotic. Also, a lot of people (guys) wouldn't have bought it.

[Ramirez Wolfen]

Ramirez Wolfen wrote...

NO. It would have come of as ******-erotic. Also, a lot of people (guys) wouldn't have bought it.

This isn't to say that every male who bought Mass Effect thought with their pants only, but it would have an effect.

[AdmiralCheez]

Come onnnnn guys, not even if they looked like Hugh Jackman?

Mass Effect would be the best game ever.

And I might even forget about turians for about two seconds.

Modifié par AdmiralCheez, 01 mars 2011 - 03:24 .

[Pacifien]

Collider wrote...
What if instead of being "feminine", the asari were all male/"masculine"? How would that change the perception of the asari by players?

How's it change your perception?

[kyles3]

Afterlife would be the most badass gay bar ever.

[Liec]

If asari were "male", then they wouldn't stand out from the other races. For all intents all purposes turians and salarians are already all male.

Players would also wonder where baby asari come out from.

[nevar00]

If the asari were male, they wouldn't have gone the route they did with the female asari (you know, having them be the galaxy sex symbols and everything). So I'm not sure what my opinion would be because I don't know what they would have done differently.

[AdmiralCheez]

Liec wrote...

If asari were "male", then they wouldn't stand out from the other races. For all intents all purposes turians and salarians are already all male.

So instead of making female models for the other races, they stick in a super-faservicey one?  Bah!

Players would also wonder where baby asari come out from.

Stork.  Duh.

[Ramirez Wolfen]

Also, the media might have bashed it a bit. (FOX News, to be exact)

[johnbonhamatron]

AdmiralCheez wrote...

And I might even forget about turians for about two seconds.

I refuse to believe this is even possible! I refuse, I say!

[Collider]

Ramirez Wolfen wrote...

Also, the media might have bashed it a bit. (FOX News, to be exact)

I don't remember Fox caring about the same sex romances in Bioware games. Their issues with Mass Effect 1 centered around romances/sex scenes in general. They did not acknowledge that there was a lesbian romance, they only noted the heterosexual ones.

[Ramirez Wolfen]

Collider wrote...

Ramirez Wolfen wrote...

Also, the media might have bashed it a bit. (FOX News, to be exact)

I don't remember Fox caring about the same sex romances in Bioware games. Their issues with Mass Effect 1 centered around romances/sex scenes in general. They did not acknowledge that there was a lesbian romance, they only noted the heterosexual ones.

Even if it isn't FOX, there will still be negative media (possibly anti-gay groups and such). Rockstar's Bully recieved this for allowing Jimmy Hopkins to kiss boys. And Just cause 2 (I think) recieved some for having male strippers.

[Cancer Puppet]

I'm not sure how it would change my perception, but I'm pretty sure I'd stop trying to bang Liara...

[wizardryforever]

I think there were a lot of motivations behind creating the Asari, and male fanservice was only one of them.  Consider that all of the other aliens in the game except Quarians are male.  Bioware needed some females in there, if only to reinforce the idea that aliens are into romance and sex (without having to make male modeled aliens inexplicably be female at random intervals).  How do you do this?  You create a race that is only female in game, to counteract the effective overabundance of male aliens.  It is also easier to just pair up the male aliens with Asari whenever they want to show some in relationships, since Asari are one-size-fits-all.  Not to mention the fact that Asari biology is interesting (if confusing), and it gets discussed far more than say, Vorcha or Hanar biology.  Making the race all male is something that is kinda squicky for most people because of the fridge logic here.  If the Asari are all female, that means that they all can have children, but if they are all male, then they need to impregnate others if they want children.  The squick comes in when you realize that since they can mate with anyone, the partner would always be the one to carry the child, and that is something of a nightmare for most guys to even consider.  Thus logically they would end up paired with females of other races, and since the only race with a lot of females in the game (that aren't Asari) is humans, it leads into serious Mars Needs Women territory.  That would make me a sad panda, if Bioware used that old, stupid trope.

[Dean_the_Young]

Male!Asari would be bronze-skinned, muscularly tonned six-foot-five blond-haired blue-eyed telepathic supermen who inherently lived lives of masculine knightly chivalry and honorable conduct and were telepathic and excreted pheromes that would make everyone fall in love with them and then they would be able to make any gender of any species pregnant by just touching them.

But no sparkling, because that'd just be silly.

[Xilizhra]

Parthenogenesis already exists in nature. Whatever this is doesn't, and it'd make even less sense.

[NanQuan]

Liec wrote...

If asari were "male", then they wouldn't stand out from the other races. For all intents all purposes turians and salarians are already all male.

Players would also wonder where baby asari come out from.

^This. So far every other race (except humans and asari) are mono-gendered and male. Sure, people say these speices have females, but let's be honest, that's all hearsay and you can't rely on that as evidence.

[Dirty_Dan]

kyles3 wrote...

Afterlife would be the most badass gay bar ever.

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[Ashira Shepard]

kyles3 wrote...

Afterlife would be the most badass gay bar ever.

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