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[marshalleck]

Or as I like to call them, cuddlefish. They're adorable.

[CannonO]

onelifecrisis wrote...

CannonLars wrote...

onelifecrisis wrote...

Zanallen wrote...

'Cause it would be stupid to have a bunch of giant robotic humanoids floating around in space.

This seems to be the prevailing "wisdom" but I've never understood it.

My first thought when Sovereign was revealed to be a reaper: if he's the ultimate machine, why does he look organic?

I don't see how robotic humanoid spaceships are any more or less "stupid" than robotic cuttlefish spaceships, but whatever.

The cuttlefish shape is less stupid because the creature itself already moves like a spaceship version would, a floating and pushing motion as is it were the cuttlefish swimming. A human can't be translated well into a spaceship because it would have to either float along doing the running man dance or make a SuperMan pose and blast to infinity and beyond. It definitely would look more stupid.

Swimming through a vacuum?

Gotta be difficult of course. Since Reapers are a ship, the vacuum part doesn't matter. Obviously a ship has simple and usually steady movements while it is being propelled, this can often be said for many creatures suspended in water that use smaller means of steady propulsion. Therefore, both the ships and cottlefish share various floating propulsion characteristics, thus reducing the contrast in appearance for that shape in water versus in open space.

A human uses more dramatic self propulsion, which, if imitated by a ship version, would appear bizarre. Then considering it using engines instead of similar methods to an actual human, it would look like some sort of gliding superhero, obviously worse than the current Reaper appearances.

McAwesum wrote...

I think the cuttlefish look is why they changed the Reapers' look from ME1 and ME2. If you notice the difference.

http://images.wikia....f/f0/Reaper.jpg

http://images.wikia....11-16-12-75.png

Notice the "frontal tentacles". And if you look at the ME2 and 3 Reapers; they don't have those.

If you look, there are actually a few variations of the shape in Mass Effect 3. They aren't all identical.

Modifié par CannonLars, 24 juin 2011 - 06:43 .

[McAwesum]

CannonLars wrote...

McAwesum wrote...

I think the cuttlefish look is why they changed the Reapers' look from ME1 and ME2. If you notice the difference.

http://images.wikia....f/f0/Reaper.jpg

http://images.wikia....11-16-12-75.png

Notice the "frontal tentacles". And if you look at the ME2 and 3 Reapers; they don't have those.

If you look, there are actually a few variations of the shape in Mass Effect 3. They aren't all identical.

Really. Ok. So long as the inconsistency is consistent. Lol.

[Spectre_907]

The baseline core of the Reaper resembles the species used to create it. They put it into a ship structure for it to move around in space. Mac Walters confirms it here. Even without it, it's not hard to deduce this.

Why do most of the Reapers we’ve seen so far have similar insect-like appearances? The human Reaper looked different, but otherwise it seems like the Reapers mainly build themselves out of bugs. Is that correct?
The exterior of the Reapers does follow a similar pattern, an efficient design for the purpose they were created for. However each Reaper is created from a unique species, and as we saw at the end of Mass Effect 2, the core of each Reaper is designed in the likeness of that species.

[Paul.E9190]

I would love to see a hanar reaper.

[Weskerr]

I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything spectacularly different from one of these.

RAF1940 wrote...

[Humanoid_Typhoon]

Cuttlefish superbeing was the first reap.

[REAPERS_r_CTHULHU]

Just read my name guys... lol xD

[LilyasAvalon]

Cuttlefish are the most scariest thing in the Universe obviously.

...No seriously, they scare the c$#% outta me. A reapers 'true form' is inside it's shell... which is a cuttlefish.

[didymos1120]

I've always thought they looked more arthropodal than anything. Especially now that we have ones like this:



That and the ME1 art book notes that they specifically added "[f]eatures reminiscent of an insect's anatomy" to Sovereign. Concept sketches of it also show it walking.

[Last Vizard]

onelifecrisis wrote...

The idea is that the "brain" of the reaper looks like whatever species it's made from, and the rest of it looks like a cuttlefish.

I suspect that originally BW intended the whole reaper to look like the species it was made from, but the sound of 2 million facepalms as the gaming world saw the Terminator Reaper made BW change their minds.

Your right, however i thought a human Reaper would look like a human.... wasn't surprised to see the incomplete Reaper looked like a human without skin, what did you expect it would look like?  this whole "the core of a Reaper looks the same as the race it was made from while the outside is cuttlefish" that made me facepalm.

[littlezack]

Really, what else could a Reaper look like?

[Someone With Mass]

littlezack wrote...

Really, what else could a Reaper look like?

Cthulhu?

[Last Vizard]

Someone With Mass wrote...

littlezack wrote...

Really, what else could a Reaper look like?

Cthulhu?

Since playing Terraia with friends i'm see Cthulhu mentioned on anime/manga and game forums alot, kinda creepy or maybe Terraia has brought Cthulhu to our generation.....

Modifié par Last Vizard, 14 août 2011 - 12:45 .

[Davie McG]

 I always thought reapers were modelled after Sepia Mestus whose also known as the reaper cuttlefish. 

This is what it looks like since an image isn't provided in the link.

Modifié par Davie McG, 14 août 2011 - 12:47 .

[-Tentei-]

Because cuttlefish created the reapers.

[Annihilator27]

Weskerr wrote...

I wouldn't get your hopes up for anything spectacularly different from one of these.

RAF1940 wrote...

Shut down.......The smaller ones all look the same so far.Im guessing that dreadnoughts have unique looks.

Modifié par annihilator27, 14 août 2011 - 01:01 .

[Sashimi_taco]

They look like that because they are a reference to this guy.



They are based off Cthulhu, a god like character from a old series of stories by a guy named lovecraft. If you look around you will see a lot of references to the Cthulhu mythos in modern media.

[medcsu]

The Reaper to the right of Harbinger looks like a scarab beetle.

[Urazz]

I'm thinking that the cuttlefish design is an outer shell or something for completed reapers. /shrug

[medcsu]

Mr. MannlyMan wrote...

jtsherrard wrote...

@Kasai666:


 got beat to it, but still an example

First time I've seen a spider like that. What is it (name)?

[Bad King]

Mr. MannlyMan wrote...

CannonLars wrote...

onelifecrisis wrote...

Zanallen wrote...

'Cause it would be stupid to have a bunch of giant robotic humanoids floating around in space.

This seems to be the prevailing "wisdom" but I've never understood it.

My first thought when Sovereign was revealed to be a reaper: if he's the ultimate machine, why does he look organic?

I don't see how robotic humanoid spaceships are any more or less "stupid" than robotic cuttlefish spaceships, but whatever.

The cuttlefish shape is less stupid because the creature itself already moves like a spaceship version would, a floating and pushing motion as is it were the cuttlefish swimming. A human can't be translated well into a spaceship because it would have to either float along doing the running man dance or make a SuperMan pose and blast to infinity and beyond. It definitely would look more stupid.

I always pictured the Human-Reaper doing a backstroke.

Or, with its reaper tail, doing a butterfly stroke like a mermaid.

[Bad King]

didymos1120 wrote...

I've always thought they looked more arthropodal than anything. Especially now that we have ones like this:



That and the ME1 art book notes that they specifically added "[f]eatures reminiscent of an insect's anatomy" to Sovereign. Concept sketches of it also show it walking.

Yeah, sovereign's rear legs resembled those of an arthropod, but the front limbs still look unmistakably like cuttlefish arms.

[BioFan (Official)]

RAF1940 wrote...

Shouldn't some look like Protheans?

Other races?

they model themselfs after cuttle fish because they found them to just like them. ferocious and deadly!

[souljahbill]

Why didn't the derelict reaper have another form inside of it?