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[Nizzemancer]

Arcian wrote...

Nizzemancer wrote...

Doctor_Jackstraw wrote...

were the tubes on the statues at all related to husks?

The statues on Ilos doesn't have to be Protheans either, remember that.

Could be remnants of a previous species who were REALLY good at building statues to last.

Or:
1. The proteans made the statues and they aren't depictions of proteans.
2. They're status of another lesser species of that time, There's a huge statue of a krogan on the citadel without them being a citadel race for example, could be a similar thing.
3. Maybe it's "modern art" (a.k.a random cr*p)
4. Maybe they were discarded statues from the special edition of the proteans best-selling computer game "class Defect"
5. Maybe Male and Female Proteans were very physically different.

I'm not saying that I know why they are different, but there's any number of reasons to why that is, so it's not even remotely difficult to suspend disbelief.

[Heimdall]

GnusmasTHX wrote...

The thing is, the Prothean's were typically presented in-universe as a space faring race of intellectuals. They up lifted the Hanar and were not terribly intrusive, or at least negatively so to the development of other races. Thus the "Cthulhu" look served them adequately enough.

Between ME2 and ME3, BioWare decided that first, they were going to add a Prothean squadmate, and that second, it had to look like a badass. And if you read the leaked script, all Protheans were essentially badasses. The feeble frame of the Ilos statues/visions were no longer adequate to that mind set, so they started to work backward from the Collector's design.

You have a thematic shift in Prothean design. Before they were presented as a mysterious and enlightened race, now they're more or less a race of space samurai monks. Bulkier and more in theme with the Collector appearance.

I haven't read the leaks but my impression from what spoiler's I've read is that this particular Prothean was a soldier, not that the entire species was composed of samurai-monks.

[Annihilator27]

Arcian wrote...

GnusmasTHX wrote...

Sad Prothean is sad.

Mad prothean is mad.

Lmfao, Your avatar cracks me up.

[Jurgwug]

If the statues on Illos weren't protheans, hopefully prothy will shed some light on who/what they are. Also maybe more info on the collectors and keepers and other races before the protheans, because the extinction cycle in the game interest me the most

[Mendelevosa]

This is how the Mass Effect 2 codex displayed what the Protheans looked like.

Modifié par Mendelevosa, 15 février 2012 - 02:48 .

[Mendelevosa]

 

Modifié par Mendelevosa, 15 février 2012 - 02:47 .

[Guns_of_Freedom]

That is probably a huskified prothean

[Oni Changas]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

[Mendelevosa]

Guns_of_Freedom wrote...

That is probably a huskified prothean

Well that is all they gave us other than the statues on Ilos. And this picture and the statues look almost the same, except the pic shows the Protheans in color. Besides, why would they show us a huskified version instead of a regular one? 

[Jurgwug]

So either it is a retcon in that they changed the look of the protheans? or a retcon that there was actually more than one spacefaring race at that time? I choose to believe the latter, I never really understood why the protheans were the only race out there and later theres like 13

[scotkrow]

The image above is a prothean, the collectors are protheans so heavily altered that they look completely different, the images leaked of the prthean squadmate are a prothean in full armor, or an early attempt at altering a prothean that didn't work quite right and it maintained it's individuality. Either way, in the visions from the beacon you see silhouettes of beings that look like the statues dieing and suffering, and final point, maybe it's been 50,000 years and the only prothean remains are the huskified ones. Not all fact, but totally logical concepts. 

Edit: (additionally, I'd like to point out that human husks have claws and other husks they've revealed have alterations, so maybe the tenticles are the prothean husk additions)

Modifié par scotkrow, 16 février 2012 - 08:47 .

[GnusmasTHX]

The official reason now is that the statues on Ilos were Protheans, but they were left intentionally ambiguous so they could redesign the Prothean as they saw fit by ME3. Despite that, they showed a scene of a vision of an alien, which looked like the statue, turning into a Collector, so yes, it's a retcon. The Prothean was designed backwards after the Collector's, and not from the statues.

Art of Mass Effect Universe says as much.

Modifié par GnusmasTHX, 16 février 2012 - 08:47 .

[The Tesla Effect]

Maybe the Protheans consited of many races not just the Collector looking ones or the Ilos satued ones.

[scotkrow]

But everything is pretty much speculation until we get the game in our hands. And no matter what anyone says, my speculating leads me to believe it's more likely that the leaked images are a prothean in armor, and we haven't seen it's actual face yet.

[GnusmasTHX]

scotkrow wrote...

But everything is pretty much speculation until we get the game in our hands. And no matter what anyone says, my speculating leads me to believe it's more likely that the leaked images are a prothean in armor, and we haven't seen it's actual face yet.

You see its face.

[Baryonic_Member]

Hello Man wrote...

tetrisblock4x1 wrote...

The statue in that kasumi DLC showed a statue of a Prothen. They looked to be rather sleek and slender. Mordin says  that the evidence shows that the collectors (who were Protheans once) were heavily modified into the bug/human hybrids that you fight for most of ME2. But from the protheans warning beacon it looks as if the collectors as we knew them already existed when the reapers were reaping 50,000 years ago.

So were the protheans long and slender, or did they always look like bugs?

I would type in prothean or even sqaudmate on google. You'll find some pretty interesting stuff with ME3 rolling up. I don't think those were protheans and I think they were slightly bug like.

Thanks for the spoilers *****.

[scotkrow]

I've looked and not seen any faces, just what looks like and armored being, with armor that looks like collector shell. PM me a link to this face.

[The Tesla Effect]

scotkrow wrote...

I've looked and not seen any faces, just what looks like and armored being, with armor that looks like collector shell. PM me a link to this face.

 
http://media.desura....ct-universe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TVleQ.jpg

Modifié par The Tesla Effect, 16 février 2012 - 09:02 .

[scotkrow]

The Tesla Effect wrote...

scotkrow wrote...

I've looked and not seen any faces, just what looks like and armored being, with armor that looks like collector shell. PM me a link to this face.

 
http://media.desura....ct-universe.jpg

Maybe I'm blind but looks like armor to me, I'll believe what it looks like when I see it.  Although the concept you brought up earlier about Prothean being the name of an empire with multiple races makes sense too.  I kinda like the tenticle faces, you can make lots of bad jokes about them.

Modifié par scotkrow, 16 février 2012 - 09:03 .

[GnusmasTHX]

scotkrow wrote...

The Tesla Effect wrote...

scotkrow wrote...

I've looked and not seen any faces, just what looks like and armored being, with armor that looks like collector shell. PM me a link to this face.

 
http://media.desura....ct-universe.jpg

Maybe I'm blind but looks like armor to me, I'll believe what it looks like when I see it.  Although the concept you brought up earlier about Prothean being the name of an empire wit5h multiple races makes sense too.

You're blind.

Here, if you need it spelled out for you: http://i40.tinypic.com/dbjcpg.jpg

[scotkrow]

Okay I can see that, but still, no matter what the images have ever said about a game, I've never believed them until I saw it in game while playing. Stubborn that way.

[AxisEvolve]

Spoiler? Read at own risk:




















I believe it is explained in ME3 why the statues on Ilos are not actual Protheans. Something I read in the script I think....

Modifié par AxisEvolve, 16 février 2012 - 09:14 .

[scotkrow]

read what?