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[SamT3N7]

BioWare can't be more vague on this


 

 
 
 

[Unender]

3rdMillhouse wrote...

How the heck are Salarian females "rare"? How does a species even survive like this, what with their females being rare?

Lion Males are much fewer and further between in comparison to female lions. I imagine it works in a similar fashion. However the genders are reversed, much like how females behaved in the early 19th century on Earth. Stay at home and do things that are needed there while the male goes out and provides or runs errands. 

Also, the Salarians have a betrothal arrangement type culture. So that they can arrange for male and female to produce offspring so that their families can live on. This also contributes to their ability to perpetuate.

[Imortalfalcon]

@Wuartz

I let out a rather sudden "D'aaaw" at that female turian picture, not sure why.

[Atakuma]

Imortalfalcon wrote...

@Wuartz

I let out a rather sudden "D'aaaw" at that female turian picture, not sure why.

Well it does look more like a turian baby than a female:wizard:

[WarGriffin]

How are turian Females rare... Garrus tells going ten rounds with one on a ship?

[PPF65]

Turian Females look... ugly... >.<

[Liber320]

WarGriffin wrote...

How are turian Females rare... Garrus tells going ten rounds with one on a ship?

Who says they're rare?

[mghjr6]

In reference to the bachelor party discussion earlier, you're leaving out the last part of the conversation where the salarian tells the human and turian (paraphrasing here) that they're both crazy because the asari looks very much like a salarian female. Then they wonder if the asari are just messing with our minds somehow.

[Thormp]

mghjr6 wrote...

In reference to the bachelor party discussion earlier, you're leaving out the last part of the conversation where the salarian tells the human and turian (paraphrasing here) that they're both crazy because the asari looks very much like a salarian female. Then they wonder if the asari are just messing with our minds somehow.

Whoa! That's right, each person at the table comments on why Asari look so much like their respective races. The Turian direclty contradicts the Dark Horse comic by saying the Asari's head crest makes her an attractive female. BURN THE HERETICS! (Dark Horse, I mean. Not the indoctrinated geth, of course, we can still save them.)

[Wuartz]

Atakuma wrote...

Imortalfalcon wrote...

@Wuartz

I let out a rather sudden "D'aaaw" at that female turian picture, not sure why.

Well it does look more like a turian baby than a female:wizard:

No, a turian babe!

[Chuvvy]

HEY GUYS THIS IS A TURIAN FEMALE IT JUST HAS THE EXACT SAME MODEL AS A MALE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO PUT ANY WORK INTO IT! JUST LIKE THE KORGAN FEMALE BEING WRAPPED HEAD TO TOE IN A BURKA!

[Severyx]

3rdMillhouse wrote...

How the heck are Salarian females "rare"? How does a species even survive like this, what with their females being rare?

The REAL answer: Haplo-diploid. Basically, they can control which eggs are female and which are male, and since salarian culture doesn't allow for more than 10% of the population to be female, they become powerful political figures (Dalatrasses). They can still lay enormous amounts of eggs, so they make breeding arrangements between families.

[jmood88]

Eradyn wrote...

BentOrgy wrote...

AwesomeName wrote...

BentOrgy wrote...

AwesomeName wrote...

BentOrgy wrote...

That comic makes no sense: In ME2 Garrus specifically mentions to FemShep that, if she was a Turian, he'd compliment her "Head-fringe," meaning that both males and females have it.

Unless Garrus is gay, and humans are an exception.... <3

But the female turian does have a fringe...  It's just different.  It also curves upwards at the tips in a similar way to how an asari's "head tentacles" do (possibly what the bachelor party turian was talking about - either that, or bachelor turian was saying asari look like male turians).

I wouldn't really call that fringe. She's fairly bald and what little comes off from her face wraps around her head, hugging it.

A "fringe" is just the outer most edge of something... 

I know what fringe is, and this still doesn't do it for me. Not just me, there have been several threads about this in the past. They're more like "Protrusions," than "Fringe," if you want to get nitpicky about it.

I think Bioware was simply at a loss for anything creative to do when "Desgining," their females.

Saddest thing is, they didn't even need to get super creative or anything.  A slightly modified male turian with some "biologically sound" tweaks would have been fine.

As for the OP, I hope BW is saying that the DH female turians are not indicative of what they actually look like, as those are a pretty radical departure from males (and what we could infer from in-game dialogue).  Perhaps BW went back to the drawing board?

This is really funny to me. There were all kinds of pre-emptive complaints about how much they would hate it if the female version of the other races just had breasts but if they don't go that route, then there are complaints that Bioware is lacking in creativity. They can't win no matter what they do. Why do the female versions need to look radically different from the males? There are species of animals on this planet that don't look different (to us) whether they're female or male so I don't see the big deal.

[DJStarstryker]

wizardryforever wrote...

Well since the Turians are based off of avians or reptiles, and such animals have flashy males and drab females, it does make sense.  I would have preferred something more aesthetically pleasing, but it's also nice to have females in the game that aren't the least bit sexy.  Rachni don't count.

I think it would've been more interesting if they had based turians off of birds of prey. For those, generally the females are larger than the males. Wouldn't it be interesting if some larger turians (aka females) came along decked out in armor and with powerful guns to help you beat the crap out of the reapers? 

[jmood88]

Xerxes52 wrote...

First of all, no breasts.

Getting that out of the way, they could be slightly smaller and slighter than males (following some types of bird dimorphism). A shorter fringe or no fringe (like in the comics). Round their mandibles a bit and soften up their features (less hard angles on their face plates and larger eyes), Then add a female voice and there you go.

They could probably get away with giving them the same animations as male turians.

A lot of people on here have very limited points of view on a lot of things, this included. There's no real reason why they should look completely different to us but you guys also have the same idea (they should be smaller than men) when that doesn't always happen. There are many cases in the animal kingdom where the women are the same size or larger than the males.

[DiosMios]

The "mandibles" simply need to be shortened so that they don't stick out below the mouth and the head fringes should either be increased or decreased. That's it. That tiny amount of change would be all I'd need to accept that a Turian is female.


I think the Salarian councilor is the female Salarian that was being referred to. I hope so, since I've always thought the dress and voice seemed feminine.

[Cody211282]

This sounds like code for "we didnt make any turian or salarien females and also dont want to be called out on it after the game breaks."

[jmood88]

Cody211282 wrote...

This sounds like code for "we didnt make any turian or salarien females and also dont want to be called out on it after the game breaks."

If it is, what difference does it make?

[obtuse4ngle]

DJStarstryker wrote...

I think it would've been more interesting if they had based turians off of birds of prey. For those, generally the females are larger than the males. Wouldn't it be interesting if some larger turians (aka females) came along decked out in armor and with powerful guns to help you beat the crap out of the reapers? 

Being a tomboy myself, I'm tired of this idea that all girls should be "girly" girls. So I'm all for having them be badasses.

Modifié par obtuse4ngle, 02 mars 2012 - 09:33 .

[Thormp]

obtuse4ngle wrote...
Being a tomboy myself, I'm tired of this idea that all girls should be "girly" girls. So I'm all for having them be badasses.

I don't think the Quarians females are portrayed as girly-girls. The asari fill the role of galactic ****s, and there will always be human love interests for Shepard, but the Quarians have a pretty gender-blind society. It appears that the Turians do, too, judging by their equal place in the military and Garrus' "reach and flexibility" speech (the first part, at least). 

[BatmanPWNS]

Bioware are so lazy sometime.

[Paula Deen]

Dark Horse's "female turian" design actually goes against the game canon (Garrus makes some comments about how he would compliment a female turian in the romance scene; he mentions that he would compliment her fringe...which is completely absent from Dark Horse's female turian design).

And "hard to differentiate" my ass. If they're actually like Dark Horse's version, they're stupidly easy to differentiate. The complete lack of a fringe (which makes no biological sense, either), BREASTS (another completely nonsensical addition), and rounded and flatter mandibles make it obvious.

So yeah, BioWare took the extremely lazy way out this time. At least give SOME random turian NPC's female VA's to give some semblane of effort. Because otherwise ME is looking more and more like "females stay in the kitchen if there are males in your species"--with humanity being the ONLY exception.

(EDIT: Whoops, forgot quarians. Huh, now that I think about it, why is making actual female turians so damn hard? Hell, fans have made a dozen very good looking designs that aren't just "turians with lipstick/breasts" that that ME art designer said.)

Modifié par Paula Deen, 02 mars 2012 - 10:56 .

[wengaiden]

dalatrass (salarian council) isnt a female salarian?
in ME 3 in the citadel there are a turian medic in charge with the batarian terrorist. in the spanish tranlation put "medica"(female) intead "medico"(male)....but her apparence and voice are fully male

[ValintineL]

The dalatrass is female. If you look at the dates (and read the posts) this was before ME3 was released.
I am pretty sure there are no female turians in ME3 though.

[Legendairy111]

I wish they made all the females hotties. Like eve could've been like a sexy she-hulk. Bikini's and all.

I know it would be shallow, and people would be angry about how it doesn't make sense, and it's shallow and chauvinist, and appealing only to teenage boys.... But I'd be ok with that. XD