Random Jerkface wrote...
wizardryforever wrote...
I don't know if that attractiveness thing is true, though. It was likely said that they didn't know how to make them recognizably female, so they didn't try. About the only thing that would make any sense for most of these species is to maybe make their figure slightly slimmer and change the way they walk/stand. Maybe reduce or remove the fringe for the turians. Other than that, they wouldn't be able to conform with what we would recognize as a female without being stupid.
I'll have to dig up the video, but the implication was, in fact, attractiveness. The idea that females of an alien race would have to conform to "what we recognise as female" is already inherently idiotic. Assuming that the average ME fan is too thick to pick up the difference between male and female voices, sexual dimorphism in this context would be quite hard to miss. The salarians, for example, are amphibious organisms that lay large clutches of eggs at a time. Since they are an r-selected species, female members are likely to be significantly larger than the males are to accommodate the strain of brooding (this could also apply to the krogan). Drell are reptilian, so perhaps drell women are generally of subdued colour, are thinner and taller, and lack a dewlap. Turians are based on birds of prey, so it's unlikely the males would be significantly larger than females, but ramping down the head fringe (or mandibles) is more than sufficient to indicate sex. There's no need to add ****** and lipstick. It's not that hard.
There's also the deal with salarian and krogan women being rare. We see a few, but not enough to justify going to the trouble to make whole new models for them. If they were more prevalent, then they would do it, likely along the lines of what you're saying. I do feel like they have no real excuse for the turians, though. Considering how many turians we see in all three games, but especially ME3, they could have put forth the effort to make female turians. Making new models for the ladies would likely spur the devs to include them in more places, so that they make good use out of the resources spent making the model.
The main problem is that while these may have some vague analogue with Earth species, they're still supposed to be aliens. And humanoid aliens at that. Part of the reason why so many of the aliens are humanoid is so that you will see them as people, and not animals at the zoo. The other part is because humanoid models are easier to animate for combat. I don't think anyone is saying that they need to add "****** and lipstick," but to keep them relatable, they needed to make them female-looking from a human point of view. After all, a lot of people can't tell the difference between sexes of many of the species that the aliens are supposedly based on, so it's fair to assume that a lot of people wouldn't be able to tell sexes apart for these aliens either, unless they made them more humanlike.
I get what you're saying, but I feel like coming up with a whole new model, rather than trying to use one of the old ones and modify it, may simply have not been important enough to actually do.
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