People took that joke too seriously.That's actually one of the coolest aspect of Asari that I think should have been focused on more. Somehow every species perceive them to have qualities attractive specifically to that species. It is a cool bit of lore.
People took that joke too seriously.
They are how we see them, there is no alteration.
Don't spoil my dreams! I want cool unique species, not space sex toys!
It's also probably nonsense because other species at various points give various physical descriptions of the asari that match with them being blue humans with tentacle heads.
Just like drell are green humans with frog faces and quarians are ______ humans with bent legs.
Aliens that aren't humanoid enough tend to be received less positively.
Just like drell are green humans with frog faces and quarians are ______ humans with bent legs.
Aliens that aren't humanoid enough tend to be received less positively.
Nah, everybody loved Krogans and they are not human at all, ditto for Turians.
Nah, everybody loved Krogans and they are not human at all, ditto for Turians.
4 limbs,1 head, 2 eyes, a nose and mouth - humanoid. Ears debatable.
4 limbs,1 head, 2 eyes, a nose and mouth - humanoid. Ears debatable.
You realize almost every animal on earth satisfies those criteria? Lizards are now humanoid?
Krogran only resemble humans as much as lizards do.
Nah, everybody loved Krogans and they are not human at all, ditto for Turians.
Krogan and Turians are both humanoid.
Humanoid just means a shape roughly similar to humans. Bipedal with two arms and hands a head with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth.
Even species that don't have all of those traits, like Batarians or Protheans, have enough of them that they could still be called humanoid.
Krogan and Turians are both humanoid.
By what definition? Unless you want a puddle of ooze Krogan is about as far from humans aestheically as you can reasonably get. Hanar were cool, and I loved their unique form of communication, but you can't have a game with that many different racial forms, it was already a lot of work for Bioware to animate the humanish species, that's why there is no animation for an Elcor or Hanar in combat.
Krogan and Turian are reasonably different from humans, much more so than the majority of Star Trek races who were 95% human with random added facial features.
You realize almost every animal on earth satisfies those criteria? Lizards are now humanoid?
Krogran only resemble humans as much as lizards do.
With reference to science fiction, google humanoid.
I missed out upright stature, but basically human shaped. Pretty much only hanar, elcor and rachni aren't humanoid.
Sorry, was in the process of editing that post while you were replying.
There are degrees of being humanoid. The Asari and Quarians are more similar in appearance to humans than Krogan or Salarians, but all of them are humanoid.
Non-humanoid aliens in the series would be the Rachni, the Elcor, or the Hanar.
without the Protheans, asari would have been killed by an asteroid strike and the ones who survived eaten by the Oravoraes 50,000 years before the game even starts.
After learning their goddess is really a prothean, they will now say by the prothean and embrace Javik instead of by the goddess and embrace eternity
By that definition of Humanoid we are terribly unlikely to ever see more than a single fully functional (ie including combat animations) non-humanoid race in any game. It is too expensive to animate them (and animate humanoid species), plus there are problems with armor (clipping issues, etc) and weapons (how on earth would a Hanar shoot a gun?).
I agree it would be awesome to have a Hanar companion who engages in combat and is full participant in the story, but there is a point of reasonable cost vs return.
By that definition of Humanoid we are terribly unlikely to ever see more than a single fully functional (ie including combat animations) non-humanoid race in any game. It is too expensive to animate them (and animate humanoid species), plus there are problems with armor (clipping issues, etc) and weapons (how on earth would a Hanar shoot a gun?).
I agree it would be awesome to have a Hanar companion who engages in combat and is full participant in the story, but there is a point of reasonable cost vs return.
I agree, but i didn't define the term., just saiyan.
In the end though, i think the appeal for extremely alien characters would only be for a few people. It gets to a point where you just can't relate to something sometimes.
I'll take some fine blue ass on my monitor anyday, even though you are limited by how creative you can be with asari.
Just add Cammel toe.
Just add Cammel toe.
If Miranda shows up it will follow.
Nah, let them remain "commonly beutiful",
We will always have the Batarians for that kind of beuaty,
Batarians are uniquely AND commonly beautiful.
Batarians are uniquely AND commonly beautiful.
They're definitely in a good spot that makes them very relatable.
Asari probably look closer to banshees (only not as tall and bloaty), it's only our human brains that see them as human looking women.
People took that joke too seriously.
They are how we see them, there is no alteration.
Asari probably look closer to banshees (only not as tall and bloaty), it's only our human brains that see them as human looking women.
Easily debunked...
Film exists in the Mass Effect universe. If the Asari were capable of doing some sort of indoctrination to make other people see them in a different form, it would only work with people that had actually met Asari. That isn't the case for about 90% of humanity, which still lives on Earth. They'd be seeing the true form of the Asari on the nightly news or in movies. In LotSB Shepard can also see Asari he or she has never met in the Shadow Broker's video archives, and they don't look different from other Asari. The stone carvings of primitive Asari in the temple of Athame on Illium also show them in their familiar forms. The same is also true for the sign for the Chora's Den, which is in the shape of an Asari.
If the Asari were doing some sort of mental shape-shifting it would also make it impossible for any doctor that isn't an Asari to treat an Asari patient, but from Huerta Memorial we know that isn't the case.
The dialogue with the bachelor party on Illium isn't supposed to be taken as a word-for-word canon discussion on Asari biology.
Easily debunked...
Film exists in the Mass Effect universe. If the Asari were capable of doing some sort of indoctrination to make other people see them in a different form, it would only work with people that had actually met Asari. That isn't the case for about 90% of humanity, which still lives on Earth. They'd be seeing the true form of the Asari on the nightly news or in movies. In LotSB Shepard can also see Asari he or she has never met in the Shadow Broker's video archives, and they don't look different from other Asari. The stone carvings of primitive Asari in the temple of Athame on Illium also show them in their familiar forms.
If the Asari were doing some sort of mental shape-shifting it would also make it impossible for any doctor that isn't an Asari to treat an Asari patient, but from Huerta Memorial we know that isn't the case.
The dialogue with the bachelor party on Illium isn't supposed to be taken as a word-for-word canon discussion on Asari biology.
Also remember that Liara in ME1 used human armor, unlike for example Garrus who needed Turian armor.
Sorry, was in the process of editing that post while you were replying.
There are degrees of being humanoid. The Asari and Quarians are more similar in appearance to humans than Krogan or Salarians, but all of them are humanoid.
Non-humanoid aliens in the series would be the Rachni, the Elcor, or the Hanar.
The elcor are pretty humanoid. They're basically built like a gorilla, which I think counts, no?
They're not bipedal, which is needed for Humanoids.
Also remember that Liara in ME1 used human armor, unlike for example Garrus who needed Turian armor.
That is a good point as well. Also she's using human armor in Mass Effect 3 if you have the From Ashes DLC installed. The commando armor she can wear from that has an Alliance logo on it.
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