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[Anacronian Stryx]

ME:A should have a "Red Woman" moment where an Asari shows how ugly they really look.

 

If that happened there would finally be something interesting about the Asari species.

[9TailsFox]

ME:A should have a "Red Woman" moment where an Asari shows how ugly they really look.

 

If that happened there would finally be something interesting about the Asari species.

Red woman show how ugly she really is, hell yes.

Oh you mean other red woman.

[The Elder King]

Yeah, I don't see why the physical appearance of a race might make it more interesting. If you find asari boring, you'd find them boring even if they look ugly. You'd just have a reason to mock the people who like them.

[Anacronian Stryx]

Yeah, I don't see why the physical appearance of a race might make it more interesting. If you find asari boring, you'd find them boring even if they look ugly. You'd just have a reason to mock the people who like them.

I would find it interesting that now we would have a race that is effectively deceiving all other races around them - I have not mocked anybody so I will leave that comment to your own imaginary interpretation. 

[Saladinbob1]

DAI's Elves were one of the worst changes in that franchise. Here's an idea for those of you who create these idiotic posts. How about some originality in Mass Effect rather than asking for it to slavishly copy other games?

[Undead Han]

I would find it interesting that now we would have a race that is effectively deceiving all other races around them - I have not mocked anybody so I will leave that comment to your own imaginary interpretation. 

 

That would not make a lick of sense however.

 

If the Asari were pulling some sort of mental indoctrination routine where they somehow cause people to hallucinate and see a form that differs from reality, that effect should only be experienced by people who are physically interacting with them. Anyone viewing the Asari on the ME equivalent of television or the internet or a medical textbook or what have you, would see them in their true form. Shepard sees Asari s/he's never met in video footage (LotSB), and they don't look any different than any other Asari we see in the series.

 

It would also be impossible for any doctor who isn't Asari to examine or treat them, but we know that isn't the case, and that doctors in the ME universe are a bit like veterinarians in that they are capable of treating multiple species. We see non-Asari doctors treating Asari patients in Huerta Memorial as well. The mental indoctrination routine would also not fool X-rays or an MRI.

 

Tl;dr version: Having the Asari look anything other than how they appear in the first three Mass Effect games would require that the audience not only suspends disbelief but completely shuts off their brain and ignores the gaping lore holes so large you could fly the Destiny Ascension through them.

[Daemul]

This is the same universe where nobody knows what the Quarians look like without their masks despite there being billions of Asari and Krogan currently alive who would have seen them and even though there is most likely thousands of terabytes worth of pictures and videos which would contain maskless Quarians from before the Morning War. 

 

If players can suspend their belief for that nonsense then they can do the same for the Asari hiding their true appearance. 

[Quarian Master Race]

This thread again tho.

Gotta say this thread is an absolute masterclass. The OP is just unsubtle enough to be completely obvious to anyone who can rub two brain cells together, and therefore humorous in an obvious troll is obvious sort of manner, yet is subtle enough that we still get 26 pages of rustlement, stupidity and hilarity.

[KirkyX]

This thread again tho.

Gotta say this thread is an absolute masterclass. The OP is just unsubtle enough to be completely obvious to anyone who can rub two brain cells together, and therefore humorous in an obvious troll is obvious sort of manner, yet is subtle enough that we still get 26 pages of rustlement, stupidity and hilarity.

 

Hey man, I just want to investigate the lore implications of an Asari with a punk 'do. 

[Undead Han]

This is the same universe where nobody knows what the Quarians look like without their masks despite there being billions of Asari and Krogan currently alive who would have seen them and even though there is most likely thousands of terabytes worth of pictures and videos which would contain maskless Quarians from before the Morning War. 

 

If players can suspend their belief for that nonsense then they can do the same for the Asari hiding their true appearance. 

 

While true, the series could use a bit less stupidity...not more.

[The Elder King]

DAI's Elves were one of the worst changes in that franchise. Here's an idea for those of you who create these idiotic posts. How about some originality in Mass Effect rather than asking for it to slavishly copy other games?

Not that I agree with the OP, but he referred to DA2's elves anyway, not DAI's.

[Quarian Master Race]

This is the same universe where nobody knows what the Quarians look like without their masks despite there being billions of Asari and Krogan currently alive who would have seen them and even though there is most likely thousands of terabytes worth of pictures and videos which would contain maskless Quarians from before the Morning War. 

Not to mention that even if somehow none of that has survived from 300 years ago and everyone got amensia, a human doctor tends to a quarian who gets shot in literally the first hour of the first game in the series.

Now, presumably, you can't treat gunshot wounds on someone who refuses to remove an envirosuit, or give them any other kind of medical attention, which would be required for any one of them injured on Pilgrimage. How would you give a species that you don't even know the apperance of medical attention at all? There has to be a medical database of biological information on them, which would practically be public knowledge (doctor or nurse isn't an uncommon profession), and would obviously contain their appearance.
 

While true, the series could use a bit less stupidity...not more.

I'd agree. The series should have provided a lore reason why the quarians choose to use opaque visors in all circumstances, anyway. Is it because the suits are spaceworthy, and the visor has a coating for dealing with harmful radiation a bit like modern spacesuits? Is it a cultural practice of some sort? Or is biower just trying to add a cheap element of "mystery" despite it making little sense? We'll let you decide (but it's the last one).

[MrBSN2017]

I want my Asari to have smoother skin. All the friction with that crocodile skin would hurt.

What I'd really like to see is bioware create an aesthetically pleasing race without using boobs, human noses, and sexy leg buttocks combos.

[KamuiStorm]

Hey man, I just want to investigate the lore implications of an Asari with a punk 'do.

oh bby that's my fetish right there

[The Elder King]

I would find it interesting that now we would have a race that is effectively deceiving all other races around them - I have not mocked anybody so I will leave that comment to your own imaginary interpretation. 

I never said you did.

Also, while that might be somehow interesting (depending of people's opinion), it wouldn't change the other reasons why you (presumably) find the asari boring.

That aside, it wouldn't make sense, as it was already explained by others. Not that there are other things that don't make sense in ME, but I prefer to not add more.

 

I want my Asari to have smoother skin. All the friction with that crocodile skin would hurt.

What I'd really like to see is bioware create an aesthetically pleasing race without using boobs, human noses, and sexy leg buttocks combos.

That'd depend on people's opinion on what is aesthetically pleasing though. For example, I don't think I'd fine a specie without some of those things aesthetically pleasing, since what I find pleasing is human characteristic. I found krogans really cool aesthetically, but I wouldn't say they're pleasing.

[DuskWanderer]

Back on topic, I think there's already going to be a graphics overhaul because it's going to be on new-gen consoles. Plus, since our protagonist is going to be human, I don't think the asari will change much.

 

I'd much rather see a redesign in personality, rather than just a visual overhaul. I want to be able to invoke my inner Aetheyta and call an asari out when she's acting like a (censored)

[Donk]

This thread again tho.

Gotta say this thread is an absolute masterclass. The OP is just unsubtle enough to be completely obvious to anyone who can rub two brain cells together, and therefore humorous in an obvious troll is obvious sort of manner, yet is subtle enough that we still get 26 pages of rustlement, stupidity and hilarity.

 

This can apply to just about any thread, though.

[KirkyX]

oh bby that's my fetish right there

BBY(-01)?

[SKAR]

When we first played Mass Effect, back in the day, we were probably impressed with all the aliens. But were they really alien as alien should be? Does that thematically fit with the core theme of exploring strange new cultures?

Let's consider.

KROGAN: Yes, seem mostly alien, pretty different. Fleshed out nicely in ME3 genophage cure arc. Kind of fleshed out in ME2 Tuchanka hub.

TURIAN: Yes. They have distinct physical appearance as well. Different means of conducting selves. Fleshed out kind of with Palaven and Tuchanka missions in ME3. Also Turian Sentinel.

VORCHA: Yes, inhuman mook things to shoot. Nuff said. No need to try and understand these. Could be fleshed out more instead of just mostly a codex entry.

VARREN: Yes. Slimy lizard dogs with great intelligence.

HANAR: Yes, space jellyfish cultist things

VOLUS: Yes, amonia based lifeforms with a simialarity to all of us: they like money too, just like us.

ELCOR: Yes, Slow talking elephant-dog hybrid things.

BATARIANS: Yes, Arrival, Colonist and Ruthless backgrounds, BringDownTheSky, that mission with the javelin missiles, several Shepard-batarian interactions that can result in usage of high velocity projectiles.

SALARIANS: Yes, lizard people. For real.

GETH: Yes, robot things that keep getting brainwashed to do the Reaper's dark bidding. Oh yes.

Let's get to the offenders, shall we?

DRELL(Thanks to QMR): "the female fapbait equivalent" with exposed pecs, super masculinity, and frog eyes that stare into your soul. Not actually a super serial offender at all, really!

QUARIANS: Mostly alien, a bit sexualized with seductive positional posing. Nothing too much there raising a red flag, but female quarians then take the cake with massively oversized hips. Intended to garner interest from ME1 fan reaction to Tali possibly. Led to the Tali Sweat thread. Of only questionable moderate offense.


ASARI: Blue skinned alien space babes that happen to exemplify every attractive female trait in humans. Because they're totally not meant as sex symbols. The previous statment is a bunch of hooey and a half gnawed on by a grundsau. The visual design of Asari suggests that the entire intent of them orignally was to play entirely into this trope because you love the asari, don't you? Yes, everyone loves the Asari. But does that allow the attempts to flesh them out to actually bear fruit? The issue here is that unless something changes, Asari will be thought of first as blue alien space babes and not as aliens.

Which is why I propose the following:

I'm glad I could "acquire" the following image.



And to answer the question?

Greatness happened.




This is exactly what should happen to the Asari. They'll look even more alien and exotic to their fanbase, and they'll seem more plausible to all of us.

this is a joke right?

[Laughing_Man]

this is a joke right?

 

Somewhere between a bad joke and a semi-successful trolling attempt.

[SKAR]

Somewhere between a bad joke and a semi-successful trolling attempt.

Freaking hate trolls.

[KotorEffect3]

um no.  Keep the Asari as they are.

[Seraphim24]

If you want to throw the ME franchise in a trash can, sure.

[SKAR]

If any changes should be made to the Asari, make them sexier and even more irresistible.

[GoldenGail3]

Oh gosh, no. Elves in DA2.... No...