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[Remix-General Aetius]

Batarian, Salarian, Turian, Quarian, Prothean, Leviathan, Geth/Khet.

 

All these names sound far too similar to each other. Whatever happened to creating awesome original names for alien races?

[Han Shot First]

Any suggestions for the new aliens? 

 

None of those ever bothered me, but then maybe I'm just not picky when it comes to the names Bioware picks for it's species. 

[shit's fucked cunts]

Any suggestions for the new aliens? 

 

This. Let's hear it. Since the X-ian formula is obviously too mainstream for you.

[Remix-General Aetius]

None of those ever bothered me

 

It's almost as bad as most species being humanoid. There's not much creativity going on. They're like humans with alien heads. I could come up with that when I was 5.

[Spectr61]

Any suggestions for the new aliens? 
 
None of those ever bothered me, but then maybe I'm just not picky when it comes to the names Bioware picks for it's species.

Yes.

Good enough they have migrated into popular lexicon.

Always room for improvement though.

Just don't give us something unprounancable with lots of commas in it.

Too hard to type when complaining...

[shit's fucked cunts]

It's almost as bad as most species being humanoid.

 

Maybe the evolution of intelligent species favours the bipedal design. Two legs for movement, two arms for interaction. Any more of either would be extra burned kilojoules for little gain.

[ioannisdenton]

It's almost as bad as most species being humanoid. There's not much creativity going on. They're like humans with alien heads. I could come up with that when I was 5.

this bothers me also But do have in mind the technical limitations consoles had.
Krogan was to be gorilla based btu they could not do it.

[katamuro]

I don't see a problem, much better than some kind of unpronounceable gibberish and considering that the names for each species is probably their own version of "human" I do not see the problem. After all we have almost absolutely no idea of the linguistics of each species, since all aliens talk through the translator. 

[sjsharp2011]

Any suggestions for the new aliens? 

 

None of those ever bothered me, but then maybe I'm just not picky when it comes to the names Bioware picks for it's species. 

indeed the alien names have never bothered me either tbh.

[Panda]

They are similar, but I wasn't really bothered by it.

[NM_Che56]

Batarian, Salarian, Turian, Quarian, Prothean, Leviathan, Geth/Khet.

 

All these names sound far too similar to each other. Whatever happened to creating awesome original names for alien races?

Such as?

[NM_Che56]

Disclosure: I think most alien names just sound like goofy attempts at sounding alien.  

[ArcadiaGrey]

It's almost as bad as most species being humanoid. There's not much creativity going on. They're like humans with alien heads. I could come up with that when I was 5.

 

That was purely the mechanics of combat, all aliens that can fight had to be humanoid because the combat movements were designed that way.  Every other alien species that wasn't in combat - Hanar, Volus, Elcor - were far more imaginative.

 

ME2 and 3 just had to live the with legacy of the technical restrictions of ME1.

[capn233]

Doesn't bother me.  If anything, it was just the unimaginative names humans came up with for them.

 

You know, since Batarians are from Batar, Quarians are from Quaria, Turians are from Turia, etc.

[ThomasBlaine]

Well, Protheans, Turians, Krogan ect. most likely aren't what those species call themselves in their own languages, just the words human scientists and linguists coined for them in English, which the sub-dermal translators and whatnot just translate everything Shepard hears into. If scientists were called on to term newly discovered alien species that we couldn't readily communicate with yet in real life they probably wouldn't approach it by specifically giving them funny and colorful names completely foreign to human linguistics either.

 

The themed species names don't seem out of place to me. If everything else is automatically translated into your native language anyway... Each species probably has its own word for humans that plays into its own language quirks as well, which we just never get to hear.

[Vegeta 77]

Names are fine its not a big deal if they are similar.

[katamuro]

Doesn't bother me.  If anything, it was just the unimaginative names humans came up with for them.

 

You know, since Batarians are from Batar, Quarians are from Quaria, Turians are from Turia, etc.

 

Turians are not from Turia, Turian homeworld is called Palaven, Quarian homeworld is called Rannoch, Batarians are from Khar'shan. Salarians are from Surkesh, Krogans from Tuchanka, Volus from Irune, Elcors from Dekuuna, Asari are from Thessia.

[afgncaap7]

What would you prefer? WGFHB2343GHGMKJSHDH&BVSZFSJJHJ? Good luck saying that in civilized company.

[MrFob]

I don't know, Geth, Hanar, Volus, Elcor, Vorcha, Asari, Krogan, Rachni ...

 

They don't sound too similar to me. Sure, between the Batarians, Turians, Quarians and Protheans you have quite a few who end on "ian" but that doesn't bother me at all.

 

I just figure that for any species where the name (in their own native language) is not pronounceable for humans, the convention is to name them with something with "ian" at the end.

 

Actually, I am already pretty glad that the races are not just named after their home planets (i.e., Krogan from the planet "Krog", Turians from "Tur", etc.) like so many other SciFi franchises do (looking at you, Star Trek).

I already think that having the races name their own planets not after themselves implies a much richer culture for each civilization.

 

Anyway, I don't mind their naming of things at all.

[AppealToReason]

I see it as more like how people from countries are referred to in a similar way. Canadian, Russian, Italian, Chilean, Columbian, etc.

[Nattfare]

Blorkers sounds like a catchy name for an alien, right?

[ACika011]

Alsdjkaghav is that ok?

[AlanC9]

ThomasBlaine has it right. This sort of thing happens in English all the time. "Germans" aren't Germans and don't come from Germany, for instance

[KingofTime]

Stop nitpicking, this is literally a non issue.

[SlottsMachine]

Never trust a Blorker.