There was a disconnect between a grown up writing team that made a race of sage diplomats and a fratbro art team that wanted hot blue ****** to ****** to. The same art team that openly laughed at the idea of female turians or krogan. "Like, what do you do with the females, put on lipstick or something, lmao".
I wonder the kind of reaction a female art director would have gotten from the righteous gaming community if she had designed every race in the game as females and said something similar to that when asked how come there aren't any males in the game. "LOL how do you even make a male, do you just put a mustache on the model, ayy lmao." Really try to imagine that interview.
When the writers face the fact that they have no alien females, they have to come up with lore excuses to keep all the females confined to one remote world out of reach, out of view. Oh sure, the salarians are governed by very powerful females in that one world over there which you never go to. Let's not be obtuse, ok? That's not ground-up world-building. That's a cop out to deal with the art team's negligence. And the same happens with the lore related to the Asari. The art team wanted hot strippers and the writers had to adapt to that as best they could, writing around what they had.
Thankfully, someone must have brought this to their attention because after the release of that interview, they were able to make a cool female turian. Well done bros. But the point is the writing team and the art team come from different places and they have a hard time working together.
Bring writers and artists closer and you remove the cause of any problem the asari might have.
Wow that's pretty awful. The lead art designer for a game thinks putting lipstick on a character to make them female is the best option.
Yeah there's art design at fault for not showing females of other species, but who knows whether it's also a budget issue and/or the writers just not considering it. Which came first, the art budget dictating how many models they could create, or the game writing which only required male turians, krogan, salarians, etc?
This does highlight an issue with ME, though; the asari are the default non-human females for the majority of the games. It feels like the designers thought, well we have an all-female race so we've checked that box, let's make everyone else male.
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