Neria Rose wrote...
Collider wrote...
janeym27 wrote...
Collider wrote...
I think the Asari as a race was wasted potential.
Do elaborate, Collider. 
My main problem with the Asari as a race is that they are very Mary Sue. All of the other races have problems that serve to balance them out.
The Turians have an impressive and experienced military. They have a wealth of soldiers at their command due to their belief of serving the state. However, they are not particularly good at business and they lack the same type of artistic drive that some other races have. They tend to be more severe in their military actions, sometimes to a fault. They live roughly the same as humans, which point at a disadvantage to Krogan and Asari.
The Salarians have an extensive spy and special forces network that puts any other to shame. They are typically quick thinking and enjoy learning new things. However, they are a short lived species and aside from their intelligence gathering, their military isn't very good. They are also known to be deceitful and always having ulterior motives. They never let another person have the full story.
Volus are excellent at business, however they are defenseless in combat. Unless you're the Biotic God, that is.
Etc.
The Asari? As it is, most peaceful, most wise, most advanced, most long lived,
most desired, most sexual, most powerful, most people, most territory,
most artistic, best biotics, best soldiers, best economy, best & most everything is boring.
It sounds like something out of bad fanfiction, like space elves. I also find the sexual aspects of Asari culture to be suspect. They can have make sex with anyone and typically have a more "free" view of sexuality. Makes me think that someone in Bioware went "you know...we need alien space babes."
Thankfully, there are plenty of Asari characters who are interesting and more balanced. However, from a lore stand point, I felt like they could have done a lot better with the Asari as a race. They need faults. Faults are part of what can make a race interesting. As it is, their greatest fault is like there's a very very small chance that Asari-Asari parents can make Ardat-Yakshi. That's basically it.
Turians are my favourite SciFi race, and I feel that we know very little about them still.
Agreed. Turian culture seems interesting, what with their emphasis on serving the state. I want to see how their culture and society is. That's part of the reason I want to go to Palaven.
Very well stated. I'm not anti-Asari (anti-Liara, for sure, but not anti-Asari), but I definitely think there could be some improvements with them as a race. I loved seeing more matriarchs in ME2. I also loved seeing a greater variety of Asari who were not using their sexuality (Consort and her acolytes, etc.) nor mentioning how barely legal and virginal they are *gag*.
Okay, I'm going to stop now.
That's exactly my problem with them also. I don't have fanboy goggles, the stripping and sexualisation does not work on me I'm afraid so I notice the mary sueness.
There has to be faults, you are absolutely correct. It's no wonder why every single male alien ever in mass effect 2 does not have a mate of their own species, the asari are perfect! Why would you bother? I mean why would krogans,salerians, turians, volus, elcor , every species in the universe, go for something that wasn't sexually appealing to a human being? Makes no sense! Hawt humanoid blue women with boobies must be attractive to every single species because its FAR too silly to contemplate that attractiveness, for other aliens, can be varied and completely different to how humans perceive it. Why, if they even suggest that aliens might want to go for something that wasn't hawt and humanoid , well, the world would end! Fanboys would cry into their controllers, the internet forums would FLOOD with angry and poorly spelled complaints, female aliens that aren’t hawt?? THE OUTRAGE.
I have to stop there, I can't get any more sarcastic
that's why I found the asari cop the MOST refreshing one out of every asari I've met in the game, she wasn't sexualized , she wasn't put there to titillate anyone and was just doing her job.
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IRL when I read that.
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