Btw Spehard going all Saren and Ashley being force to put him down would be an amazing story turn regardless of which side you played that on.
Especially if he looks full on Space Jesus like those concept art pics.
Btw Spehard going all Saren and Ashley being force to put him down would be an amazing story turn regardless of which side you played that on.
Yet what we got was this?!
Did Bioware ever comment on this bullshit, by the way?
Tali (the first one is her Mass Effect 1 appearance, the second is one of three designs he shared for her in Mass Effect 3):
It blows my damn mind that Bioware never modelled an actual face for Tali. They were leading up to the big reveal for THREE GAMES and they just didn't do it..
The bald, clownface Tali would have been hilarious. All those infatuated manchildren trolled.
The sad thing is what actually they ended up doing in ME3. That was just lazy.
People seem to really like that purple-skinned Tali image, but it would annoy me if it just so happened that the one alien race that is only "different colored humans" was the one they took three games to reveal (not to mention the suspicious coincidence of also being the fan-favorite slightly creepy romance character)
Even if that's true, it's a terrible photoshop. It looks nothing like real Quarian physiology (the hand is just a human one minus two fingers), and it still looks way too human, even more so than the Asari.They did say some stuff at PAX East 2012: http://www.gamezone.com/news/2012/0...aimed-for-tasteful-tali-face-in-mass-effect-3
Not really satisfied with their response in any way.
Even if that's true, it's a terrible photoshop. It looks nothing like real Quarian physiology (the hand is just a human one minus two fingers), and it still looks way too human, even more so than the Asari.
Even if that's true, it's a terrible photoshop. It looks nothing like real Quarian physiology (the hand is just a human one minus two fingers), and it still looks way too human, even more so than the Asari.
This is pretty close to how I've imagined Tali to look ever since ME2. Namely how Quarians would have the same face-framing crest that the Geth have around their lightbulb-eye. It makes sense that the Quarians would have designed the Geth to look similar to themselves. We already see some of that in the similar shape of the legs and the number of fingers. Geth only have the one eye, of course, but that's an abstraction similar to how the human-built Loki and Ymir robots only have the big mono-eye, but otherwise have a human frame.
But what really had me convinced that the Quarians had the same face-framing crest as the Geth is how when you speak with Legion, he would emote with it. The Geth were designed to talk to and take orders from their masters, so it makes sense that they would have the equivalent of expressive eyebrows.
I really hate how un-alien these aliens are. They aren't any different physically then humans. Even culturally they aren't all too different then humans, and it's fucking mad annoying. Why the fuck can't we alien-aliens like the Hanar or GETH? Instead we get Asari, Quarian, and Turian. If they're going to make a humanoid alien why not make them culturally or even mentally different then us?
That they were. Still the series had the most love/hate moments of my gaming life. Thanks for the pics OP.God, I hate how "safe" the final designs of the ME series became. I would have loved to fight Space-Fury up there in OP
Nearly all those concept designs are better than what we ended up with
The people who think Tali should have just been another alien race that is somehow physically identical to humans are why we got the bland, uninspired designs we got.
You can thank all of the "Biowaifu" dingbats for that. Can't lock lips with or write erotic fanfiction about female Powder there, no sir
It blows my damn mind that Bioware never modelled an actual face for Tali. They were leading up to the big reveal for THREE GAMES and they just didn't do it. It isn't a mystery in the Mass Effect universe. Shepard saw her face in ME2, and every single other person in the galaxy has access to the Extranet where they can just Futuregoogle 'Quarian face' any time they like, but we don't get to see it.
I don't even want to acknowledge that t Gettyimage Photoshop shit because it's even dumber than if they'd just ignored it entirely. Who took that picture? When did Tali apply for leave to shuttle down to some grassy planet, dress up all sexy and take a holopicture or whatever, with her damn suit off? In ME2 she had to come up with a whole regimen of antibiotics and stuff in order to bang Shepard in a sterile spaceship environment, but that picture shows that she took her suit off on some random planet full of germs. Did she just dash off the shuttle and shoot a quick selfie while holding her breath?
Goddammit.
I believe that some behind-the-scenes video for the art of ME3 had one of the lead artists more or less admitting that it was because it was simply easier to use the same humanoid animations across species; the only time you ever see hanar or elcor actually move around or use their limbs is in the background of a single scene in ME2 or Blasto's actor in the Citadel DLC.
I think this was the same video where he said something like, "how would you even make a female turian, just put lipstick on boobs on it?" because, reminder, it took them until post-release DLC for ME3 to show an alien species with two distinct genders and an unmasked face.
The people who think Tali should have just been another alien race that is somehow physically identical to humans are why we got the bland, uninspired designs we got.
How will I fap to it then!!!?
You can thank all of the "Biowaifu" dingbats for that. Can't lock lips with or write erotic fanfiction about female Powder there, no sir