Mass Effect 3: Blue Oyster Cult Was Wrong

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Lycus: Aug 5, 2008; Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.

Milky Moor posted:

But why? Like, I'm pretty sure even before ME3 there was some throwaway line about how the quarians had the most similar evolution to humans of all the species. And the elaborate shawls/hoods/whatever are reminiscent of a substitute for hair.

I don't remember a line like that, but nevertheless, it just didn't look like ME's style to me.

PupsOfWar posted:

The goofiest thing about quarian faces is when characters in-universe act like it's some sort of big mystery (not "what does X quarian look like", but "what do quarians look like"), as if they can't look up what quarians look like on the Space Internet.

They should've gone the opposite route with the humor for this. Have everyone in-universe know exactly what quarians look like and make jokey sufficiently-vague references to it that tease the player.

Lycus fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Mar 10, 2014

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PupsOfWar posted:

The goofiest thing about quarian faces is when characters in-universe act like it's some sort of big mystery (not "what does X quarian look like", but "what do quarians look like"), as if they can't look up what quarians look like on the Space Internet.

Extranet

Quarians are pretty rare in the galaxy, with few allowed into cosmopolitan areas like the Citadel. It wouldn't be surprising for people in general to rarely encounter more than one in many years. But I think those comments were more meant to represent our own human prejudices regarding minority or middle eastern cultures, and people wondering what veiled women actually look like is an actual thing.

Milky Moor posted:

The quarians were always going to be similar to humans. Casey Hudson has said that Tali was originally going to be a romance option in ME1. Even disregarding that, quarians have always had visible eyes, visible cheekbones and a visible nose behind their visors.

Hah, all the reveal needed then was an enormous square jaw...

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Trapezium Dave: Oct 22, 2012

Kegluneq posted:

Hah, all the reveal needed then was an enormous square jaw...

Something like this?

# ? Mar 10, 2014 10:01

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Trapezium Dave posted:

Something like this?

Stubble is also an option :v:

(Are there actually any aliens with body hair?)

# ? Mar 10, 2014 10:25

Extra Smooth Balls: Apr 13, 2005

Kegluneq posted:

Stubble is also an option

(Are there actually any aliens with body hair?)

Apparently batarians have facial hair.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 11:14

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Extra Smooth Balls posted:

Apparently batarians have facial hair.

So they do - I'd assumed they just had facial ridge things. The more you know.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 11:31

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

You mean those things on the side of their mouth? No way that's hair.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 11:45

Extra Smooth Balls: Apr 13, 2005

Kurtofan posted:

You mean those things on the side of their mouth? No way that's hair.

Nah, there's a mention of them having fine hair on their faces, not like full beards or anything.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 11:53

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Lycus posted:

I don't remember a line like that, but nevertheless, it just didn't look like ME's style to me.

They should've gone the opposite route with the humor for this. Have everyone in-universe know exactly what quarians look like and make jokey sufficiently-vague references to it that tease the player.

Like Maris in Frasier! I assumed that was how it was, until Joker said "what, is it a tentacle monster under there?" And I was like How The gently caress Do You Not Know.

Hey, does he still say that if you romanced Tali? Does Shepard say "no they look like humans" or anything?

# ? Mar 10, 2014 12:30

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2house2fly posted:

Like Maris in Frasier! I assumed that was how it was, until Joker said "what, is it a tentacle monster under there?" And I was like How The gently caress Do You Not Know.

Hey, does he still say that if you romanced Tali? Does Shepard say "no they look like humans" or anything?

Now I really do want to know if Asari tentacles move.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 12:54

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Kegluneq posted:

Now I really do want to know if Asari tentacles move.

They do not, I'm pretty sure Liara specifically tells Joker at some point :eng101:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 12:59

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Burning Mustache posted:

They do not, I'm pretty sure Liara specifically tells Joker at some point

I told Joker off for asking :colbert:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 13:37

SgtSteel91: Oct 21, 2010

2house2fly posted:

Like Maris in Frasier! I assumed that was how it was, until Joker said "what, is it a tentacle monster under there?" And I was like How The gently caress Do You Not Know.

Hey, does he still say that if you romanced Tali? Does Shepard say "no they look like humans" or anything?

I want to say that says something completely different? Like how every time Shepard calls Tali "Miss Vas Normandy" he imagines her wearing a tiara and a sash.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 14:03

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Kegluneq posted:

I told Joker off for asking

Well then don't get upset for not knowing then!

# ? Mar 10, 2014 14:21

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GenericOverusedName posted:

Well then don't get upset for not knowing then!

Kegluneq posted:

Now I really do want to know if Asari tentacles move.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 14:22

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PupsOfWar posted:

The goofiest thing about quarian faces is when characters in-universe act like it's some sort of big mystery (not "what does X quarian look like", but "what do quarians look like"), as if they can't look up what quarians look like on the Space Internet.

seems to me this was pretty clearly a joke about all the ridiculous tali fans.

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I always wondered why they don't just have transparent visors.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 17:31

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JawKnee posted:

seems to me this was pretty clearly a joke about all the ridiculous tali fans.

The series lays on the self-referential jokes with regards to the Asari, even Liara comments on weird fanboys in ME1.

Police Automaton posted:

I always wondered why they don't just have transparent visors.

Probably because that would look even dorkier.

No one cares what the volus really look like.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 17:36

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Kegluneq posted:

They don't move, they're cartilage so while they're semi-flexible they don't wave in the breeze.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 17:43

Extra Smooth Balls: Apr 13, 2005

Kegluneq posted:

The series lays on the self-referential jokes with regards to the Asari, even Liara comments on weird fanboys in ME1.

Probably because that would look even dorkier.

No one cares what the volus really look like.

I just imagine volus = vole and they're cute and furry.

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Kegluneq posted:

Probably because that would look even dorkier.

I think actually the quarians were designed after the geth, not the other way around. I think bioware didn't think really long about what they actually should look like.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 18:25

SubponticatePoster: Aug 9, 2004; Every day takes figurin' out all over again how to fuckin' live.; Slippery Tilde

Somebody posted a link earlier in the thread that had early character designs. Quarians were much more grey-like, though their heads were round and more human. Big eyes and no real nose, just nostrils.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 18:29

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SubponticatePoster posted:

They don't move, they're cartilage so while they're semi-flexible they don't wave in the breeze.

Cheers

Extra Smooth Balls posted:

I just imagine volus = vole and they're cute and furry.

They remind me more of moles than voles, but I think they definitely have the snout at least.

Police Automaton posted:

I think actually the quarians were designed after the geth, not the other way around. I think bioware didn't think really long about what they actually should look like.

According to wiki the original designs for the quarians and Tali were created before the geth's were, but were refined afterwards to bring the two in line. Obviously the first game has various geth models but only one quarian.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 18:48

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Kegluneq posted:

Cheers

They remind me more of moles than voles, but I think they definitely have the snout at least.

According to wiki the original designs for the quarians and Tali were created before the geth's were, but were refined afterwards to bring the two in line. Obviously the first game has various geth models but only one quarian.

Why is that a page on regular Wikipedia. Why.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 19:42

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GenericOverusedName posted:

Why is that a page on regular Wikipedia. Why.

Well at least it doesn't have a "Biochemistry and metabolism" subsection.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 19:51

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GenericOverusedName posted:

Why is that a page on regular Wikipedia. Why.

Because Wiki editors are the definition of :spergin:

Burning Mustache posted:

Well at least it doesn't have a "Biochemistry and metabolism" subsection.

Doesn't the ingame codex lack this section for the quarians, or is that :thejoke:

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:33

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Kegluneq posted:

Because Wiki editors are the definition of

Doesn't the ingame codex lack this section for the quarians, or is that ?

It's a Tali sweat joke.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:37

Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

Zoran posted:

It's a Tali sweat joke.

wait what

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:49

SgtSteel91: Oct 21, 2010

Nihilarian posted:

wait what

Over in the Bioware Forums was a long a detailed post describing if Quarians could sweat and tried to use chemistry to describe what it would taste and smell like.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:51

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Nihilarian posted:

wait what

Tali obsession got so great on Bioware Social that a forum poster started putting out a theory that Tali's sweat, being dextro-amino, would therefore be sweet like candy. It was pretty :stare:

.

Bioware made fun of it in Citadel when she's collapsed on the bathroom floor.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:51

Kegluneq: Feb 18, 2011; Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Nihilarian posted:

wait what

SgtSteel91 posted:

Over in the Bioware Forums was a long a detailed post describing if Quarians could sweat and tried to use chemistry to describe what it would taste and smell like.

Edit:

Lycus posted:

This is more complete:

http://www.somethingawful.com/weekend-web/bioware-social-forums/1/

Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Mar 10, 2014

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:52

Lycus: Aug 5, 2008; Half the posters in this forum have been made up. This website is a goddamn ghost town.

This is more complete:

http://www.somethingawful.com/weekend-web/bioware-social-forums/1/

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:54

Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

Lycus posted:

This is more complete:

http://www.somethingawful.com/weekend-web/bioware-social-forums/1/

OK. I laughed at "Only if she asked."

Still not a subject that should be talked about.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:59

SgtSteel91: Oct 21, 2010

I like Tali, but yeah, that's too much love(?) for a fictional character.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 21:59

Torrannor: Apr 27, 2013; ---FAGNER---
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I laughed at EMERGENCY. INDUCTION. PORT.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 22:46

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Torrannor posted:

I laughed at EMERGENCY. INDUCTION. PORT.

There was a lot of funny poo poo in 3. Ashley turned out to be really annoying/useless but I still laugh at FemShep giving her a bunch of poo poo when she's drunk on the floor. "I could order Joker to sing to you over the intercom..."

# ? Mar 10, 2014 22:50

Kegluneq: Feb 18, 2011; Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Torrannor posted:

I laughed at EMERGENCY. INDUCTION. PORT.

Tequila se'lai!

Every scene with a drunken Tali is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybwnii-ZYB4

# ? Mar 10, 2014 22:59

Nihilarian: Oct 2, 2013

Kegluneq posted:

Tequila se'lai!

Every scene with a drunken Tali is the best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybwnii-ZYB4

I lost it when she called Garrus a nerd.

# ? Mar 10, 2014 23:20

Kegluneq: Feb 18, 2011; Mr President, the physical reality of Prime Minister Corbyn is beyond your range of apprehension. If you'll just put on these PINKOVISION glasses...

Nihilarian posted:

I lost it when she called Garrus a nerd.

And had to have why the number '69' was funny explained to her :allears:

But then you could pass around Party quotes forever.

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Kegluneq posted:

No one cares what the volus really look like.

That's probably why they got to be more interesting. The 'head' bit of their suits being fake and totally aesthetic to seem more approachable to other species etc

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