Draken: now THIS is a pleasant turn of events, thank you artist for this beautiful (and different) depiction of tali... finally someone thinking outside of the purple box.
Anonymous4: I love how it looks nothing like how tali should look the photo shop in mass effect is shit dont waste time drawing that horrible picture which is sad because the art work is good just not the subject material
Chupacabra555: Actually, I see the Asari as the "Space Elves", in all but appearance (100+ year life span, incredibly wise, oldest race in the galaxy, etc.)
Anonymous13: asari still look a ton more human than quarians which are supposed to look more human than any other species in the galaxy... ah my head, PICK YOUR COLOR! BLUE GREEN OR RED
chrissy: Bioware better fix this bullshit. I expected to see Tali. Not just some bull shit doctored photo. What they provided was a slap in the face. I demand, full on, no mask tali sex in future DLC.
Anonymous15: And what about the purple skin, glowing eyes, funky legs, funky feet and hands, and exaggerated pear body shape as if made out of play-doh?
I mean the faces alone still has the glowing eyes and purple face going against the blue scales and tentacles.
That's all more human like than the Asari, mrseyker?
Most artists qualify a more alien Quarian as a rubber forehead alien.
Sure, there are far more alien designs out there, but the vast majority settles with a rubber forhead alien - like the Asari.
Most detractors say Tali's design is TOO HUMAN.
Therefore, yes, Quarians are more human-like than Asari, ignoring the more alien body designs (which, honestly, NOBODY factors when arguing about "human" looking quarians).
dkey: Ok I just read over the codex from mass effect 1 and I see no mention of their physiology at all. Am I missing something, because I see nothing about what Abyssal said.
What really bugs me about the quarian design is that, yes, they look too human. This isn't because of the shitty photoshop, or anything else like that, it's that they have fundamentally different DNA, with dextro-amino acids, and evolved on a planet that was already less hospitable to insect and microorganisms than most other planets, hence Tali's comment that their immune systems were always pretty bad, even before life on the flotilla.
Quarians are extensively described in the books, and I think also in a printed codex that came with the limited edition of ME1.
Canon actually explains life in the Mass Effect galaxy follows predetermined paths, as part of the prothean (actually reaper) way of orchestrating extinction.
That's why most big species in the galaxy share a lot of traits.
Their DNA is actually quite similar, but with mirrored proteins. Dextro-DNA affects what they can process, and how, not necesarily how they look.
Humans, Asari, Drell, Elcor, Krogan, Batarian... All these species have levo-DNA.
Save for Drell and Asari, most other levo-DNA based creatures don't look a whole lot like humans.
By the fictional rules of a sci-fi setting such as Mass Effect, a dextro species could evolve a look similar to humans, if they follow similar evolutionary paths.
dkey: From an evolutionary standpoint that makes my head hurt. Instead of curtailing species to the planet that they come from the protheans decided to give species a handicap and force them down predetermined evolutionary paths, therefor almost exclusively dooming any species which does so to extinction long before capability of space travel? This because they want to make them look pretty or something like that? Because that would mean the more unpredictable species, unmolested by alien interference would fill the space in the ecosystem, therefor being more of a threat to the reapers in case they do become sentient and space fairing? Or...
Yeah, ok I'm really done trying to rationalize the decision, especially if the ecosystem of Rannoch is so completely different from the subsaharan one that humanity evolved from. Might as well give up when they can't be assed to realize that insects are animals too.
Anonymous17(15): @mrseyker: That really wan an entire sidestep of the point.
Notably because all the visual aspects mentioned are the in-game aspects, not the ones from artists.
Bioware themselves made the Quarians physically very different from humans. The only thing they would have going for them is a human like face, but the same can be said of some grotesque monsters.
The reason people say Asari are more human is because on top of a human face they also have an entirely human body shape. Their differences are distinctly lesser than the range Quarians have speaking from what is actually present in the ME series.
Anonymous19: With the whole "space elf" argument that seems to be going on here lemme throw my two cents in. The Asari are the space elves simply because of the fact that they are one of the oldest and wisest races, they have a prolonged lifespan and they are natural biotics (the ME equivalent of magic.) Besides, I've always viewed the Quarians as like space gypsies; roving around in a large group never staying in one place for too long, they rely heavily on salvaged and re purposed tech and most galactic citizens regard them as outsiders and thieves.
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Bioware is creatively dead.
Sci fi always have to have a "space elf" race :)
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Actually if you read the codex it has been known since ME1 that Quarians were the most human like of all the alien races.
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The body, that's another matter. The descriptor always refered to the faces.
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I mean the faces alone still has the glowing eyes and purple face going against the blue scales and tentacles.
That's all more human like than the Asari, mrseyker?
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Let me put it this way, A15.
Most artists qualify a more alien Quarian as a rubber forehead alien.
Sure, there are far more alien designs out there, but the vast majority settles with a rubber forhead alien - like the Asari.
Most detractors say Tali's design is TOO HUMAN.
Therefore, yes, Quarians are more human-like than Asari, ignoring the more alien body designs (which, honestly, NOBODY factors when arguing about "human" looking quarians).
What really bugs me about the quarian design is that, yes, they look too human. This isn't because of the shitty photoshop, or anything else like that, it's that they have fundamentally different DNA, with dextro-amino acids, and evolved on a planet that was already less hospitable to insect and microorganisms than most other planets, hence Tali's comment that their immune systems were always pretty bad, even before life on the flotilla.
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Quarians are extensively described in the books, and I think also in a printed codex that came with the limited edition of ME1.
Canon actually explains life in the Mass Effect galaxy follows predetermined paths, as part of the prothean (actually reaper) way of orchestrating extinction.
That's why most big species in the galaxy share a lot of traits.
Their DNA is actually quite similar, but with mirrored proteins. Dextro-DNA affects what they can process, and how, not necesarily how they look.
Humans, Asari, Drell, Elcor, Krogan, Batarian... All these species have levo-DNA.
Save for Drell and Asari, most other levo-DNA based creatures don't look a whole lot like humans.
By the fictional rules of a sci-fi setting such as Mass Effect, a dextro species could evolve a look similar to humans, if they follow similar evolutionary paths.
Yeah, ok I'm really done trying to rationalize the decision, especially if the ecosystem of Rannoch is so completely different from the subsaharan one that humanity evolved from. Might as well give up when they can't be assed to realize that insects are animals too.
Notably because all the visual aspects mentioned are the in-game aspects, not the ones from artists.
Bioware themselves made the Quarians physically very different from humans. The only thing they would have going for them is a human like face, but the same can be said of some grotesque monsters.
The reason people say Asari are more human is because on top of a human face they also have an entirely human body shape. Their differences are distinctly lesser than the range Quarians have speaking from what is actually present in the ME series.
Get over yourselves and fap.