What is the lamest Mass Effect race and why is it vorcha?
>bizarrely porous
>dumb as fricking rocks
>only interesting thing about them is that they're kinda hard to kill
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batarians are uglier but at least the game gives you the option to nuke them (lol)
Batarians are considerably more interesting and important in the lore. Vorcha are recognized both IC and OOC as vermin. They also provide nothing to the war effort in 3. Even a desperate, dying galaxy knows these grunting pieces of shit would only make things worse.
You can play them in the multiplayer in 3 which is canon. They fought the reapers too.
DYING
That's not an option. That's an obligation.
Batarian hate is reddit approved racism.
YOU DIE NOW
WE KNOW GAVORN'S TRICKS
Hanar and Elcor because nothing interesting is ever done with them.
Excuse you
Doubly so for elcor as they start the sad trek towards extinction in 3.
>collectors use them to poison other species on omega and blame humans because…. Why exactly?
2 has a bunch of unresolved plot threads. Remember the whole sun killing dark energy thing with Tali?
There's a theory that originally that was going to play a role in killing the reapers in 3 but they ran out of time
that was going the main plot point for ME3 before the main writer left and they had to cook up some bullshit about organics synthetics. Dark energy was going to be this super magical power that will destroy the universe and can only be used by organics, so the Reapers cull them every cycle to make sure no species grows advanced enough to use dark energy. Already a much more sensible motive.
Eh? I mean, it's nice that they tried to set it up but I'm of the opinion that any explanation for the Cthulhu robots would be a let down. I'd rather the Reapers just be driven off for this cycle. Keep the mystery and show that they're not as invulnerable as they think.
>before the main writer left and they had to cook up some bullshit about organics synthetics
When are you colossal fricking morons gonna actually start looking up your sources before spouting this bullshit that's been wrong for a full decade? Holy shit
lmao moron
>brought up at least three times in the game
>weren't planning anything
>no argument
Shut the frick up inbred, you're just regurgitating something you heard someone else say in the past. Karpyshyn self-admittedly came up with a billion random ideas in his head for how ME would end, *one of which* was Dark Energy which HE HIMSELF DISCARDED before ME3 started development and was moronic anyway because of pic related. AND HE ALSO DIDN'T LEAVE BIOWARE YOU FRICKING moronS, HE WENT ON TO WORK ON SWTOR
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/vxd8ea/hello_reddit_im_drew_karpyshyn_scifi_and_fantasy/
>Q: "How would you have concluded the Mass Effect series?"
>A: "We had some very rough ideas planned out. Basically, it involved luring the Reapers through the Mass Relays then detonating the entire network to wipe them out... but also destroying/damaging the relays and isolating every galactic community from the others. But we still had to figure out a lot of the details, and there were some issues with that option... like what we would do in the next series of games."
Basically the High EMS Destroy ending we got. moron
the "DARK ENERGY IS TURNING STARS INTO SUPERNOVAS" storyline was totally official up until somebody at Bioware said "its too complicated for the normies" and just went the moronic "Reapers are afraid of war vs organics so they just do war vs organics every 50k years".
Dark Energy would be so much fricking cooler.
Dont even get me started on the Half Life 3 ending we were supposed to get - it was already written but they didnt make the game.
I think the whole organics vs synthetics thing they went with for the reapers was fine and I couldn't imagine it any other way, but the way it was executed was bad. The reapers came off as too much of a comic book villain, with their wacky army of various zombie cyborg monsters and their overall incompetence. It would've been creepier if the reapers took over by turning entire settlements/planets into indoctrinated Saren style reaper drone death cults which look normal-ish from a distance, but when you get close, they look like those reaper-augmented Cerberus soldiers. Then there'd be a massive civil war instead of some silly Reaper attack fleet using lasers to slowly destroy cities.
But that would have made for a bad shooter experience, and BioWare has zero problem changing established lore for the sake of making a better shooter.
Maybe, but I think they could've come up with some interesting enemies within that framework. All sorts of reaper-turned military equipment could replace the various reaper monsters. I sound like an ideas guy at this point though, so I'll leave it at that.
are there female vorcha and if so, whats the mating ritual to get in their pants? I bet its difficult at first but if you persue it they are very loyal and frick like animals...and i bet they are open to bigamy/being a haram if your chad enough.
Also,, do you think the baterians have a huge underground cuckold scene/fetish? I think they do since their so '''protective''' of their own kind a lot of their femails probably get wet for BAC (Big Alien wieners.)
These bad boys were some of the best characters in the multiplayer. Just turn on the flamethrower and regen through everything the game threw at you.
GAH YOU HAVEBESTED ME IN COBAT, PLEASSSSE MARRY MY SISTER HUMAN AS YOU ARE WORTHY.
Sorry. I'm taken.
NOOOO YOU MUSSSST FRICK MY FERTILE SISSSTER WITH YOUR SMOOTH HUMAN wiener!!!
SHE EVEN DRESSSSED UP NICE FOR YOU!!!
Would.
GOOD, GOOD...
HOWEVER!!!
TAKE RESPONSSSIBILTY FOR SPREADING YOUT SEED IN MY OTHER SISTER TOO! HER WOMB IS SET TO BURST WITH YOUR BROOD AND I MUST EXPLAIN IT TO OUR MOTHER-LORD! YOU MUST ATTAIN MANY CREDITS SO SHE CAN RAISE YOUR SPAWN, AT LEAST...500 CREDITS! YES!
>everyone agrees introducing Krogans to the galactic society was a mistake
>proceed to invite another moronic race
ME2 was a mistake
Not a valid comparison. Krogan are huge, powerful, intelligent, durable, resourceful super predators that are psychotically aggressive and can use biotics. Vorcha are talking wienerroaches.
The yahg are considerably worse than both. Not wanting another krogan on their hands was precisely why the Council dropped first contact and pretended like the yahg didn't exist.
They weren't invited. Aliens visited their planet and like wieneraroachs secretly hitched rides and bred like rabbits to infest the rest of the galactic community
Human meat-bags need to stay away from our pure, wonderful, Baterian women. Pic related is my mate. She is perfect and would never betray me, never, say, meet some dirty human at the Afterlife nightclub this weekend (8-10pm-ish), then come back to our hotel suite, make hot, passionate love to said human rolling in our bed their fluids exchanged and her moaning in a way i have never heard, all the while me in the closet watching dressed in my Blasto costume and throbbing shameful erection.
No, that would never happen....
U-Unless...?
Which eyes do you look into?
No eye contact, human scum. Such a tender loving act...that is for baterians ONLY.
(j-just cum in her and leave, please! She only wants you for your big, throbbing, glistening human member.)
I think you meant Batarians
For me it's the Asari. They are literally c**ts.
>lamest
Asari. They exist to be fanservice and their entire lore, appearance and biology is dedicated to that fact, except almost none of them have a sexy body except Samara and Morinth who are curvy, and Liara's mom I guess.
But you know the worst fricking thing about them? The FRICKING painted on EYEBROWS
/thread
Well of course they have painted on chola eyebrows. They don't have hair.
>But you know the worst fricking thing about them? The FRICKING painted on EYEBROWS
How horrifying
They don't paint eyebrows, only some do, and that's after they met humanity. Have you forgotten the lore?
At any rate, they actually have interesting biology.
Agreed. And also for what was apparently the oldest and most powerful race they still somehow feel like a complete non-faction, you barely learn anything about them beside their own journeys as individuals and how they make/raise children.
Even Thessia and Illium seem like generic levels that could have taken place anywhere. You'd think an entire planet of psionics would do something with the concept other than just looking like a 5 star resort
They aren't truly psionic. They're in their infancy. Protheans were more psionic than them, a bit.
And even what little we get about Protheans, their ability to store and transfer memory and the remnants of culture they have based on that ability was 100x more than anything we got about Asari other than their mother/father dynamics
Pretty much, yeah. Pity there are no concept arts of original Protheans in ME1, it'd be nice to know what was their original conceptualization. ME1 art book implicates that more than a few ideas didn't make it in. Normandy was supposed to have interactive research and crafting paraphernalia.
They were supposed to look like those tentacle face statues on Ilos. That was retconned in 3 to be the race that came before the Protheans. The Shiba Inu or something.
Inu'sannon
Javik dabs thar they stole their shit and didn't tell the lesser races
>The Shiba Inu
Yeah I was very disappointed in the Protheans not being the tentacle guys, but Javik being an absolute c**t to everyone made me ok with it.
I'd play an entire game that was just getting Javik drunk in a bar and listening to him insult every single race he sees.
The Krogan homeworld is the only section of ME3 that feels like it had any effort put into it at all. The only interesting thing about Thessia was hearing Javik's commentary on the planet and you completely miss out on that if you didn't pay up for him.
I got LE a few weeks ago for $14.99. It was great. I hope BioWare saw my discounted purchase and raged.
>they are all female since they produce and carry the child inside them
>they behave like females
>Liara tells you she's not exactly a woman but it makes sense to view her as one
>openly made as fanservice waking material as "hot blue chicks"
>calling someone a male term is viewed as an insult
>gays in Andromeda say they actually identity as male and genderfluid
What the frick was Andromeda's devs problem?
It's worse than that.
Asari literally did not understand what a male was, it's like trying to describe red to a blindgay.
Even interacting with other species that had males (some under wildly different interpretations, salarians are matriarchal, for example) it still doesn't make sense that the concept would spread to a species that lacks it.
How can they "feel male" when they don't know what it is.
Fricking writers with gay virus can't even respect their own lore
Asari can propagate ideas fast, melding is an immense boon, they can be really rapid on uptake, just look at Liara. They're just railroaded. That said, this homosexualry is indeed not good.
It still doesn't connect.
Some cultures like turians, humans, maybe krogan have similar concepts of a male.
Salarians, hanar, volus, elcor etc. Don't necessarily share the same concept.
So if an asari claims she's "male" what does it even mean? It's unironically like claiming you're an attack helicopter.
Not related to that Andromeda example or whatever the frick it was, the concept itself isn't as unreasonable as it might sound. Being hermaphrodites may imply some things for their structure. It's entirely possible that there were some early Asari cults or groups that were without any female or male concepts in that sexual social sense, or outright machine like.
Meh.
>being hermaphrodites
But they're not hermaphrodites anon, the original trilogy makes it clear. They are, according to human biology standards, females who self fertilize their eggs, like irl new Mexican whiptails, they reproduce by parthenogenesis. It's just that they are mammals without a gender concept and once they started interacting with other species they discovered they looked and behaved like their female counterparts. Liara pulls an "akshually I'm not exactly a woman" because technically she is Asari, woman implies the existence of man
These guys were the most pointless edition to the series. They show up and do nothing, you almost never get to interact with them aside from 2 or 3 npcs that do nothing but growl at you. They only exist to be cannon fodder enemies in 2 and I barely remember if they're even in 3.
You could say the same about Black folk in the real world.
Not every race has to have a purpose.
Humans aren't insects to be reduced to mere function, purposes or goals, Westerner.
I like the Vorcha.
Strongest species, end of. They can survive literally anywhere, and combat is their day to day life. Even the description of Hesktok says the Reapers really would rather the Vorcha join the galactic fight at large.
If the Council races took an interest in them, they could be extremely useful for terraforming and extracting resources on inhospitable planets, but they're ignored.
Wasted potential, the species.
In my mind the asari are the most boring. Hot chicks that like to frick, somehow the most advanced despite it making more sense the Salarians should be. I guess ME3 revealing they did it by lying and making it illegal to do what they did is something, bit they're isn't really an interesting hook for them
>somehow the most advanced
>somehow
*really would rather the Vorcha NOT join the galactic war
They were also fun as frick in multiplayer
Isnt the only reason Asari are in charge the fact they happen to be oldest and have prothean tech for ez mode?
That's the ME3 reveal. They've been hoarding Prothean tech and made it illegal for others to do the same.
Without Prothean tech I believe the Salarians discovered the Citadel 20 years after them, and the Volus 50, the true gigaraces.
>If the Council races took an interest in them, they could be extremely useful for terraforming and extracting resources on inhospitable planets, but they're ignored.
An Asari company tried it but their short lifespans made it uneconomical. They did confirm they turned out normal if raised outside of their insane wasteland of a hone planet though.
So do vorcha mature like humans and die early or do they hit adulthood at, like, four, and die at twenty? Because if so that could be workable.
They've been compared to worms. I'd compare their 5, to our 25. 20 is only the expected life span, like ours is 80, so in theory some vorcha could hit 40 but their biology would still have them as spry as a 5 year old
The implication seems like tgat they mature fast but iirc they don't explicitly say one way or the other.
They were pretty fun to build for maximum melee damage, flamethrower and health regen and just run around going apeshit on everything in the multiplayer.
>literally goblins
they never stood a chance, their entire creation is lazy AF.
>but what if goblins in space?
man, mass effect couldve been gigantic and was run down by idiots and corpos. you even see morons on Ganker now saying how good 3 is. i guess its just kids who didnt know better, but its still sad
3 had its moments. The biggest complaint is (understandably) the color coded endings. The rest of the game was pretty awesome, especially all those background stories. It had a lot of detail that the first two games didn't.
Here's hoping 4 makes up for Andromeda, but it seems like BioWare is trying to combine the two. I'd rather they pretend like Andromeda never happened.
Bioware as we know it doesn't exist anymore. Between gay writers putting troony bullshit whenever, to moronic devs unable to make even basic gameplay (do you remember Anthem?) Bioware is dead
4 is shaping up to be pretty kino. BioWare hired back a good number of the team that worked on 1 and 2. Obviously that isn't a guarantee that it'll be as good as 1 and 2 but it does mean fewer troons are writing the script.
You do know most of the people that worked on 2 worked on 3 right. The big change was between 1 and 2, not 2 and 3.
Like I said, I'll defend all except for the last thirty minutes of 3. Further, I think BioWare knows not to manhandle 4 like they did 3 before the extended cut and Andromeda. The fan backlash and sales dip bothered them.
>The fan backlash and sales dip bothered them
Anon, if Bioware is still alive in any way shape or form post Anthem, nothing will kill them. They're like a wienerroach, the DSPGaming of videogame developers.
That's not true. Reputation is important to any company, and repeated financial failures could at least see BioWare sucked up by another, larger publisher.
Larger than EA? I don't think EA is going to sell Bioware. If we go by their history of acquiring studios, they'd rather shut it down if it stopped being profitable
FRICK batarians, vorcha at least have sovl
Batarians have soul too
And it shall be released as fast as possible
Do you think these things in the Mass Effect universe would have the same appeal as fricking animals or black people (if you were to consider them subhumans)?
I could see there being some woman out there who'd have fantasies about getting raped by some Vorcha whose pinning her down and threatening to kill her if she doesn't cooperate, then he just goes off on breeding her like an animal in heat.
Asari are confirmed to frick vorcha, apparently the offspring are allergic to dairy
asari gonna asari
There will always be a microscopic minority of freaks who want to frick some weird thing. We will laugh and deride vorchafrickers just like we do those treacherous cretins who sleep with the afros.
based space racist
Humanity knowing aliens exist doesn't mean humanity stops being racist. It just means we stop being racist against other humans.
an entire race of based morons
loved playing them in 3 mp
they mutate quickly and because of this they adapt to new envriorment and can live anywhere
They don't mutate, they adapt, but in a bullshit sci-fi Wolverine regeneration kind of way. And adapting to environmental stresses is hard even for vorcha, hence why they usually can't do so more than once in their lifetime.
Vorcha are more fleshed out than batarians, assuming you read the codex at least.
Which is fitting. FRICK batarians. Filthy bug-eyed freaks.
TBD
HEY DICKHEAD
Don't insult bugs by comparing them to Batarians!
They're not at all. Batarians had two whole DLCs dedicated to their nonsense. In 3 a big part of the plot is Shepard doing all but genociding them. What do the vorcha do? Snarl and act as meatsacks in the three or four missions where you fight them?
What do we know about biology? culture? history?
Biology: nothing
Culture: oppressive government, terrorists, used to have an embassy
history: b***hed about humans, proud that the prothean tech they reverse engineered was damaged by earthquakes, stole a Reaper corpse
It's a .05 difference, but we can know more about the vorcha, despite being involved less.
This is why both need a squadmate.
>Biology
They have four eyes and that's fricking weird. Even among Milky Way aliens, most have analogous anatomy.
>Culture
I mean, what you described is a lot. We know more about batarian government (The Hegemony) than we do about vorcha government (I'm pretty sure they don't even have one).
>History
Again, about the same. It's just more personal because the batarians are constant pain in humanity's ass, whereas the vorcha are just a general nuisance.
they don't, their society is all clan based with no central confederation or anything
that's basically all the batarians do in all of their appearances in the series too
Nah. Batarians are like humans except alien and "evil" (to humans they are).
They're the Soviet bloc to the alliance's USA
Why do you hate them blindly? They serve a certain role in the story.
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https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1731?tab=posts