Mass Effect - Creating the Asari - Game Informer
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- Hear from Bioware's associate art director Matt Rhodes what it took to create the alien race known as the Asari and how the species evolved and was influenced by different parts within the studio. To see the rest of Game Informer's Mass Effect coverage please visit www.gameinforme...
"All of these alien's had to have something threatening about them.."
Me looking at the Volus
The volus are nightmare under the suit
Have you never heard of the Biotic God?
Poor poor volus
Well they have built a warship that is second only to Destiny's Ascension
They have lightsabers what you talking about?
I never really wanted to have sex with an alien, until I played Mass Effect and saw Liara.
true story bro
That's the story of every gamer who played Mass Effect (including me)
high five
"I'd be the first motherfucker to see a new galaxy, or find a new alien life form... and fuck it."
Guybrush Threepwood I'm joing you :D
"Everybody loves the Asari"
I don't.
No.
I hate any intelligent species that are not human.
@@assassinariasuffer not the xeno to live
Tali's face is a grey purple mesh with just a nose and eyes/eyelids. Go ahead and export her model and import it into 3DsMax. They didn't design a face for her. Shes supposed to be mysterious.
And why all of their last names start with a T'. T'Soni, T'Loak, etc...
*insulting to MANY fans, I'd have to correct. ^^ I mean, I am a Liara romancer, and I still thought that was horrible. That point at the end of the Rannoch mission where Tali takes of the mask would have been one badass moment to show her face. Or in her final romance scene, I mean, she even says her body adapted, so why not show her without the suit entirely? I mean, think of the work they must have put in DIANA ALLERS' model, what the hell?!
I feel like they were perfect on the asari and turians. They look exactly as you would think they would, given the personality they were written for.
Salarians have an awesome design too. I’m pretty sure I remember hearing somewhere that the Salarians’ design is inspired by the typical alien look that you hear about in abductions.
"If you change the face too much they just become unattractive" FALSE Why is everyone so into Thane and Garrus? (Mainly Garrus)
Mostly the voice and a fact that they both badasses.
AngryBrick Because of their character. Both Garrus and Than are Ugly af.
Garrus is the most ultimatest bro ever existed
Some women find scars attractive
Mind you, most of those women are krogan...
Don't forget freckles! It's one of the things that makes Liara so damn cute
The eyebrows help too. shes the only asari with them
does aria's count?
Purple freckles...
It took me 2 replays of both ME1 and 2 to realize the asari have no eyebrows ._.
And you're here too... :D
Liara did in ME1.
@@HeraldandGerald Technically they're just facial markings.
or ears hehe
I really like how the writers justified the design in the bachelor party scene in ME2. One of the most memorable Mass Effect moments for me.
reminds me of twilek
Is that a "KOTOR" sign back there in the office? Oh i miss KOTOR... and Asari are pure love.
How can you miss something you can play any time?
The asari in ME:A all look the same though, even with different face marks, except for Peebee.
Forsaken Algonquinia
She looks like a half baked potato, that has melted
@Casanova Frankenstein Have you played Andromeda? Every asari other than Peebee literally has the same face.
love hearing 'vigil' in the background
the focus on "sex appeal" aside, I love the asari. Liara was such an intelligent voice of reason in the game, and a great teammate. Samara was a badass.
and Peebee's so stupid
"Focus on sex appeal aside" get out of our faces feminist trash
You would have thought that femmanists would have liked the fact that there is an all female race, that is the most advanced race and the leader of the galactic community.
They have some of the strongest soilders around.
But no, because they looks hot and most femmanists don't they are bad
miom
Actually to be fair, that's probably easier which invited her.
According to sources developers at Bioware have said they were disturbed by whatshe said, and that she wasn't a very nice person.
Other Devs have said that she should mind her own business
miom
Andromeda was made by a team who had never made a game before and had lots of troubles with EA forcing them to use frostbite despite the fact that frostbite isn't designed to make a game like that.
And the fact that they had 5 years of development and spent at least 3 on trying to get presidual planets to work
i have the enormeus urge to touch an asari hair
Just like Joker lol, if you've played ME3 you can hear him asking Liara that. :D
yeah but i wonder if the asari's skin is rough and rubber like or tense and soft like human skin
lol I was hoping that Liara replied about how humans have those dead stringy things all over their bodies and how dirty and unmanagable it must get. And if they can move them.
@@Kevineitor199
Don't remember where it has been said, but Asari skin feels like that of a dolphin
The asari remind me of the twi'lek from Star Wars...
MEA ruined the Asari.
No one seems to realise but they all look stupid and the same
"star-trek green space babe" haha XD
Oh what an amazing quote!
I like how in ME2 they mentioned how other races see them as their own. Salarian's see them as Salarians. Turians, humans, etc. Mentions how there might be some kind of mind control going on with their species.
Don't think that was serious though
I think it's just more along the lines of relatable morphology as discussed in that side conversation in ME2. Maybe the Protheans had a hand in that. I don't think there's any active mechanism like mental influence going on. Plus they're such a huge power in the galaxy that it's hard to really see them as "alien" since they're all over the place.
Probably because they can get pregnant by all species.
I love that part too. It’s meant to emphasise how the Asari’s whole thing is being the ideal attractive beings to everyone. You can kind of see how Turians and Salarians also relate to the Asari appearance (however of course, us as humans see Asari as looking exactly like us. I believe there is some psychology / pheromones behind it, in lore).
I sometimes wonder, if I met an Asari irl would it confuse me because I’m gay but would their strong psychological effects still make me attracted? Not sure
@@joeywild2011 Huh, THAT would certainly be interesting yeah, lol.
The asari are the hottest alien out there, no weirdness intended. Also, Liara is amazing.
asari are by far my favorite alien race out of any sci fi film, game or book, most of the time aliens are shown to be quite odd looking or generally unattractive but it changed a lot with the asari, elegant and an interesting race!
Theory, Asari evolved from the child of Sonic the Hedgehog and a human super model.
I Love the Asaris they are my Favorite Mass Effect Race
Really interesting, I had no idea that the designing process was that complicated
I really liked the different head fins from 1:24. I would have been interesting to see Asari wit diverse 'hair' types in game.
This, is how "art" is made. References. Remakes. Trading of information. Making background. Finally making the final piece.
Asari 4 life
"Anytime you change the face too much you're no longer able to really be attracted to it"
My ass. lol Turians are hot! Garrus himself is at least nine kinds of sexy, and don't even get me started on the Salarians and their adorable smexyness!! The Mass Effect universe is FULL of alien babes besides the Asari.
UGH! I have studying to be doing! Damn it why is this all so fascinating...
The original creators of the Asari must have been appalled by the potato-faced Asari from MEA. So tragic.
Asari always seemed like the laziest designed race in the beautiful tapestry that is the ME universe. "Sexy blue space babes who live 1000 years and have super powers and can fuck anything!" sounds like a really bad idea I would have had when I was 14 years old.
I hope in Mass Effect 4 still have them
They are confirmed. The only race that's not confirmed yet is the quarian.
Heeey guess what
Falere, Morinth, Tevos, Mallene, Liselle, Nyxeris, Aeian.
All asari whose name doesn't end in a letter "A"
I like how they actually use the theory of evolution to design the characters. That's a pretty nifty use of the theory I've got to admit.
Looks like the Developers took lots of inspiration from the Delvians from Farscape. They re essentially identical except tentacles and unigender
Cause they're all girls, duuh.
Would be funny if there was an asari named Bob though
"none of them were suppose to look weak"
THEN WHAT DO YOU CALL THE VOLUS
I'd Marry an Asari
Every nerds dream come true. Even though I'm not a nerd... I became a nerd... Right as I started to play Mass Effect. :)
Im sad that asari males don't exist :(
+Maxwell Heimdal In the lore the Asari don't have a gender, they just resemble human females
+Maxwell Heimdal In the lore the Asari don't have a gender, they just resemble human females
I know this, still for me its very much a human female based look. I would have liked to see a human male look as well but oh well
Yeah I know what you mean. It would definitely be cool to see
I'm desperate for the next chapter in mass effect but I'll gladly wait to see it done as brilliantly as mass effect 2, bioware produced such a beautiful and detailed lore to not capitalise on it
I like the concept on 2:11 so much! Asari look much better with such cute flat noses. To me they look too human in the game
Lets talk more about the blue alien from the Fifth Element
2:06
Alien Angelina Jolie.
GOD I CAN'T WAIT FOR MORE MASS EFFECT!
I can seriously see Tali as the 7th one at 1:49 I can just see it.
I can't wait for the next ME game but honestly I want bioware to take their sweet ass time making it, I want them to create another masterpiece especially with the new frostbite engine they are using
After nearly 5 years, bio ware are releasing andromeda, 5 years is a long time, plenty of time to make a decent game as 2 was done in 2-3
My sincerest condolences iMaster FapFap
Not all of them. Remember Morinth and Tevos, the asari councilor? and Aria's daughter Liselle from the novel ME Retribution?
Samara is probably one of the best characters in terms of face character design the series.
In Latin the letter A is feminine and the ancient Greeks and Romans named their daughters after their last name but added an a at the end and if you noticed that the goddess her name was Athame possibly named after Athena or Athens now if you look at the goddess Athene in the temple area you notice shields and swords similar to the Romans this leads me to believe that the Asari are based off of ancient Romans which is why some systems in asari space are named after greek mythology like gorgon
Don't take this as an insult but you seem more like a person who prefers fast paced gameplay instead of games that have dialogue like ME1-2 and Skyrim. I didn't like ME3 simply because of the dialogue, in the others games there were 3-6 choices of dialogue, while in ME3 there were at most 3. I do know Bioware was rushing ME3 out the door so it wasn't as good (in my opinion) but there were points in which there were tons of just small fixes that they could make in at most a day.
If only they WERE "hot"! Not one of them in any of the games ever struck me as suiting the visual of them all somehow having the reputation of this impossible standard of exotic beauty. Facially, they always seemed terribly bland and generic. Not entities which would inspire galactic lust and adoration.
The hair should really have been made a little longer, maybe copying the look from the film, 'Species'. It ended up being similar, but a lot more masculine.
I didn't say I wanted anything, I was just replying to someone who said we took the game too seriously. I loved ME3. It's universally better than the other ME's, and the only reason it's not the favorite of every player here is because of the ending.
ME2 was a dating sim, you have to make everyone happy and do their little quest or you get fucked over.
ME is Mako Adventures, in which god damnit I hate the Mako.
Well to have the best experience in a game, you have to invest. I could run and gun on every game and not give two shits, but then the campaign would have no meaning. In order to get that special entertainment from a game, you have to invest, or else you're just playing Call of Duty in a different setting with different graphics.
Sorry bud, but you just don't understand, so don't tell us to grow up when you can type out "Please"
The Quarians are a race of masked aliens who have remained masked for most of the 3 games. When they "unmasked" one of your squadmates (who is a quarian) to the people who romanced her,instead of making a 3D model of the alien (who is essentially the face of the entire race to the player) they just photoshoped a stock image of a lady.
This was seen as insulting to some fans.
Hope this clarifies any confusion.
I know that but I guess you didnt understand what I meant, If its available to you play the volus classes on multiplayer, If there was ever a dedicated and able volus fighter, that how a volus would be fighting like.
They look weak but they are quite a unique race to play in multiplayer
/watch?v=bn-7y1s4BXo
Why is it that when anyone says "no offense" or "don't take this the wrong way", they really mean "fuck you"? Yes, it's only a game, but it's a damn good game from a franchise which people have invested hundreds of hours in. To get a kick in the balls like that pisses us off. You clearly haven't gotten truly invested in this game, so you have no idea how the fans feel.
Shadow383 is very right, but he missed one thing. As an audience, we need to relate to the aliens in some way...making them look more like us is an easy way to do that. Notice that there are no Hanar main characters...they are hard to relate too, because they look SO alien. I mean, they don't even have a face!
@theraineydaze: Oh, you mean the species that single-handedly manages and controls the intra-galactic economy and without whom inter-species free trade would be an impossibility, leading to lessened economic interdependibility and a greater chance of devastating galactic war due to increasingly untenable political relations?
Those Volus?
Because it sound feminine, I suppose. To english speakers, names that end in the letter a sound the most feminine. Morinth changed her name from the prettier Mirala to the more badass sounding Morinth. Falare sounds a bit like Fiore to me, which is italian for flower.
The weird thing is that some of them do look like they were based off black women in the artwork.
But the real reason is that all of the voice actresses are white. I think if they had cast a black or an asian woman as Liara, that would show in their facial structure.
Yes, asari can make babies with any species in the universe. the only reason they even need another person is so that their child's DNA is slightly randomized otherwise they would all look the same. Also, as they only have one "part" configuration, most people would say they are genderless.
Well, the Y chromosome is smaller than the X chromosome. So genetically men have fewer genes than women (or so I´m told) than women. But as for the number of chromosomes both men and women have the same amount. Namely 46, 23 from your mother and 23 from your father. Any other number is a mutation.
Actually, I like the quarians much more. ^^ Their personality is great. At least the most of them ;D
@agfagaevart From an evolutionary point of view a bipod (two arms two legs) is the best survivor/hunter. The two-eyes thing is same thing, giving a field of depth for the hunter to gather food. Two arms and two legs is the superior form.
they are making a brand new one that just delves into the Mass Effect world and what we didnt see in the trilogy. no more shepard but we r probably gunna run into sum characters from the trilogy but this game is like 2 years or more from now :/
Liara isn't worth it, honestly. She horribly breaks your heart in the 2nd one, and even though she tries to re-connect in the 3rd one, it's like she expects you to forgive her and stuff. She's a horribly childish person, since she's only 103 years old.
i wouldnt even say they have a gender! which would make them.. straight.. because.. they're attracted to something they themselves are not?.. im not sure.. but ey, can two asari make a baby together? XD or do they need dna or whatever from another race?..
Well everybody has their preferences and even without the ending controversy ME3 was felt rushed and all the conversations were dumbed down. I loved ME3 but to say the ending is the only reason it isn't everyone's favorite an exaggeration.
They are, it's not like they suddenly became another species because their mating functions wrong. xD
That's like saying a human with dwarfism is no longer a human because they have dwarfism. Totally untrue.
I'm playing the second one -- And I pay a lot attention on asaris lol
trying to stay faithful to Liara, but Thane isn't helping
I can't wait to play the third one -- well... they say the ending is horrible, but... :(
Okay, I am totally not shitting you here. Casey Chudson and Hack Walters literally locked themselves in a room and came up with the shitty endings without any word in from the other writers and quality control at Bioware.
liara says that asari don't have a gender. whenever they speak of themselves using words like 'she' or 'her', i would think it's just the translation software that sheperd uses making it easier to understand for other species.
seriously i hate it when fans of games take things like this way to serious, so come on its only a game and get over it.
for anyone out there don't take this the wrong way just grow up plz.
Of course messing with the face will no longer make them attractive--that's because you're actually going to make them look alien. We evolved to be attracted to humans, not sci-fi aliens lol.
Not at all, just described my opinion. You might have interpreted as offensive so allow me to clarify now, simply my opinion and I by no means am posing it as an offensive stand point.
they are financialy strong, turian are organised, krogans are brutaly strong, asari are deceptively strong and streamlined, salarians are intelligent, humans are diverse and many
No other race evolved from apes or the planetary equivalent. The Salarians are amphibian, near as I can tell the closest earth creature comparable to the Krogan are Rhinos or Hippos
"and one head" why the hell would aliens have multiple heads? why would you think multiple brains would be good for an animal? ever notice two headed animals don't fair too well?
Yeah, I like to strap guns to my house too and shoot at a ship with one of my people´s leader onboard too:D
After 30 million years of reapers guiding civilization into a carefully planned out harvest, it can explain how many aliens find themselves genetically compatible in surprising ways.
In romantic languages (i.e. Spanish, Italian, etc), feminine names and titles typically end in a's. The Asari are an all female race so it just sorta fit I guess...
One less chromosome?? I´m pretty sure all humans (well, at least a human who doesn´t suffer from chromosome abnormality, like Turner or Down syndrome) have 46 chromosomes.
Lame excuse for lame design.
You don't NEED to look vaguely human in order for the audience to "connect" with you.
In fact, In Star Trek - most of the sentient races are almost identical to humans but that doesnt mean it's easier for us to get emotionally invested in them more then....say Garrus or Legion.
And personally, Blasto the hanar spectre would be a much more "relateable" character then Ash or Liara
Morinth, Tevos, Liselle, Mallene, Nyxeris. But you are right, though I think that is clever as it's similar to English female names, lots of them end in A.
Volus prefer to fight with bombers and air power. Now imagine a Volus fighter jockey in a bomber jacket with goggles like Biggles! Bombs away Earth Clan!
I still believe that we haven't seen how Asari actually look like. Every Species seems to think that Asari look like indredibly attractive versions of their own females. I expect them to be mindbending creatures... -> th-cam.com/video/1e21E9CW1BQ/w-d-xo.html
I was like:
"Oh cool, a 10 year old video that they made when ME 1 came out."
Then I noticed that 10 years ago was 2011 and that ME 1 was released in 2007.
All asari VAs are white. Actually the only black voice actress in ME cast is Ashley's, and I wouldn't say they share any traits... So that's it.
Damn, I can't wait to see all the aliens of Mass Effect with the Frostbite engine...
You know what went into creating the Asari? Many hours of fantasizing about sexy alien chicks. I imagine that was a major prerequisite.
adding on, no I do not mean the asari are based off the greeks I mean they were created by the writers to be based off of greek culture
The photo-shopped Tali didn't match the shape and structure of the head I could swear I could kind of see when I looked at her before...
I don't want to start an argument but important plot holes remain and ME1 is the best story-wise (Just story not characters or game play).
I thought you guys always drew the alien race naked to get a sense of the bone structure and everything. Where's the one on the asari?
@qu3ter it said on the official wiki that the asari were suppost to fill the roll of "Green alien chicks". dunno what the source was
Mornith.
My guess: general rule for names, ends in 'a', female, ends in 'o', male. Allows you to make crazy names but flag it as female.