yeah, the inside of a reaper looks different depending on what species it was made of. like a turian reaper, an asari, or volus, or prothean. actually, a 2km tall garrus reaper would make my life meaningful.Zhukov said:
ME3: Why do the reapers all look the same?
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Always thought the scuttlefish exterior hid a cyborg version of the race that has been harvested (think the human reaper from me2). So to see what a reaper really looks like, have to pop open the shell to take a peek.
It's what I've been assuming up to this point anyways.
It's what I've been assuming up to this point anyways.
Who knows.
It might be hard to create Reapers that can also walk about the land and stuff without losing that general vision that we have of them as well.
Might also be they just didn't think about it or think it was that big of a deal to put effort into.
However, the game wasn't rushed. They had one month less of development time compared to ME2. If you read the Final Hours of ME3, you'd see that the development team themselves really got ambitious and overdid themselves.
It might be hard to create Reapers that can also walk about the land and stuff without losing that general vision that we have of them as well.
Might also be they just didn't think about it or think it was that big of a deal to put effort into.
However, the game wasn't rushed. They had one month less of development time compared to ME2. If you read the Final Hours of ME3, you'd see that the development team themselves really got ambitious and overdid themselves.
The previous games had 3 years each (assuming work began on ME2 right after the first was shipped), this had 2 - which isn't really a cut-down considering they have most of their assets in place, what they wanted out of the engine done and dusted, the combat mostly finalised, and no doubt a much larger team accrued by the time they began work on the third.dreadedcandiru99 said:
OT: I'm sure the whole squid-look is a type of armour/uniform/gimp suit. So I imagine the answer's not that much different to why people in military uniforms look much the same; because they didn't call each other beforehand and co-ordinate.
It's perfectly plausible that the Reapers are completely recreated in the centuries before they leave for hibernation and none of the previous cycle's shells remain, but obviously laziness was the key element here.
I was more annoyed at how they insisted on marching around like giant lizards while being bombarded from orbit or fighting land based organisms.
I was more annoyed at how they insisted on marching around like giant lizards while being bombarded from orbit or fighting land based organisms.
Resource management. People normally don't give a fuck so why should they bother with needless flourishes. Why don't all the Geth look different? Why over the course of 3 games I have yet to see a FEMALE Turian?
Also they're potentially a combination off the varieties they harvested, features from bits and pieces of each.
Also they're potentially a combination off the varieties they harvested, features from bits and pieces of each.
Why are you quoting my posts from nearly a year ago?rhizhim said:
Also, having five or six vaguely different looking reapers in a ten second, pre-rendered cutscene is a rather different kettle of fish to designing, modelling and animating dozens of unique reapers throughout an entire game.
Holy hell, am I seriously the only person here who knows about Mass Effect 3: Leviathan? Christ, they literally tell you how the reapers came about and why they look like they do.
I know, dead thread, but seriously you guys.
I know, dead thread, but seriously you guys.
This was before Leviathan came out.Professor Lupin Madblood said:
Seems like pretty important information? Why wasn't it in the main game? Bioware fails again.
Oh. My fault, then.endtherapture said:
It's certainly interesting information, but hardly important. I mean, really, it doesn't have any bearing on the main game. Yeah, there was that bit about the human Reaper in ME2, but it could've been replaced with pretty much any doomsday weapon and had the same overall effect on the narrative.
What's wrong with all the huge, omnipotent, god-like enemies to look the same?
Why do all the pirates in FC3 look the same? Why do all the supermutants in Fallout or draugr in Skyrim look the same? To show that they're the villain and you automatically associate that shape to the evil deeds that they have done. I think that having all enemies in a game like this look the same is perfectly fine. I'd have been annoyed if they looked different as it would be unnecessary.
Why do all the pirates in FC3 look the same? Why do all the supermutants in Fallout or draugr in Skyrim look the same? To show that they're the villain and you automatically associate that shape to the evil deeds that they have done. I think that having all enemies in a game like this look the same is perfectly fine. I'd have been annoyed if they looked different as it would be unnecessary.
