Poll: Tali Reveal

[Radoh]

Do not want. At all.

The chances a random alien race is attractive by human standards? Almost zero.

My Shep seemed to like what she looked like under that mask...

Hmm, fair enough. Though, I suspect he is more open to extraterrestrial attraction than most actual humans

Are you crazy? Humans love things that are alien to them, even more so if they are a sexy tech geek who by nature isn't self-absorbed and all around fun to be with.

 

[MisterShine]

They should just make it optional, so curious people like me can see Tali (never getting to see what a Quarian looks like would really suck in my opinion, especially Tali), and the mystique-lovers can stick with the mystique.

Problem solved.

That would last all of 10 minutes until ME-forums and the internet in general are flooded with pictures of her.

My opinion: Show it. I dig Tali, but I have no particular fantasy what her face looks like and wouldn't bother me at all to see it. Especially after the tease of ME2 -_-

As regards to her general appearance: Quarians are described in one of the ME books as being more or less human in facial appearance, they have eyes, ears, mouth, tongue, teeth, hair.. the only thing that is apparently different is they have odd ears.

 

[FoodMonger]

Tali works as a character because you are unable to see her face.

Let me ask you something...
If you knew what someone looked like before you knew them and you deemed them ugly, would you still take the time to get to know them?

You see, we base our assumptions of people based on physical appearance, before we even know what they are like as a person. With Tali, we throw physical appearance analysis out the window, making us focus on who she is as a character and base our image of her on that.

Sometimes, I envy the blind, because they don't jump to conclusions about people. They listen, rather than look at a person and says 'he's a snobby douchebag,' or 'she is a slut' only by looking at their apparell.

So no, I do not think Tali's face should be revealed.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Lately, with all the talk of Bioware "taking off Tali's mask" in Mass Effect 3, I've been thinking if they should? Maybe the mystery is enough, it is for me, at least. So what do you think? Should they? And what should she look like?

They already made their choice by not revealing her in ME 2.

Besides the reveal is a no win situation because the people who don't care what she looks like do not care what she looks like, and the people that do care already have a clear mental picture and if her actual face doesn't match up with their imagination they will be angry. And hell even if it does they probably won't be happy about it either.

The thing I do want to see in ME 3 is a girl Turian or Salarian.


There is a very small (almost nonexistent) percent of people who would actually be pleased by any sort of Tali reveal. There is a very large percent of people (almost 100) who would be pleased if Tali was Bisexual. Come on Bioware don't let us down.

 

[Cypher10110]

It seems the escapist is still "building a consensus, please try again later."

I think I'll leave the decision firmly in the hands of Bioware. Either way it will be interesting to see what they put forward in the final product. In this case I do not think I shall attempt to judge my own experience before I have experienced it.

 

[Corporal Yakob]

I'd rather they didn't-whatever she looks like is not going to be able to compare to whats in my head. Also: I like that gasmask!

 

[Talin Silverbane]

No matter what face they give Tali, one group of fan somewhere will disapprove.

 

[Radoh]

No matter what face they give Tali, one group of fan somewhere will disapprove.

That's true, but MANY camps will be angry if there is no reveal. That's why it took them since the end of Mass Effect 1 and beyond to make a choice. They still have yet to do so and they have now even gone out and asked the fans what to do.

 

[Skyblade12]

What, th

As to why I am defending them, it is because you aren't offering a valid criticism.

And now you've deployed a conversation tool that makes any further discussion futile. Thanks.

Oh, I so didn't develop that, it's been around for years. But my point was accurate. The reason Tali's face has not been revealed is not laziness, and it is obviously not laziness. There are pages of interviews and post by the devs addressing this. It is something they are obviously working at. There may be a problem there, but it is not laziness.

Yes, they should.

I would laugh my ass off if it turns out she looks like Zoidberg in that suit.

If they do show her face, there are some good concept art floating around that I kinda like and so wouldn't mind if she looked like these. I won't complain if they don't show it though, I'm used to it by now.

Spoiler: fav

Spoiler: 2nd fav

There's also some pretty scary shit too...

I think those look a bit too human for my taste. I'm hoping for a pretty alien but not to much like they made the Asari look like blue humans with weird scalp implants.
Exotic is the word im looking for.

Yeah, they are rather human but look at some of these to compare them to...

Other peoples' concept art...

Spoiler: ...

Spoiler: ......

edit: there was another interesting one but it was a nude model so...

The third one there looks very reminiscent of the Protoss.

 

[Hister]

Call me crazy, but could they just put an option in the game settings to have her face revealed or not? Wouldn't this satisfy most people, I think it would be a decent compromise

 

[Gamer_152]

I don't think I can make a solid call on this one without knowing what's behind that mask. I think there's been too much build up to possibly satisfy everyone's expectations in a reveal of Tali's face, but maybe Bioware do truly have something there that could surprise some of us. Seeing as they're the only ones who really know what's behind that mask I think they're probably the best equipped to make the judgement on this one.

 

[The Cheezy One]

I'm waiting for the standard "Human with a slightly different colour skin" thing. For reference, see every Star trek ever.

 

[Les Awesome]

yes but only if her face is something completely new inspired and original

 

[Nounverber]

If they want to, I'd have no problem with it - in fact, I think not doing so would be kind of a cop-out at this point.

"The mystery" argument seems kind of silly to me. There is no mystery. As people have said above; everyone in the ME universe knows what a quarian looks like. They haven't been wearing those suits all that long, historically speaking. And Shepard can have a quarian lover, in the form of Tali, so if you've chosen that path for him he knows better than most. He knows all the, err.. ins and outs, as it were.

That being said, I'd be happy for it to be optional - perhaps in the form of a climax (heh...) to the BroShep/Tali romance, and/or perhaps part of a "loyalty mission"-type side quest with Tali (maybe on the quarian homeworld, since we're apparently going there in ME3).

And if some "fans" don't like it? Well, tough shit. It's not their game to create.

 

[-Dragmire-]

yes but only if her face is something completely new inspired and original

That's the unholy trinity of gaming....

 

[Hawgh]

Yes, one of the greatest thing about a mystery is when it's finally resolved. I think there's much more that can be gained from the reveal, both regarding Tali, Quarians and story progression, than can be gained by not revealing what Quarians look like.

Snippety

That's good stuff you got there. Great reasoning.

 

[Xaio30]

Tali represents love without visual beauty for me. I would not want Bioware to show her face rather than keep on developing her character.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Yes, reveal it. Mystery for its own sake isn't "artistic". It's dumb. I'm fine with mystery if it serves some purpose, if she were supposed to be unimaginably beautiful for instance and you aren't confident you can make a convincing unimaginably beautiful face (which would be hard, since presumably you couldn't imagine one). But the games have never lead us to believe that Tali possesses any qualities that would be so hard to model.

Essentially, I see no reason that they couldn't do a good job making a face that lives up to the expectations they've created, so why not reveal it? Suggesting that it shouldn't be revealed because it might not live up to individual personal expectations is a silly argument that could just as easily be leveraged to argue that they shouldn't ever show anything if they do anything to build expectations about it first.

TL;DR: Bioware, this is not the time for pretentious pseudo-artistic "mystery".

Edit: It is also not the time for a heart-wrenching death scene reveal. Srsly.

 

[Zorg Machine]

When I charge the migrant fleet with my geth friends behind me I want to se her face before I tearfully murder her...What?

I really don't care. As long as I get my geth fleet, genophage cure and rachni army I couldn't care less about the quarian faces (though, admittedly it would make for a good scene if they showed the quarians returning to their planet and being able to breathe the air)

 

[Korolev]

Yes - but only if it's inhuman. One of the things that turned me off Star Trek were the cavalcade of ridiculous humans with pointy ears or funny eye brows pretending to be aliens. I really like the Mass Effect species, and I really enjoy how different species have different appearances, all save for the Asari, who I find boring. Blue Women? Really? That's supposed to be an alien race? Save for the wacky hair, their faces look EXACTLY like humans. The Asari are the most unimaginative species in the entire ME universe, perhaps one of the most unimaginative in all of science fiction - BLUE WOMEN? Really? Okay, here's my "brilliant" idea for a new alien race: Let's make purple men! Just take the average human, colour em' purple and... I dunno, make their ears slightly pointy! WOOOO! SO IMAGINATIVE!

I suppose I'm being harsh - there are many aspects of the ME universe which are VERY imaginative. But the Asari aren't. They're boring.

If they make the Quarians just "Humans with funny skin colour, and I dunno, maybe strange hands", they would have official put fan service ahead of being imaginative.

So Sure, show Tali's face. But make her look as downright WEIRD as heck. Give her three eyes, or maybe a crab mouth or a big beak. Of course, in ME1, you could KINDA see the face structure of Quarians, so if their face ever is revealed, it'll almost certainly be a boring, unimaginative "Human-with-makeup" type face that all those actors in Star Trek had.