Do people actually believe Tali will be hot?

[Discord]

I always though that Tali would be very light skined or pale thanks to life without direct sunlight and always in envrio' suits and the glowing eyes were just a strange electronic side effect from the mask.

I always wondered on a somewhat sterile and decontamnated ship germs would be very hard to live and in the Migrant Fleet it would be safe to be without nesscary suits to protect them and the onlyo nes who had to where suits would be shepard and crew upon entering. So either I'm missing something or the quarain immune system is truly fuc*** up.

But a little more on topic; I've always liked the presentation of Tali's personnality. The other female team mates backstory's and personnality were too "same-e" and have been done before.

 

[JokerCrowe]

If male players couldn't drool over her they wouldn't but her in the game in the first place =)

I've got a friend who said that "I'll flirt with Tali, just to see what she f***ing looks like!"

He actually said it with the stars instead of "uck", which surprised me, because it seemed hard to pronounce...

EDIT: I think I misunderstood you just now... >_< Sorry.

 

[aPod]

She'll be hot because...

That's the culture we live in. End of story, thats the hollywood, sexy is better attitude in our culture.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Yes, but it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible for Shepard to be steralized since nothing on the Normandy seems to be able to steralize you. Except maybe the airlock but thats just basic steralization, assuming it works the same way as the airlock from Mass Effect 1.

Or he could take a shower. Honestly, the Ship itself is sterile enough. The only ones to ever go outside the ship are Shepard and his crew but they have to go through the airlock before re-entering the ship.

And I know that the weapons in the Mass Effect universe don't use bullets. But I do know that they fire super-heated slugs. So the argument of the heat killing immediate chances of infection are still valid. Not to mention the planet is basically bathed in radiation, which would kill a good amount of the bacteria there.

So what if the planet is bathed in radiation? The pickup ship might have had bacteria on it and hell, the main ship of the Migrant Fleet HAS bacteria on it giving that the Quarians must wear their bio-suits even there. The risk of infection was still very high.

The marine was wounded from a different kind of attack. I'm pretty sure what that Geth Colossus fired were not bullets.

Even IF he didn't get an infection he would've still gotten very, very sick giving the rip in his suit and the fact that he was not prepared for such a thing (He took no supplements or antibiotics before entering the planets atmosphere). It's obvious to anyone that Tali took a lot of antibiotics and herbal supplements and STILL got sick. The only difference is that she didn't get as sick as the marine.

 

[Link_to_Future]

She's always been a fantastic character, and she's damn helpful in combat (sort of).

Funny how adding "sort of" at the end of a statement can change tone.

Same thing applies to fun statements like "I love you" and "You're going to live."

OT: I honestly hope we never get to see Tali's face. She's one of my favorite characters in the Mass Effect universe. In fact, I think the Quarians in general are my favorite race. So yeah...I'd rather we leave our perception of the race at the suit.

PS. Why yes, I do find Dimitri Martin funny.

 

[Arionis]

All I know, is she's the only romance option I'm interested in. *shrug*

Tali was one of my faves from the first game, and her voice is hot (accent mostly)

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Tali fan here. Honestly, I was pissed off as all hell when they didn't show her face, but once I calmed down, I realized it was for the best.

And seriously, I will admit that Tali's personality wasn't too well-developed in ME1. But if you play through ME2 and still claim she doesn't have much of a personality, then I have to ask if you ever talked to her or did her loyalty quest, because in those, her personality is shown quite well.

Spoiler: Loyalty Quest

I mean, hearing her cry over her father on that ship...if you can listen to that and still say she doesn't have a personality, you are crazy. I've played that mission 3 times now, and it's always depressing. Even if I'm trying to play Renegade, I'll give her a hug.

And her body helps. But still, the most attractive thing about her is her stammering while admitting her feelings for Shepard. Aww...

 

[The DSM]

As long as it isnt that picture, it will be.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

hehe, that picture made me laugh...

Anyway, the whole romance with her was just forced into the game. Quarians shouldn't even be able to take of their suits, the only places the can do that is in specalized sterile ships in the migrant fleet, and even then only long enough to have sex to reproduce.

Spoiler: Like when you went to recruit Tali...

When you found the Marine leader, he was shot, and it punctured the suit. He was saved thanks to a shit load of antibiotics and medicine. Now stuff like this can't be cheap, and is probably only available to improtant people. All he got was a minor infection, and he was still put out for a week.

If a marine commander, a quarian in the prime of his life, and who was saved solely by a shit load of antibiotics, was put out of commision for a week by a minor infection, there is no way Tali should be able to take her suit off in the Normandy.

Don't get me wrong, I love Tali and her personality, but being able to have sex with her just seems forced into the game because fans cried for it.

Well, the planet they were on at the time that Kal'Reega (or whatever it was) got shot had sort of been left to fester in dirt for a few centuries, so I'd say it was significantly more bacteria-ridden than the Normandy.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Well she doesn't say that she is planning to kill Garrus. She says that she has already planned out ways to kill Legion, which is just as bad.

So yeah, the big rant of hers makes it sound like the lack of an immune system is a really big problem. But apparently it isn't. All you have to is take some anti-biotics before having inter-species romance and you'll be ready to slay space bugs the next day with nothing more than a cough!

As for the first one, it's well established that Quarians are terrified of the Geth and are angry because of what their punishment is for creating them. Understandable and certainly doesn't make her a racist.

Secondly, I wouldn't exactly call a week or of antibiotic treatments and herbal supplements to be a simple "get out of jail free" card as you seem to think it is. That takes an immense amount of dedication and given that Mordin is one of the best scientists in the galaxy I can fully believe it's possible to temporarily overcome her weakened immune system.

As for Kal'Reeger getting knocked out for a week, that's a very different situation. He was shot in a non-sterile environment and wouldn't have been able to prepare (a full week) for that. The Normandy is sterile, Shepard cleaned himself up, and Tali boosted her immune system so that they could at LEAST kiss before the final battle. I'm personally having a hard time punching holes in the logic here.

I agree with you, it's a mixture of preparation and luck, Tali prepared for her night with Shepard and it was luck that stopped her from getting deathly ill, just because the quarians have a large chance of getting ill does not 100% mean they will.

 

[T3h Merc]

Well she doesn't say that she is planning to kill Garrus. She says that she has already planned out ways to kill Legion, which is just as bad.

So yeah, the big rant of hers makes it sound like the lack of an immune system is a really big problem. But apparently it isn't. All you have to is take some anti-biotics before having inter-species romance and you'll be ready to slay space bugs the next day with nothing more than a cough!

As for the first one, it's well established that Quarians are terrified of the Geth and are angry because of what their punishment is for creating them. Understandable and certainly doesn't make her a racist.

Secondly, I wouldn't exactly call a week or of antibiotic treatments and herbal supplements to be a simple "get out of jail free" card as you seem to think it is. That takes an immense amount of dedication and given that Mordin is one of the best scientists in the galaxy I can fully believe it's possible to temporarily overcome her weakened immune system.

As for Kal'Reeger getting knocked out for a week, that's a very different situation. He was shot in a non-sterile environment and wouldn't have been able to prepare (a full week) for that. The Normandy is sterile, Shepard cleaned himself up, and Tali boosted her immune system so that they could at LEAST kiss before the final battle. I'm personally having a hard time punching holes in the logic here.[/quot
I agree with you, it's a mixture of preparation and luck, Tali prepared for her night with Shepard and it was luck that stopped her from getting deathly ill, just because the quarians have a large chance of getting ill does not 100% mean they will.

Also, wouldn't the Captain's Quarters be pretty seculuded and sterile?

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Well she doesn't say that she is planning to kill Garrus. She says that she has already planned out ways to kill Legion, which is just as bad.

So yeah, the big rant of hers makes it sound like the lack of an immune system is a really big problem. But apparently it isn't. All you have to is take some anti-biotics before having inter-species romance and you'll be ready to slay space bugs the next day with nothing more than a cough!

As for the first one, it's well established that Quarians are terrified of the Geth and are angry because of what their punishment is for creating them. Understandable and certainly doesn't make her a racist.

Secondly, I wouldn't exactly call a week or of antibiotic treatments and herbal supplements to be a simple "get out of jail free" card as you seem to think it is. That takes an immense amount of dedication and given that Mordin is one of the best scientists in the galaxy I can fully believe it's possible to temporarily overcome her weakened immune system.

As for Kal'Reeger getting knocked out for a week, that's a very different situation. He was shot in a non-sterile environment and wouldn't have been able to prepare (a full week) for that. The Normandy is sterile, Shepard cleaned himself up, and Tali boosted her immune system so that they could at LEAST kiss before the final battle. I'm personally having a hard time punching holes in the logic here.[/quot
I agree with you, it's a mixture of preparation and luck, Tali prepared for her night with Shepard and it was luck that stopped her from getting deathly ill, just because the quarians have a large chance of getting ill does not 100% mean they will.

Also, wouldn't the Captain's Quarters be pretty seculuded and sterile?

People have it in their heads that it's impossible for quarians to venture out of their suits, as long as preperations are made and exposure isn't too long I see little that can go wrong.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

Dont forget that Legion is a GETH. A race of machines that have been (until now) systematically attacking every world populated by organic life forms and showed no desire to communicate. If you talk to any other member of the crew, they are also more than apprehensive of Legion (Joker and James I know for sure, with James suggesting to vent 'it' into space).

If you talk to Legion regularly, he states that only about 10% of the Geth are attacking organics. The other 90% don't attack because they didn't believe in Saren or the Reapers. They also felt that organics should have a right to determine their own survival.

You know that, I know that, everyone who played ME2 knows that. But in ME universe only Shepard and the Geth know that. The rest of the galaxy thinks that there are no sub-factions to the Geth. That they are "uniform in mind and purpose". And since some of them are attacking, and the rest do not try to make contact, everyone assumes that all of them want to wipe out the organics.

But you're forgetting that the Quarians have always known the motives of the Geth. They have always known that the Geth were fighting for freedom. They probably choose to ignore this as it made it easier to justify killing the Geth.

Quarians do not "know". Quarians "assume", and they "assume" that the Geth are dangerous. Why? Because Quarians (the race), just as any other race of sentient beings of non-uniform mind, are a pack of easily scared panicky stupid animals.

In short: They saw Geth showing intelligence, they screamed: "Oh no! Kill it with fire, before it attacks!" and proceeded with the extermination. Geth said: "WTF?!" and fought back. Quarians said: "Oh no! It tasted organic blood, now it will hunger for more! We have to run and save ourselves!" and fled the planet. Now they "assume" that all the Geth are "hostile".

I love how everybody is now defending the geth. In mass effect 1 almost everybody would hate the geth, but Legion opened our eyes. Legion is by far the best squadmate, he is so different from everything... I just wish he was more like HK-47.

Quarians are my least favorite life form in mass effect. Next is the Vorcha, god I hate those jerks.

 

[Knight Templar]

I don't really care. I'd rather they didn't show her face, its like getting answers in lost, you like the journey but not where its going. (Lost might be a bad example but you get the idea)

I love how everybody is now defending the geth. In mass effect 1 almost everybody would hate the geth, but Legion opened our eyes. Legion is by far the best squadmate, he is so different from everything... I just wish he was more like HK-47.

Quarians are my least favorite life form in mass effect. Next is the Vorcha, god I hate those jerks.

Well in a way we never fought the Geth, what we fought were the Heretics. Hating the Geth because of the Heretics is like hating the US because of nutjob Republicans, they are an extreem group and the main group people see but are only a very small part of the nation.

 

[Bloody Crimson]

That photo made me laugh. I have no idea what you're talking about, but it made me laugh.

Me as well....