Mass Effect 2 - Tali Zorah vas Normandy - What does she look like?

[Uszi]

Hmmm. Pale skin, mostly humanoid, cybernetics...
Yep, pretty much a quarian.

Spoiler: Could also describe the borg.

 

[Donttazemehbro]

Well if she isn't pretty alot of people who chose her as their romance story are gunna be pissed.

Precisly. Ive always prefered Tali to any other chracter (character wise, not combat wise). SO i was thriled when i knew i could do a romance subplot with her. However it was a major dick move by Bioware not to show us her face. SHe probably has glowing eyes, a les rouned face, and similar to a human.

Ask youself one question, if she was ugly, do you think shepard would do her? HE isnt really that deep.

 

[Antigone]

Yea, I think Bioware is behaving like a dick not letting anybody see her real face. I mean common! Everybody were looking forward to seeing her face in Mass Effect 2 but once she finally took off her helmet the camera is pointed elsewhere?!!?!

What the shit Bioware?

I think they're acting like a game developer and leaving stuff that we have to buy more games to see. Like denying the Joker fangirls his romanceability. Gotta have something to get 'em coming back.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I have no idea, but if if Quarians just look like most fan art I've seen (grey space elves with glowing eyes) then I will be disappointed. Honestly, I don't care if they hide Tali's face forever. I just want to know what a Quarian looks like. In Mass Effect the only Quarian you saw was Tali, so they mystery behind them made more sense. In Mass Effect 2 we stroll right into their home. We saw dozens of Quarian corpses. Yet not a single one has any visible suit ruptures. A YMIR mech pumps dozens of bullets right into the back of a Quarian's skull at point blank range, yet if it weren't for the pool of blood you wouldn't even be able to tell anything had happened. And we are going to see many more Quarians in Mass Effect 3. Their hidden appearance has gone from being a mystery to a joke.

So really we can only judge the Quarians appearance based on the Geth, aside from the face (which most consider to be the important part).

Ask youself one question, if she was ugly, do you think shepard would do her? HE isnt really that deep.

Female Shepard can have sex with Garrus and Thane. I don't think either Shepards have discriminating tastes.

Choosing Tali is all about platonic love. By doing that, you are walking the very mature path of saying "I don't care about appearance, I know we will never have sex, but I truly love her personality enaugh to only be with her forever".
Quitting because you discover that she is not pretty is kind of disgusting flavour of hypocritical, no?

Yeah that's how the Tali romance should have been. Unfortunately, it's nothing like that. At all.

 

[Rynozeros]

 

[Agrael]

Turians are avian, not reptilian

We know they're 'less squishy' than humans and asaris.

Big difference. Birds evolved from reptiles anyway. And Garrus definitely looks more like Velociraptor than a Parrot.

Oh my god ...

Someone please pick this text into steel or stone

That was hilarious

 

[Snotnarok]

See this guys ^

This is the actual art from Bioware, so if anything this is what Tali looks like.

http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-05/me-tali-zorah-nar-rayyah.html

 

[Hawkeye16]

My heart says she has a good personality. Then again, my heart hates uglies.

 

[Amnestic]

Ask youself one question, if she was ugly, do you think shepard would do her? HE isnt really that deep.

When Shepard takes off her mask, he gets a small satisfied smirk.

She's hot, but you don't get to see. Bioware has too much fun whipping their fans into nerd frenzies over it.

 

[Zedzero]

I think they really should reveal her or any quarian because it would wreck the sense of imagenation, every desires her for a different reasons and imagens her face as something other may fund ugly. And if Bioware does show it people are either going to hate it, or hate them for revealing it , its lose lose.

 

[Mortons4ck]

Ask youself one question, if she was ugly, do you think shepard would do her? HE isnt really that deep.

When Shepard takes off her mask, he gets a small satisfied smirk.

She's hot, but you don't get to see. Bioware has too much fun whipping their fans into nerd frenzies over it.

Shepard gets to see her, isn't that really what matters?

 

[soren7550]

Ask youself one question, if she was ugly, do you think shepard would do her? HE isnt really that deep.

When Shepard takes off her mask, he gets a small satisfied smirk.

She's hot, but you don't get to see. Bioware has too much fun whipping their fans into nerd frenzies over it.

Shepard gets to see her, isn't that really what matters?

I can already foretell people's answers: Hell no, Shepard wasn't the one to shell out $60 for this!
But I'm going w/ they have light gray skin and are a mix between the generic gray alien & a human.

 

[Penitent]

The only reason it feels like you're in the minority is because we're on the internet. I'm in the camp hoping that her face isn't revealed, simply to drive this home. That said, I'd have rather that ME2 had left it to a hug or something similar to Garrus'. At least I know it couldn't have gone farther than what was suggested...right?

Very true.
As for what I put in bold, a kiss means a hell of a lot more to Tali than a hug does because it means they can get past the restrictive bio-suit. Remember, all we know is that they kissed; the notion they had sex exists only because some of the fans think that.

With Garrus, there wasn't necessarily a romantic inclination there but rather a, in his own words, "blowing off steam."

Good point, thanks for reminding me. Anything beyond a kiss just wouldn't make sense (especially given the suicide mission right afterwards).
Not to go off topic, but Garrus did have a romantic angle - it was just very, very subtle, tucked away under his own nervousness.

Choosing Tali is all about platonic love. By doing that, you are walking the very mature path of saying "I don't care about appearance, I know we will never have sex, but I truly love her personality enaugh to only be with her forever".
Quitting because you discover that she is not pretty is kind of disgusting flavour of hypocritical, no?

This, each and every time. That's what counts at the end of the day after all, right?

 

[gigastrike]

Can't someone just no-clip the camera in the PC version and take a look during the sex scene? Or is it harder than it sounds?

 

[thepopeofatheism]

I'm telling you:

Geth with a face.

Compare the body structures and hands/feet.

The Quarians modeled the Geth after themselves.

My own little personal theory.

 

[Akaros]

Can't someone just no-clip the camera in the PC version and take a look during the sex scene? Or is it harder than it sounds?

People did that. Upon doing that, they found out that the game "spawns" an extra mask in shepard's hand, and tali's face remains covered. Bioware has thwarted us yet again!

 

[UAProxy]

I honestly don't know what quarians look like, but they're obviously not too unattractive on account of the number of humorous occasions involving them and other species (most prominently that one and the turian on Ilium). They probably do seem at least moderately human, given the structure of their masks.

Still, I was half-expecting for Shepard to take her mask off, go "AH!" And hurriedly put it back on.