In so many games, where characters are not limited to human actors to portray them, all alien races are bipedal, humanoid and just under/over 6ft tall.
This really pisses me off, where is the imagination.
Examples:
Half life:
All the vorts/grunt type aliens are humanoid plus a third arm (stunningly original)
Mass effect:
Geth, Salarians, Asari, Turians, Batarians, Volus (the 'midget' actor, still humanoid)
All but the Elcor and Hannar really, neither of which do anything interesting
Doom[3]: (admittedly they're demons not aliens, but still)
Imps, Revanant, cyberdemon, all based off humans and the ones that aren't are based of spiders.
Halo:
Covenant, prophets, arbiter, all humanoid
The list goes on and on and on.
Humanoid aliens don't bother me that much, but when a game (taking mass effect as an example) has 100% of the main races as 6 foot tall, bipedal races it seems really really lame. As I said before, with games we're not bound by actors in costumes so what is up with developers?
I am disappointed!
(you can argue that the antlions, rachni ect aren't at all humanoid or even based off existing Earth based life, however my complaint is aimed at main, sentient races that play a decent role in the story rather than just being the swarms of aliens you've got to mow down)
This really pisses me off, where is the imagination.
Examples:
Half life:
All the vorts/grunt type aliens are humanoid plus a third arm (stunningly original)
Mass effect:
Geth, Salarians, Asari, Turians, Batarians, Volus (the 'midget' actor, still humanoid)
All but the Elcor and Hannar really, neither of which do anything interesting
Doom[3]: (admittedly they're demons not aliens, but still)
Imps, Revanant, cyberdemon, all based off humans and the ones that aren't are based of spiders.
Halo:
Covenant, prophets, arbiter, all humanoid
The list goes on and on and on.
Humanoid aliens don't bother me that much, but when a game (taking mass effect as an example) has 100% of the main races as 6 foot tall, bipedal races it seems really really lame. As I said before, with games we're not bound by actors in costumes so what is up with developers?
I am disappointed!
(you can argue that the antlions, rachni ect aren't at all humanoid or even based off existing Earth based life, however my complaint is aimed at main, sentient races that play a decent role in the story rather than just being the swarms of aliens you've got to mow down)