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>Rules:
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>Previous thread: >>8871631

>>8888487 (OP)

Anyone else really bummed out about the absolute state of Teraurge? Such a unique and interesting world left to rot just breaks my heart.

>>8888531
You’re telling me. Meanwhile, the next Mass Effect is basically either BioWare’s lifeline or its death warrant (probably this one). And despite fans begging to play as/fuck more aliens, they still act like niggers about not wanting to.

>>8888582
After seeing the sorry state of slopguard are you really surprised? Bioware has morphed into a fucking biohazard over the years to the point that death is a mercy to prevent any further disgrace.

>>8888639
Well for Failguard most of the original creators left the series years ago and the game was in development hell for over 10 years since fucking EA wanted to originally turn it into a multiplayer game where they can sell there loot boxes. Many who worked on mass effect also moved on so I definitely don’t trust next game and frankly I’m still salty about mass effect 3 ending even after the “fixes” to it.

>>8888488
Would.

Ayy lmao

any xenos that canonically save themselves for marriage?

>>8888655
I never really cared for Mass Effect, I always thought the artstyle was just hideous and everything looked the same. I've been sinking my teeth into Tainted grail these past few weeks, it's really refreshing to see an rpg that's actually an rpg reminicent to the classics instead of boring modern shit, can even create my own berserk manga pages out of anything cool I find, highly recommend it.

Species swap

>>8888487 (OP)
>chart still broken

>>8888691
elaborate

>>8888487 (OP)

>>8888721

>>8888691
garrus played by ryan "literally me" gosling in the mass effect movie

>>8888673
What do you mean artstyle? The engine issues and human models were a bit wonky, but the art direction and designs felt so dignified and grounded compared to stuff nowadays, at least for the first and maybe second game.

>>8888707
Hrm, would replace with new link but having trouble finding the pic. I know I saved it somewhere.

>>8888822
Found it.

New Thread replace with this link: https://files.catbox.moe/wc5qz4.jpeg

And save damn pic for posterity.

>>8888531
>Anyone else really bummed out about the absolute state of
That's basically the mantra of the last decade and half. Everything that was or could have been good has been fucked up, canned before it's time, or deliberately subverted to unpalatability. Meanwhile the shit just won't go away.
And then the attention/money dries up and they're always so surprised.

>>8888868
So does the same goes for the stuff that comes out of these threads, too? Or was it never worth mentioning?

>>8888914
I mean, I did post a Pinwheel-related pic.

>>8888962
So it's all destined to just go to shit then? Whether it's made here or not, it turns into slop when you have nothing but yes-men offsite. And if it stays here it just sits and rots. Not sure if there's a point in sharing anything anymore.

>>8888988
This is wholly something that can be changed with effort on peoples part. Have discipline, finish your shit, keep to the original vision or have respect for it while shifting to interpretations with actual momentum, don't work with proven liabilities, etc.
I don't accept doomerist attitudes. History is littered with cultures lifting themselves from worse slumps then the current era.

>>8888822
a few were floating around either last thread or the thread before

>>8888844
there was this link too
https://files.catbox.moe/j2v3w1.png

>>8888868
About the only thing that doesn't get me bummed out is the fan content, like what we see posted ITT

>>8889020

>>8888997
I don't like doomers either, but if you were a part of the small group of people that made things for this anemic niche, you would find it wearing on yourself too eventually. Even the ones that did finish tons of things, had unique visions, or were reliable, have fallen into slumps temporary or not. Some communities have a type of apathy that's infectious and yet are hard detach yourself from after all this time. I hope more optimism comes to this place later, but it's going to take than just a few people making things.

>>8888988
What qualifies as good content?
Does it have to strike a perfect balance between being popular enough to maintain interest in this general, but not so popular that it sees any kind of success off-site?
Is anything that becomes too popular categorized as slop automatically regardless of its quality?
Do you know how many niche communities like this one have fanfics and new art being churned out on a regular basis, and multiple games being developed for them?
Not fucking many.
I think a lot of people here just have an attitude problem.

>>8889102
>I think a lot of people here just have an attitude problem.
Not a lot, but enough for it to be heard often. Who the fuck knows what's good content here, because this niche is way broader than what's normally posted. Compared to other generals, these threads get good amounts of oc. Some of which gets slept on. Despite what I said, I don't think anything's slop, but hearing it so much uncontested makes you question it. It's a struggle to keep your head up when it looks like you're failing as a creator all the time. Even if you know what you make is good by your own and others standards. It's just that in these days, it feels like no matter how much you do or improve, it's not enough. All you can do to fix that is to keep working, but it doesn't really end.

>>8889136
There's not much incentive to succeed as a creator when success means being branded as slop.
Don't climb too far out of the bucket, now.

>>8889178
>If I'm gonna die...
Kek. So what type of ghetto is 4chins?

Need more xeno grooming pics

I ask that someone or anyone posts some Teng art
>>8889102
Man, I wish Plague of Gripes drew true lewds sometimes, he makes 'em just right

>>8888806
Ehh I thought the series looked plain ugly. Majority of the weapons and armor were absolutely hideous, nothing looks good and most of the environments looked the same, nothing really distinguished between alien and human everything shared that ugly white plastic paneling. Maybe it's my bias from Halo speaking but I always thought mass effect was really ugly, especially the weapons they all look like shitty nerf toys.

>>8889402
Yeah.

>>8888487 (OP)
Working on this right now! Bio-experiment escapes from containment, insectoid researcher girl subsequently gets her abdomen absolutely molested. I hope you all enjoy this sketch!

>>8888691
>>8888743
>Garrus Vakarian is a Human man raised by Turian parents in the Turian Hierarchy
>Shepard is a Turian woman raised by Human parents in the Systems Alliance
I fucking love the idea of this. A Human raised by aliens and an alien raised by Humans just deciding to be weirdos together.

>>8888691
I feel like garrus would be romani though...

>>8890050
>be romani
wat?

>>8890204
I can't guarantee that this movie still wouldn't have flopped if the main character didn't end up with Stith instead of a purple hair streak azn, but I can guarantee that I would have enjoyed it more.

>>8890245
titan a.e. was originally going to be a live-action movie or show so there was a small chance we could have seen live-action stith unless she was a character bluth came up with when he was hired to salvage what he could of the film

>>8890257
Stith probably would have looked fairly awful in live action back then if it was anything but high budget

>>8890299
Yeah, she would have been a Jim Henson puppet nightmare fuel. We should be glad things turned out how they did, even if it was a flop

>>8890307
It was always going to flop because the script was in development hell for ages and no one at FOX knew what to do with it. Even the fact it was an animated movie was pretty much a last minute decision.

>>8889694
all the weapons are following the design principal of the Mass Effect Drive, essentially accelerating grains off of a block of metal inside the gun to a fraction of the speed of light, by reducing their mass inside the gun. It's actually really cool how much detail they put into the series.

>>8890015
Maybe it's because I just woke up, but I'm having trouble parsing the body plan of the bug girl aside from the titties. I look forward to seeing you finish it, so that I can appreciate it in full

>>8890050
...he'd steal copper wiring out of ships to resell to the volus? aren't the quarians the stand-ins for roaming gypsies, not the turians?

>>8890335
Quarians aren't gypsies. They don't steal ships, beg, and whore out their women.
There's no Romani equivalent in sci fi, people couldn't stomach to look at it.

I have a color update for you!
>>8890332
I hope this clears it up!

>>8890462
Kig-Yar.

>>8890462
>There's no Romani equivalent in sci fi
dude those little sand niggers in the crawlers in star wars are like totally just space gypsies who are trying to steal your space copper wiring

>>8890485
Woah- do you have an @ to see more of your stuff by any chance? Your art style is familiar.

>>8890591
Yeah, Lewdpencil on twitter. I've been busy with comms and stuff, but this piece is one I'm gona post soon on my page.

>>8890592
O shit whaddup. I wasn't expecting you to come back to this thread! Glad you're back though, things have been a little dry.

>>8889178
>when success means being branded as slop.
Creators cant change when experiencing success? The greater masses cant have looser standards? Creators cant be disliked even before leaving the figurative cradle?

>>8890600
I still check this thread all the time, and figured that this thread would be the best place to post this piece!

>>8890656
Well good stuff as always dude. Say, what are your prices for commissions again?

>>8890485
Nice! That's much clearer; I'm embarrassed to say that I mistook her head as her bugussy earlier, lol. I'd love to see more of her in future.

Hope it's not rude to ask, but do ever find yourself makes pieces where the consent isn't idk... dubious? Not trying to imply anything negative, it's simply not usually my bag
>>8890519
They're more cowardly generic space mercs than gyps imo

I keep forgetting to ask if Senator Guido and/or Tengridus archive all their art anywhere

>>8890328
Nah man it looks fucking gay and lame. All the lore word salad can't compete to simple guns and bullets which can be designed much better and way more appealing.

poop taste

I have a carnal NEED

>>8890968
How the hell does the Battle Rifle have a smaller cartridge size than the AR?

>>8890973

>>8890968

You are valid in preferring a specific weapon asthetic, but it does disclose some of your autism that you can't appreciate when a narrative needs to exist in a world where weapons are less cool.

Think about it like this, what if a modern GWOT war movie had a squad that cleared urban centers room by room with 'big ass swords' because it looked 'cool as shit'. Yes I'll give you that it looks cool. But everyone would mock you for being obsessed with your power fantasy movie.

> Sword guy gets cucked by technological advancement, thinks these new "guns" have lame asthetics.

>>8890245
>punk asian waifu with an animated nude towel scene, voiced by Drew Barrymore
I think Stith is hot too, but Akima gave me a fetish for animated shower scenes. Niche fetish, I know, but this4842h is 4chan.

>>8890692
For a fully illustrated piece like this, it would be $400 USD. But I usually discuss the nitty-gritty of pricing in a private setting, so you can DM me on twitter if you like!
>>8890730
Not really, most of my pieces have "dubious consent" as you put it. It's just my sort of niche, I suppose. I figure since most of these threads are pretty lovey-dovey consensual stuff, something a bit rougher would be a change of pace!

>>8889402
Of all the creatures to draw off model, a shame no one chooses them. They always look fugly.

>>8891307
Well apparently mods will vacation you for posting too off-model Jackals, speaking from experience.
That said I think nowadays it's practically a filter to keep aliens unappealing on some level since the softer they are the more likely they're just furries in a skinsuit or normie-tier humans-with-gimmick.

>>8891814
It doesn't have to get close to a classic anthro's look to get deleted, either. But it's a game you're very unlikely to lose, speaking from personal experience. It's random chance at this point, so there's no use worrying when it'll happen.

longshot request here but i vaguely recall seeing a caption in one of these threads a few years back with a red alien with a big head. ive trawled the depths of various archives looking for it and came up blank so if anyone has it thatd be great

>>8892285
>a red alien with a big head
sounds like flattie

>>8892289
flattie?

>>8892295
Nta, but I think he meant the "Flatwoods" monster. A cryptid of often alien origin. It has lots of different interpretations, so the exact caption you're looking for may be harder to find. What board/thread did you see the caption at?

>>8888721
>>8888722
>2 mouths
>no 2 pussies

>>8892307
Sometimes you see an image online and you totally understand why Victorian-era men would jizz at the sight of a woman's ankles

https://youtu.be/QCiuE5VRnj8

flattie sang wearing cowprint bikini

>>8893412
With some massive thighs and rear

>>8894038
reasonable sized thighs and rear
there's quite enough hyper tyvm

>>8893328
Medieval reenactors, homeless crackheads, lunatics, HOAs, Waffle House employees, and Marines. Six reasons not to invade the Earth

Update for you guys!

>>8894498
Nice stuff mate.

>>8894498
For the love all that is xeno, provide more stuff like this to this thread and MY LIFE IS YOURS.

>>8894498
Love how they fucking violate her ovi.

I wonder what our drawfrens are up to
I hope life is treating them well

>>8894959
They never last long in any general anymore, guess current quality of life doesn't have much wiggle room for casual doodling.

>>8889402
>ha ha you are so technologically advanced for your species age :)
>he he you already know FTL travel? So mature :)
>your race is type 2 on Kardashev scale? Wow you are really self sufficient ha ha :)

post SAD xeno girls who can't find HUMAN BFs!

>>8895188
YOU WILL GET NO HUMAN BFS, XENO FILTH! ALL HUMAN MEN WILL DENY THE EMBRACE OF XENO THOTS!

>>8895188
uh

>>8890245
>>8890257
Saw the movie recently and i'd be afraid of the butcher they would have done in 3D back then. Would have been awesome to see Stith in Treasure Planet levels of animation though. Titan AE was rough.

>>8896405
>i'd be afraid of the butcher they would have done in 3D back then
I'm afraid of the butchering you did in 3d just now

>>8896405
the lighter shade should follow all the way behind the mouth.

>>8896502
>not a single visible flaw
>"it's still le bad"
Stop bitching. You'll never be happy with such attitude.

Little sketch i made
Any (you) is nice too

>>8896606
Cute. Nice thighs.

>>8896589
Probably the same tranny brain that keeps changing the AI rule to "No AI" without anything resembling a thread consensus.

>>8894498
ayo thats nice rendering. Bravo!

>>8889406
Here ya go

>>8896589
>>not a single visible flaw
it looks like it's made of vinyl or latex, like every other ai image. there's also >>8896523
nice samefag btw

>>8896772
Blessed juicy vipers. Nice, Teng

>>8891104
Eh, I just think it's plain ugly. Whatever 70's sci-fi series they were emulating looked boring, ugly and not tacticool. I'll always prefer something like this over hideous white plastic wall paneling, toilet armor and nerf guns.

>>8891104
Cool reddit spacing and strawmanning there.
Also no "everyone" would probably get behind it because of the aesthetics and the "fuck the rules" energy, because that's a historical precedence. On par with the precedence of "realism"fags who cry Power Fantasy undermining themselves by stuffing their shit full of scientist negros and 70lb women dominating men in brawls over and over and over.

>>8891307
Kinda a paradox statement there. You want to see stuff of Jackals and also see them rendered as something other then what they look like?

> gets triggered by proper paragraphs and text blocks
Everything is reddit spacing with you retards.
Drink bleach, please.

>>8896942
>Also no "everyone" would probably get behind it because of the aesthetics and the "fuck the rules" energy, because that's a historical precedence.
Call me a buffoon, but I'm reasonably sure that no culture willingly chose to gimp themselves technologically just because of aesthetics, and then prospered because of it
>On par with the precedence of "realism"fags who cry Power Fantasy undermining themselves by stuffing their shit full of scientist negros and 70lb women dominating men in brawls over and over and over.
I vaguely understand the sentiment, but I don't understand how it connects to anything you previously just said

>>8896772
I prefer the Vipers to be anatomically correct, have their cloaca's where a regular snake would.

>>8896976
Technology usually works with fear and awe factors. If you create something that looks lame and gay instead of cool, imposing and even menacing that kinda defeats the whole purpose. Space marines are cooler than the trekky fags in red shirts.

>>8896942
The only reason that you think it's a stupid idea is because it doesn't represent what that level of tech can and should do. That's why shields and biotic abilities are so important. If you don't have that shit, you would be shredded by fragments travelling at such speeds that reality would compensate by obliterating everything around the area of impact.

>>8897035
Not him but fancy technology can't compete with the pure determination for hate and wanting something dead.

>>8897037
Tell that to the men dead under gatling gun fire. Superior technology makes things dead, dead, dead. Doesn't matter if they're skinnies or bugs, a properly advanced gun will turn them to a corpse and save the trouble of training another proper soldier.

>>8897048
Maybe so but at least you'll look aesthetically good dying instead of lame and gay. Coolness > ugly lore autism.

>>8897053
That's part of what I'm saying. Mass Effect guns look stupid, but what they should do is be hyper railguns. Also, I would highly recommend that you read the original Starship Troopers, it's a good book.

>>8897059
Or they could have just designed proper guns in the first place considering they contradict their own lore autism in the second game
>this pistol doesn't have a thermal clip
Maybe it's my Halo bias speaking but I just never liked mass effect, in retrospect the entire series seemed like a freak accident that wasn't meant to exist and the longer it lived the worse it got.

>>8897081
I loved ME1's guns not having ammo and I hate how they just HAD to actionify it for the subsequent games.
Holy shit I'm still mad.

>>8897081
Everything past the first Mass Effect game is written by a faggot (derogatory). Halo managed to maintain itself longer, but it still fell to retards. No series that exists in mainstream media is incorruptible.

>>8897097
Normies ruin everything.

>>8897097
Well to be fair Halo managed to end on it's own proper terms before Microshit sank it's claws into it. Whatever that post Bungie abomination wearing halo's face is NOT halo and never will be.

>>8897099
The very concept of normalfags goes against creative concepts. If you ever encounter anyone that thinks purely in the acceptable idea spectrum, try to free them or distance yourself.
>>8897103
I cannot understate my loathing for what happened to Halo. If I gave a shit about Destiny, I would probably be angry too.

>>8897005
Seconded.

>>8897005
If I were drawing a Viper I'd not draw them with a cloaca. There's nothing sexy about a single exit hole that's used for pissing, shitting, and cumming.
Separate holes are best.

>>8897059
>Mass Effect guns look stupid, but what they should do is be hyper railguns.
Why are you bitching about this? They are hyper railguns. The whole gimmick of the "mass" effect was accelerating matter to superluminal speeds, and they used the same tech in the guns to propel smaller bullets (than what we comparatively use) to a higher speed, i.e. a railgun.
https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Weapons
>"weapons in the Mass Effect universe are micro-scaled mass accelerators, using mass-reducing fields and magnetic force to propel miniature slugs to lethal speeds."

>>8897216
Cloaca's are more evolutionary common, we are more likely to encounter xeno's with 1 hole than 3 like mammals. We are freaks, even by earth standards.
As far as cleanliness, idk, i'm not into eating ass, but a lot of people are nowadays. Snakes don't shit a lot, maybe once a month, that's a lot of time for her too clean the pipes

>>8897236
>We are freaks, even by earth standards
And I want the xenos to be just as freaky in that sense.

>>8897218
They look retarded, blocky and unappealing as fuck kids toys. All of them have that hideous white plastic form and there's zero distinction between human and alien they all look the same. Once again halo trumps mass effect by actually making a distinct contrast from human and alien design since CE.

>>8897238
Ok, just be honest that you aren't upset about the science, which you know nothing about and where objectively wrong about.
You're butthurt because you find the colors of the weapons aesthetically displeasing, you zesty little fashion obsessed fruitcake.

>>8897243
No retard I find the weapons repulsive and everything looks the same. The same ugly shitty blocky pistol looks the exact same as the other shitty blocky pistol for god sakes look at>>8889694 they're soulless as fuck, the gross pretentious apple of science fiction.

>>8897272
>"These weapons aren't pretty and I don't like it!!!"
ok

>>8897216
>There's nothing sexy about a single exit hole that's used for pissing, shitting, and cumming.
you're are NOT makin it in this galactic sector son

>>8897405
That's fine. Space, as they are fond of saying, is big. Plenty of sectors to chart out.

>>8897238
>and there's zero distinction between human and alien they all look the same
Because it's literally the same tech, shared with humanity during the cooperative years and used because it's just better then what humans were using.
Basic setting comprehension?

A freaking Skub debate is eating up post count in the alien porn thread. Great.

>>8897456
Yeah, he either hasn't played the games, or has no reading comprehension. All of this is explained repeatedly throughout the lore of the mass effect trilogy

>>8897034
and yet red shirts are far more popular than spess marines

>>8897216
Based
>>8897236
More evolutionarily common in this case means more evolutionarily primitive. More things walk on 4 legs than 2, but that doesn't mean bipedal movement is worse.

>>8897466
on the one hand, hot
on the other, why does this krogan have an aquatic tail despite evolving on a desert planet

>>8897592
I have a species in the works that literally doesn't shit because I like booty but I don't like what comes out of it.
There's even a whole lore-reason for it that I feel is completely plausible given how trends have been set in society.

>>8897593
I didn't notice the special oc details before posting, but then again there's hardly any Halo/ME crossover smut out there.

>>8897596
>this lame ass mf isn't into farts
What a loser

>>8897466
>>8897608
Xeno on Xeno is underrated. Technically, to a xeno we would be a xeno, but my point still stands

>>8897596
>They instead smell like piss all the time because they excrete waist through their skin

>>8898043
*waste

Tali'Zorah has killed millions of soldiers.

it's one thing to make an alien that looks a bit too human
but what about aliens that look a bit too much like anthro furry or scalie characters?

>>8898102
I literally don't care.
Make alien sexy.

>>8898102
yes, there is such a thing as a happy medium

>>8898102
>but what about aliens that look a bit too much like anthro furry or scalie characters?
licherally impossible

>>8896606
Very different than how I imagine the migo.

>>8898616
very nice, I love freckles

>>8898102
every popular alien is drawn from earth animal inspirations, it's nearly impossible to avoid being branded a "furry alien"
>xenomorphs have scorpion tails
>predators have snake/vagina mouths
>halo brutes are just gorilla's with bat noses
the least "furry" mainstream species I can think of is probably the Turians, but even they are based largely off reptiles/raptors in their lore.

>>8898506
I'm still kinda floored by how badly NoP was fucked up. Like, they messed up some things, then invented new bullshit, then fucked those things and the rest of it up too, then maintained doing this for a million chapters finding new and inventive ways to extend the ruination of what could have easily been a five chapter long silly meme story about herbivore aliens being terrified of humans.
It's like if that Simpsons bit where Homer falls down a cliff repeatedly lasted the entire episode.

>>8898695
>halo brutes are just gorilla's with bat noses
They are rhino-bear hybrids, 343slop isn't canon.

>>8898972
They were gorilla like even back in 2 with their head shape and 3 only made them look more ape-like when they said 'Yeah nah they don't need to look so furred.'

>>8898972
>>8898994
Yeah they are gorilla's.
>flatter face like a gorilla, no bear maw's.
>tiny gorilla like ears, not cute bear ears
The only Rhinoceros like thing about them is there feet, bit of a stretch

>>8898616
concurring with the other anon, freckles are always cute, esp. on sangs

>>8898695
these are all stretches, aside from modern brutes because they're just lazy bigfoots

>>8898695
>>8898972
>>8898994
>>8899047
I don't know if you guys have ever seen a gorilla before, but their heads don't look like that >>8898994. H2 brutes almost have a sort of lizard-like head, with mammalian features stretched over the surface. I miss H2 brutes... now we're stuck with black & red edgy monkeys. What was the name of that infamous one that appeared in the infinite trailer? Carl? Harambe?

>>8899073
Tartarus was very much gorilla like to me.

>>8898831
Right? I don't think I've ever read anything this badly written extended out for this long. It bizarrely seems to compromise on every single piece of it's original premise, coming up with new bullshit left and right like the author was afraid to come up with any kind of actual conflict that might paint any parties in a bad light. Humans? Perfect little war god angels who don't even eat REAL meat, actually. The Arxur? Poor victims of societal manipulation and genetic engineering, actually. The Federation? Mentally retarded glue huffers who are capable of managing a truly massive coalition of civilizations without it collapsing in on itself, actually.
The only redeeming factor about NoP is that thinking about pinning down a Venlil and watching them squirm and hyperventilate at my gaze passing over their body like a hunk of meat gives me massive boners. Rape Everything That Exists.

>>8899203
I wanted to start reading it because I was tempted by cute gay alien squirrels getting loved by human men but then I heard all the shit to do with the story.

>>8898102
Here's a similar question. Do you want every aspect of your xeno to be biologically explainable, like Runaway to the Stars? Or is it okay for them to just be interesting non-human things to fuck, like, say, the Chaquetrix version of Ben10 aliens?

>>8899076
he's practically an albino brute with a mohawk, same head

>>8899484
>you will never make a t'vaoan lady climax and squawk out a stereotypical chicken "BA-CAAAWK" sound
why even live?

>>8894290
Finally, someone else that likes the reasonable size sanghelis, perhaps even realistic proportions for the species in cases.

>>8899203
>Nature of Predators but humans win the war and dominate the galaxy by raping every alien species
>it works with flying colors and the aliens apart enjoying it

>>8899397
Only really need to explain the cool stuff for me.

How can this alien species fly? Well they have a special organelle in their cells that can counter rotate gravitons to lessen gravity on them. Shit like that.

>>8899558
Aye. I am mostly a purist, though desu I do not mind a little bit of added tiddy, as a treat.

>>8899203
>>8899206
People keep saying the spinoffs/fanfics are better, but I don't want to read a bunch of bullshit for context to read other stories

>>8898994
>>8899076
Halo 2 brutes look like they were designed to be like evil wookies. The metal bandoliers they wear look like the same one chewie wears. Then halo 3 gave them a drastic makeover removing their hair, gave them clothes and a suit of bug armor.

>>8899662
iirc bungie explained that since the jirilhanae took over as the covenant's military leaders they had to clean themselves up a bit, shaving off most of their fur (though some of them still kept short beards and mohawks) and wearing full body armors to match. it's similar to how barbarian tribesmen would be assimilated to the roman army.

Hot take, but Halo dramatically changing designs of most things with every game was one of the worst things about pre-343 Halo and showed they has less of a coherent vision then they seemed.

>>8899690
It's really weird considering the timframe between Halo 2 and 3 wasn't that long, like two weeks so how could ALL brutes change themselves so drastically so fast? I kinda liked their original evil wookie design.

>>8899703
I think the worst example of this was changing Truth's voice. His voice in 2 was the perfect palpal egomanic dickhead and then they recast him as some deranged sounding old man.

>>8899709
as far as the games go it is rather fast but extended universe states that the prophet's plan to make the jirilhanae the covenant's new useful idiots was put into play way back during harvest, 25 years earlier. more recent events like the heretic uprising and the assassination of regret sped things along.
i'd also venture to guess that the wookiebrutes belong to tartarus' pack exclusively. they're only seen around him, on high charity and the second halo when he lands there.

>>8899637
You don't really need to read NoP so long as you understand a couple of (retarded) plot points. Aliens are either mega murder cannibal lizards or brain melted furry xenos scared of anything and everything, there was a Venlil-Human exchange program, bombing of Earth happened, Federation conspiracy revealed (I barely even remember the actual conspiracy), and probably some other unimportant bullshit that doesn't matter. Most stories are filled with so much community headcanon that has basically become the "real" canon since the actual story is so boring and drawn out, so you'd probably be lost either way with stuff like the fanon interpretation of exterminators and "predator disease". The majority fanfics are barely any better than the actual story anyway, but there are some nice ones here and there. New York Carnival is a good romance I think. But I also have an incredible slop tolerance, so take that into account I guess.
None of it is really that worth getting into in retrospect, I think I'm just an hmofa faggot who doesn't know where else to get his predator/prey dynamic xeno slop from.

>>8899709
pizza and fully armored morning sex, what a perfect bday

>>8899603
I like a mix of both. The older I get, the more disbelief I am willing to suspend. Not every sci-fi setting needs to be grounded like the Expanse. Throw in some gravity plating and inertial dampeners, and maybe the aliens are just bipedal people with 3 fingers and digitigrade legs and they're purple. Tell the story you want to tell.

>>8899803
>Aliens are either mega murder cannibal lizards or brain melted furry xenos scared of anything and everything, there was a Venlil-Human exchange program, bombing of Earth happened,
This is literally also the cannon of series "Legacy of the Aldenata" by John Ringo coincidently, which is like 12 books now.
>brain melted furry xenos scared of anything and everything
This seems to be a really popular trope in sci fi. Presumably there are tons of "Eden" planets out there where evolution was so mild that there where no predators, or no evolutionary competition between developing more sophisticated survival mechanisms. So these creatures are weak and peaceful as shit, with brittle bones, because that's all they ever needed.
They view earth as a death world due to our intense evolutionary coemption and predators.

Kabe my beloved

>>8899997
>This seems to be a really popular trope in sci fi.
I don't like this trope very much, always felt a little too masturbatory. If I remember correctly this is actually subverted in NoP with all the xenos being manipulated societally and genetically by a sort of over class of certain species to make them weak and retarded. Including the people eating lizards, apparently. The Venlil's home world Venlil Prime, or formerly Skalga, used to be more dangerous before they cleaned the problematic areas with anti-matter bombs and the Skalgans then subjected to a couple millennia of dysgenics. They don't really play with these ideas at all or try to make them make sense and drop them instead to focus on like, insectoid alien kids with (apparently actually diagnosed by doctors???) autism and hyperfixations and really poorly written nonsensical drama or whatever instead.

>>8900161
>always felt a little too masturbatory.
pretty much, the series is explicitly "humanity fuck yeah" the invading reptilian poslians are the only we ever kinda get to know, and it's barely anything since only 1 in 10,000 poslians are sentient, the rest are just dumb murder drones.
There is scheming xeno race pulling the strings causing all the fighting behind the scenes, but if those books where written I didn't read them.

I do prefer "humanity fuck yeah" story telling approach to the whimpering beatnik of star trek though, or at least something along the lines of Mass Effect where humanity still has some teeth and isn't entirely neutered.

>>8900263
I'm kinda the opposite where I think scifi leans too human-centric by majority (Mass Effect especially annoys me, slotting humanity into HFY results without explaining why humanity is so important), so I imagine up settings where humans are small players or recovering from being stepped on. Gives importance to them from the results they barely achieve rather then slotting them into the big damn heroes of the galaxy that everyone adores or envys.
Used to be baffled by why HFY think humans are mistreated in scifi, now that takes a backseat to being baffled by how low in quality in every department HFY always is.

>>8900263
>and it's barely anything since only 1 in 10,000 poslians are sentient, the rest are just dumb murder drones.
>There is scheming xeno race pulling the strings causing all the fighting behind the scenes
What the fuck? This, again, just sounds like NoP. Like, only a handful of Arxur aren't murder lizard drones after they subjected themselves to millennia of literal psychopath eugenics. Crazy.

>>8900477
I haven't read NoP, but the first book of "Legacy of the Aldenata" came out in 2000 so IDK who is copying whom if it is trope copy + paste

>>8900477
>Arxur
https://nop.fandom.com/wiki/Arxur#References
>posleen
https://johnringo.fandom.com/wiki/Posleen
idk, these Arxurs do seem to have been at least somewhat inspired by the posleen, but they aren't 100% copies. Posleen are hermaphrodites, more technologically advanced, tauric reptile creatures that travel the galaxy more like scouring swarms of locust. They don't communicate with other races or enslave them like these arxurs, they eat them. They where a modified bioweapon race that got loose if I remember the lore correctly, think they ate their masters.

>>8900462
humanity gets dogged on in ME constantly though

>>8900612
It couldn't make up it's mind if humans are an underdog or the center of the universe, especially in the sequels. So it tries to do both and flounders both.
It also does the cardinal sin of "make something look good by making everything else be bad".

>>8900628
All parts of the story/writing suffered each new game because the old bioware people kept leaving and being replaced by the shitty EA ones. ME2 suffered the worst since everything you hear about from the concept ideas are much better than "daddy issues" the game we got.
>shepard revived by the geth and made a good version of what saren was at the end of 1
>legion was going to be with you from the start of the game
>the reaper-human hybrid was going to be some weird giant god fetus looking thing
>etc

>>8900628
refresh my memory on how humans were the center of the universe, it's genuinely been a minute
>It also does the cardinal sin of "make something look good by making everything else be bad"
huh

>>8900840
Not that anon, never played the games either, but you can tell by vibes. Your crew gets 1 of every alien, then the rest are human. You do at least 1 mission related to every race, then all the personal missions are like, humans made a cloning facility, humans accidentally made a supercollider too good, humans toyed with a dormant megavirus.
The same reading applies to Star Trek too. The Federation is 85 percent human, all the colonies they visit are human, the headquarters is on earth. Every alien culture has 1 dimension, whereas humans are just as multifaceted as we are in real life. It's like a peaceful HFY. HFY lite.
Again, I have not played ME, just observed a bunch. These opinions are based on vibes. I have consumed a lot of Star Trek though, which was a big inspiration for ME.

>>8900263
>I do prefer "humanity fuck yeah" story telling approach to the whimpering beatnik of star trek though

For me it depends on the type of story. I like the idea where humans are physically stronger than most races if they're technically behind every other races as it gives them some reason to actually be threatening even while at a disadvantage. But I do find it boring as hell when humans have all the advantages as it really just lessens any tension when you know that humans have better gear, stronger, and just plain smarter than everyone else.

If you want your humans to be technically more advance, stronger, or whatever than the aliens in your story go right ahead but you're going to need to give the aliens some kind of advantage so it makes sense they're not just curb stomped in every fight they get in and vice versa if you want your story/setting to have humans on the Blackfoot.

>>8900847
isn't the reason start trek was so human focus because they had a shoe string budget and even cheap rubber mask were too expensive for them to show up to much?

>>8900847
>never played the games either, but you can tell by vibes. Your crew gets 1 of every alien, then the rest are human
you play a human in earth's space navy, and humans are a recent addition to a galactic coalition that pretty much every member sees as a bunch of dumbasses. of course your ship which belongs to your government is going to be primarily crewed by humans? quarians are primarily focused on securing resources for their flotilla, turians don't like you because of the war, krogans prefer to be mercs, asari would arguably fit, but they're also incredibly snobby when they aren't quietly genociding every species, and salarians think we're morons. it's not that they're the center of the universe, it's that they are your playable faction because people relate to being... people.

as for star trek, that was mainly for budgetary reasons, but also the aforementioned relate-ability. the alien cultures being planets-of-hats, is more of a tool to explore the human condition through different lenses, while also telling an entertaining sci-fi story

>>8900885
>>8900858
It's worth noting that a similar logic occurred with ME, citing budget and engine limitations but also in secret there were massive talent issues (EA is only part of the equation to Bioware going bad and probably not the lethal part) for limitations on depictions of the aliens and what they do. It took like three games to see female turians and hanar doing anything. Andromeda had like two new races that weren't robots or animals.
And yes it wasn't helped by a bunch of staff being low-empathy/imagination brainlets who kept shoveling in more humans for "relatability" because they can't comprehend what they don't see in the mirror... which we'd see germinate throughout their post-KotOR games and culminate in Veilguard which was all about the devs and their personal delusions, but now that's veering out of xeno territory.

>>8900949
Forgot to mention species sharing quadrupedal structure, two toed feet, other signs of cutting corners and altering a singular animation rig, very few of these were changed as the budgets and scope of the games improved.

I should not have looked into why we aren't in space or pursuing space anymore.
Legit just want to die now.

>>8900949
The fact Turians obviously have lip animations which make absolutely no sense in the context of how their bodies work always triggered me. But yes fuck normies.

BioWare had talent but just like a lot of these formerly good studios it really relied on the fact the talented people working there had the energy to power through bullshit. As soon as they dropped under a critical mass the problems just all overwhelmed the good parts. It's why ME3 got such a shitshow ending. EA didn't force the ending, the writers themselves fucked up on making one.

The craziest thing in BioWare story has to be Anthem though. Probably the only game in history where a EA Games executive coming in, firing people and demanding story and gameplay changes was a GOOD thing that led to a game being better (even if the result was a meme tier failure of a game)

>>8900987
you just learned it was to 1-up soviet missile technology, or is it some other reason?
also yeah i'm kinda saddened we aren't even trying to set up an inter-system mining operation, picking select asteroids out of the belt between mars and jupiter and mining them for metals. i've often wondered how we'd even do that sort of thing, or whether it'd be better to process them in space, or carefully direct them back to earth...
there'd have to be some dedicated zone on the planet we'd dedicate to dropping asteroids on, otherwise we'd risk massive destruction. i was thinking the middle of the outback would probably work, as there's nobody around for miles and miles, and they already have the train and trucking infrastructure, but maybe there's other options. you definitely wouldn't want to hit the ocean, because you'd lose your payload and cause tsunamis tho...

>>8901030
Getting an asteroid to earth would just create an ore deposit, which you'd still have to mine. The profits would be similar to what you would get from mining a regular deposit, except the regular deposit is already there and you just need to buy the mineral rights which would be millions/billions of dollars cheaper than getting an asteroid here. Thus, asteroid mining would only really be useful if we depleted all deposits of a specific resource on earth.
Ignoring all the technical limitations.

>>8901105
Even if you got one made of like pure precious metals or some shit it'd just crash the economy.

>>8901105
You are forgetting about one important aspect: polution.

Mining shit like heavy metals and rare earths is dirty as fuck. China has entire villages with life expectancy worse than middle ages Europe because of mining runoff, the kids who mine cobalt on the Congo to make lithium batteries work all get poisoned to shit, and it takes a lot of acids and harsh chemicals to process ore into usable metal.

If you do it on Earth, mining the Niobium and Cobalt and shit means paying a shitload of money to clean shit up or else accepting the land will be poisoned for decades if not centuries.

If you are doing it in space though... there is nothing to poison. You can use as much mercury and arsenic to mine gold as you want, it won't go anywhere. You can use superconcentrated cancer juice to process the ore into Iridium cause there is no ground water to worry about. You don't even need to worry about electricity in some cases, you can use mirrors to make solar furnaces which will conveniently be working in a hard vacuum and melt your stuff into pure ingots without expensive closed system furnaces.

And let me tell you, those poisonous and cancerous chemicals aren't just used for laughs: shit really REALLY makes it a lot easier to do chemistry.

That would crash the price to process ore in space compared to Earth. You could fuck over the entire competition by selling your metals and rare earths at a lower price but at the same time a higher profit margin. (Assuming of course the cost to send cargo to space is low enough)

>>8901127
I dont think anyone gives a fuck about chinese kids, still way more profitable than mining asteroids and will be for a long time.

>>8901030
If only it was that simple, really it's dozens of reasons that change or shift about and have dozens of reasons lodged within them like the people in charge and running things, and it's all retarded and petty and small-minded moreso then the thing before it and it's just a fodder mine for misanthropy.
>>8901105
>>8901110
And these help underline how recurring the smallmindedness factor is. "Eh we've got that stuff here", "eh think of the economy", when most children with basic first world educations could tell you that shit won't last forever and artificial equivalents might not exist/be feasible. People way smarter and with more reach then kids have been screaming this stuff for before the goddamn first world war.
And this shit takes time to develop, so when shit hits the fan with resources or population or whatever to the point of being unavoidable then that's a problem that will hit critical mass BEFORE you figure out how to do arcologies in space let alone terraforming the chalk orb that's always been overhead... and those are basic bitch steps before starting the basic bitch steps needed to begin the development of actual space travel so that can develop to the point where we can begin the process of searching for our alien waifus.
Nah bro that's risky and hard work, just feed Africa for like a month with that money.
FUCK
I genuinely feel like an interior lifeform after looking into this. Like, bugs that exist to live for one day and exist to breed for the next batch to do the same thing feel less pointless and dumb then we are, because they're actually oblivious by nature and never fuck anything up in their lives.
...have space sex bug

>>8901129
Neither do I, but that shit goes into the groundwater and the ocean and the air. It spreads. It won't just be chinks and niggers dying of it, it will be the mercury on your tuna and the heavy metals in the veggies.

And once these places are uninhabitable what do you think happens? These "people" move to where it is clean, meaning Europe and the USA where this sort of pollution isn't allowed. So keeping it clean stops migrants shitting up the place.

>>8901152
Chinks are ok not sure why you care so much about them

>>8901161
>t. slope

>>8901161
Chinks are bugmen who although high IQ have little to no humanity. The only good chinks are the Taiwanese because they escaped the Cultural Revolution and kepts their souls.

We must secure the existence of a wholesome biosphere on Earth and a future for our xeno gfs/bfs to visit. Simple as.

Not to lump all the anons I like with all the idiots, it's probably just one guy shitting up the thread, but it's crazy to me that anons can be like "I hate how Bioware thought I wouldn't be able to relate to aliens because of their faces, anyway all black people are terrible and deserve to die" without even a shred of self awareness. Seriously, get off the internet and go outside.

>>8901326
It's fine to be racist against aliens of course, so why not races of own species?

>>8901326
It’s because people looked outside, especially about five years ago, that they e developed such an attitude that was such it burned right through the ideological filters they were raised with from birth.
I would say take your pol shit to pol, but that would imply you bluehaired ratspawn weren’t so throughly whipped by them in every talking point that you’re willing to ever discourse there again.
Begone from here. Your Allies would call you an incel for being here anyway.

>>8901326
Bruh, why do you lot so homogeneous and interchangeable in how you talk/what you say? I could take a hundred comments from a hundred of you, show them to a thousand normal people, and they would assume the same one person wrote them all. What a factory line generation.

>>8901010
>The craziest thing in BioWare story has to be Anthem though. Probably the only game in history where a EA Games executive coming in, firing people and demanding story and gameplay changes was a GOOD thing that led to a game being better (even if the result was a meme tier failure of a game)
That's pretty funny. I actually thought Anthem was really cool looking and felt good to play. It's too bad it's issues were a little too glaring to make up for it.

>>8901326
But black people loot my local walmart.

>>8901326
It just can't be helped. Either take a long break from here like lots of other anons do or find somewhere else better. I know I shouldn't lurk here during all of my drawing sessions.

>>8901326
My region is 32% black. What's yours bitch?

>>8901422
>game is all about getting loot
>except the best weapon/gear mathematically is using the starter weapon with no armor equipped at all
literally built wrong which is extra funny coming from a studio who got famous for making D&D style games where gear math and levels is so important

>>8901105
There are asteroids around Earth orbit alone with more gold, lithium, tungsten, etc, than on/in our planet. There really is no cost too great for the ridiculous wealth.

>>8901576
The problem with going out and getting an asteroids worth of gold or diamonds or other precious metals is it would tank the value of the stuff, and render the whole mission a bust.
Gold has a lot of electrical and chemical applications, but most of it's value is tied into us being dumb fucking monkeys who like shiny rocks for jewelry. If we suddenly inundate the gold market with 5X more gold, then all gold is gonna become worthless, and people would stop valuing it for jewelry in the same way.
That's less of an issue with cobalt, lithium, etc. but they still risk totally upending the metals market and rendering the whole asteroid mining mission unprofitable.

>>8901584
90iq take.

>>8901597
you think you can dump a mountains worth of gold into the precious metals market and it WON'T effect the price of gold?

>>8901584
It's not like anyone ties gold to currency anymore and gold is far more valuable as an electrical component.

>>8901624
Oh, you really are a moron, I didn't anticipate that.
>While jewelry typically consumes around 78% of newly mined gold, the electronics industry utilizes approximately 7%.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-industry-sector-share/
I said gold "Gold has a lot of electrical and chemical applications" but jewelry still makes up the vast majority of it's use.
And no, no countries use the gold standard, but they do keep Gold reserves, and they (the US, Russia, China, etc) aren't going to sit idly by and watch their massive gold reserves get completely devalued overnight just to provide for the electronics manufacturing industry have cheaper components.

>>8901326
Its sad that such faggoty bait like this can get so many replies.

>>8901584
>We can't build a space thing because materials are too rare and expensive
>Hey humans, there's an asteroid full of stuff you need, we could bring it to you for free, no problem
>Nah, thanks, it will make the said material too cheap
>?????
Goddamn goypitalism.
inb4 no, goymmunism is shit as well.

>>8901557
as a /xeno/ resident, cute and deserving of smooches
as a /mfg/ resident, still cute and deserving of smooches, but the mask stays on

>>8901621
I think I don't care what happens if it does, as I live paycheck to paycheck

>>8899662
Bungie were just as retarded as 343 are people just don't want to admit that. Halo has never had a studio worthy of the setting

>>8902216
>just admit to be a zoomer.
Nah, Halo 1, and Halo 2 especially for it's time was groundbreaking kino, the graphics where insane for the period, and the plots where fantastic. Comparing the original games to the slop that 343 pushes out now just shows you where not playing when the originals where released.

>>8902224
multiple things can be true at once

>>8902224
>fantastic plots
lol, lmao even

>>8902229
seconding, skin all haloniggers

>>8901597
It's a pity that there are only like two or three images of this critter and no developed backstory/biology that I have been able to unearth.

>>8902224
idk how you managed to make that guy so mad by being objectively correct

>>8902224
ODST was the peak of Halo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOa9FXAKA2o
Ordinary but daring humans should have been at the forefront of the series instead of John Halo and his friends. I look at an ODST and think "hell yeah, they look like they kill and fuck xenos in equal measure".

>>8902702
My kingdom for a near 1 to 1 full-budget TV series of Halo directed by Neil Blomkamp.

>>8902702
I like the idea of ODST, but after the graphics of Halo 2, halo 3 looked awful.
My favorite's where 2 and reach, I don't really care about "master chief" I was way more invested in my own personalized spartan and squad that slowly dies off on reach.
I'd love to see them do the same thing again with an ODST team, so long as the graphics don't suck and 343 isn't involved.

>>8902731
>I like the idea of ODST, but after the graphics of Halo 2, halo 3 looked awful
Shhhhh, you'll anger all the kids that missed 2 and grew up with 3 that think it was the pinnacle of Halo.

Personally, if we're going to have a video game telling a story, I'd prefer a new studio to the big bastards who are being driven for profit and not pleasure. God bless both Larian and Sandfall for reminding people what good fucking story telling looks like.

Also, if we're going to have alien species, can we PLEASE have some that aren't just humans with additional bits stapled on? Don't get me wrong, I'm Team Tali'zorah all the way, and I'd love for a lean mean Sangheili mommy to sit on my face...but where's the love for the non-bipeds? If there can be hot fuzzy bear love in Baldur's Gate, why can't I fertilize the eggs of my young Rachni Queen?

Side note; do we have a possible list of artists that are down to doodle some wholesome degeneracy?

I don't get the argument of 2 looking better than 3, when 3 is 2's artstyle but slightly higher fidelity

>>8902753
I'm all for it, I love quadrupeds and taurs.
I think the whole Larian bear sex thing was a watershed moment. The game dev community realized there's an actual market for weird shit like this, plus steam is full of erotic games now. I could totally see a game offering an extreme /xeno/ love interest in the coming decade (likely in the upcoming mass effect)

>>8902753
>>8902778
Sorry to say, but you'll likely never get a quadruped love interest in a AAA game for a very long time, outside of some extenuating circumstances involving furries

The closest you'll likely get is *maybe* something resembling Vipers

>>8902818
>resembling Vipers
probably won't even get that since Firaxis has apparently abandoned Xcom 3 in favor of making Civilizations over and over again indefinitely

>>8901030
I read a story in either analog or Asimov's once where they retro--rocketed the whole thing down like the falcon 9.

>>8902818
I certainly won't say no to delicious snussy, but it's still disappointing.

>>8902828
We know pain.

>>8902778
Hopefully this means more fans will mean more profits which means more actual attempts at creating a proper fucking space opera that isn't humanocentric.

Hopefully before I turn into an even more crotchety old asshole than I am right now.

>>8902778
>I think the whole Larian bear sex thing was a watershed moment.
No it wasn't Are you retarded or something? It was just fat black trannies doing a victory lap

What does /xeno/ think of this movie?

>>8903001
women can have these things but we can't

>>8903001
Never seen it, but I do love me some aquatic ayys.

>>8902992
It's only gay tranny sex if you make your character a gay tranny that then has sex with the bear.
The biggest game of the year, what some consider a "top ten of all time" even has TWO weird non human sex scenes in it, and it didn't result in the games immediate cancellation and riots, it's earned over half a billion instead.
In 2005 San Andreas had a NON PLAYABLE sex game, and it caused a government investigation by the fucking former first lady.
We've come a long way in 20 years, and Baldur's Gate was the signal to games producers that "anything goes", that's a pretty watershed moment imo

>>8903001
Interesting concept but it should have been a man and a fish ayy lady.

>>8903003
>women are gooning over the fuckin mothman
they absolutely can not judge us.

>>8903020
Larian is also a private company so don't expect to see anything like that from publicly traded companies. Also all the AAA game companies just want to pretend BG3 doesn't exist and it's impossible to make a similar game despite having more money man power than larian does.

>>8902992
>>8903020
doesn't the bear unavoidably cuck you if you try to roamance a certain character

>>8902753
>do we have a possible list of artists that are down to doodle some wholesome degeneracy?
It would be a short list, but no one bothered to keep the last one around.

>>8903003
...do I know that Barnes & Noble? That looks like the Barnes & Noble in Blackstone Valley, MA.

>>8902778
>>8902992
Sadly this, it wasn’t an authentic push for new and bold Interspecies relationships, it was degenerates pushing what they saw as degenerate shit that would piss off people they hate.(everyone that isn’t a deranged freak)
If they came to this thread and found out there’s a bunch of men using a site they hate who are less then 100% on the ultraleft cause who’re eager for interspecies content with non-anthro creatures, they would NEVER do it again. Such is how they “think”, in their very logic engine way.

>>8903082
all franchised stores look the same nowadays

>>8903099
Very well put. To believe these people are on your side is foolhardy at best. Any sort of interspecies/xeno relationship will be as subversive and controversial as possible as to not be made to appeal to """gamers""". Modern studios hire on incompetent people explicitly because they hate you and are different from you, don't for a second think you have any common interests.

>>8903102
>>8903099
intellectually I know you are right.
But I naively choose to remain hopeful that the new mass effect won't be a complete bust, despite Bioware having not made a successful game since...mass effect.

>>8903102
bro they do not hire the all the fuck ups because they hate you, they do because they know the fuck ups are fucking spineless yes men, and will put in microtransactions in a single player game when the boss says so, just look at is happening at subnautica 2 they hied a big fuck up that has made a career sucking his boss's cocks.

>>8903404
>video games are bad cause the higher ups! the mtx! the greed!
Get fucking real dude. They would rather delude themselves into releasing Concord level failures than appeal to the interests of straight white men. That's why you won't ever get a truly AAA /xeno/core romance without it being subversive and gay, they hate you. To believe otherwise is just nuts.

>>8901326
I think like that and I say that.

>>8902216
Nah I disagree. Despite everyone calling Halo "my first fps" it was revolutionary. The artstyle, music, satisfying gameplay, voice acting and worldbuilding created the perfect storm of a trilogy that I can always look back fondly at.

>>8903686
I can't think of any other series that lets me splatter aliens driving a truck with the boys. Fps fags hate halo with such religious fervor ignoring all the kino that came with it.

>>8903694
pretty sure most of the halo hate comes from when it was on top and everyone tried to copy it but most fell flat so the style of halo FPS just left a bad taste in people's mouth and since no one could remember the bad imitators just the lack luster experience they gave they just shifted the blame onto halo.

Halo was good, a lot of the "Halo killers" they made to try and beat it, not so much.

>>8903423
no you Get fucking real dude they do not hate straight white men they just what money and xeno fucking is small beans to the anime and other fuckers, just look at that dumbass horse gambling game that is being shown all over the place

>>8903867
^ This.
You can't make much money off of xenofags. I don't know why anyone would expect good high quality stuff to flow for free for this. Even the only xeno adjacent game couldn't make enough money to go full-time. And there's especially no xeno focused content creators that make any money from drawing for places like this either (sadly, some of them might not like the type of audiences this niche attracts.)

>>8903867
You’re brown and illiterate. Get out. I’ve grown tired of seeing your spiteful mutant slop posts.

>>8903867
Do you have any idea how much money companies have lost shoveling awful women and negros and rainbow freaks into the products and their developers? How fucking high can you count?
Basically every single franchise that was ever big is now worthless, and they’re just tripling down on the bullshit that caused it. The people in charge so obviously don’t care about money and only just hate normalcy and western accomplishments. I don’t even think mtx is about money anymore, they do it because they know people hate it.

>>8903867
>they do not hate straight white men they just what money
they've literally thought the money was in hating straight white men for the past decade, there's no other reason for them repeatedly propping up rainbowhair nutjobs into positions they did not qualify for

>>8903650
you and me both

>>8903101
Most of them sure but not all of them.

>>8904395
why does bug have monkey cunt

>>8904561
Baboon uterus.

>>8903867
This.
Companies just like money and tried to cater towards what they thought was normies. Its not that deep, there is no conspiracy to destroy the west or whatever. They thought they could chase and appeal to an audience while keeping the one they already had.
Not sure why /xeno/ is schizing out about it. Its just dumb brainrot.

Blorg are very friendly creatures.

>>8904940
Wood, but no kisses.

>>8904800
the blorg can't meme

>>8905142
Why do you have a problem with friendly creatures?

>>8905145
because they want To Serve Man

Stuck phoneposting for a time so someone else has to make new thread and the five posts
Don’t forget to add the new link for the alien types reference

>>8888487 (OP)
>>8905310
take your pick of ayy chart:
>>8889004 was posted in the last thread or 2nd to last thread
>>8888844 was posted this thread because nobody saved it

Wjere is the new thread.

I finally finished this!

>>8905549
Nicely done, senpai.

>>8905552
thanks dude!

>>8901326
this is unironically true

>>8905534
Fi-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ine.
I'll do it.
>>8905725
>>8905725

>>8905725

Here you go, guys.
Have fun.
I don't usually make these so feel free to piss all over the OP because I don't really give a shit.

>>8905729
Also I'm drunk.

>>8901326
>I hate how Bioware thought I wouldn't be able to relate to aliens because of their faces, anyway all black people are terrible and deserve to die
I'll give you a hint, the latter ain't got anything to do with black faces

>>8905549
going to put it in the new thread?

Currently watching Titan A.E because I wanted to see the pissed off kangaroo alien chick.
Film is pretty shit but she's pretty fun.