Mass Effect Replay: The ugliest aliens you've ever seen in any universe
by:
Randy
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posted:
2/28/2021 12:40:00 AM
Batarians are ugly. By human standards, anyway. Batarians have four black eyes. Six gnarly looking nostrils. Weak, shallow chins. Heck, humans even hate that feature in each other. But the thing I dislike most in the Batarians is that, in the
Mass Effect universe, they’re the underdogs, and humans are basically going to ensure they stay there, unable to progress, as the underdogs.
The Bring Down the Sky DLC is something I ran into accidentally on my way to finding the blue lady (Liara). In Bring Down the Sky, the Batarians are driving an asteroid right towards a major population center on a planet. It’s an asteroid big enough to wipe out the dinosaurs. I’ve got four hours to stop it. When my six-wheeler is dropped from my ship and I land on the asteroid, I see how close the planet is—and its enormity on the asteroid’s horizon—which makes the ticking of the clock become very loud and clear in my mind.