Random Text #3: My former fascination with aliens
It started in mid 2011, 18 years old, I got Mass Effect 2 in PC (2 DVD discs) on early 2011. The first one was on Steam in December 2011.
The moment I booted up the game, I was amazed by the synth music score (Jack Wall who composed it), the character designs of aliens, even there are non-humanoid like Elcor, Hanar, Salarian or Krogan. To this day, I love humanoid aliens in Mass Effect.
I didn't think much of my customizable human character as [Insert first name here] Shepard, while the rest of the NPCs are going to call your last name only. I just thought the humans looked passable at best, without disrespecting them.
I was really immersed myself in the game and its universe and I couldn't help it finding other sci-fi games like that. Bioware did a wonderful creation on Mass Effect Trilogy.
The alien characters like Garrus, Tali'zorah vas Normandy, Wrex, Mordin, Thane, etc. will be remembered the most. The weapons, the worldbuilding, the story, the NPCs and the planets are something that most people will probably forget about them later on.
Mass Effect 2 has the best story mode I've played in early 2012.
Despite Mass Effect 3's reputation by other people, I really like the game itself back when I played it in December 2013.
I love my time of playing the 'Multiplayer' mode. It's a horde mode against NPCs in 20-40 minutes. What's amazing about it is that you can pick the alien races for your playable character.
I'm deflecting the topic here.
If there's such a thing as advanced people out in the universe IRL, I doubt there might be some hot pretty alien humanoid beings in some star system. Whatever their appearances may be, I don't believe they would be communicate with us, nor they would even try. they'll just think humans as ants.
But humans think that they'd welcome a new civilization from outer space.
It's very unlikely or they would cleanse us. Or if the alien species are not advanced and they land in South Africa to find resources in that country and such, it'd be like District 9.
10 years reflecting on alien characters in fiction and people's ideas of what alien lifeforms might look like, I stopped obsessing over non-humanoid aliens and original alien characters.
Mass Effect was an entertainment product I ended up to adore it fictionally. I'm not looking forward to the new Bioware team with Mass Effect 5 after Dragon Age Veilguard's result.
I still love alien character designs, but not obsessively.
I have a sketchy science fiction bounty hunter story I've started in September 2021. It has some alien characters in the story, but I don't know when I'll finish it.