What is your favorite vidya race, Sup Forums?
A race that you try to pick in every game or is fairly unique.
I really like tree/nature races. The flower people in GW 2 were pretty cool.
What is your favorite vidya race, Sup Forums?
Samuel Lee
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Christian Moore
Horatio. Because nothing less than perfection will do.
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Noah Jones
From ES 2 - Voidborn, Vodyani
EL - Necrophages, Cult
Cooper Diaz
I like ants.
Grayson Carter
>Voidborn
Isaiah Martinez
>Vodyani
Elijah Bennett
I'm boring and prefer humans, because usually they look the best in most gear.
Asher James
Humans
Colton Miller
>Necrophages
Julian Lee
>Cult
Carter King
undead skellingtons
Aaron Ward
>humans
Jaxon Lee
Oops, missremebered riftborns name, thank you kindly
Justin Ramirez
Jose Harris
This
Levi Flores
Am I a pleb for almost always playing humans? Or at the very least, always starting with humans when given an option.
Also GW2 can't hold a candle to what GW was.
Colton White
MAMA
Lucas James
You're alright. The Orz and those gas giant aliens are better, though.
Adrian Richardson
I LOVE playable machine species, the weirder the better. Unfortunately they're incredibly rare.
On the flipside, I despise fucking elves. Dull garbage (visually and thematically).
Isaac Jenkins
dust boiz
Bentley Cox
We will never get a cool Icebear race, Sup Forums. How does this make you feel?
Daniel Howard
Orz are easily 2nd best overall race wise, but I just like the Kzer-za for being antagonists/villains with a goal that isn't destroy everything. They had some baller ass music and a good history that sets up why they're such shits though. Slylandro are good too but they're not used too much.
Dominic Hernandez
Bigass monsters. Not that pansy shit like World of Warcraft's Tauren or those faggot "dragon" people in TERA, but closer to those lion things from Guild Wars 2. Shame GW2 is shit. Let me be a big fucking monster with a huge as fuck weapon; let me feel like I'm not a scrawny person in real life.
Cameron Harris
>Cool icebear race
Daniel Lee
Doesn't bother me too much, Ive come to accept nothing will ever top Charrs
Isaiah Thomas
literally me
Justin Nelson
Charr concept art is an 11/10 in badass factor but in game they are nowhere near as badass sadly.
Dylan Green
I like arachnids when I can get them
Liam Moore
Whatever race that has females with the best hips
Aaron Garcia
Im just hoping they will do an expac on the Blood Legion homelands and we might get some more Charr-esk looking armor thats straight from their concept art. I like the cultural armor but the same 3 sets really limits what I can transmog
Jonathan Thomas
Why don't most creatures blink one eye at a time? Seems like it would be useful to keep an eye open for predators
John Sullivan
>Seems like it would be useful to keep an eye open for predators
That is in fact more or less exactly why the Ur-quan blink with one at a time more than likely.
Wyatt Williams
Glowing Spacegoats.
Isaiah Sullivan
Endless space 2 any good?
Mason Allen
Monsters or Shapeshifters that pretend to be normal.
I also like Elves, but I figured they were too generic? So some kind of void / space / cosmic race is also cool.
Jayden White
It's not bad.
Josiah Long
It's pretty fun
Jaxon Gray
Is it only me or does she look like that one actress?
Jason Adams
>tfw no cute sister to have mercy with
Cooper Long
Why isn't predatory nature used as a base for more alien species? It's such a simple concept - a species that evolved from solitary hunters (like bears or centipedes), giving them completely different outlook on life in comparison to social hunters like us. Ur-Quan are so fucking cool.
Angel Rodriguez
White race and east asians.
Levi Collins
M I T H R A
Matthew Butler
Unfallen would be so much cooler if they were more alien instead of somewhat generic kind tree-people.
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Replace "Juffo-wup" with "The Heart" and you're good to go.
Asher Rivera
Found a picture of you
Ryder Morris
The Ur-Quan in general are just fucking great, both Kohn-Ah and Kzer-Za. So imposing, and I agree with you that the Kzer-Za's whole thing of going around and shielding planets is really unique, as well as the idea that the subspecies exist as different interpretations of the same doctrine. I like the Slylandro because of the levity they provide and because the probe story sort of tickles me. Also the fact that they get flustered at you only being able to see their genitals is pretty funny. Other than that, a truly ancient species that exists only with the ability to speak and think and not produce any technology or anything physical at all is quite interesting. Their history that's just them counting rotations and revolutions in between visits from different species is amusing in a slightly sad way, and I was a bit sad that I couldn't talk to them about Earth and could only listen to them talk about themselves. The Orz are the best just because of that intense contrast between their really silly and fun initial look and the potential truths as to what they really are. Their theme just being chanting of the word "die" over and over again while this happy beat plays is so grim. Additionally, most players will almost immediately accept their offer to be friends and will direct them straight to Earth, but then might later start to learn what they really are. You also don't get many races like them in sci-fi where they aren't really even a real race, just "fingers" of some overbeing. Man, Star Control 2 is cool. I really need to get back to it.
SC2 had a lot of cool stuff. Shame that most vidya now doesn't really have much stuff that's as creative.
Justin Gutierrez
Im not american. But nice try.
Cameron Mitchell
Also I dont like nzis. My grandpa was killing them. I also hate commies, just so u know.
Bentley Evans
i liked these guys alot but only being able to terraform i think? into shittier planets was kind of a turn off
Matthew Clark
>There's a star control reboot coming out by stardock
>Thre's also a star control 2 sequel coming out by paul and fred
>Starshit is suing paul and fred over it
Ethan Diaz
SKAVEN YES-YES!
Owen Richardson
this
fucking spaceniggers get out
Xavier Ross
Nathan Hernandez
Always pick the most, underhanded, backstabby, scummy, disgusting, ugly race. Because nothing pisses me off more than smug cunt races like Elves that carry the only flaw of "We're too perfect so we're kind of pompous teehee ;)))))"
Ethan Peterson
...
Grayson Martin
I also fucking hate elves
Literally anything they're in, they're automatically fucking AWFUL tier
Hudson Powell
Kevin Barnes
Typical endless legend game. All around fun and a constant improvement in every way except the combat is nonstop ass.
Bentley Reyes
F-filthy Dwarf Thing! Queek will kill-chop you!
Jackson Robinson
>broken lords one of the few races that make it off of Artichoke
>lets just do them, but different
Asher Reed
Wait I thought only the vaulters managed to get off Auriga
Christopher Carter
>broken lords but with tits
Ayden Roberts
the vaulters made it off inside of a hissho ship but a few "species" show up in ES1 confirming they either stowed away, or other ships made it off somehow
broken lord being the most obvious, given the heros backstory, and the fact that his name is an anagram of broken lord
even before 2 though, their timeline was pretty insane anyway, since it takes place over such a large amount of time, but with so very few specific events
we already had broken lords with tits, these new slags are just dusty bitches
Ian Anderson
>planets free of organic scourge
>shittier
Riftborn get big happiness bonus for being on sterile planets and since those have better yields than fertile planets you can have your desert-ash-ash-lava system producing a carrier per turn with no approval headaches.
Julian Smith
I agree with this user and I love Dwarves.
Joseph Hernandez
I'm pretty sure ES2 is supposed to be a retcon of the ES1 timeline.
Ayden Nguyen
Waterfolk and angels. When I say Waterfolk I pretty much mean any kind, ranging from merfolk with fins and gills, to just humans that live on the water and make water a huge part of their culture.
I'm also an angel fag.
>honorable mentions
Avians, treefolk, fungi people, goat people, skeletons
>specifics
Protoss, Warcraft trolls/goblins, D&D Dragonborn, orc girls
Camden Cooper
>tfw am fucking retarded and didn't realize riftborn got +sterile buildings
do they get other shit to help with low pop on these kinds of planets, or is that just a trade off for having the best pops?
Ian Bennett
>no Dosh Lords
0/10 would not flood Auriga with a tidal wave of Dust and steel with
Jack Robinson
right, but it only got retconned because of the events of EL (and dote). arguably some of the shit happened the same since the virtual couldnt change every single thing
i havent really played, but to my knowledge, the only people to make it off this time around were the vaulters and the sisters of mercy
a ton of stuff is clearly the "same" though, pulsos being harmony/silics, similar shit
Nolan Edwards
That's the trade off. There's no reason to terraform planets past desert in my opinion, it's the point where there's just enough pops and production there to be good.
Kevin James
they are third place for me in EL, in that case, 3rd place in ES2 - trees
Elijah Gonzalez
What's not to like about a race of sapient modifiable lizard people created by the sap of a tree hivemind that existed before time
Jonathan Wood
>tfw your vineships about to be finished with a good system and some faglord comes in and takes it
Jaxson Stewart
Aiden Howard
Endless races are fantastic. I'm usually really picky about fantasy and sci-fi races, but Endless hits my check lists.
My favourites have got to be from UQM though.
Gavin Rogers
combat rework dlc for EL that just turns it into homm3 when?
Noah Gonzalez
Elf
Dominic Fisher
>play Unfallen on Endless difficulty
>by the time my first vineship finishes placing the first vine my Sophon neighbour completely boxes me in with his outposts and colonies
It's always the fucking Soph*ns. They're like Cravers except even more annoying, since Cravers don't get colonisation techs that fast, their tendency to hyper-aggressively forward settle you is the same otherwise.
Hunter Hill
My militaristic space mushrooms from Stellaris
Ryan Williams
Blood Bowl is the only game where I like elves. High Elves specifically, robust honest passing play with no bullshit. Unfortunately everyone else in that game has bullshit galore
Austin Nelson
I really like robotic races, undead, and maybe a mix of those like the broken lords from Endless legend. They probably speak to my immense fear of death or something. But they also look really cool.
Ian Miller
Their voice was like having broken glass shoved into my ears, but I liked their ships and their friendly neighbouring plant dudes. It was also impressive when they were strong enough to put a big dent into the Kohr-Ah
David Garcia
Its good.
Jacob Nguyen
Always the short stack engineering/genius race. Short furry races fucking ruin it for me though. Asura are alright.
Xavier Moore
>What is your favorite vidya race
the white race!
Nathan Bennett
I always play mages, so humans or elves.
Jacob Garcia
>you're not allowed to like white people
How's the whole white guilt thing going on bud?
Connor Stewart
>redit yes-yes
Juan Nguyen
I think not.
Juan Green
based dustbro
Henry Walker
Anything that can transform the enviroment.
Be it mechanical, biological, magical etc
Let me transform my enemies homes into "my" type of home.
Lucas Wood
Humans. The more human and less transhuman they are, the better. Realistically they wouldn't stand a chance against AIs or anything at a similar level but i don't care.
Aiden Rivera
>charr
Good taste.
David Phillips
Always found their design to be a bit stupid. They look industrially manufactured, not created by energy manipulations of some alter-dimensional entities.
>repeating words
Are skaven autistic?
Easton Davis
YOU ABOMINABLE FIEND I WILL SMITE YOU IN THE NAME OF SIGMAR
Easton Peterson
Asher Morgan
I love biomechanical monstrosities, lizardmen and insectoid races. The moment I saw the Cravers I knew they were the race for me, they're so damn cool.
On the other hand I can't stand generic sci-fi/fantasy races like Elves, Dwarves or recoloured humans like ME Asari or WoW Orcs, they're so boring.
Austin Lee
I love orcs when they are not just generic enemies.
Liam Diaz
I like a lot of different races and I don't know what they share in common that makes them stand out to me as games go by
for instance, and sticking with the endless theme
>amoeba
>drakken
>riftborn
As for non endless examples, I guess I really like the Dwemer. But I can't put them above all of the other races I can think of.
Easton Baker
These mother fuckers, too bad they're in a dead franchise and no other game really utilizes them in any way.
I wish more games gave us amphibious, reptilian and bird races. All we ever get is the same recycled shit.