Why are turians the most anticipated species for MEA inclusion?

I always saw the turians as the aggressive and arrogant, humanity as recklessly curious and selfish.

The military emphasis and requirement in turian society keeping such predatory aggressions in check. Turians were incredibly racist throughout the trilogy, and even sexually over aggressive like Oraka demanding Sha'ira take their relationship further against her will and the turian on Omega trying to force the asari/femShep to perform fellatio on him.


Afterall, foundation comics say turians initially sought to conquer and occupy earth and enslave its citizens. That was how humanity was introduced to the galactic community, by trigger anxious turians intent to kill and ask questions later, conquer and enslave an unknown species that did not fire on them first. This is why cerberus and xenophobia starts in humanity.

The character of the Turian species is definitely one of honor, chivalry and civic pride which perfectly translates into a meritocratic-bureaucratic society as one might expect. They are quite literal blue-bloods typified by their honest by-the-book do-things-right-or-don't-do-them-at-all nature... these are all societally aspirational qualities you might associate with heroic acts / patriotism so it's no wonder how popular they are given most players identify as paragons who will typically embrace these values.

I reckon your personal affinity for the Turians rises in proportion to your paragon meter score and probably in reality your support for the military, police and government (authority). Whenever I meet a Hank Hill in real life I always think of them as human turians.

Well, aren't many of the alien romance options potentially hazardous to the health of the protag or LI?

You got quarians with their compromised immune systems.

You've got dextro turians, with their "chafing", and remember what Mordin said everyone, don't ingest.

And then there's the drell and their hallucinogenic fluids (get it, 'cause they're frog people).

Asari are an exception, as they've evolved to breed with pretty much any intelligent species.

While I'm not against alien romances, it's probably for the best if they're kept platonic in most situations. Well, unless NerveStim Pro has a "multiplayer" mode.

I admit I want to see a Turian in Frostbite.

I've never been all that big on Turians myself (or Garrus).. but they are a unique edition to the Mass Effect universe. I wouldn't say 'diverse', but definitely unique. Salarians and Asari sprung up from distinctive niches in the science fiction genre in regards to Alien races. On the other hand, I hadn't seen anything quite like the Turians before playing Mass Effect.

Krogan are there because lots of people like infantile destruction and violence. Their "story" or whatever (interesting as I think the genophage arc was) hardly matters for most people who aren't die hard ME turbonerds. They don't need any depth to be popular among the general game buying public. The genophage arc was window dressing, evidenced by 92% of players curing it regardless of Wreav being the most common krogan leader.

I imagine the case is the same with the turians due to being "badass soldier guys". We know little of them, and what we do paints them as by far the most rubber foreheaded human aliens of the ME lot (in terms of psychology/culture and behavior, not the actual physical design which is okay), yet they are massively popular. Albiet, I don't know how much they could do with the whole "militaristic" trope that hasn't already been done to death in Scifi. Statist space fascists who like shooting things exist in just about every scifi universe.

Other than appearance, Garrus was no less "human" than any human squadmate. Most other humanoids at least had some quirks (even if they were still mostly human). I suspect that actually worked in his favor in terms of poularity, as he can more easily fill the role of "alien bro" for a wider spectrum of people, than say a wierdo like Thane or Mordin (or for females Samara or Tali). Species like the krogan, turians or even asari are easy to understand and can fill common species-hat tropes (brutes, militarists, space babes), and are therefore popular.

Sadly true. It's just like the Klingons with Star Trek; I am positive that if we didn't have to cram them into every show (seemingly) that we would have gotten more interesting stories. 

The Krogan and Asari should take a backseat, let some of the other aliens from the universe get their time in the limelight. It would be amazing if we could see a take on the Hanar, Elcor, or Volus that wasn't an opportunity for really bad attempts at humor. A showcasing of the Rachni that isn't the same exact choice from ME 1, just with a different backdrop. An exploration of the Slarians aside from being evil scientists that dared to pick on the Krogan. Etc.

Yeah, you know I actually wouldn't mind the Klingons (and Krogan) as much if they weren't involved in practically every single event of their respective universes.

We get it, Klingons (and Krogan) are aggressive warrior cultures, can we please shut up about them now?

There are certainly many unpleasant Turians in the first three games, but that's true of humans, Asari, Krogan etc - there are examples and individuals of all the species for the most part having xenophobic, sexist or just plain evil views - I'd say human nature!!  Take the initial dust up in the first contact war with the humans and Turians.  Turians saw an illegal act of humanity opening forbidden relays and were right to attack from their perspective, humans saw an unprovoked attack by a hostile alien race and correctly fought back later, from their perspective.  It's pretty much the story for most if not all wars.  

Every people will have it's bad apples - I just like the doctrine of the Turians.  It seems honour based and set in a past era perhaps.  

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 Hm... hopefully they are just NPCs
 
 

Not just that, but they discovered the Citadel not long after the Asari.

There's a good reason why that Volus ambassador is so rude...