What are some fantasy races in spess vidya? I'm trying to get inspiration

Can't argue here. Also the film had Dizzy.

I mean, this broad strokes analysis doesn't 100% work. You need some differentiation between tech and robo, and you missed science-magic/psionics.
Eldar are technologically advanced and have magical powers, but there's also the Necrons. Then the Protoss are like a Warrior race that's also technologically advanced and a psionic race. But then they're split up into the stealthy Nerazim, the direct Khala, the robo Purifiers and the evil Tal'Darim.

For my own purposes, I made 5 categories with a race per pair. It's kind of forced, but it sort of works.

It's missing a lot and templates dont really work

Dizzy a s'okay

I think Zerg was the first and the last interesting playable non-human race.

Where are the Androsynth?

Bunch of plebs.

No, you only lack imagination.

You mean the tyranids. Since zerg is just a tyranid ripoff.

Not a porn thread, faggot

It's a shame Mass Effect went to shit after the original, it had a couple neat races that managed to push beyond the typical "human, space elf, space dwarf, space jew" setup, though it was a huge fucking shame that those were precisely the type of races they went with for the main cast - where the fuck were my Elcor or Hanar crew members?

Says you, I for one love the idea as it has tons of open space for philosophical exploration

dont forget potential genetic mutation story
where the distance between stars and space travel may create the perfect environment where species may off shoot from mankind and then become mankinds enemies
like maybe space jews or space chinks that eat people instead of dogs

Say that to my face fucker not online and see what happens

This exactly, reminds of this stop-motion film where everything is a spawn of genetically mutated humans. Exploring government systems and utopias/dystopias as-well as human nature and religion, and science the possibilities are endless. Surprised this setting hasn't had alot of exploration in fiction.

I liked the Covenant as it was a pretty neat idea that not many forms of media take on. An alliance of different aliens who join for various reasons and are vastly different is much better than "lol we're the same race but sometimes we have mutations so there's a sniper class and tank class xd"

Porn, maybe?

Battletech has pretty good races.

kys

Make way for best aaays

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Way to stick to your guns, faggot.

kys leftytard

Humans w/ ears that drive around space with ships made of bone and lots of weird fucky magic

You mean aliens? Since tyranids are just aliens ripoff.

Nigga please, Aliens are just a rip off of Madagascan vampire ants

What about furfags, they even use "muh pogromy" million years after they happen and as if it was the worst thing that ever happen. Even after whole fucking Earth was glassed. space jews and mutants?

Warhammer's got like a bunch, to the point where even humans seem alien

very interesting. did the human guy have a robot body since the beginning? It seems as if only his head was human.
also is the guy going to make a part 2?

Sounds to me like you missed Sword of the Stars in 2006.
I skipped tarkas and morrigi because tarkas are actually kind of boring and morrigi would be too long-winded, but you get the idea.

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Part 2 has been confirmed, have no idea about the robot guy, guess his suit was self-sustaining? Maybe we'll find out in Part 2
I hope as long as nothing goes wrong with it

Hanarr, Volus, Elcor is all ME has

Patrician taste user

space zombies that turn out to be aliens that are actually cyborgs that are secretly full robots but are just puppets for transdimensional beings which were yourself all along in the future past

From the Halo games: Hunters, Engineers, the Flood, and if you actually read the Forerunner novels, the Forerunners themselves are all pretty interesting and non-generic.

Hunters in particular are giant colonies of like 2 foot long worms (lekgolo) that form hiveminds in different shapes. The giant 12 foot long armored bopeds you fight in the game are just one of the forms the colonies can make, Scarabs (the giant 100 foot tall spider tanks) are another, the worms just pilot the frame. Also, for the bipeds, they fight in pairs because colonies split in half into pairs when they get too big. They were also one of the only covenant races to achieve space flight on their own, like to compose war poetry in battle, and generate electric fields like 30 feet around them to feel things. the worms themselves, when not in a colony, basically act as miners and excavators for forerunner ruins for the covenant since they eat metal and minerals,

Incidentally there's a Hunter pair leader for Halo wars 2 and them and their units are pretty cool: youtube.com/watch?v=c7n27qu-Qhs

Engineers are floating jellyfish esque creatures that have gas bladders they can regulate, and are actually machines made by forerunners that are just built on a molecular level so unless you look at them through a microscope, they are indisguishable from actual organisms. Their tentacles split up into cellular sized cilla and they can repair and rebuild machineeery super easily with those, and "reprodduce" by using those cilla to just construct a new engineer from raw materials on a ceullar level.

Not gonna explain the flood/forerunners because spoilers.

Also, even if they are sort of generic aliens, I really like brutes, they have a really pleasing blend of rhino, gorrilla, and bear traits that feels unique even if it's still a bit earth biology centric. The fact that their homeworld and soceity is baically just mad max helps too

halopedia.org/Lekgolo
halopedia.org/Mgalekgolo
halopedia.org/Flood
halopedia.org/Forerunner

Whoops forgot to link the brute halopedia page

halopedia.org/Jiralhanae

Here's some more engineer and brute concept art. I forgot to mention a lot of their armor that's not just pathwork spare parts mad max style armor to begin with is gladiator/ancient spartan inspired as well so they are a race of giant rhino-gorilla roman armor mad-max raiders

Xcom series has lots.

The Ceph from Crysis also come to mind.

As for archetypes, Spore tried to label each alien civ with a "philosophy"

The guys who are just in it for the fun times.

Space-politicians.

Anything from hippies to the Harmony-affinity from Civ:BE.

Idealists who hunt evil.

Self-explanatory.

Dude space-WEED lmao, spiritual races.

Travelers and explorers.

Basically space-bullies.

Hail The Emperor!

You forgot about SHODAN, the race: Xenos.

Different context, an. Learn some comprehension.
A universe filled with only humans can be interesting, our history and various different nations/civilizations can attest to that.

There's also nothing wrong with sticking with what you like - in this case, space elf booty.

OP you forgot ancient evil/empire race like Necrons (Tomb Kings for fantasy equivalent) and Reapers to an extent Can't think of more examples but those should give you a general idea Perhaps a religious race as-well idk

Bitch, they're not even the best space sluts. And learn to stick to your guns, hypocrite faggot.

Hypocrite?
How?

Do you even know that that word means?

You don't know how to make one.

Pic unrelated.

Says the dude who's only

HUMANS ONLY
NO ITEMS
FINAL DESTINATION

It takes more imagination to make a realistic society based around the introduction of aliens into a setting then just going "only humans" because at that point the only alien things humans can deal with amount to alien animals, which is easy primal shit.

How exactly does he lack imagination again, if you're insisting that everyone play by your rules where only one thing exists in a setting where many things could? How is it not YOU that is lacking imagination on the subject? You're fucking stupid m8.

Only The White race

Whether it's humans only or not hardly matters as in most franchises aliens are human. They are/resemble humanoids, their society is a version humans had at one point in time somewhere, they have human emotions, human needs.
There's nothing alien about aliens.

then instead of making everything all human, make some fucking aliens and put em into a thing instead of going the route that takes LESS imagination and just cutting them out.

You're also an idiot who thinks all aliens are Bioware shit. Seriously from your reaction that's clearly all you've fuckin' played with aliens in it.

Also like it or not living things have needs.a biological alien will still need resources because they eat and/or drink, shit, bleed and such. If you don't like that then create an entirely different fictional version of life like crystal beings or some shit.

Everything that is done is motivated by need, and materials are common and tend to be a need. Be imaginative you fuckin' hack.

Why me, it's you alienfags who go on about creativity yet the number of ALIENS in sci-fi is pathetically low

I liked how they did aliens in Elite Dangerous
Too bad I can't say the same about the game

well these aliens are the products of human minds.
in any case, youre a nigger

And yet it doesn't have to be so painfully human you fat cow.

if it werent i probably wouldnt want to fuck it. so its okay

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now you did it
prepare to get *frumpled*, you *silly cow*

Get the fuck out.

holy fuck I forgot about hunters

god halo was such a good game man

Anyone itt got some nid berries they would be so kind to share with us?
No? I know, I, know, we don't deserve them. I'm sorry.

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If you can't even pitch an alien that meets your own standards of "alien" then you're just talking out of your ass.

You'd be fine with anything that has a hole and feminine dick.

But I can, the Solaris alien for example.

*touch* the *silly cow*

How can someone be so wrong about something?

Wat. They're humans you retard. Literal humans.

Stellaris gets shit (much of it justified) however this is one spot I think it deserves praise; you have a fairly broad selection of categories and you many look quite different. Hell, you can even play space-trees.

Snek

Space spergs

no, they are literally space australians

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You can get some cool alien ideas at reddit.com/r/hfy

t.blizcuck

THIS is a space australian.

nnngggggggh

we need to *squeeze* the *juice*!