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I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, fan or mod-maker alike, but that Diablo model has a strong, strong resemblance to any of the Reaper dreadnoughts from the Mass Effect series of games. On that note, those things were all Badass-class awesome in terms of firepower and repose.
I shat all over that Shivan fighter....right up 'till his buddy got me.

 

Offline MatthTheGeek

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Well, the Diablo is Sathanas-inspired, and the Reapers are Sathanas-inspired. So, no kidding.
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Well it wasn't inspired by the reapers, the original was based off Shivan design.

 

Offline MatthTheGeek

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At least the Diablo doesn't try to hide its Shivan origin...
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666maslo666: Releasing a finished product is not a good thing! It is a modern fad.

SpardaSon21: it seems like you exist in a permanent state of half-joking misanthropy

Axem: when you put it like that, i sound like an insane person

bigchunk1: it's not retarded it's american!
bigchunk1: ...

batwota: steele's maneuvering for the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: you mispelled grâce
Awaesaar: grace
batwota: oh right :P
Darius: ah!
Darius: yes, i like that
MatthTheGeek: the way you just spelled it it means fat
Awaesaar: +accent I forgot how to keyboard
MatthTheGeek: or grease
Darius: the killing fat!
Axem: jabba does the coup de gras
MatthTheGeek: XD
Axem: bring me solo and a cookie

 

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Technical you can say the Reapers are based of the Shivans.

Shivans motives and goals are unknown. -> Reapers goals and motives were unknown.

Shivans, Bio mechanical species. -> Reapers bio-mechanical species(each reaper is made from the harvested species)

Shivans theorised to be the preservers of species by wiping out more advanced ones and leaving lesser species.  -> Reapers Harvest organic life once it advanced to a certain level, to preserve organic life. As in Mass effect 3 it is proven that the reapers don't harvest lesser species, Which is similar to the way the Shivans behave. They wiped out the Ancients but left the early vasudans.

So yeah Reapers are heavily based of Shivans in my opinion.

Also the Diablo model is awesome. Is the planetkiller still in this or has it been removed completely?
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Offline Woomeister

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The only planetkiller is the Gigas.

 

Offline Legate Damar

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I think he meant the Vinaashak

 

Offline Woomeister

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That's long gone.

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Technical you can say the Reapers are based of the Shivans.

The Reapers, at least originally, owed far more to classic sci-fi; specifically Saberhagen's Berserkers among others.

There's not much if any relation to the Shivans.
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Offline Dragon

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I guess that Shivans might be based off the same classic SF (pretty current at the time of FS1). While pretty well written, Shivans are quite generic in their original, FS1 version when you get down to it. FS2 Shivans are much more mysterious, but also somewhat generic as far as cosmic horrors go. We could probably trace both Reapers and Shivans back to some Lovecraft's story (note, I haven't played ME2 or 3, so I only really know them from ME1 and occasional spoilers). They have plenty in common, but it's just that they use the same cliches (the Reapers are consciously written to reference classic SF, while Shivans most likely weren't so cliche when they first appeared).

 

Offline Luis Dias

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Technical you can say the Reapers are based of the Shivans.

The Reapers, at least originally, owed far more to classic sci-fi; specifically Saberhagen's Berserkers among others.

Nice catch, although I'd go for the captain-obvious-esque Lovecraftian Ctuhluh. (Mostly due to several similar characteristics like the notion of deep-time, the "cycles", telepathic mental abilities - creating followers and so on, with not unknown but unknowable purposes - hey at least in ME1 they were portrayed correctly like this).

 

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I know we haven't posted any new images in a while but that is not because we haven't been busy. It's because the stuff we are working on is bloody huge.




Holy Crap. SHIVANS! Tours

 

Offline Commander Zane

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Mother of God. :eek:
I was not expecting this to be done anytime soon. It looks amazing.

 

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You really get the sense that the Sol Gate is a truly massive structure. :)

 

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It's beautiful

 

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You really get the sense that the Sol Gate is a truly massive structure. :)

You don't say......
Holy Crap. SHIVANS! Tours

 

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Of course this means the Sol gate should probably be able to take the Nemesis... :p
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awesome job, glad I am not texturing that sucker though
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