Poll: Mass Effect 4 and species choice

[Thomas Barnsley]

So I've been reading up on this for quite a while, and found that there are a few basic opinions. I just thought I'd group them all into one super poll and get a bit of an idea as to what people want. Feel free to elaborate in the comments, but try to stay on track. We are not arguing about whether it should be a prequel or a sequel, or whether an MMO would be fun, and we are CERTAINLY not bringing up anything ending related...

Edit: ok, number 6 is meant to say "I want to play as one of Shepard's squad mates". Just thought I'd clarify, as it isn't showing up fully for me.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Seems number 1 is winning... Interesting. Well I hope they do that, offering at least human, turian, asari, and salarian (salarian is probably just me, I think they're cool).

 

[mohit9206]

I have never played any Dragon Age game so i have no idea how different that game is from Mass Effect.I choose to play as only human species.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

It basically has the option to be a dwarf or an elf. There's also the origins, where there are a number of playable background stories depending on your class and race. I personally think this would be amazing in a mass effect setting.

I have never played any Dragon Age game so i have no idea how different that game is from Mass Effect.I choose to play as only human species.

It basically has the option to be a dwarf or an elf. There's also the origins, where there are a number of playable background stories depending on your class and race. I personally think this would be amazing in a mass effect setting.

 

[w9496]

I'd prefer to be Shepard again, but I'm thinking that's completely out of the question.

The 2nd choice is my runner-up, and probably one of the more likely ones. Coupling the voiced protagonists with individual background stories and different races(human, turian, quarian, krogan, asari, maybe geth) would be brilliant if Bioware could pull it off.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

It's Bioware, so the less choices they give you, the better. Less chances of screwing things up in the inevitable sequels.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

It's Bioware, so the less choices they give you, the better. Less chances of screwing things up in the inevitable sequels.

That's why I'd personally prefer a Dragon age: origins set up. No direct sequel with the same character, quality over quantity.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Silent protagonist's not gonna happen. Bioware already equates "no voice acting" with "low quality".

I honestly don't give a shit what I play as. That's not the point. It's not about WHAT you play, it's whether the story is good enough to warrant you playing.

So far, with a few minor exceptions, I can't say I was amazed by anything Mass Effect has ever thrown my way, story-related. It was merely decent.

I'd disagree. It's a 'role' playing game for a reason; we want to play a role. And the more customizable that role, the better. Story is important too, of course, but it is not all there is.

 

[AD-Stu]

Dropping the voiced protagonist would be a huge step backwards for the series IMO. They got away with it in DA:O because it was such a throwback to the RPGs of old - Mass Effect was never that kind of game.

I don't particularly care if it's multiple races or a single race or whatever (if it's a single race it certainly doesn't have to be human). For me the attraction to the series has always been getting to spend time exploring the hugely detailed universe.

 

[themyrmidon]

Story comes first, the protagonist must be voiced, and I don't see much of a point to having unique origins in a world as unified as Mass Effect's.

What I would like is the ability to choose a race and have it subtly affect my game. But unless they can get some sort of modulation to get the voices for all races from one actor, then I think that it is best left to doing one race as a recordings for each would balloon cost, time, and file size.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I just want to sex up another delicious Quarian.

Is that so much to ask?!

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Silent protagonist's not gonna happen. Bioware already equates "no voice acting" with "low quality".

I honestly don't give a shit what I play as. That's not the point. It's not about WHAT you play, it's whether the story is good enough to warrant you playing.

So far, with a few minor exceptions, I can't say I was amazed by anything Mass Effect has ever thrown my way, story-related. It was merely decent.

I'd disagree. It's a 'role' playing game for a reason; we want to play a role. And the more customizable that role, the better. Story is important too, of course, but it is not all there is.

In God of War, you play the role of Kratos, ancient greek warrior. Is God of War a role-playing game?

"RPG" is a strange, murky term nowadays. If you want to make a good case for yourself, being pedantic in regards to the name of the genre won't win you any points.

That said, far from me to say that an extensive race selection would be "bad" or whatever prompted that reply. My point was that the main protagonist's strengths as a character will be primarily derived from what happens within the story, not how many racial choices there are.

I'm just going to point out that I think it would be amazing if you could customize your role in God of War to play as an ancient Norse warrior. It's a dumb argument from me but has its merits none the less.
Yeah you're right I guess, rpg is a murky term. It's probably best described on a scale of some kind. But that still doesn't stop me wanting to play a highly customised role in mass effect.

 

[Thomas Barnsley]

Story comes first, the protagonist must be voiced, and I don't see much of a point to having unique origins in a world as unified as Mass Effect's.

What I would like is the ability to choose a race and have it subtly affect my game. But unless they can get some sort of modulation to get the voices for all races from one actor, then I think that it is best left to doing one race as a recordings for each would balloon cost, time, and file size.

Unified? I wouldn't say so; the whole terminus is basically a free for all. I would have thought there'd be huge potential for origins.

 

[Zhukov]

Actually, I'd like to play a single set character. Not picky about species. Gender picking can stay.

Options are nice and all, but the less defined the protagonist the more vague everything else has to be. You need the world and story to be able to accommodate a wise-cracking Volus, a taciturn Turian and everything in between.

 

[kingpocky]

Personally I'd like to play Shepherd's Asari daughter, but I'm guessing that won't happen as they'd avoid making any choices from the first three official canon

 

[Keymik]

Honestly I have to wonder. Are people willing to play multiple races if it sacrifices story? With DA:O outside of the origin story, was there any tangible game-play difference between the races (outside of dwarves not being mages)? With one race, you can build around it easily. Hence my choice of One race as a human.

Well there was the racism here and there depending on your race and such. Some quests would even be different depending on it. Race was somewhat important in my opinion.