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The one thing that bugs me though is that from the images we have seen of him so far, he looks like a horribly generic human space marine. While it is impossible to tell for sure without seeing the character in action, and perhaps the writers will craft a brilliant and likable personality for Mr. Vega, his appearance alone smacks of generic meathead.
But if we look into the Mass Effect lore, I believe there is a more suitable candidate for the "clueless newcomer" character, and that would be a Raloi:
Cerberus Daily News
02/09/2010 - Raloi Welcomed to Citadel Space
“The Citadel Council welcomes the planet Turvess to the galactic community today. The planet's sentient species, the raloi, launched their first space telescope into orbit last year, which detected the presence of the asari cruiser Azedes. Tomorrow, visitors from all over the galaxy will land outside six cities on Turvess, bearing welcome wishes and gifts for the raloi. Tickets for the Council's sponsored ships have been sold out for months, and due to disease concerns, no other ships are legally allowed planetfall at that time. A comm buoy near Turvess will be dedicated to sending welcome messages to the planet for twenty galactic standard hours.”
02/18/2010 - Raloi Delegation Sent to Citadel
“Now that the celebrations on the planet Turvess have ended, a raloi delegation has been sent to the Citadel for a three-month stay. The delegation will be educated in intergalactic law, history, alien biology and culture, and the rudiments of mass effect physics. Due to an outbreak of the H7N7 flu virus that infected the avian raloi during the opening ceremonies on their planet, the raloi on the Citadel will wear environmental suits whenever they are in contact with an alien species.”
The Raloi were discovered in 2184, making them the newest kids on the galactic block. Their representatives are still probably being shuttled around the galaxy, learning about how things are done in Citadel space. With this in mind, wouldn't a Raloi squad member be more suitable to the "newcomer" role that James Vega is trying to fill? The Raloi are just getting their feet wet trying to understand galactic society, and they have no clue about the Reaper threat. I would wager that a lot of players would find a Raloi squad member much more interesting than the generic human space jock James might be.
Think about it. The Reapers are also a threat to the Raloi race as well. Judging by the Cerberus Daily News article, it seems that they are technologically primitive compared to the rest of the races in the galaxy, since they just launched their first space teloscope. They would literally be sitting ducks (ha, they're avian!) for the Reapers, and would probably have no means of mounting a defense against them.
This could lead to quite an interesting and deep character. Imagine a Raloi soldier/bodyguard for one of their delegations on a Council planet getting displaced by a Reaper attack (maybe they were on Earth, observing Shepard's trial as an example of galactic justice). They join up and fight for Shepard out of a deep sense duty to their people. Imagine if by circumstance, you were the only member of your entire race that was placed in a position of actually doing something about averting their extinction. The possibilities for a really deep and emotionally engaging character are everywhere.
And on top of that, since the Raloi are galactic newbies, the character gets to ask all those illuminating questions that would ease in new players, because, naturally, they have no idea what is going on. Not to mention that the presence of a Raloi would serve to deepen the ME lore, and make the galaxy even richer, by introducing us all to a new species caught in a some very special circumstances.
What do you think?
Modifié par phrizek, 05 juillet 2011 - 11:28 .
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