Xx_Belzak_xX wrote...
I agree, a prothean would be awesome. These people that cry "but lore!" forget 1 tiny thing: Javik. Had Bioware not introduced Javik, your argument would be valid. But the mere fact that he exists nullifies your argument. By introducing just ONE protean in single player, Bioware has opened the door for more protheans. So again Lore'ites: your arguments are invalid.
That doesn't make any sense. By introducing just ONE prothean into single player, and placing emphasis throughout his entire story on the fact that he was the last, BioWare in fact shut the door on more protheans. The only possible way around this is by some contrived story about bringing new ones into being. The possibilities I've seen put forward by the fanbase, at their worst, undermine even further the menace of the reapers by supposing there were even more survivors, and at their best, simply undo all emotional weight that Javik's story contains by positing a successful effort in cloning more protheans.
And on a related note to a poster above you, single player and multiplayer are often separate entities. But they aren't here. BioWare went out of their way, whether you like it or not (I personally do), to incorporate the lore of the single player into the multiplayer, and vice versa, through the war assets and the N7 squad and so on.
Once more, relatedly, I think there are legitimate questions raised about the geth, both friendly and hostile, and the implications therein for the lore. Why are their friendly geth? Does the presence of geth and quarians fighting alongside each other in the MP canonize the peaceful Rannoch outcome? Then why are they still able to fight geth alongside one another? Do some pockets of hostile geth still remain? Does this all take place before the Rannoch situation and the playable geth are autonomous platforms? I'm not sure these questions have been answered (have they? I haven't looked into it too much), but we can imagine plausable answers to them that don't seriously undermine any of the major plot points or characters in the main story.
The presence of a ton of protheans, on the other hand, would unavoidably do that.