Shermos wrote...
Race selection would be cool I have to say. Geth protagonist lol. Krogan female ftw!
The only trouble is, in the context of a new trilogy which presumably will have save transfers, I think it would be difficult to implement this. The different races have so many shapes, sizes and generalised traits. They'd probably need more than two voice actors/actresses for a start. and each race would have to have it's own model. You couldn't just use different skins on the same model. The more I think about it, the more seems like a bit of a nightmare.
Good on them if they can do it and do it well, but the safer bet would be to stick with human characters only.
The DAI team are doing something similar by having playable dwarves/elves/qunari, who all have different sizes and shapes (and heights!). They haven't released details of the voice actors, but I'd guess they are using separate ones for each race and gender combination. It's presumably a significant amount of extra work and money, but they obviously consider it worthwhile.
The reason I think this is even a possibility is because changing the engine to Frostbite necessarily involves basically rethinking and rebuilding the entire concept of "Mass Effect" - none of their systems carry over so it's an opportunity to redo the game from the ground up. Given the popularity of playing racial options in ME3 MP, I figured a protagonist that could be from several alien races was definitely something that could happen.
(And then, the comment about female aliens on the PAX panel was interesting too.)
Unlike the transition from ME to ME2 or ME2 to ME3, this new game is having to be redesigned and rebuilt from scratch. I suspect they're using it as an opportunity to innovate in a lot of areas that simply weren't possible on the old engine (and with old technology).
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