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[MR CauSe iM GoD]

My 1st thought, Asari. Would be so awesome. But Logically if we only had one race to pick from, Human. So Human always 1st. Then Asari and the other races.

[Han Shot First]

As a playable race?

If they are going to have playable alien characters it would probably be best to go the DA:I route, and limit it to at most four playable species including humans. You couldn't have every race be playable without also sacrificing voice acting, and that's not a sacrifice I'd be willing to make.

Bioware's best bet if they are going to have four playable races:

• Humans
  
  
  
• Asari
  
  
  
• Turians
  
  
  
• Quarians

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              With With those you'd have all the fan favorites covered. Obviously not everyone would be happy, and some would b1tch and moan about there not being playable Krogan or Drell or Salarians, but you're not going to be able to please everyone. But by rolling with playable Asari, Turians, and Quarans you'd maximize the number of fans who would be pleased.
     

Modifié par Han Shot First, 31 décembre 2013 - 07:04 .

[Invisible Man]

Han Shot First wrote...

As a playable race?

If they are going to have playable alien characters it would probably be best to go the DA:I route, and limit it to at most four playable species including humans. You couldn't have every race be playable without also sacrificing voice acting, and that's not a sacrifice I'd be willing to make.

Bioware's best if they are going to have four playable races:

• Humans
  
  
  
• Asari
  
  
  
• Turians
  
  
  
• Quarians

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              With With those you'd have all the fan favorites covered. Obviously not everyone would be happy, and some would b1tch and moan about there not being playable Krogan or Drell or Salarians, but you're not going to be able to please everyone. But by rolling with playable Asari, Turians, and Quarans you'd maximize the number of fans who would be pleased.
     

I'd agree with that

[P. Domi]

Human

[Shadewe]

Quarians

[MassivelyEffective0730]

Human.

If not human, then Reaper.

[CroGamer002]

Geth.

[Guanxii]

How about the different race options become the classes in the next Mass Effect, e.g.

Asari (former Adept Class)
Turian (former Soldier Class)
Quarians (former Engineer Class)
Salarians (former Infiltrator Class)
Human (former Sentinel Class)
Krogan (former Vanguard Class)

Humans with their genetic diversity would be the jacks of all trades i.e. the sentinels ... the most variable [default] class. You start with the 'human class' and could choose between a variety of biotic or tech powers (or exclusively biotic or tech), build a tank or a weapons character or a combination of all of the above.

All the other races have racial traits and exclusive powers that make them the masters of their respective proficiencies. E.g. if you want to build the most powerful biotic in the game with the widest range of biotic abilities to choose from you would need to play an Asari for biotics, Quarian for tech, etc.

Modifié par Guanxii, 31 décembre 2013 - 11:54 .

[Secretlyapotato]

As as I'd love my femkrogan, it'll never be.

Turian.

[Arcian]

Han Shot First wrote...

As a playable race?

If they are going to have playable alien characters it would probably be best to go the DA:I route, and limit it to at most four playable species including humans. You couldn't have every race be playable without also sacrificing voice acting, and that's not a sacrifice I'd be willing to make.

Voice actors (professionals) can easily do more than one voice, and voice filters make a massive difference. Ergo, more than one voice actor per gender is not really necessary. Record one set of lines with two voice actors, one for each gender, process their with different voice filters, and voila, you have a distinct voice for each alien species.

This, of course, is beside the fact that three species - humans, asari and quarians - have the exact same voices and therefore doesn't require voice filtering. The quarians only sound different because of their masks, but the quarians we might play in ME4 isn't going to wear masks.

Regarding the other species, turians and drell sound the same but with a flange filter. Salarian voices have no flange but are pitched up slightly, whereas krogan voices are pitched down. Batarians are pitched down and rocks a voice filter as well.

To top it off, check out this video. This is one guy doing the voice of four different species using voice filters. Mind you, he's doing it as an amateur with no voice acting experience and without professional voice editing experience. Just imagine what a bunch of professional VA's could do with the help of a professional sound team.

Bottom line, the "more than one species means voice acting has to go!"-line of thinking is bollocks and it's about damn time you people acknowledge it. It's very much doable without going over the voice budget, regardless of what our resident video game expert David says about it. What it comes down to is how much effort BioWare wants to put into the voice acting and how much effort EA will allow them to put into it. Additional playable species and voice work may constitute what EA sees as "superfluous content", meaning "**** we don't want to pay for".

[kalikilic]

human. It would make better immersion; but I mean, that's just me

[Annora]

Turian. I want to be a female Turian so badly.

[The one they call Hashime]

Vorcha.

[daveliam]

I think that it would have to be characters who make sense for the role in the game. Given that we'll probably have some big epic universe spanning adventure ahead of us, it would have to be a race that isn't despised or feared, so the vorcha and batarian would be out. They would have to be somewhat mobile, so the hanar and elcor are out. The rest (human, asari, salarian, turian, krogan, quarian, and maybe even volus) would all work, I guess. I personally would probably play as a salarian or krogan on my first go through if they were all available.

[Nitrocuban]

I want Mako rallye!!!!!!

[Sion1138]

One of those purple monkeys that I remember from Mass Effect 1.

You know, on that one mission where one of them stole something, don't remember what.

[The one they call Hashime]

It would be interesting to able to play as a synthetic.

[serialkicker]

Turian or Asari.

[Arcian]

Human
Asari
Turian
Salarian
Krogan
Quarian

[HenkieDePost]

Humans no doubt. I have no interest in playing as another race, I want to explore the galaxy from the human perspective on things. I have no problem with learning alot about other races though, or having one or two extra as a playable race (if it doesn't alter the human experience in a negative way), but I certainly don't want to see the human race option dissapear.

[Robbiesan]

Krogan - pure badassery
Asari - Commando, and *dat ass!!*
Salarian - Interesting bunch, and sometimes those voices...

I like this idea too by Annaka:
"I would really like to see an Origins-like ME4 where you get to choose from at least Turian, Salarian, Quarian and Asari. The choice of race could affect your class, for example if you play a Turian you'd have soldier skills, a Salarian would have scientist/rogue skills, a Quarian would be a tech expert and the Asari choice would be for a character with biotic skills. And then also the option of human to play something that was more neutral.
But I know that's unlikely to happen."

[rinoe]

All, and most classes for all:)) Why not?

[Crazy_Fool768]

I would pick Quarian but I would like to have the ability to play as any of the races and have missions or dialogue specific to that race.

[Chashan]

Batarian.

Male for sure, fémme depends on the design, regarding which BW weren't exactly forthcoming.

Modifié par Chashan, 09 janvier 2014 - 05:21 .

[Maximillion46]

What if you could switch between all the alien team members? That would cover everything (except maybe gender). You could have different voice filters for a protagonist (with you choosing the race) sure, but acknowledging your race in every encounter?:s I don't know. We like how different they all are.