I wouldn't get your hopes up too much about multiple playing races. They'd have to voice all those different races and both male and female versions. Given the fact that having only humans was already a huge amount of voice acting, I don't see it happening.
Only humans works for me although I can see how it would be more interesting to have more options.
Personally, I never get my hopes up about a game that is under EA's control.
But it is something they can do, and should do if you ask me.
I have no problem with Bioware having one character and two voice actors, one female one male.
One Turian, one Asari would be great, easy to pick a surname that suits both.
Though I think I'm expecting the main protagonist to be a human N7 again.
I've never been big on the multiple race idea. It's neat, it has it's merits, but ultimately i don't think it fits with Mass Effects strong narrative. Personally i have argued this position a few times, so I'll just boil it down to my main point.
To me Mass effect is about proving what humanity can do. We are the odd ones out, the new comers, the show boaters, yet we can prove just how great we are. Humans are a tiny spec in this massive universe, and there's still so much more to explore and do.
Remember the campaign slogan for ME3? "Take Earth Back." I don't know about you, but that got me pumped. I was ready to take on the reapers, and get revenge on them and take out anyone who got in my way. I feel that if the main character was Turian, or Asari, that slogan would have diminished meaning. Seeing that backdrop of Earth on fire wouldn't impact me as emotionally if i was Bad Ass Turian guy. Being Human puts me in that fantasy in a better way than being an alien.
My idea is this, take the customisation of the main character to the next level. Let us choose which race we belong to. Be it Human, Quarian, Kroga, Salarian, etc, let us pick to be either a male or female from that race.
As of now that's pretty much the only thing that would make me at least consider buying ME4.
Related to a discussion I had with someone about the next protag, I really think they should step away from N7. Even if they give us another human to play as, they really shouldn't make this person N7, because it is too closely tied to Shepard and a lot of people will immediately make that connection, given how N7 and the red/white colours were emblazoned on Shep's armour for most of the games and promotional material.
If they want to move on from Shepard and everything that happened with them, they should steer clear of using it.
Unless for some bizarre reason they throw the weirdest curve ball and give us a game about Shepard's pre-spectre service, which they probably shouldn't do either.
Yesss to playable races. Especially turians. Let me have sexy subharmonic vocals please.
Because the trilogy was played through a human's point of view, our perception of the other races was pretty one-sided. The other council races deserve to be just as fleshed out and 3-dimensional as the other races in DA have become.
They have alot of potential to become very interesting and complex cultures, and it'd be a shame that a game with such a rich inter-galactic community is strictly limited to a human point of view.
It'd be super cool if they let us choose our species in an upcoming Mass Effect game. I'd more than likely choose Quarian. Maybe Volus as a second choice. Turian, Salarian, & Asari would be fun to try out, too. It'd be the most amazing if they each had origin stories like the Dragon Age Origins races did, but it'd be an awesome feature to have, either way.
Personally I'd prefer the race to be set in stone and the story to be around smaller things because my favorite part of ME is the culture and the urban worlds, so that way the story can be more focused but I don't think that's going to happen 
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If they go the other route I'd actually like to play as the Geth. If it's organics only then Salarian.
To me Mass effect is about proving what humanity can do. We are the odd ones out, the new comers, the show boaters, yet we can prove just how great we are. Humans are a tiny spec in this massive universe, and there's still so much more to explore and do.
Remember the campaign slogan for ME3? "Take Earth Back." I don't know about you, but that got me pumped. I was ready to take on the reapers, and get revenge on them and take out anyone who got in my way. I feel that if the main character was Turian, or Asari, that slogan would have diminished meaning. Seeing that backdrop of Earth on fire wouldn't impact me as emotionally if i was Bad Ass Turian guy. Being Human puts me in that fantasy in a better way than being an alien.
But how much of that will be relevant since the Trilogy is over and they're going with a new story? That slogan was tied to that story. The reaper war and Shepard are over.
The story does not have to be about humans being new comers. We don't know how far into the future this game will take us (if anywhere). If you go far enough back, then the only thing that would make sense is alien races (can't have a human centric Mass Effect story set in 2018. LOL).
You know what I'd like to see? The energy from the crucible blast somehow merging space hamster and Conrad Verner together.
Armed with the combat and romancing skills hamster learnt from Shep, along with whatever Conrad brings to the table (knock off N7 gear I guess), you traverse the galaxy as some sorta half hamster/half idiot thing, badassfully solving crimes and being completely inept at the same time.
You are also adorable.
You know what I'd like to see? The energy from the crucible blast somehow merging space hamster and Conrad Verner together.
Armed with the combat and romancing skills hamster learnt from Shep, along with whatever Conrad brings to the table (knock off N7 gear I guess), you traverse the galaxy as some sorta half hamster/half idiot thing, badassfully solving crimes and being completely inept at the same time.
You are also adorable.
That's so stupid that I'd totally buy it.
Related to a discussion I had with someone about the next protag, I really think they should step away from N7. Even if they give us another human to play as, they really shouldn't make this person N7, because it is too closely tied to Shepard and a lot of people will immediately make that connection, given how N7 and the red/white colours were emblazoned on Shep's armour for most of the games and promotional material.
If they want to move on from Shepard and everything that happened with them, they should steer clear of using it.
Unless for some bizarre reason they throw the weirdest curve ball and give us a game about Shepard's pre-spectre service, which they probably shouldn't do either.
I'd love to step away from N7 too, unfortunately the art we've seen has N7 all over the place. I can only hope that N7 has come to mean something different by whenever ME:N takes place.
I don't mind N. It's not like we have any deep insight in their operations. We just know that Shepard and some others are N7 but I doubt that the rest of the operations come even close to what Shepard does.
On the other hand I wouldn't care less if it was another branch. Personally I'd like to play an intelligence agent, not special forces.
I don't mind N. It's not like we have any deep insight in their operations. We just know that Shepard and some others are N7 but I doubt that the rest of the operations come even close to what Shepard does.
On the other hand I wouldn't care less if it was another branch. Personally I'd like to play an intelligence agent, not special forces.
I think the point is that we don't want to be yet another human special forces officer. Honestly, if we could get some distance from the military angle entirely that'd be great.
Playable races would be a nice addition. There are four playable races in DA:I, each of which is fully voiced has both gender options, that should be possible in Mass Effect too.
There are rumors that there will be multiple playable races this time. That speculation is based on a rumored private fan panel at PAX where the participants were shown a lineup of the series main races and asked which two they would eliminate, if they had to. Some are speculating that Bioware might be exploring mutilple playable races this time around, and the question was related to that.
Supposedly Quarians and Krogan were the two that were picked by the panel.
Of course since this all speculation based on a Pax panel whose existence hasn't been officially confirmed with Bioware, a heavy dose of salt might be needed.
This sounds promising, minus the krogan part. I love my krogan!
I think the point is that we don't want to be yet another human special forces officer. Honestly, if we could get some distance from the military angle entirely that'd be great.
The trouble with moving away from the military angle is that there are very few reasons why a person would be so highly trained in all sorts of weaponry, and is able to combat a plethora of enemies on various worlds. The only viable alternative is mercenary, but there needs to be a very compelling setting wrapped around this background for it to work particularly well, because from the mercs that I've seen so far in ME, I would rather not have the PC be a member of the low-rent, cannon fodder brigade.
The trouble with moving away from the military angle is that there are very few reasons why a person would be so highly trained in all sorts of weaponry, and is able to combat a plethora of enemies on various worlds. The only viable alternative is mercenary, but there needs to be a very compelling setting wrapped around this background for it to work particularly well, because from the mercs that I've seen so far in ME, I would rather not have the PC be a member of the low-rent, cannon fodder brigade.
They could be a small group of freelancer's and the major merc groups (blood pack, blue suns, eclipse) could be the major enemies. But yes there aren't many alternative's that have as much training as the armed forces.
Personally, I like the Origins route combined with an old school Icewind Dale/Storm of Zehir approach. Let me give an example
Here are all of the choices that you get:
Human (Male/Female, of any class)
Salarian STG specialist (Male, choose a class with some tech)
Asari Huntress (Female, choose a class with some biotics)
Turian Marine (Male/Female, must have some combat)
Drell Assassin (Male, must be either combat or biotic, no tech)
Quarian Mechanist (Male/Female, must be either combat or tech, no biotic)
Batarian Renegade (Male, must be either tech or biotic, no combat)
At the beginning of the game, you get the choice to choose one Origin, or, to play through them all. If you choose one, you get the same normal treatment, and you stay with your choice all game. If you choose all, you customize your characters one at a time, and you play through either of their "Origin" story, which is a bit longer than the one in Origins. It also gives you dialogue choices to make, with a wheel, to determine their personality.
After a set point, they begin to merge, and you choose one of those as your main character. The others become your party. If you only choose the one, those slots are filled in with placeholder characters.
Romances occur with other, non-player characters.
I'm fine with human of any class and any profession ... but I want to RP as a hetero female.
That's all!
If I have to play an alien... <sigh> okay too. But I'd rather be human.
I'm thinking too many species as the protagonist that's fully VO'd is pretty darn expensive in both space on a disc/download. I don't want to download for 8 hours!(exaggerated figure for emphasis purposes)
I'm fine with human of any class and any profession ... but I want to RP as a hetero female.
That's all!
If I have to play an alien... <sigh> okay too. But I'd rather be human.
I'm thinking too many species as the protagonist that's fully VO'd is pretty darn expensive in both space on a disc/download. I don't want to download for 8 hours!(exaggerated figure for emphasis purposes)
I don't imagine they would need multiple voice overs ACTORS (EDITED for clarity). They would just need a male and female VO and then could probably just do some post processing to get the specific racial characteristics of the voices.
I don't imagine they would need multiple voice overs. They would just need a male and female VO and then could probably just do some post processing to get the specific racial characteristics of the voices.
No. Different species don't only sound different, they also word things differently.
A human PC would never say: 'By the Goddess', where an Asari would.
A human PC would never talk about 'spirits', like a Turian would.
They can all be voiced by the same actor with filters and all that, but they also need different lines to make them believable as not-Human (or as not-Alien when playing a human NPC), else you'll just be playing human versions of aliens.
And they should also act different, and choose different things or maybe even see different options to make things believable.
There's a lot more work to multiple playable races than you think.
By "multiple voice overs" I was thinking "actors", not "takes".
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