The original had it right. It has enough variety to be interesting without falling into the ME2 trap of too many companions so you can't make them all interesting.
People hate on various characters from ME2 and 3, but I never see anyone hating on ME1 Ashley, Kaiden, Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Liara. Lets keep it a low number of deep, interesting characters.
Maximum of 6. Enough for some combat and personality diversity while still letting them be more integrated into the story. ME3 had it mostly right, even if some of their choices for that squad were wrong.
People hate on various characters from ME2 and 3, but I never see anyone hating on ME1 Ashley, Kaiden, Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Liara. Lets keep it a low number of deep, interesting characters.
Wrex is the only interesting ME1 squadmate. Everyone else either became interesting starting with 2 (Tali, Garrus, Liara) or never became interesting (Ashley, Kaidan).
However many I want to recruit. I'm packin' my ship with all the Andromeda bitches, god help you if you tell me I can't.
"Sir, she's a murderous psychopath."
"She fine tho. Welcome aboard!"
6 seems to be about right, anymore and you will spend all your time walking around talking to them. Boring.
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6 or 7 works.
MP worked wonders to fill the gaps of wanting other "characters" to group with.
I want 6. Focus on quality, not number. c:
In reality, It depends about your plot
See, ME1 had that feeling of no one believing you about the Reapers and those who did joined you.
ME2 was a Suicide Mission, so of course many people, experts were required.
ME3 was about forming alliances and gathering allies NOT Crew-Members. So, the ones that were already previously part of Shepard's Ship joined and new Characters for the sake of having new Characters.
So, in ME:Andromeda, it will (IMO) Depend if you're
a) Expecting lots of trouble exploring a new galaxy, you need to bring in a lot of firepower, including Soldiers, Mercenaries and Tank Alien Races.
b)Charting new Territories, you need to bring scientists, some Soldiers to guarantee everything runs smoothly and some Engineers.
c)Doing all of the above.
I want a Krogan Vanguard, a Batarian Sentinel, a sweet/naive female romance (doesn't matter species as long as its humanoid), a sexually confident femme fatale romance (preferably human), a male human/turian grizzled vet romance, a nerdy male human/quarian romance, a white knight character (gender doesn't matter), a devil's advocate (again don't care about gender) and a robot (if it is a humanoid robot like EDI I want it as a semi-romance similar to Kelly). other than that I don't care. mix and match some of those for all I care. White Knight the Krogan sounds like a good change of pace.
EDIT: hell if you don't count the knight and the devil's advocate as their own characters thats 7 companions.
In reality, It depends about your plot
See, ME1 had that feeling of no one believing you about the Reapers and those who did joined you.
ME2 was a Suicide Mission, so of course many people, experts were required.
ME3 was about forming alliances and gathering allies NOT Crew-Members. So, the ones that were already previously part of Shepard's Ship joined and new Characters for the sake of having new Characters.
So, in ME:Andromeda, it will (IMO) Depend if you're
a) Expecting lots of trouble exploring a new galaxy, you need to bring in a lot of firepower, including Soldiers, Mercenaries and Tank Alien Races.
b)Charting new Territories, you need to bring scientists, some Soldiers to guarantee everything runs smoothly and some Engineers.
c)Doing all of the above.
I'm hoping it's option B. I'd really like an Enterprise style mission.
I think 7-8 will be the number in the end. Two humans as per usual at least, and one alien a piece.
Five or above. It is not so much the amount of characters as it is the quality of the writing.
Considering that character writing is Bioware's greatest strength, we should be fine.
I'd say maybe 6 companions is good. Manageable, enough to cover each class, but not too many to compromise story telling I think.
People hate on various characters from ME2 and 3, but I never see anyone hating on ME1 Ashley, Kaiden, Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Liara. Lets keep it a low number of deep, interesting characters.
You're serious? Ashley and Liara are probably more commonly hated than any other characters in the series (indeed, people joke about killing the former all the time). Kaidan is frequently called boring. Tali is frequently referred to as an irritating quarian culture exposition device. Only Garrus and Wrex don't seem to garner that much hate.
Not saying I agree with those opinions. I quite liked pretty much the whole ME1 squad and was meh to probably about half or more of the ME2 squad, but there are plenty of people whom preferred the latter.
I honestly don't care how many, I just want characters that are actual characters and not just combat units to use. With that said I hope one of our squadmates if not more consistence of a new Alien race from Andromeda. I only say this because I do have a feeling we do have some ties in Andromeda just not with the Galactic's main empire or whatever lol.
The original had it right. It has enough variety to be interesting without falling into the ME2 trap of too many companions so you can't make them all interesting.
People hate on various characters from ME2 and 3, but I never see anyone hating on ME1 Ashley, Kaiden, Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Liara. Lets keep it a low number of deep, interesting characters.
I'm going to add my voice to the dissent against this statement.
While certain ME2 characters are very divisive, I'd argue that they're all more interesting than the ME1 cast(except Wrex and excluding Jacob). Garrus and Tali really grew into their own in ME2 along side the rest of that cast. For me, Liara is the only squadmate I very actively dislike, where as Ashley and Kaiden are very much on my "meh" list at the best of times.
Contrast ME2, which produced some of my absolute favorites(in no particular order); Miranda, Jack, Grunt, Mordin, Thane, Legion, and Zaeed. The worst ME2 got for me is Jacob, and there's nothing offensive or bad about Jacob(in ME2), he's just boring.
So - and this is strictly my opinion - given that out of the eleven squadmates introduced in ME2(counting Morinth), I absolutely loved seven of them, and liked the rest well enough, compared to ME1(which, admittedly, I played after 2&3), I found half of the squad boring to irritable and wanted nothing to do with them, and a third of the squad(Tali and Garrus) underwhelmed me compared to what they would grow into in ME2, I absolutely do not buy the argument of less being more and the original getting it right.
The original had it right. It has enough variety to be interesting without falling into the ME2 trap of too many companions so you can't make them all interesting.
People hate on various characters from ME2 and 3, but I never see anyone hating on ME1 Ashley, Kaiden, Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Liara. Lets keep it a low number of deep, interesting characters.
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For some reason, only Liara, Miranda, Tali and Jack appealed to me. Ashley, I never bothered.
7 or 8 sounds about right.
I think less is more in this case especially if they make this into another trilogy.
6 well done, with tons of stuff, characters. 1 of each class. Since there are 6 classes we have either had 6 companions or 12 (samara and Morinth kinda combined into 1 squadmate) I like 6.
And then maybe some well done NPC characters too boot.
At the time ME1 was released there wasn't any backlash against the characters on these forums like there was when ME2 came out. Later people started hating on the original cast more, but at release and until ME2 came out dissent against characters was more along the lines of "They weren't interesting" rather than "I hated them" which ME2 produced immediately.
Personally I was happy with the ME cast, Ashley was a bit of a bigot (could have been emphasized more), Garrus could be convinced into either justice at all costs or follow rules and protocol (which was sadly ignored in ME2+), Wrex was just a bad ass, Liara was fairly uninteresting since she primarily existed to be a 'naive alien' achetype. Kaiden was also a bit 'meh', Tali was interesting except when she fell into that same 'Naive alien' role.
ME2 though, I hated Jack right away, Jacob went from 'meh' to incredibly boring fast, and all the rest had about 3 conversations you could have with them. There were just too many for Bioware to put in a good amount of content for each of them. The only good characters were Legion (because he was unique, and sadly he only joined near the end), Miranda (despite the cinematic reliance on ass shots she was a fairly complex character), Thane (complex and interesting character), and Mordin. I honestly have to think hard to remember who any of the others were.
I feel the original ME cast was far better than their successors and most of that is due to the fact that there were only six of them, allowing them each to be flushed out more than the 10 from the second game.
More is not always better.
I think the leaked Seven could be fine. Mass Effect had a pretty strong cast, everyone had a specific place in the team and they were all varied enough to stand out, regardless of the fact that many people didn't like some of them (paticularly Ashley and Liara it seems. I know that many people find Kaidan boring, also). But, at the same time, I feel less positive about the limited number in ME3, even though technically it was one Prothean bigger than the cast of 1. For starters, almost all of the companions were returning characters, and I feel that as such most of them had already ran their course, and there wasn't really the same feeling of getting to know them as there had been in the other two games. While Garrus, Tali and, to a lesser extent, Kaidan are among my favourite characters, I feel in this instance they didn't add as much as they could have, and less than a new squadmate could've. Secondly, I played through the game without, in my opinion, the best squadmates in my first playthrough due to not having the DLC at the time. And then, besides Javik who wasn't exactly one of the core characters of the game, the only other new character was James, who I personally cared little for.
I know this judgment is somewhat unfair given that in this new game we, presumably, get only new characters, but I'd feel a lot safer if there was more than seven (five, not including the basics we know of the leaked two) slots to fill. I remember back in the lead-up to ME2 with the constant guessing and new character theories, the slow leak and introduction of new companions. I actually think that ME2 did a good job of balancing its larger cast, ignoring the Collector attack part. After playing 3 and the Citadel DLC, I can honestly say that Zaeed was the only companion in 2 that I hated.
So if I had to say a number, I'd say Nine. I realize that larger numbers would probably be more difficult for the writers or programmers or whoever, but I think that at least with more there is more chance of there being characters you care about or even love. I'm happy with any number between six and a hundred, really. I have quite a bit of faith in BioWare still, and I think that they can make seven work. Whether or not they do, however...
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