User blog comment:Austin1395/Mass Effects Future/@comment-4967682-20130117031311/@comment-4967682-20130118041506

I don't know anything about Dragon Age 2, so I'd be unfazed.

I think it would really help emphasize how MASSIVE the galaxy is. Shepard routinely passes by planets with hundreds of millions of people living on them to scan for war assets or minerals. What are those people's stories? The planet descriptions make some of them sound like interesting places. Why couldn't there be ANOTHER heroic badass with his own cast of colorful characters of all species kicking ass and saving people?

One planet can have several different species' colonies living on it (the Earth doesn't have one city, does it?) and if you want some variation the levels can take place all around the planet, and in orbit above the planet (storm the big bad's space station or something). I mean every planet we've seen is defined only by a single, tiny area (Noveria is cold, Illium is a city, Tuchanka is hell, et cetera).

With all of our galaxy saving, we forget how big the events on even a single one of those planets are. Make the villains the batarian government, or the Blue Suns, or remnants of the geth from ME1, or all of the above.