User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-24.2.236.12-20130620174224

In my opinion, I feel like ME4 should be in the future, maybe 200-400 years down the line, with maybe recurring characters like Wrex, Liara, Aria and Grunt. And, while in the first three, Humanity has been around for what, thirty years, they have now integrated into the galactic community as much as the next.

I think the ME4 protagonist should maybe be a disgruntled ex-special forces soldier/marine turned mercenary, maybe hired by a big company at the beginning to investigate a planet or something. The protagonist doesn't necessarily have to be human (the only downside of non-human protagonists is that there might be less customization, which I really liked about Mass Effect), and could be anything from a turian, salarian, krogan, asari, batarian, and human, of course.

And, the ship should be way different, and upgradable. I'm thinking more Millennium Falcony, but that's just my opinion.

I don't know who I'd like to see as the villains, but hopefully it's something new, but realistic. I liked Mass Effect 1 and 2, because in the first game, your squad was just a bunch of regular guys, while in the second game, they had found a realistic reason to give you some of the biggest badasses in the galaxy (and Tali. I like Tali, don't get me wrong, but I feel like she was added for memorabilia more so than total bad-assery. Any quarian would have worked if you looked at her dossier (and in one of the comic books, they found a corrupt exiled one), but she was already Shepard's friend. Just to verify this arguement, on Garrus's dossier, he was Archangel, and a mercenary killer, and a specific guy, not just a turian. But, back to point).