User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-174.141.208.118-20130621010901/@comment-24.2.236.12-20130621031325

Just want to correct you. Salarians live up to 40.

But, anyway, I'd like to have some sort of military-ish person, even a paramilitary or mercenary type-guy. For one thing, what the heck would we call them. Mr. Protagonist? Shepard was called Commander half the time because his first name never really mattered. I'm fine with just using the last name, but not a civilian.

To add as well, Cdr. Shepard in the first game was a cool guy in the Alliance, but nothing special. Through Mass Effect 1, he became the Alliance's Golden Boy, and through Mass Effect 2, he was a total badass, and by the end of Mass Effect 3, he was the savior of the galaxy. The average to amazing thing has already been done.

Concerning races, I'd like to pick races, too, but I worry about the customization. Like Garrus said, non-humans don't have many choice, and there's a lot of programming behind all of that. I'd assume a turian protagonist and a human protagonist would have different last names, as well as different superiors. Say, the mission calls to talk to your Councilor, the human would go to the human, and the turian the turian. All of that would take a lot of data. Now, don't get me wrong, I'd love to play as a turian, or krogan, but I just worry about any lag or underdevelopment which might come out of too many pre-game decisions like that.

-K.