User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-4721065-20130419132524/@comment-3228423-20130421150652

Well who would you prefer to have on your side? Some random nobodies who are with you just because you pay them and they have no other motivation to help out or the guy who has been proven to kill Reapers and has every reason to try and fight them?

Besides, you've spent 20+ hours being Shepard in the first game, would you really want to play some new person you know nothing about?