Who could the next main character be?
Hello people and welcome back to another one of my post
What is the post all about?: Todays topic is something what i followed on YouTube a while now, it's about who could we play as in the upcoming game.
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My thoughts & speculation (neutral): many fans have let go of the idea that we could play as Shepard again, and honest i can understand why. Shepard is through from the Story telling side, but one thing what on the other hand is also understandable is that Shepards ending in mass effect 3 doesn't feel right he should be with Tali and live a normal life on Rannoch with her, i think many fans just wanna see that Shepard is still there but not on the front line. And honest this sounds for the best, but we cannot forget that we don't know nothing in what time it will play. But what do I think is the best choice for the main character..? Well let's see what many fans came up with shall we?
Community speculation:
Liara's child theory: Many people believe that the next main character will be the child of Liara and Shepard, what would sound nice if there was not such a big problem. Not everyone fell for Liara, and with that BioWare needs to make a tuff choice. What if people romance garrus as example? Or Tali? How would Liara tell them that "oh hey Tali i just wanna let you know that i secretly got pregnant with Shepards child and he didn't even know it, because i did it without his knowing." This is a tuff choice which i think personally BioWare will not do, simply out of the fact that it would make a lot of people angry and sad, and until they rewrite a part of the biological story of mass effect that Humans can get children with turians, Quarians etc. It should be a no.
N7 theory: Many people wanna a refreshing start, how can you do that? With a new character. People wanna see someone else in this N7 armor, but if BioWare wants to make this happen this new character needs be damn well written. Otherwise it will end like with Ryder. A character who trys to stand out of Shepards shadow.
Alien main character: What many fans wanna see (me included) is to play as any alien specie in the mass effect universe and if not just the citadel member species. That would be awesome to see, but we cannot forget the one thing what makes mass effec, mass effect. We play as a human in a world full of alien races with all kinds of problems. For us old soldiers this wouldn't be a problem, we know all species what happened to them etc. But what about the newcomers? If they play as a alien right at the start they don't know what made commander Shepard so special and the aspect that we could really feel into the problems of our Crew. I would say for older players of this series it would be awesome playing as a Alien. But the newcomers would first play the first three games to even understand the 4-5 game of the series. It's like with movies if you start in the middle of the trilogy you have no idea what happened before. And this destorys for me personally the fun. But i can be wrong also.
My end thoughts: i think in the end we should give BioWare the space, time and attention that they know we stand right behind them. If we start to force them to something it could end like anthem, beautiful game but the rest sucks. I think BioWare will give us a amazing game what makes us cry and feel every choice our character makes. But they should give us old players at least the Confirmation that Shepard lives with Tali (our your live interest) a happy live in retirement. So that fans of the Shepard cult can rest their forks and torches. But in the end we have to understand, that BioWare can not make everyone of us happy. As much as I wish that Shepard would return, we must also see the possibility that we maybe just find him on Rannoch together with Tali as a npc or he just gets mentioned. I'm not a downtalker, but that's also the case for the people who wish for a game that plays in the far further. Bioware could also just take Shepard again and we could play as him after the war.
Anyway, i hope you like this post of mine i took really the time on it, to give my honest opinion on it. You can disagree with me, even if there isn't much. I stayed neutral in this post and didn't took any specific side to favor. I hope we can discuss what your thoughts are on the upcoming game, I'm also open for PCs but that's up to you. I hope you have a nice morning/evening or night.
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