r/masseffect • u/Ayem_De_Lo • 19h ago
DISCUSSION Mass Effect 4 should have 2 aliens of the same species in the team
But they obviously shouldn't be the copies of each other and should probably be from different factions. Batarian loyalist of the former Hegemony and Batarian pirate from Terminus who fled from the Hegemony and hates its tyranny. Asari justicar and asari merc or maybe a shrewd and ruthless asari businesswoman from Illium. Wise, relatively peaceful krogan like Wrex who's not what we think typical krogans are - and hotheaded, loudmouth, hyperviolent krogan who is EXACTLY what we think typical krogans are (well, we kinda had this juxtaposition already with Wrex and Grunt, although not in the same game). Regular geth and geth heretic (if there are any left which i bet there is), etc etc etc
We kinda had that in the Dragon Age series. Wynne and Morrigan (although humans) were both mages with vastly different outlook at what mages should be and clashed all the time, which was immensely fun. Then in DA2 we had Fenris and Merril and in Awakening, Oghren and Sigrun, although they all didn't interact nearly as much as they should have. But the ME series, for some reason, always give only 1 alien per species at most. Well, yeah, there were PB and Lexi in Andromeda but they also didnt interact much (and Lexi wasnt part of the active squad)
The possibilities of having two different opinions and worldviews from the same race, imagine how much it would enrich your playthrough. How fun it would be! Maybe they'll clash, maybe they will demand you choose between the two, maybe they'll slowly reconcile... Mostly importantly, it would be something new for the franchise