Wednesday, March 27, 2013

What I want in Mass Effect 4


Call the Asari out on their bullshit
So, in ME3, Shep heads to Thessia to recover an ancient religious relic for the beautiful Councilor Tevos because she vaguely said, "it might help against the reapers." It's actually a prothean beacon that the Asari have been hiding for thousands of years, and have been using the data inside of it to advance faster than all the other races. This is a direct violation of galactic law and grounds for some motherfucking war. I want this addressed in ME4, and perhaps the Asari should even lose their council seat due to the fact that they attained it by taking information steroids. Let's Barry Bonds this shit.


Quarians apologizing
The Geth achieved independent thought. The quarians massacred them. The Geth pushed the Quarians off of Rannoch and then chose not to pursue, the Quarians attacked them for a few hundred years to "take their homeworld back". Shep shows up to end that shitstorm, and even in the newfound peace Quarian admirals were suicide bombing defenseless Geth. In ME4, we should force these warhappy, close-minded suit-rats to apologize officially, and put a Geth on the council. I seriously cannot get behind the Quarians defense of attempted genocide, and their noses should be rubbed all in it.


An end to Batarian slavery
Every threat in Mass Effect has been a huge deal. Geth, Collectors, Reapers, all of them threatening everything. It would be nice to take a more local approach to our problems going forward. Like the issue of slavery. The Batarians got it the worst during the reaper invasion, and Shep personally killed 30,000 of them. That sucks, I agree, but their civilization still enforces slavery. In fact, if you are a human or turian colonist, you still live with the risk of being captured and sold into slavery by these Mississippi-esque nut jobs. This needs to be ended, for serious this time, even if it means military action. 


Wrex's child as a playable character
I keep thinking about who I would like to play as in ME4. Shep is dead, (or is she?) and the only way to keep the same feeling of scope going forward would be to have a star that has the same amount of political importance as Shepard. I say, it should be Wrex's kid. By the time that kid grows up, he/she will be the offspring of the greatest Krogan leader of all time, and the new spokesperson for the first generation of post-genophage Krogans, ready to contribute to the galactic community with positivity this time. Or Garrus and Tali's kid, whichever.


Put the Volus on the fucking council already
So, the four species on the council system is dumb, and it's ready for a serious overhaul. Especially now that every race in the galaxy sacrificed to destroy the reapers, it's time for a more broad representation. When deciding who should be on the council, take a look at who is there already, the Asari who cheated to get to the top, the Turians who hypocritically condemn the Krogans for being violent when the Turians go to war more than anybody else, the Salarians who basically committed genocide, and the humans, who are just basically a species of dicks. The Volus should be there, and should have been there for a long time already. They run the economy! Sure, they don't have much military power, but the Capitalistic nature of the galaxy is run by volus merchants, and suppliers. They are probably the most important and influential race there is, and most people don't give them credit for it because they aren't exploding others or being exciting. Give them credit, they're good people.


All in all, Im just excited to see what the future holds for the first cycle ever that didn't get harvested. We told the reapers that we are good enough to not be harvested, that we have everything under control, so let's prove it. I want to see how the galactic community takes care of itself now that the huge scary threat is gone. Maybe the racism will disappear, maybe everyone will just get a little more tolerant, or, maybe the Turians will see this as an opportunity to blow the fuck up everyone they don't agree with. Im not sure what the future holds, but I am very, very excited to play through it.

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