Outside of Human, What Alien Species do you want to see for Player Character

Quarian, maybe even Turian, Drell, something close to but not far off. Prothean if a hidden pocket of them have been discovered in Andromeda.

ME3MP already explored this allowing us to play as just about every kind of alien introduced in the series. Even an awakened collector which can be recolored to look like the evil ones. Would be great to have more than some obscure hidden flavor text explaining what "awakened" means and some retconning of a few dumb parts to the leviathan lore like the timeless human caveman drawings being outdoors for countless millennia completely unaffected by natural weathering that no reaper or indoctrinated slave ever discovered until Shepard showed up. 

Would be interesting to see an inner conflict of harbinger failing to assume control and the awakened collector finally gaining free will while barely making sense of it all and somehow being discovered by N7 operatives other than our lord and savior god emperor of the galaxy commander shepard who learn how to communicate with it around the same timeframe as the crucible project.

For me, I always viewed the whole synopsis of the 'Awakened' Collector to be in-universe propaganda on the part of the Alliance/Citadel government to try and gloss over the fact that they are just a mindless meat puppet of the Leviathans. 


Think about it, the Awakened never calls out to the other members of the fireteam concerning incoming enemies, never flinches or cries out in pain when shot, etc. Even the Geth platforms express distress when downed or upon taking fire but the Collector, it just stands there with not so much as a grunt of pain. 

Viewed in that light, I can see why the moral officers would have drummed up a story about a long lost Prothean suddenly gaining their free will and fighting back against the Reapers, it's much more comforting than acknowledging the fact that the rest of the fire team is out there fighting alongside a zombie; and that anyone of them could just as easily be 'Awakened' by the Leviathans and toy soldier-ed around if they ever felt like it.

That is a good point. The Leviathans aren't really on either side of the conflict and are more of an independent third party like the Thorians who "serve no one." They already have plants and puppets throughout known space as they were the origin of what we know as indoctrination. But their perfected version is without the same kind of deleterious effects as the crude version reapers use. They can release control without destroying the underlying host unlike the reapers who have a completely different goal besides extracting tribute from other species.

Quarians who have adapted enough to not need their suits on their own ship and with clearer visors so you can see their faces on mission.

I suppose they werent really in a position to start wide scale production of a new design as they were in exile and had to constantly hunt for spare parts and stuff. 

well this is me and i am try to go dark. I would love to see The Fall of Palaven and see it thru the eyes of a turian fighting Reaper Husks and witnessing the Palaven's Destruction by a Reaper Superweapon. Well It is a reference to The Fall of Cadia.

I've said it before on other sites, but not on here I believe: MEA was the game that should have allowed for playing a non-human - with the ability to start as the human, salarian, turian, or asari pathfinders on their respective arks. The opportunity was there. I don't know if this option was ever on the table at BioWare, but the short development time of the final game precluded it anyway.

Am fine with the next Mass Effect being human-only if it means we get another Mass Effect game. Mass Effect's journey as a franchise is full of missed opportunities, should-haves, could-haves, cool-things-that-got-cut, and things-there-was-no-time-to-include. What's one more.

that is the beauty of roleplaying, you don't have to be a racist unless you want to be one. 

Asari. Something that's been bugging me a lot in RPGs lately is that the choice of a male and female player character has seriously seemed to hamper the actual character writing since voiced PC dialogue became a thing. Recording two versions of every line of dialogue actively trying to avoid characterizing themselves too much so as not to alienate players wanting to roleplay them one way or another, it just makes for a lot of very featureless protagonists. Assassin's Creed is the primary example I'd draw on with a night/day difference between the character depths of earlier single-sex protagonists and later... optional-sex? ones. Mass Effect does a decent job averting it, but a lot of Shepards still feel very much the same. Ryders doubly so.

So rather than taking another shot at that 'worst of both worlds' approach I'd be intrigued to see the franchise focus on an explicitly female Asari for once and actually putting effort into fleshing her out and letting us roleplay her to a both deeper and broader extent, and make her a more integrated part of the world. After all the damned galaxy-saving it'd be nice to play a more focused and low-stakes story immersing yourself in the world as one of its unique inhabitants.

And if I got to have a choice, the protagonist would be Liara's daughter by Shepard after the battle for Earth. Don't care if they make the thorny ethics of Liara's decision in that instance a plot point/identity issue in the game. I'd just very much like it if Shepard got to have a canonical biological legacy in the galaxy. And between Liara, Aria, Peebee, Morinth(!) and all the other awesome and badass and flavorful and prettty darn relatable Asari characters you meet in the series I don't doubt that one could carry a game in her own right, if Bioware still has it in them.

I say do it the other way around. Give the main character a voice while giving the silent treatment to all the other characters. hahaha. When talking with a character, a box of dialogue pops up from the character.