You're comparing apples to oranges. One whole galaxy linked together with mass relays, to one cluster with no way to connect to other clusters.
Datapads make references to other races outside of the cluster, the kett make references to the countless other species they've worked into their genetic structure.
So it has nothing to do with the milky way being special, or bioware being lazy.
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:
You're comparing apples to oranges. One whole galaxy linked together with mass relays, to one cluster with no way to connect to other clusters.
Datapads make references to other races outside of the cluster, the kett make references to the countless other species they've worked into their genetic structure.So it has nothing to do with the milky way being special, or bioware being lazy.
I was comparing one space game to another, that also was made by the same company. As I implied before, they could have had another race here, also develop a method for them to move around in fashion similar to Mass Relays.
Also, they could have easily been trying to be lazy.. If I'm making a new story and I don't want to feature as many races as I did in my past one, it doesn't mean I won't come up with a good/feasible reason to explain that aspect of the new tale.
@Nykara360 wrote:
We have encountered the angara who have purposely been hiding and not co-mingling somit stands to reason on their planets we only see them.
We really have not explored far yet at all.
Think about it like this, if the Angarans had come to the Milky Way to look for a new home, even if they had only happened upon Earth and its surrounding star systems, they would have encountered a multitude of races. I agree that the game feels like it needed more development. Especially when I look at the dialogue, there were parts where I got to then end and felt like, "Wait. Was that it?" and not in a way that you can tell there will be a sequel (though sometimes sure) but in a way that had me look on youtube to make sure I did the whole relationship or what have you, lol.
I wasn't saying they didn't have in game reasons that work. All I was asking was if their were very real life circumstances that could have influenced that story. It's fake so they could have done anything they wanted.
Granted we visit well over 50 planets, could it have made sense that we encountered more aliens? I think so. So why didn't we? Now if you believe the story wasn't effected by "external" factors or desires (such as a desire to not have as many aliens in it right now because they didn't feel like doing all that work) then that's your opinion. I wasn't sure so I asked what I thought was a reasonable question.
Also I wanted to thank everyone for sharing their opinion. I wanted to make it clear that I appreciate your answers in case that isn't obvious.
I was disappointed at first, but then I realised that in the Milky Way its almost the same.
In Andromeda we have one Cluster...in the Milky Way we have the whole galaxy with several clusters, but each cluster usually has only one advanced species.
Asari, Turian etc all evolved in another cluster... So I guess with a sequel or DLC where we might get to see other clusters of Andromeda we will see other alien species too 🙂
@PretzleMe wrote:
@Arsenic_Touch wrote:
You're comparing apples to oranges. One whole galaxy linked together with mass relays, to one cluster with no way to connect to other clusters.
Datapads make references to other races outside of the cluster, the kett make references to the countless other species they've worked into their genetic structure.So it has nothing to do with the milky way being special, or bioware being lazy.
I was comparing one space game to another, that also was made by the same company. As I implied before, they could have had another race here, also develop a method for them to move around in fashion similar to Mass Relays.Also, they could have easily been trying to be lazy.. If I'm making a new story and I don't want to feature as many races as I did in my past one, it doesn't mean I won't come up with a good/feasible reason to explain that aspect of the new tale.
@Nykara360 wrote:
We have encountered the angara who have purposely been hiding and not co-mingling somit stands to reason on their planets we only see them.
We really have not explored far yet at all.
Think about it like this, if the Angarans had come to the Milky Way to look for a new home, even if they had only happened upon Earth and its surrounding star systems, they would have encountered a multitude of races. I agree that the game feels like it needed more development. Especially when I look at the dialogue, there were parts where I got to then end and felt like, "Wait. Was that it?" and not in a way that you can tell there will be a sequel (though sometimes sure) but in a way that had me look on youtube to make sure I did the whole relationship or what have you, lol.I wasn't saying they didn't have in game reasons that work. All I was asking was if their were very real life circumstances that could have influenced that story. It's fake so they could have done anything they wanted.Granted we visit well over 50 planets, could it have made sense that we encountered more aliens? I think so. So why didn't we? Now if you believe the story wasn't effected by "external" factors or desires (such as a desire to not have as many aliens in it right now because they didn't feel like doing all that work) then that's your opinion. I wasn't sure so I asked what I thought was a reasonable question.
The difference being humans let other races in the angara do not, they were specifically staying away from other races after what the kett did,
So although on earth alone is multiple species, the angara are different, they werent open to relations with other species.
@Nykara360 wrote:
The difference being humans let other races in the angara do not, they were specifically staying away from other races after what the kett did,
So although on earth alone is multiple species, the angara are different, they werent open to relations with other species.
I suppose I was just pointing out that whether humans wanted others to be able to explore around the solar system or not, those other aliens would have regardless. We might have had the ability to stop them from taking residence on Earth, but stopping them from simply being around 30 plus tsar systems and 100 other planets would have not been possible.
Hence, even though the Angarans keep to themselves, we still landed on their planet and we were on a planet that had none of them on it,
The Kett are still around and so are the Remnant. The harsh reality for the Angarans is, even if they decided they didn't want the Milk Way galaxies there, we weren't going to go anywhere else (at least not in the immediate future) and there would be practically nothing they would have been able to do to stop us.
The more I think about this discussion, it seems to become a situation of humans being special rather than our galaxy. Which is typical since that is what we are and it is our story, lol.
I keep seeing people trying to use the story, as well as the fact that this is only one cluster, to attempt to justify the lack of alien races we encounter.
While I understand why one would do that, this is actually incorrect in response to my question because my question is talking about the motivation behind the story rather than the story itself.
The reason it is looking at the motivation is because the story is fake. It could have been almost anything they wanted it to be which means that the story itself is inconsequential. As I pointed out before, if I wanted to have less races in my new story than I did in the other one, of course I could come up with a feasible reason for it, but my motivation remains that I was being lazy.
It's like when they didn't make Vivienne able to be romanced in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and their argument was something to the affect of "When you see her story you'll understand." This was an unacceptable argument because her story would have been whatever they wanted it to be which means she wasn't able to be romanced because they didn't want to allow her to be.
My question was also incorrect because it failed to look at the other possibility that there could have been budget (and or other limiting factors) constraints that caused us to have so much less sentient races featured in this game.
Even with the story they have in place, there could have been 1 or 2 more races without too many changes, but the point is, the story could have been anything. 1 cluster or not, that has nothing to do with whether or not we could have encountered more races because if they wanted us to encounter more (exceptions aside) no one would have complained about it granted there are 100 planets there and all of this is made up.
Granted the number of problems this game already has, I'm thinking this may have occurred due to real world limitations. Adding just one more race to the mix would have increased their workload drastically and thus provided more that could have went wrong. This would be especially true if any romance options would have been available because of this other race.
That's my opinion anyway.
