@PretzleMe wrote:
So let's see...
The Milky Way had
Hanar
Elcor
Krogan
Asari
Quarian
Reapers
Geth
Protheans
Turian
Human
Salarian
8 - 11 Alien Species
Andromeda has
Remnamt
Angarans
Some Other One Before Angarans
Kett
2 - 4 Alien Species
I'd really like to see some more new aliens and if one or two of them can look like aliens that your average human really would be attracted to (and look like they would possibly see humans as attractive) that would be pretty nice as well.
But was this a situation where BioWare didn't have time, money, and or ideas for other aliens (we basically only have two here (or 1 depending on how you look at it)) or do you think they were just trying to make our galaxy a special one?
I've taken the time to read through the thread as it stands and there are a lot of valid points. Lore for Andromeda does cover a lot of what species are present. What it seems to miss out on is that for the people that travelled ahead of the arks, to establish the nexus before the arks arrived, where the heck are the other races from the milkyway. Sure the Quarian Ark had engine issues. But the first people to venture to andromeda to build the nexus had Human, Assarian, Salarian and Krogan..... and bugger all else nor explanation of why not. In answer to the original question is bioware being lazy, YES THEY BLOODY WELL ARE. I'd be a fool to think it being all bioware without EA leaning on them to keep to a certain budget and spew out andromeda (inquisition) at a production super pace but from my standpoint I really do think you OP are right.
From the speed of production standpoint, the ludicrous amount of bugs, game breaking bugs across all platforms + the PC port. Yes Port, i said it. A rush patch that resets the players settings making all the little tweaks we used to get the game running in the first place disapear, so until WE realized the patch cleared them, we're working through 2 iterations of major bugs, the released bugs that weren't covered by the patch, and then the bugs introduced by the patch... yay!
Conclusion the Milky way lore was special, but then too there should be more in andromeda that isn't there. The kett also have a striking resemblence to protheans with a side of Kunari headgear borrowed from Inquisition. The nexus is a cop out for races other than the four main milky way ark ships. Blows my mind that a Quarian didn't hitchhike a ride on another ark for a pilgrimage or prior rides for the nexus. I think it boils down to money. EA will milk the game and introduce the other races with DLC.... the chance of a new NPC team member with each added race would not surprise me.
Well,for one,the entire cluster was a dead cluster that the Jardaan teraformed and populated with a single species that they engineered.
There's that.
@NurofenUsa wrote:
The kett also have a striking resemblence to protheans with a side of Kunari headgear borrowed from Inquisition.
Lol, I thought I was the only person that felt like this and that I only felt this way because I was having problems letting go of the trilogy. I still keep calling my Ryder Shepherd by accident to be honest, lol.
But I forgot the Drell and the Rachni too.
Anyway, I just feel like, granted the number of alien species we encountered in the Milky Way, I don't think it would have been impossible to at least encountered 2 more in the first installment of Andromeda and have it still not change the main story significantly.
But you are right and you bring up something I didn't even think about, the other races traveling ahead... or lack thereof. Very interesting points all around.
PretzleMe wrote:
I still keep calling my Ryder Shepherd by accident to be honest, lol.
Well easy way to rectify this. During character creation on your next playthrough just name your Ryder Shepard Ryder 😃
@PretzleMe wrote:
@NurofenUsa wrote:
The kett also have a striking resemblence to protheans with a side of Kunari headgear borrowed from Inquisition.Lol, I thought I was the only person that felt like this and that I only felt this way because I was having problems letting go of the trilogy. I still keep calling my Ryder Shepherd by accident to be honest, lol.
But I forgot the Drell and the Rachni too.
Anyway, I just feel like, granted the number of alien species we encountered in the Milky Way, I don't think it would have been impossible to at least encountered 2 more in the first installment of Andromeda and have it still not change the main story significantly.
But you are right and you bring up something I didn't even think about, the other races traveling ahead... or lack thereof. Very interesting points all around.
You forgot Drell, Rachni, but also Volus, Batarians, Leviathans, Collectors (well, that's a bit controversial), Keepers (another controversial one), Yahg, Vorcha, Thorian... And possibly some more. Not to mention all the non-sapient creatures.
Yap, there is no telling: even taking Ketts into account, and considering that we have seen just a little part of Andromeda, it is truly surprising that there are *so few* races in the cluster. There is much going on in Andromeda, with Ketts being a mix of Protheans and Reapers, with Scrouge and its unknonwn creators, with Jardaan / unknown Remnants creators, and with so much of history still unrevealed... But it is still discouraging how lazy EA/BW got. :-(
@Kondaru wrote:
@PretzleMe wrote:
@NurofenUsa wrote:
The kett also have a striking resemblence to protheans with a side of Kunari headgear borrowed from Inquisition.Lol, I thought I was the only person that felt like this and that I only felt this way because I was having problems letting go of the trilogy. I still keep calling my Ryder Shepherd by accident to be honest, lol.
But I forgot the Drell and the Rachni too.
Anyway, I just feel like, granted the number of alien species we encountered in the Milky Way, I don't think it would have been impossible to at least encountered 2 more in the first installment of Andromeda and have it still not change the main story significantly.
But you are right and you bring up something I didn't even think about, the other races traveling ahead... or lack thereof. Very interesting points all around.
You forgot Drell, Rachni, but also Volus, Batarians, Leviathans, Collectors (well, that's a bit controversial), Keepers (another controversial one), Yahg, Vorcha, Thorian... And possibly some more. Not to mention all the non-sapient creatures.
Yap, there is no telling: even taking Ketts into account, and considering that we have seen just a little part of Andromeda, it is truly surprising that there are *so few* races in the cluster. There is much going on in Andromeda, with Ketts being a mix of Protheans and Reapers, with Scrouge and its unknonwn creators, with Jardaan / unknown Remnants creators, and with so much of history still unrevealed... But it is still discouraging how lazy EA/BW got. :-(
I believe at the end of the day there is a limit to what can be done within the limits of resources(time, money, talent pool), it is very clear that the focus this time around wasnt the storyline and creation of new alien races, it's combat which objectively is an improvement vs the original series and the open world theme. Think the one that saps the most resources is the whole open world theme, makes sequences less controllable and thus more bugs to fix. For years some fans been asking Bioware for exploration like back in the original ME1 days, so guess they did that, but at the expense of a great storyline, scripts, voice acting, music scores, creative new alien races.
