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.
What Arsenic above said!
Plus, if you read some of the planet entries, they mention advance species that are extinct. Sure it's not a great addition to his points above, but it's just more proof there are/were more other races out there.
Considering how the Kett are divided though across the Galaxy (presumably) it's likely there will be less diversity anyway, because they will have annihilated some species of interest.
@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.
