Drakron
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How about we making Mass Effect 4 being on a new galaxy where you meet new civilizations and meet new alien life for the first time on a sort of Star Trek trip. Imagine you dealing with with primitive aliens and you as the leader of the expedition suffering alot of pressure from people that want to dominate those aliens to their benefit.
Look, that is dumb ... this is like the US deciding to explore the Amazon Indians and force then to build iPhone, it doesnt work ... its not the 16th century, the technological advancements requires a educated and skilled workforce and not a large one due to automation.
I dislike that simply on the grounds its nonsensical, its trying to push a anachronism simply because colonialism was bad completely ignoring why we freed the slaves and that wasnt because "slavery is bad".
We could make a paralel of the american indian contact with the european culture and how many sorts of problems that relationship had. How about you dealing with an strange world with an strange culture that you consider morally repulsive but that is completely understandable on the enviroment they live on. Would you intervene and take the planet for you? Is it okay for you to impose "civilization"? And "improve" their lives?
Again, dumb because ITS NOT THE 16th CENTURY!
There are NO parallels, plus you dont even need to go to another galaxy, heck you dont need to even fucking leave Earth, this is simply being on a soapbox trying to "educate" why colonialism is bad.
[quote[Maybe there are different factions formed on how to deal with the aliens divide, some like the Kroogans defend slavery, others like the salarians defend the civilization to be brought o the savages, the Asari defend non intervention and to go on less fertile planets to not intervene with them, humans defend using the savages to beat the big bad antagonist...[/quote]
Again, Space Slavery is stupid.
The best part of the Mass Effect games were the genophage story and it is the only clever thing Bioware ever did on Mass Effect and because it is the only morally relevant part of Mass Effect, it isn't wonder that the best characters of the game are related with it.
The Geth werent and the Geth were interresting as they were a actual totally alien species.
How about you being the salarians now? Giving weapons and technology for the natives so they can fight for you against a much more numerous threat that is your common enemy but when they outlive their usefulness you backstab them and take the planet for your race?
Except the Krogans were already at a industrial age when the Salarians uplifted them, plus what they did wasnt exactly wrong but just ended up creating another problem as Krogans started to expand at too much of a high rate, the Xenophage was a attempt to not just downright sterilize them but rather to lower their reproduction rates to something that was sustainable.
Salarains did nothing wrong.
When you are talking about "natives" and "primitives" I can only think of a pre-industrial age species were doing so would be ... oh ... FUCKING STUPID! it would be the same as giving the Amazonian Indian tribes F-22s and Abram tanks and send them to fight a war, IT DOESNT WORK THAT WAY.
But don't worry, this is a "videa gaeme", cover shooting weird aliens in the face, collecting trinkets and romancing 12 year olds plastic mannequins with bad animations is much more important than that boring thematic stuff. Yeah, this game just looks like the typical quick consumption culture product that AAA and its friends are dumping on hungry retards but comically more inept than usual.
Not what you trying to propose is in any better ....