Mass Effect Needs A Doctor Chakwas Spin-Off
I don't know if the next Mass Effect is going to be called Mass Effect 4, or Mass Effect 5, or Mass Effect: A Different Subtitle, but I do know I'm going to scream if Shepard is in it. Well, more likely I'll just roll my eyes and say "ugh," before penning a 1,200 word essay on precisely why BioWare is wrong and I, as ever, am correct. The point is, we know little to nothing about it, and all we can do at this stage is speculate. But frankly, speculating about a game we know nothing about gets a little thin, and I've suggested enough changes or developments for games that have gone completely unheeded - remember my genius idea to have a Burnout game where you play as the road? - to know that devs aren't actually listening to me. Despite the fact that I regularly spin gold. Sit a while, if you will, by my wheel as I weave yet another tale of potential and untapped greatness: Mass Effect needs to make a Doctor Chakwas spin-off.
I recently wrote in defence of Kelly Chambers, the yeoman in Mass Effect 2. Not because I think she's a good character, but because I think the game woefully misuses her and wastes what might have been interesting potential. In a world swirling with intense killers on the edge of glory and defeat, Kelly is just a regular human lady who tells you when you have an email or a call waiting. She could have been a grounded contrast to everything going on around you, but instead is pushed to the fringes. That leaves Chakwas as the one who brings this much needed contrast to the game.
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