7 Mass Effect Species That Need Their Own Games

While AI robots becoming self-aware and overthrowing their creators may not be the most original idea, Mass Effect's Geth have plenty of nuance to them. Serving as little more than canon fodder in the first game, it was the inclusion of Legion in Mass Effect 2 that really made things interesting. Offering a devil's advocate point of view, Legion brought new levels of depth to the Geth, casting them in a more sympathetic light and revealing more information about their nature.

Geth are in fact not the robots that are physically encountered but the computer programs that make them run, with the mechanical bodies that house Geth referred to instead as platforms. Moreover, these programs are frequently transferred and downloaded into different platforms, meaning a Geth can just as easily be a starship as a flashlight-headed attack bot.

And therein lie the possibilities. Imagine a mechanic where the player character could download themselves into all manner of different machines. Not just piloting a ship, or mounting a turret but being one, the same personality inhabiting different bodies for different situtations. This idea was recently explored to an extent by Recore, but so much more could be done with it. Not to mention the obvious hacking, literal upgrading, and virtual reality implications that go with a technology-based race.