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Let's settle this. What should the next Mass Effect game be?

What should the next Mass Effect game be?

  • Andromeda sequel

    Votes: 72 12.2%

  • First contact prequel

    Votes: 64 10.8%

  • Mass Effect 4

    Votes: 192 32.5%

  • Hard Reboot

    Votes: 210 35.5%

  • other (please state)

    Votes: 53 9.0%
  • Total voters
    591
shimon

shimon

Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,581
I've been thinking about this for a couple of minutes and...Sigh...
I'm not sure I even want another Mass Effect. I don't think Bioware has it in them to create something great anymore. And I'm not even talking technical/gameplay stuff. I mean story and characters. Especially after Andromeda which was a disaster character-wise. Ryder as a main character and a leader is a joke. Cora could be substituted by a cardboard and nobody would notice. Plus I never would've imagined they can create a worse character than Jacob but lo and behold, here comes Liam. The rest was pretty mediocre. And I'm not gonna talk about NPC's bc there's nothing to talk about. Miss "My face is tired" anyone?
For the love of God we went to a new galaxy and we barely got anything new...
My biggest disappointment this gen along with FF XV.
Sorry for the rant.
 
Haze

Haze

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,785
Detroit, MI
Brock Reiher said:
mass effect 3 was 8 years ago. I was thinking maybe they could just re-release the Trilogy but between the space-Jesus plot, the cringy sex scenes, and the paragon/renegade stuff the series is just way too dated. it's time to let it stay dead.
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To me it's just more that every series doesn't need to survive forever or be rebooted and remade. It's ok for a series to just exist when it existed.
 
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May 26, 2018
24,020
ME4, just forget the Starchild endings. We beat the Reapers, all the aliens joined together to do
It. Shepard is missing. The Galaxy is pretty messed up from the war, resources eaten into big time. Everyone's recovering. Now what?
 
Typographenia

Typographenia

Member
Oct 27, 2017
557
Los Angeles
It's an enormous universe with an incredibly diverse range of inhabitants and planets to explore.
You could literally tell any story there. It doesn't have to be another fight to save existence.
 
xendless

xendless

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Jan 23, 2019
10,665
I was fine with the series ending after 3, even as a mega fan of the trilogy.
Weirdly, Andromeda changed my mind, even though I'm not a fan. By the end of the game I was hungry for more, but better. I was even excited for a Quarian ark dlc that never came...
 
xendless

xendless

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Jan 23, 2019
10,665
SofNascimento said:
Although I'm not a fan of the Asari, a lot of people like them. And they actually developed them to much more than "sexy blue women".
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So many of my favourite characters are Asari, even though I'm not a fan of the species as a concept. I find they have a greater variation in personality than most species just to make up for it.
Also Aria x Nyreen 4lyfe screw you Bioware
 
Cruxist

Cruxist

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
3,819
Pick a canon ending, and set the game 50 years after 3. That might upset people, but I think it makes the most sense. It would feel like a post-WW2 Europe with alliances shifting and the adjustment of new galactic powers. The Turians and Asari both got hit hard by the reapers, so what does that mean? And commit to a canon ending for all the major choices.
 

AimLow

Member
Dec 10, 2017
969
Sparks said:
What about Reboot Andromeda? I thought the idea was pretty genius in terms of leaving the Galaxy and going to a new Galaxy, opened up a ton of possibilities if they had more development resources. With a sequel being them hearing the news about the Milky-Ways demise and having to go back there with a new crew of new alien species and see the remnants of Mass Effect 3's state of destruction, maybe even a Reaper Shepard as the main villain (but thousands of years in the future).
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I mostly agree with this save for the going back, unless it was a side-story component. My vote is continue Andromeda. Technical issues aside, I actually enjoyed the game and they set up a bunch of cool story arcs at the end. Still salty they pulled the plug.
 
javiBear

javiBear

The Fallen
Oct 30, 2017
886
ME3 ending sucked and retroactively ruined the series, Andromeda was broken and memed to oblivion, and Anthem was just pure shit. BioWare just doesn't have the talent to pull of a good game anymore. I don't believe any Mass Effect coming from them, or any future game for that matter, will be good. ME was once a favorite series of mine, even with the botched ending, so this hurts to say.
 
Pyro

Pyro

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Jul 30, 2018
14,505
United States
Mass Effect 4. I don't wanna save the world. I'd rather have a FFXII style political struggle whilst trying to rebuild.
 
Laser Man

Laser Man

Member
Oct 26, 2017
2,683
Not interested in revisiting random side stories dressed up as main conflict in that universe, they blew their load too early, there is no going back!
 
HellofaMouse

HellofaMouse

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,176
im ok with andromeda sequel as long as it's well written. (who am i kidding, ill play any new m.e. game to death regardless)
 
monmagman

monmagman

Member
Dec 6, 2018
4,126
England,UK
It's sad to say,but I have no faith that Bioware could reach the heights of the original trilogy again.
Given the state they have left the series in only a reboot would do it for me anyway.
 
Taker34

Taker34

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Oct 25, 2017
1,122
building stone people
A hard reboot wouldn't make sense in my opinion since that's what Andromeda already was. References to the previous trilogy have been minor and with every reboot they'd fall into the trap of making something different from the original trilogy.

So Mass Effect 4 is the only logical consequence:
-They can't catch lightning in a bottle twice.
-They already have solid established lore to work with.
-They already have solid characters to work with.
-It's better to retcon elements than having to work around them forever in the future.
 
Kentsui

Kentsui

Member
Oct 26, 2017
1,515
Just let it die so we can keep what little good memories we have with the series intact.
 
ClarkusDarkus

ClarkusDarkus

Member
Oct 27, 2017
2,725
ME3 single handedly ruined the series, Either reboot it with IT canon, Or an actual happy ending not stills of pics and a " last breath " shot for us to imagine the ending.

Then again running around in ME3 doing fetch quests for Random's was awful so nah bollox too it.

Bioware are done, Magic is gone.
 
Temp_User

Temp_User

Member
Oct 30, 2017
4,699
Crossover fighting game with the Star Wars Universe . . . . or Star Trek . . . . or whichever is available.
 
Cats_Schrodinger

Cats_Schrodinger

Member
Oct 29, 2017
3,007
In my head, refusal is canon, but nothing saves this franchise.

Maybe if they made something like 1313, not concentrating the overreaching grandiose plot, but something similar to ME2 with personal tales in an interesting universe.
 
Rodney McKay

Rodney McKay

Member
Oct 26, 2017
12,205
Not a HARD reboot, but I'd basically like them to start over from Mass Effect 1.

Keep the same story and characters and basic structure, but revamp pretty much all the specifics (new levels, less worlds but more detail and interesting stuff, go more into Cerberus, etc.)

Then do Mass Effect 2 again, keeping a lot the same, but go more in depth with what Cerberus did to bring Shepard back (can't believe that was barely touched in in ME2 or 3, such a potentially amazing aspect of the story). Let you see failed test subjects or stuff like that.
And they can ditch the Giant baby terminator at the end, make that something less stupid.

Then for Mass Effect 3 they can start fresh and hopefully ditch a lot of stuff. Scrap Kei Leng (I think that's his name) or make him a way better character (maybe introduce him in ME2, maybe even as a crew member to make him turning against you a plot point).

Give the Reapers a better reason for "reaping" all life in the galaxy (I think the original writer in ME2 wanted it to be stopping advanced civilizations from accelerating the end of the universe or something related to Dark Matter/Energy). Anything is better than "life eventual makes robots that will kill life, so we have to kill life to stop them from making robots that kill life" ummm, yeah.

And tweak the ending so it can be easier to continue with one or two "Canon" endings. None of that magic "make everyone half organic half synthetic" that makes zero sense, or "killing the Reapers also kills all AI Synthetics" BS (really, millenia old Reapers are similar enough to modern AI that they all have the same weakness?)

Then MAYBE if they can nail all of that, they can continue with a Mass Effect 4, or redo Andromeda to not be so mediocre.
 
Sgt. Demblant

Sgt. Demblant

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Oct 25, 2017
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France
Hard reboot.
I actually enjoyed 3 but a prequel would feel too weird knowing that inevitable ending is coming.
Even if there is potential in an Andromeda sequel (don't know, haven't played it myself), that side-universe seems stillborn. I don't think it'd make much sense to keep going in that direction.

Just make a game set on the citadel. Basically the same set-up as early ME1. Except no Reapers. Just go in an entirely new directions in terms of villains.
 
StrappingYoungLance

StrappingYoungLance

Member
Oct 27, 2017
6,397
Melbourne, Australia
I would be fine with a good sequel to Andromeda, it was a mess but I still managed to enjoy it (heavily discounted anyway) and it kind of felt like I could see where it could have been a great game.

If not some sort of reboot, whether that's entirely detached from what came before or set far in the future in the same universe. I'd hate to go into the past, sounds like a boring setting.

Also make the new MC non-human, or give us the ability to create a non-human.
 
TheThreadsThatBindUs

TheThreadsThatBindUs

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Oct 26, 2017
6,151
United Kingdom
I'm honestly ready for a whole new IP spiritual sequel that has a new cast, new Milky Way galaxy, new aliens and new story ideas.

Mass Effect is tainted at this point. Andromeda was their biggest and last chance to renew gamer faith in Bioware and they handed it off to the unproven B team while they focused on Anthem (and look how that turned out).
 
Plasma

Plasma

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Oct 25, 2017
6,637
A sequel to Andromeda set far enough into the future that the Initiative have a foothold in the galaxy with plenty of colonies built up. Then make a story like Mass Effect 2 where the stakes are high but not galaxy ending where the main focus is on your crew. But don't call it Andromeda 2, give it a new subtitle.
 

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I won't mind at all Andromeda 2 sequel. There is honestly huge potential for sequels but I think EA and Bioware are now scared to use the name "Andromeda" because of the meme/internet. Granted that they can use another name anyway and continue the story.

Anyway I want and always wanted Mass Effect 4. They can do it like a 100 years later where alliances and species start to have issues. Introduce new rising species and factions.
Make something more like Mass Effect 1 so exploration/conflicts/politics of a Galactic society starting to fall on themselves (rebellious colonies, corruption etc.) with so ref to the original trilogy.

Liara should be there, as well as maybe descendant of your character and romance interest and you are set.

But yeah definitely ME4, no reboot please. The "soft" reboot was MEA. Continue with it if it's a reboot that you want.
 
olag

olag

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Oct 28, 2017
2,106
It's time for a spiritual successor. Say what you will about me3, it's ending was definative and tied up everything.

Anything they try to do with the franchise now will feel forced and tacked on.
 
LuckyLinus

LuckyLinus

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Jun 1, 2018
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ME:4, the game starts at the ending of ME:3 and lets you replay a vastly improved version of the most hated ending in gaming. Then onwards to the aftermath.

Mass Effect needs its redemption.
 
TheMadTitan

TheMadTitan

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Oct 27, 2017
27,235
Mass Effect 4. Post Reaper war with the galaxy trying to rebuild and first contact with a new alien race that avoided said war since they hadn't discovered Relays yet and attempt to take over the galaxy once they see all of the other races are in shambles and dealing with political infighting and strife.
 
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