If they decided to reboot Mass Effect like BSG what would you want it to be like?

Given the state of things (or my perception of where we're at) it doesn't really matter what you or I or any of the existing fans want.  By the time any reboot could be delivered to market there will be an entirely new generation of gamers to sell to.  And frankly, plenty of general scify geeks (like myself) that will come back for a fresh take.  I know it sucks that your patronage doesn't really matter in the long run, but it doesn't.  If it really did, we'd still have support, we'd have a DLC (or three) by now, and at least hints that MEA2 was in the works.  Feel free to go ostrich if it makes you feel better.

Back in the day there were whole boards dedicated to that. Some still exist. This one was always my favorite. At one point it was set up as a forum, but only the forum creator had posting rights there.

The first two seasons did.  Then it got stupid.

Sounds kinda familiar...

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Thanks Mike. To answer your question, I was thinking that an ME4 crew entering back through the Omega Relay would not know what they would encounter (the previous visit was a suicide mission and then they got the hell out of there), much as the MEA crew did not know what they would find after their arrival in the new galaxy. This trip would be an Omega 4 exploration, or a MEA II exploration into a new Andromeda star system, but with very different game ending outcomes. Perhaps in the MW a galaxy race mentions (of course after the Reaper War) that an older race just upped and vanished 1,000 years earlier, and they want to go searching for them; the lost race may be racial 'cousins' to the Salarians, turians, or quarians, kinda like the Vulcans and Romulans were related in the past. The ME4 crew would simply find themselves in the middle of a civil war after passing through the Omega Relay, much as MEA ran into the war between the Angara and the Kett. The difference in this story's ending options are that the P/R plot options would have three very different ending outcomes. For example, by the end of this game the player can choose to either...

1) Prevent the Omega quadrant's civil war from spilling back through the Omega Relay into the Terminus region; Perhaps destroy the Omega Relay? (Sacrifices have to be made to protect the MW! Lol)

2) A paragon acts to resolve the civil war and seek a peaceful resolution for both races (i.e. Get some intel, and then go fight strategic battles to take out assassins, terrorists, and protect civilians from attacks - on both sides of the warring factions;

or 3) Allow a Renegade to lie, cheat, and betray one side to bring about their ruin (kinda like allying with a Kett-like race). Maybe perform a double or triple cross on one of the warring races.


And, thank you for the link to your March '18 post. I enjoy reading your ideas for a darkspace investigation. Lots of good ideas there, Mike. Your contributions to the NBSN are always well thought out. K

Metal Gear I give you. Not RE though. Plus I don’t think they’ll go the route of Mobile only.

I can never get enough of Corporate Commander. This review had me in stitches.

World must be ending because I agree with you on something.😉

The only thing I would really change is the length of time the Alliance was part of galactic civilization.  Thirty years is way too fast to have one of the strongest fleets out there and to get a seat on the Council.  The volus, for all that they're put down for not being physically adept, created the galactic economy and seem to have most of the money.  How is that not worth a seat on the Council?

I'd have had humanity lose the First Contact War and become a client state of the turians for at least a century.  During that time, they could build up their fleet, develop more biotics because there's a lot more time to be exposed to eezo and then, after proving themselves in the battle against Sovereign, they're freed from being a client state and given a seat on the Council.  Much more plausible.  It would really only affect Ashley's background, unless the Alliance is really still punishing a family a century later.  (Then again, the Ryder twins had their careers essentially ended because of Alec working on an AI - never mind that the Alliance was doing the same thing in ME: Revelation and probably on Luna with the "rogue VI".)

What kind of end are you looking for?  I choose Destroy every time (except that one time I was curious about Synthesis).  Why not just pick that one and not give a damn about what the Catalyst wants?  At this point, removing the Catalyst actually requires altering significant portions of the game (anything alluding to it), not to mention the Leviathan DLC discussing the "Intelligence" turning on the Leviathan and Vendetta noticing that the Reapers were servants of the cycles rather than the motivators of it.  Changing the ending would take a lot of work.

a sensible Cerberus storyline that deals with shady underbelly of galactic stage(for example having legit threats against Humanity from internal and external threats) and less lolzy evil and less keystone cop mode. Also able to do experimental project similar to the Larzaus Project but Not large scale enough to develop a navy that could rival the System Alliance in a ridiulous small time schedule presented in ME3 while keeping Mass Effect: Retribution canon.

Volus, Hanar and Elcor with greater exposure both good and bad in relationship to the main game.


Having Shepard tell Anderson both nice or harshly that using Dreams as possible evidence against Saren given that Shepard went thru a tramatic experience with the beacon and telling Anderson that the dreams could mean anything and possiblity un-related to the task at hand.

Also a greater and more detail quest line that involves exposing Saren outside of a recording.


A Rescue Mission by a Cerberus Agent to recover Shepard on a Collector Ship and handing a bad injured Shepard to Miranda after he slips into a deep almost a death like coma. When I say a bad injured Shepard I mean, Nightmare inducing injuries(both internal and external) to justify extensive reconstructive surgery by Miranda Lawson and her team. Converting Shepard into a Super-Soldier to face the Collectors and the Reapers.


Making System Alliance a reasonable powerful organization for human but not beyond the scopes of other Races. In short, having Aliens doing what they do best, should be equal to or greater than Humans. Example, Asari making better biotic implants and amps for all species would be a part of their markets. Volus as successful business owners and working with various races to make more money. So a Volus would be a business partner with several people will not be out of left field. also owning several different stocks in companies thru out the galaxy.

More Plot lines with Reaper Sleeper agents within various organization within canon. If Henry Lawson gets more screen time, make him a villain with good publicity while keeping his sociopathic tendencies hidden from view.

Liara with a good balance of military commando training and historian and biotics.

nuBSG is on Hulu -- used to be on Netflix, but it got pulled sometime back. If you don't stream, any decent library system would have the DVD sets. It's tonally very different from the original show, which may or may not work for you.

If they're going to rewrite the Reapers for a reboot, they should decide what they're trying to do before deciding how they do it. That was a big problem with the trilogy, ME1 in particular.