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Post by biggydx on Nov 19, 2018 20:57:31 GMT
Commander Shepard was a battle-hardened veteran. Scott/Sara Ryder served as early recruits in the Systems Alliance, though their stations differed from one another. Should the next main character be another battle-hardened war veteran? Could they be mercenary who works towards their own gain? Maybe a humble law enforcement officer, or gristled bounty hunter? Or could they simply be a normal civilian who goes learns as they go?
Bounty Hunter could be cool. Give it that Jango Fett vibe.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 21:47:47 GMT
Well... since I believe the next player character should be Scott/Sara Ryder, the occupational background be that of either Ryder twin combined with having experience at being Pathfinder or alternatively, experience at being the Pathfinder's sibling if the game wants us to switch away from being the Pathfinder role to another role within the Initiative. I'd like to see the Ryder twins having developed a bit edgier personality (more Shepard-like), but that can easily be done without actually switching them out for completely different characters.
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Post by ahglock on Nov 19, 2018 22:32:44 GMT
Assuming it’s not the Ryder’s. I’d prefer a set in mass effect game not a mass effect game. By that I mean mass effect is always big stories saving the galaxy or whatever. I’d want more like a murder mystery level story and for that a pretty regular joe could fit. Using the mystery angle for my example They could go hard bitten detective or pi or they could go cozy mystery where you are a baker who got wrapped up in the story. The setting would be mass effect, but the story would be low end and personal.
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Post by Phantom on Nov 19, 2018 22:43:42 GMT
one of several ideas that are floating in my head, it is that You are a C-Sec officer that is on the trail of a Serial Killer. Of course there is a conspiracy to keep this Serial Killer active in the Citadel Space unabated.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Nov 19, 2018 22:59:32 GMT
I want the next installment to finish Ryder's story.
As for the next protagonist, I'm hopefully they will introduce race selection. If they do and since we will still be in Andromeda most likely, perhaps a couple choices of backstory and then a unified part like for example a member of APEX or something. If they do go back to the Milky Way, same basic thing just swap APEX out for some other organization.
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Post by biggydx on Nov 20, 2018 1:32:58 GMT
Assuming it’s not the Ryder’s. I’d prefer a set in mass effect game not a mass effect game. By that I mean mass effect is always big stories saving the galaxy or whatever. I’d want more like a murder mystery level story and for that a pretty regular joe could fit. Using the mystery angle for my example They could go hard bitten detective or pi or they could go cozy mystery where you are a baker who got wrapped up in the story. The setting would be mass effect, but the story would be low end and personal. Though I'm fine with having an Andromeda 2 (so long as it's told well), I've always felt that there's still a story to be told back in the Milky Way; post Reaper invasion. With the relays destroyed, and many of home planets of the space-fairing species in ruin, that opens up a lot of potential for new power struggles, the Council being unseated (or taken to task), race relations rearing their ugly head (most notably, against the Asari), and people in remote regions of the galaxy being exploited due to a lack of security & being isolated.
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Post by ahglock on Nov 20, 2018 2:36:45 GMT
Assuming it’s not the Ryder’s. I’d prefer a set in mass effect game not a mass effect game. By that I mean mass effect is always big stories saving the galaxy or whatever. I’d want more like a murder mystery level story and for that a pretty regular joe could fit. Using the mystery angle for my example They could go hard bitten detective or pi or they could go cozy mystery where you are a baker who got wrapped up in the story. The setting would be mass effect, but the story would be low end and personal. Though I'm fine with having an Andromeda 2 (so long as it's told well), I've always felt that there's still a story to be told back in the Milky Way; post Reaper invasion. With the relays destroyed, and many of home planets of the space-fairing species in ruin, that opens up a lot of potential for new power struggles, the Council being unseated (or taken to task), race relations rearing their ugly head (most notably, against the Asari), and people in remote regions of the galaxy being exploited due to a lack of security & being isolated. Assuming they are willing to pick a canon story sure, there are tons of stories to be told there and with a lot more lore to work with than we currently have in MEA.
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Post by SwobyJ on Nov 20, 2018 3:27:45 GMT
There's not that many things I need for it to be a Mass Effect (main line) game.
Start as many things, but you eventually end up with a ship and crew, in some form.
Explore many locations across space.
Acquire both human and alien allies.
I consider these as nearly requirements, but you can do a lot else besides that.
I want species selection and to be something of a strange traveller through the galaxy, where a reveal of who you are occurs part-way into the plot (like KOTOR in a way; the reveal isn't that you're Da Bad Guy though).
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Post by zipzap2000 on Nov 20, 2018 8:30:15 GMT
Human becoming a Spectre.
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Post by dmc1001 on Nov 20, 2018 8:56:18 GMT
one of several ideas that are floating in my head, it is that You are a C-Sec officer that is on the trail of a Serial Killer. Of course there is a conspiracy to keep this Serial Killer active in the Citadel Space unabated. Do we still have C-Sec after the Citadel was all but destroyed?
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Post by AnDromedary on Nov 20, 2018 18:25:47 GMT
I'd like to play a shady character in a future ME game. Someone who either comes from some sort of low background (Omega gang member, street kid from the Singapore slums on Earth etc.) or an ex military guy, who maybe used to do really questionable black ops kinda stuff but quit and now strikes out on their own. If we are still in Andromeda in the next game, maybe go with an exile.
Consequently, you may not have a state of the art stealth ship but start out in something more akin to a rust bucket, that you need to grdually upgrade to something worthwhile. Whether you try to be an honorable scoundrel (think Mal Reynolds) or you go full pirate would be up to you and depend on what missions you actually go onto and which ones you decline.
Something like that could be interesting, I think.
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Post by Phantom on Nov 20, 2018 18:30:59 GMT
one of several ideas that are floating in my head, it is that You are a C-Sec officer that is on the trail of a Serial Killer. Of course there is a conspiracy to keep this Serial Killer active in the Citadel Space unabated. Do we still have C-Sec after the Citadel was all but destroyed? With my C-Sec Officer story, he personally reforms C-Sec after Mass Effect 3. My entire idea with him starts him a normal C-Sec Officer on a trail of a Serial Killer and finds a conspiracy connecting the Serial Killer to the Reapers and the C-Sec officer did defeat the Serial Killer and surives ME3's events. Due to his leadership, he reforms C-Sec regardless of Shepard's actions.
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Post by dmc1001 on Nov 20, 2018 19:43:48 GMT
I'd like to play a shady character in a future ME game. Someone who either comes from some sort of low background (Omega gang member, street kid from the Singapore slums on Earth etc.) or an ex military guy, who maybe used to do really questionable black ops kinda stuff but quit and now strikes out on their own. If we are still in Andromeda in the next game, maybe go with an exile. This is something I'd see as a "side game" rather than the main ME game. The central ME game has to be about the "hero" (even the asshole renegade who will shoot people in the back) saving the galaxy or whatever. I could imagine a DLC that gives focus to some shady character, and it's something that works well in other genres, but I don't think it comes off as well as a main protagonist in the ME Universe. My take, at least.
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Post by AnDromedary on Nov 20, 2018 19:55:28 GMT
I'd like to play a shady character in a future ME game. Someone who either comes from some sort of low background (Omega gang member, street kid from the Singapore slums on Earth etc.) or an ex military guy, who maybe used to do really questionable black ops kinda stuff but quit and now strikes out on their own. If we are still in Andromeda in the next game, maybe go with an exile. This is something I'd see as a "side game" rather than the main ME game. The central ME game has to be about the "hero" (even the asshole renegade who will shoot people in the back) saving the galaxy or whatever. I could imagine a DLC that gives focus to some shady character, and it's something that works well in other genres, but I don't think it comes off as well as a main protagonist in the ME Universe. My take, at least. I don't know, I actually don't think ME necessarily needs the standard military background hero character. Someone who starts out as a shady character can (and should) still become a hero as they get swept up in some big events as the story develops (again, think Mal Reynolds in the Serenity movie). In fact, I think it would be a nice change of pace for the franchise to a little more of an underdog character be the protagonist. But yes, when I wrote the stuff about the honorable guy vs. the full pirate kinda guy, I was also thinking of something that resembles the renegade/paragon dichotomy (though I am totally aginst bringing paragon/renegade back as mechanic, I was more thinking stylistically).
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Post by Serza on Nov 20, 2018 22:37:50 GMT
How 'bout Pathfinder?
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Post by michaelm on Nov 21, 2018 10:54:27 GMT
Ive become somewhat patriotic of the Systems Alliance. I'd love a First Contact War game. It makes me wonder if Shepard and Alec Ryder served together on Shanxi.
Tie in!
Edit: Nevermind, just looked up that Shepard was 3 at the time..
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Post by setecastronomy on Nov 21, 2018 12:16:28 GMT
I'd like the protag to be an investigator with one of three backgrounds: Military, scientific, or political. Set the game in the Milky Way 1200-1500 years after ME3. We are dispatched to the edge of the Milky Way by the Citadel Council to investigate a mysterious ship that is entering our galaxy.
Its point of origin...Andromeda.
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Post by yan on Nov 21, 2018 17:30:38 GMT
Commander. Specter. Also a android. And space Jesus.
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Post by Phantom on Nov 21, 2018 21:48:40 GMT
Volus Infiltrator that is a known fraud buster and investigator that his story involves that uncovering a Reaper Conspiracy that destabilize the Citadel Economy.
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Post by NotN7 on Nov 21, 2018 22:19:37 GMT
I'm going with geologist/business person after all the galaxy needs the resources to rebuild, i'm sure he/she can afford their protection.
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Post by griffith82 on Nov 22, 2018 14:39:30 GMT
The Biotic God! Perfect for a game. 😉😂 Seriously though I want the Ryder story to continue.
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Post by burningcherry on Nov 24, 2018 16:32:15 GMT
Gangster or prostitute.
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Post by dmc1001 on Nov 25, 2018 2:47:28 GMT
Well... since I believe the next player character should be Scott/Sara Ryder, the occupational background be that of either Ryder twin combined with having experience at being Pathfinder or alternatively, experience at being the Pathfinder's sibling if the game wants us to switch away from being the Pathfinder role to another role within the Initiative. I'd like to see the Ryder twins having developed a bit edgier personality (more Shepard-like), but that can easily be done without actually switching them out for completely different characters. Tali wasn't especially tougher than Scott/Sara but she didn't flinch in a fight. Ryder does need to be tougher (which, as you say, happened over the course of MEA) but turning them into Shepard 2.0 is a mistake. It would be a drastic change from who they are by turning them into someone else.
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Post by themikefest on Nov 25, 2018 3:04:45 GMT
Tali wasn't especially tougher than Scott/Sara but she didn't flinch in a fight. Too bad she didn't fight for her species when the geth are chosen.
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Post by dmc1001 on Nov 25, 2018 3:11:49 GMT
Tali wasn't especially tougher than Scott/Sara but she didn't flinch in a fight. Too bad she didn't fight for her species when the geth are chosen. I agreed. Honestly, first she should have shot Shepard for betraying her and then went on to to find any surviving quarians to plot against the geth. The quarians were stupid in their actions overall but does Legion really count more than Tali? Fact is that the quarians had been hounded for centuries for the actions of their ancestors, both by the geth and other races in the galaxy. Tali was a staunch ally and deserved better. How could Shepard expect Tali not to suicide when her entire race was killed?
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