Some interesting story details from reddit. [MASSIVE SPOILERS]

Yeah I saw a bunch of this footage.

I don't think I'll be super enthused about the main plot. And I mostly expected that. It is meant to be a 'side' (but not side) adventure that brings new things into the Mass Effect universe while still being similar enough to what we know. So honestly, it plays it safe, especially compared to whattheeff was up with ME3. Again, expected. Bioware can decide in the next game how far they want to go with this new plot, how much they want to keep and/or develop threads of older content (this will be a common thing with it being Bioware Montreal now), and how much totally new stuff to bring in again.

What I think I may be enthused about are tidbits throughout the game, perhaps many of the secondary or side missions. I'm thankful there's more value of continuity of the series than many thought there'd be, even with this Kett/Angaran/Remnant deal. The K/A/R is just to reinforce that yes, we're done with a focus of the trilogy, and onto a new bigger backdrop, but not the end of a series.

It strikes me as a sequel-spinoff of Star Trek. Still part of a larger world story, but hey here's this new stuff with a new tone and lets try to figure this out too - all of it under a universal framework.

I don't love all of it. I may even dislike this main plot more than any previous ones - but I feel so far that I'll potentially really enjoy a lot of the exploration, continuation of old things, and potential of some of the newer things.

I mean, if I'm already having a smile on my face investigating a colony on Eos that uses so many of the tech and living space looks from the trilogy, character dialogue style like it, and callouts to the Milky Way, something was done right.


I only have one big personal wish of Bioware Montreal/Mass Effect/Mass Effect: 'Andromeda series', don't just drop the Milky Way. I'll come to disagreements to some here, and that's fine, but I don't think the story is over there. We don't have to have another game primarily set there, okay. We don't have to have a game with a main plot all about something there, okay. But I think its an important setting, up to it being a good idea to even go back there (in smaller capacities) in future titles.

But for years, I've been okay with the ark concept itself, and the positioning of the series to shift over to new worlds. That's fine. And from what I see here, I'll enjoy it enough in the Heleus Cluster. Just.. don't turn Mass Effect into just some weirdo Halo thing - I was even okay with using a writer, but hoped it would be just to inform some aspects of new story, not redefine what the whole series will be, away from how the trilogy was. New stuff can be great. Do it every game. Bring in more in the next game. Don't forget the past though, and don't be afraid to bring it back sometimes in big ways, when it looks like it'll work.