When and if Mass Effect returns, what would you like the next installment to look like? Tone, Plot,

Alright this thread has got me considering the v issue in a serious light. Its hard to continue a character arc when a character has already arced.

So what was mea? Amongst other things it was the coming of age story for the Pathfinder...that is if they keep this saga about four. This leaves two possibilities for mea 2.

Either Ryder will continue a fairly straight character arc. Now they have gone from kid to hero with a ship the next step would be to go beyond. So mea2 will be about Ryder going from ship to in charge of an organization.

Or...since Ryder was built up in MEA mea 2 will be about tearing them down. Taking things from Ryde. Killing people off. Maybe leaving the AI in a far more desperate state.

Four things:

- RENEGADE DIALOGUES! I was fine with the design choice in the first game, because this is a hopeful new beginning. It fits the atmosphere, but I need Renegade Dialogues back in the Sequel. Of course not as Renegade, just overthink the Dialogue wheel and make some space for some badass dialogue options.

- Keep some of the old Squadmates in the Sequel and the LI. BW should evolve and innovate Squadmate interactions, the missions in Andromeda were a good first step. They are a lot of fun.

- Planets should be smaller and tighter, I don't need Open World at all.

- DON'T change the combat System. It's fantastic.

Not in the milky way, that is for sure
it's ok if it's set in Anromeda or any other galaxy,
i would like something simple, a war against a new species, looking foa llies, analyzing strategies, with help of all known species, wether to invade the enemies' homeworld or not, space ships battles
Not open world
No thousands of boring fetch quests

new colorful planets and new species of course,

no ai-synthetics problms
no ancient vicilizations' technologies
no ancient machines threat

not turning known or unknown species into monsters

writers of ME1 and 2 should write that game

Please, no More Mass Effect games. Hasn't Andromeda shat on the ME legacy enough?

And many other people think the game is a flop lol. EA and Bioware will have to be very brave to touch Mass Effect again. 

So long as there's an interest from the fans and the devs have the dedication, I don't see why they can't make more. I don't compare the OT to andromeda so an awful trilogy in andromeda can't ruin the OT for me. They have no direct ties to each other, aren't sequels to each other, etc etc.

The people who think the game is a flop either haven't played or finished the game and therefore have no opinion, haven't played the game since the patches and jump on the bandwagon to only complain about facial animations, or complain about optional content that the game never forces you to do.

In other words, the people complaining or think it is a flop only make themselves look fucking pretentious and stupid

It's ok to give the game criticism, but the vast majority of internet scum make baseless comments like "its a flop" without any real concrete evidence

Milky Way prequel to Shepard and the Reapers. Make the PC an alien Spectre (Asari/Salarian/Turian) go around doing morally gray Spectre stuff, no saving the galaxy or larger than life mission, just you, a gun, and your morals.

I would be fine with pre-determined characters like Sara and Scott and with one being an Asari and Turian (male), but I doubt that would fly well with most fans. Mass Effect's aliens really are just humans with weird bodies and faces, personally, I find the Qunari from Dragon Age more alien and interesting than any of Mass Effect's council/Andromeda races.

Well a plot device that moves the story forward isn't inherently a bad thing you know. A lot of what Meridian could do is up in the air, and might be limited by Ryder being one of the few people that can manipulate Remnant tech. Being a Pathfinder would also mean that Ryder can't just sit around all day studying Meridian.

As long as these certain limitations are recognized within the narrative, then Meridian doesn't need to turn into an "I win" button.

A very robust character creator. It should look and feel like a character creator that is significantly more advanced than the character creator from the ME trilogy just because of the difference in years. Not just a bunch of presets that no matter how much you change them all look like the same basic character.

A dialogue system with consequences. Say what you will about the Paragon/Renegade system but it really added replay value to the game.

And speaking of replay value, a LOT more branching decisions.

Better writing. Specifically, introduce plot points that will continue on to the next game, towards the end of the game. It just felt so wrong for the game to end without anyone talking about Garson's murder. However had that been introduce towards the end of the game it would have made more sense. Same thing with the benefactor.

More character variation. I know there's going to be cut and paste and I know eventually someone is going to notice, but when it's almost every single character of a given race (yeah, I'm looking at you Asari) and it stands out so much it's like a slap in the face, it's not right.

In other words, make a Mass Effect game.