So "we moved on". Did it benefit the franchise afterall?

That's why I play ME1 purely as a Renegade to endure the cheesyness of ME1. That is really the biggest critic point for me regarding Andromeda. Where is my Renegade? I think they will need to balance the cheese in a sequel.
ME2 had a great balance, between absolute weird lines with Jacob and the greatness of Mordin.

Mordin was one of those characters that only happens once and cannot be replicated or copied. Brilliant, singularly exceptional, ovation worthy. Expecting Mordin in every game is setting yourself for a disappointment. ME3 cast is lacklustre. 

Eh, they can get my rare click if the link to their site leads to a good article. I don't reward them for anything Patricia Hernandez or Luke Plunkett or anyone else writes though. Those tabloid journalists, man.

I'm one of those folks that likes MEA, and accepting it for what it is. This is the first one, of possibly a trilogy (we'll see), what MET has 10yrs to grow on us.

Although Shepard's story is done, far as we know, I could leave it there, or perhaps enjoy another Shep story, perhaps the early years leading up to, and including rise to N7 status.

I kinda feel the hard work is done,the narrative demonstrates plenty of scope to expand as the whole Andromeda Initiative can be seen from many different perspectives.....I don't expect a direct continuation of the story but a 50 year leap in time and Andromeda could be very different place.

Really this is what you want for JE2? :gasp:


Sorry, couldn't resist.

i think the Mass Effect universe would make a good rts game.

I'm with you, LC.  Even my most trusted internet news sources jumped all over the Kotaku article like it was truth and spewed it out for clicks.  Really bummed me out.

A Mass Effect 4 with Shepard and everybody we love could be possible. If you did the wrong choices in the suicide mission, Shepard does die at the end, so if you get this ending, you theoricaly can't play ME3. 

In Mass Effect 3, Shepard can survive at the end if you made the right choices & had enough war assets. (link  Shepard does lives)
So yes he's alive, Bioware could start with that. But still, what kind of story can we build with that ?  After all, we defeated the greatest threat possible in the Universe, Shepard becomes an even bigger fucking legend (or a Space God seems more legit in his case) and the Milky way is in a really bad shape. 

I think the best way to start the ME4 would be exactly where ME3 ends, Shepard get saved by the Normandy team, then everybody would celebrate like at the end of Star Wars VI and the Normandy crew would have the status of heroes of the galaxy etc. To add to the celebration, I was thinking something a bit like the begigning of the new Gears of War 4, where it shows what kind of desesperate battle normal soldiers have fought during the reapers war (like the case of human soldiers desperatly fighting on earth, or the Asari commando in huerta hospital who saw her sisters in arms being transformed into Banshee, etc.) 

The Normandy crew would celebrate one last time togheter because the ship itself would be converted into a museum then everybody would take their path to rebuild their homewrld. Shepard would then go live somewhere with his LI (Rannoch if with Tali, Tessia if with Liara, a tattoo artist if with Jack, etc.). 

The prologue of ME4 end. A few years passes, Shepard goes to take a beer with, lets say Garrus or Joker or any old friend, then something happens. Something big. The main story of ME4 would start here. 

What kind of threat could it be ? I totally don't know.
-Maybe some Batarian pirates who have been luckilly spared by the Reapers found a way to reuse the Cerberus/Reapers technology to reactivate Reapers. Seems a bit meh.
-Other Reapers who was dormant in dark space are now in attack ? Seems to easy to reuse the Reapers and seems too repetitive and unoriginal.
-Maybe something that would looks like the Krogan rebelion, but with the Yahg. They would have become incredibly powerfull and now trying to dominate the galaxy. They could have some allies like the Batarians since their hate of humans would have become stronger since the humans have saved the galaxy and the Counsil would have made great gifts to humans like a siege counsil, new colonial space, etc. The Vorcha could also be with them since they seems easilly manipulated. Even maybe a faction of Krogans who still hates the Salarians & Turians. 
-Another possibility could be the opposite of MEA, an Alien empire from another galaxy could be coming into the Milky way and causing lots of troubles and Shepard would have to reistablish the order with the Milky way species whose quarrels would have restarted since the end of the reaper war.

I think that even if Bio would restart a new trilogy with Shepard, I don't think the new sequel (storywise) would be beyond our expectations after the climax of ME2/ME3. The new game would have to introduce the new trilogy, so a bit like ME1. ME4 would be like ME1, a game that would be the pillar of the next ME5/ME6. But that does ring a bell. It's exactly what ME Andromeda is.

Mass Effect Andromeda is the base of a new trilogy. This game main purposes is to put things in place for Andromeda 2/3. Like ME1, it introduce us to a new trilogy, a new story. Yes, the game have some flaws (some pretty big flaws would more correct to say) but Andromeda have open a lot of doors on how the story would go. Some new companions/allies will join the Tempest crew and they could rework on the current ones. IMHO, ME1 companions were interresting, but they really start to shine in ME2. So in MEA2 maybe Liam would developp in something interresting, or they could rework Cora a bit like they did with Ashley (plz rework the look of Cora & Peebee they look so numb).

I think we should give another chance to the Andromeda trilogy, but that's my opinion. The Mass Effect fan base really are huge fanatics, almost in a religious way ( I think Indoctrinated would be the best word ). The first trilogy is untouchable, I agree. Somebody have touched our precious, and tried to add new stuff in our sacred book(ME universe here) and the community reacted to it (by reacting I mean aggresive bashing). Some people seems to take MEA flaws in a personnal way, like if somebody insulted their mother and just by saying MEA is good it feels like the community will want my head on a Spike. Let the storm pass and wait a bit. once all the fixes will be out. Also the wave of bashing seems to have exploded since Bio Mtl is relocating some ressources (not something new at all)
Let's wait and hope for a future for the Mass Effect franchise and let's hope that the mistakes that were made in Andromeda be corrected fo MEA2. By bashing aggressively it doesn't feels like we will get anything, lets stay constructive.

I think this is an anough big walltext, my mind is still processing for new ideas. I'll stop here for the moment.

why is so many.people caught up by the lack of 'interesting'aliens? This does not make sense. Sure i guess it would have been preferred to have sentient gas clouds but i just do not get how the whole narrative quality hinges on this one point. Especially when sci fi has been using bi pedal aliens for generations.

And as far as the Kett are concerned they are really more interesting then the Reapers.