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

I'm hoping Bioware is the one to move on and leave the "fans" clinging to the OT in the past blubbering about Shepard. They said from day one that Shepard was only going to be in three games.

Get. Over. It.

MY STYLE IS MAGNIFICENT!!! 

DAMN RIGHT. DAMN SKIPPY.

I would have left Shepard behind but stayed in the Milky Way.

I don't really understand the argument that the endings made it "impossible" to deal with. Plenty of games before have had multiple endings and canonized one of them. IMO it doesn't detract from "your story", even assuming you only played it one way. You just pick up in an alternative timeline where things were different.

Does having one canon ending make your previous games anymore meaningless than moving a couple of million light years away and never mentioning them ever again?

Take what Firaxis did with XCom. XCom: Enemy Unknown had one ending to deal with. A pretty standard ending really, with nothing complicated. Did they pick up the story there? Oh no, they decided that for XCom 2, you didn't complete the first game at all. You lost about a third of the way through. The rationale being that many people lost the game several times before beating it, but mainly because they thought it would be interesting to play in a world where you lost. And it works. I both saw off the alien invasion and recaptured the planet.

If you need more justification for a "parallel universe" cannon ending, it's not a big problem in a sci-fi game with FTL travel. It would simple enough to start the story with your character traveling through a relay when they overloaded and dumping you in a universe where whatever they like happened. Far easier to explain than what they did.


Edit: I'm not saying they necessarily made the wrong choice.  I'm just saying that they did have a choice.  There was no need to "run away" from the endings as many have said.

Lol very welcome.

Gods, Abdel and Revan... yeah, canonizing a beloved BioWare protagonist is a bad idea, trust me. Seeing Revan canonization in SWTOR = a sad, sad experience

Shepard's story had to end sadly, Mass Effect had to move past his plot and go on.

It would have been nice to see more of the Milkyway again but I am still happy with the game I got. I don't think an ME4 with Shepard again would be a good thing. His story had an end, where would you go after the Reapers in the Milkyway anyway? Even if they worked around the ending no story there would be as big as Shepards was, his was the "Star Wars Trilogy" of Mass Effect.

I miss Shepad, the power wheel, abbilty to control my squad and the pre-SAM era. I think they should have just ended the ME series when Shepard story ended. Then made Andromeda an unrelated all new sci-fi series.

This gane had so much potential, but I think it was the combination of the fallout of ME3's ending feeling unfulling and the fact Mass Effect is in the title, so people already were thinking about how ME3 let them down and feared this would do the same thing, so there were haters before it was released.

If it had a different name, it prob would have had a better release, even with the issues the game still has.

If they ever make another ME, I hope they think long and hard on making a good story and finish polishing it before release. Having a more extended bata test and not showing only screen shots for years prior to actual gameplay teaser tailers would help as well.

Eh my main three issues outside of the large amount of bugs and launch issues.

1. Renegade missing (Ruthless / fearless leader) and general lack of depth with choices.



2. Sitcom style writing and just general bad dialogue.



3. The entire story of MEA is the exact copy of DAI in a mass effect skin.

So no matter what patches do it won't fix the game for myself. But the Andromeda setting is interesting and i would rather they didn't go back to Shep.

His story is done....


What we need is once they come back to it in 5-10 years. They need to consider a new studio dedicated to mass effect (all in house). As well as a senior and experienced team otherwise they would be better off letting the series die.

The only thing impeding what Mass Effect could be is Bioware.

If an issue won't die, even after five years, then it's probably something important.  Especially if it's an issue that's damaging future sales.  

Hell, I am willing to bet ME3 had more to do with any lackluster sales than MEA being a lackluster game did.  Once bitten, twice shy.

And Bioware hasn't been Bioware in almost a decade.  They are Bioware: A Division of EA

That's just silly.

DAI is about some nobody who survives an explosion and gains a unique ability as a result.  That ability allows him or her to heal damage done to the local environment as a result of a magical catastrophe.  This makes you vital to the survival of a multitude of followers.  And then  there's this powerful mutated creature who covets that power and wants to take it so he can become a godlike being and...

...Nevermind