How should BioWare move forward with Mass Effect?

Pretty much this....except fix the disaster that was the ME 3 "Red, blue, Refuse, or that other one" ending.

Failing to do that, I'm with Iakus on this one.

How it should continue?

Hopefully they will make a sequel that shows you the outcome of the decisions of ME:A. For example: Choosing Military Outposts in resulting in a different "society" than scientific outposts.

I personally think, that with the ending of ME:A they managed to create enough posibilites for a great sequel.

And please, for the love of (enter deity name here), give us the option to "remove" certain NPC´s *cough* Addison, Tann, Cora, Gil *cough* (Yes. I dislike Cora and Gil)

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Yeah, I remember when I first read about it on Old BSN, and all I could think of was how hilarious it was that BioWare thought to add a trigger to that little random thing you can do. The fact that it caused outrage at all made it even better. 

Ignore MEA and make a new one that plays out in the milky way some time after the reaper war.
Have no direct connection with anything from the original trilogy.
Let players play any of the alien races, don't make the player some big shot like n7/spectre/pathfinder. Instead just be smaller no-name captain of a ship, lawless pirates, legal shipping, whatever and build some story from there. Nothing big to save the whole galaxy n what not, since nothing can top the original trilogy so don't even try.
If anything then let the player and companions be a small cog in a bigger story that can span several games, also if they are going to let us continue with the same character in sequal games, then let us keep the companions. Don't repeat Liara/Jack.... Let us decide which companions we want, for example if we want to play a bad person then let us space the companion if we think s/he's worthless(Looking at you Cora and Liam).

1.) Another ME game is basically a guarantee.

2.) A direct sequel is all but guaranteed at this point and that is an awesome thing.

Lets face facts, BioWare will most likely never revisit the Milky Way. The ending of ME3 pinned them in such a tight corner that no matter what they do, they will inevitably piss off a large portion of the fanbase.

They aren't gonna risk it neither will EA let them.

Yeah going back to the MW is impossible without canonization of an ending,

Well, all anybody really wants, is a complete game and not being a "Beta-Tester". Still disappointed by Mac Walters, Mike Gamble and the likes who said:"Yeah, the game is ready to be released." Even in it's 1.07 state the game needs almost another year development time. Maybe they ran out of money? Anyways 40 million dollars would have been barely enough if MEA had none of that open world crap.
@bioware Pick up at least 80 million dollars, if you want the sequel to be as open world as MEA was. Looking at the inflation rate, make it +100 Millions, assuming it'll take another 5 years until we see the next Mass Effect game.

An 80 million budget? You'd need to massively outsell any other ME game to break even.

Agreed.  A couple of good DLC's can wrap up the Ryder story, the Kett, and the AI's initial settlement of Heleus.  MEA2 I'd rather jump into the future enough for the planets to be something other than barren wastelands and for civilization to have reached a point of being interesting again.

Most likely an unpopular opinion in deed lol.

how would you suggest they go about it? This idea would really carry much more risk than reward as it goes vs the core formula of mass effect. Going into an online focused world like destiny/division would be a completely foreign thing to probably most of the fan base, and I'd assume most would be questioning Biowares thinking right from the get go cause they're changing something that doesn't need changed but just refined. I can tell you myself, I'd be vs it simply cause there are other games that are like that, and dialogue/choices will get downsized cause of it. Not to mention the grind and the consequences of not having any longevity to the endgame which would really hurt the game if they missed out on it.

the only way I'd ever see this happening is if they got two separate studios doing mass effect, one for the core fans, core formula, what they're used to. The other could then be used to experiment on the idea without as much backlash cause they at least have the other studio as a safeguard making a game people are used to, and honestly, there's a reason EA has been expanding bioware into multiple studios. Simply to make more games, put extra manpower on a specific game if the need is there (Dylan project is getting that treatment right now)' and it can let them experiment with different styles that people accustomed to bioware isn't used to. It's why I'm baffled that some see an issue if bioware ever makes a non RPG game, I don't think it matters if they've at least got other studios making rpg games, the extra studios let's  them try various things. Look at Ubisoft soft, square anix, etc etc and you'll see they make various games in a variety of genres because of the luxury of multiple studios.

im still vs it personally, but I think if they really thought it out they could give it a go to see what happens as you never know if it can be a hit or not unless you try, but I'd expect a lot of people being cautious around it and Bioware HAS to at least have another studio making a mass effect that they're used to, cause if not and the ME destiny hybrid fails, what other options are there besides playing what they've already played? Or going to dragon age anyways.

A sequel to ME:A is fine, they just need to do it right. The problem with ME:A wasn't it's plot, but it's execution with shoddy animation, poorly designed visuals and poor vocal direction. In short, mechanical issues.

I'd like to see the story pick up about a year or two after the original (For form's sake, I'm using the standard names). The Heleus Cluster is beginning to live, people are being brought out of cryo. Both Ryders are sent to investigate some new Remnant tech and ways to combat the Scourge. While there, they come across the kett. Go from there, provided you don't kill one of the siblings. That's a cliche.