Would you be ok if they went back to the Milky Way?

Mass Effect 3: Resistance a side story mostly set on Earth, basically it starts after Normandy SR-2 leaves Earth, you play as a civilian who joins the Resistance led by Anderson you race around the world trying to slow down or stop the Reapers ultimately laying the groundwork for the final battle, you meet Ash's brother-in-law and sees how he dies and you can also meet Kaiden's father (with just dialogue differences about who lived and died). You NEVER see Shepard you just hear static filled bits of the interviews with the reporter in ME3. You can see the Slaughter Ships that is only in the ME3 Codex and the horrors of the Reaper's concentration camps (maybe you have to rescue someone or get the footage out) because you have to help Anderson stop some scared politicians who are making bad decisions. You can have salarians, asari, and turians squadmates because they're tourists or other roles.

Then you run into the ending.   

I don't see much working for an actual game though. At best, it would be the equivalent of the Darkspawn Chronicles. But I think it's too late now, because that would have been something to add on to ME3, not be a standalone game made years later. 

I've always wanted to assume direct control of a reaper.

It's an ok novelty, but it does get a bit old quickly. If we had something like this in Mass Effect, we'd probably be one of the elite ground troop monsters the reapers use, like a banshee. They and marauders are typically the ones that lead the reaper zombies in the field. 

Someday, if that day even comes, I would like for Andromeda maybe to finally link with the Milky Way as the AI originally intended - in some way, maybe as the saga's conclusion, just in an epic way. They don't even need to show what happens, just that it will. And Mass Effect goes full circle. Orgasmic.

NWN 2 was Obsidian, same as FNV. So you shouldn't mention it in the same breath. Obsidian is one of the select few studios where even user scores corelate with professiona reviews on metacritic. The reason, they never even tried to cater to a broader audience. They stuck with what they had and built on that.

I thought they should have just gone with a canon galactic state and set ME4 in the Milky Way roughly a century after the reaper war. I know it would have pissed some people off but they would have gotten over it if the game was good enough (although it might not have been). I picked destroy, cured the genophage and got the Quarians back to Rannoch but even if none of those choices had been part of ME4, I would have dealt with it.

However, they've made their bed in Andromeda now and they can lie in it. Despite the issues with this game there are some intriguing plot threads set up by MEA that are yet to be fleshed out. They really just need to get their writing team sorted out and stop meddling with the systems that people loved in the trilogy (e.g. proper dialogue options, the power wheel/tactical pause, squad controls, more than 3 abilities, etc).

ME1 is GOAT. ME2 was to action focused (still a good game) for me to think it's the best if the franchise, same with ME3.

Mass Effect 2 did what a good sequel should, in my opinion and that is flesh out the world and the characters that live within said world. It is why its my favourite and i return to it more than any other Mass Effect game. It also help that it was actually polished, has great music, fun combat and is a cinematic treat. I agree that it does not help enough with setting up the Reapers as the main villains, and that is the one of its most glaring flaws, unfornately. Nothing is perfect though.

And if that's the case, it doesn't matter what galaxy the game's in.

This is where I'am too....The game should have been a direct sequel to the catastrophic events that plagued ME3. I think destroy would have made the most sense, but i don't think i would have made it 100 years after. I would have maybe done like 5 or 6 years after the war. I would have made it so that the colonies and the races involved are still rebuilding after the Reaper threat, then hit them all over again with another threat while everybody is still vulnerable.



Of course the threat couldn't be as big as the Reaper threat, but i think something related to the dark energy/dark matter storyline that was just forgotten during the course of the series. Something concerning that mysterious power could have been implemented in a way that threatens the entire galaxy all over again and i think it would have been a solid foundation to start from while everybody is still struggling to rebuild.



Maybe bring the Collectors back into the fold?..i'm not sure if they was completely destroyed in two...i remember somebody stating that the Collectors have failed or something at the end of ME2, (been a looong time) but i don't think the Collectors was completely wiped out. In any case The collectors as some point in ME2 seemed and felt more threatening than the Reapers. "Assuming Direct Control"...haha....they were tough to fight in the game as well and that suicide mission had my palms sweaty from worrying about squadmates dying during that run.



With Andromeda they played it safe and went waaaay too far into the future to really give or to have any type of impact on what happened in the Milky Way galaxy. It would have paid off if Andromeda's story and characters was up to the task of telling a somewhat compelling story,...as it stands, at least with me it's visuals are stunning, but it's story and characters are mediocre (Save for maybe Drack and Vetra)....