I think a 5+ year Break for MEA2 is a good thing

I do think 5 years is too long for a direct sequel, but it's probably what it is going to be. If it's not a direct sequel and we have a new hero, maybe less important to be a bit quicker. IMHO. 5 years is just...a long time.

It always does. That interminable time between games has a way of feeling like forever.

This November is 3 years exactly!

If Mass Effect gets picked up in the future it should definitely be in the Milky Way. Andromeda is done. Yes some people like it because everything in life will be liked by some people. But commercially, it's done. It can't recover from ME:A.

This is the same reason the exalted march DLC was cancelled and Hawke is a cameo. Hawke was meant to be DA's Shepard but he just wasn't successful enough.

Rogue One proves you can make something cool revisiting an old setting. I know Casey Hudson asked fans and everybody said they wanted a game set after the ME3 ending. But with Andromeda out, that doesn't apply anymore.

yeah I agree I think it' s a case of we're not going to convince him and he's not going to convince us either so we'll just have to agree to disagree in this instance and just wait and see what happens. Because like you I think we'll at least see DLC for MEA or an MEA 2 in time it's just a matter of when. Because they can't leave MEA as it is there's just too many loose ends imo. They have to at the very least wrap those loose ends up somehow.

We'll have to agree to disagree then.  A really strong mystery plot leads the player through the clues and character relationships need to be built one event over another.  Those things are impossible to write such that they can been encountered in any order without it affecting the strength of those elements.  While lauded as the pinnacle of the industry, the story line in TW3 is, IMO, very weak and shallow, the main character development is weak and shallow... and the numerous side quests by and large disconnect the player from that main story.  The books are the corner stone of that game... without them the story loses so much.  The reason is the books are not "open."  The author progresses the story in a logical fashion and develops all the characters outside of the game itself.

I know I probably won't stop the trend towards these open games ((I'm not really trying to)... but mark my prediction (if you will)... the stories within them will just keep getting shallower and more disjointed... until all these games just basically resemble Minecraft (i.e. build your own game).

Why do I get the feeling you will be writing the exact same things you interminably write on here about Anthem, and saying DA4 is the bandaid (or full body cast) for that.

Yeah it's typical PR and if they did not mention Drell and Hanar in the MEAMP yesterday I might have wondered if anything was happening soon but come on! They are on the Quarian Ark lol